What type of character have you had most fun roleplaying?
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 5:01 am
This isn't another Stealth, Magic, Combat poll. I'm asking what type of character you enjoy roleplaying the most, actually its quite a specific question. I recently played as a Champion (custom class), who was very tough, and clouted Golden Saints on +100 difficult to the floor with one, maximum two hits from his enchanted ebony scimitar with 50 odd points of each type of elemental damage on strikes. If that didnt' work he used his ring of blizzard, 100pts frost damage in 50ft on target. I could level deadric shrines without breaking a sweat.
But it was no fun. I though I'd try playing a totally self-reliant character, start off with my money from the census building and the guy in Templar armour and buy my first weapons, and that would be that. This is what I came up with:
Class: Ranger
Major Attributes: Alchemy, Acrobatics, Marskman, Light Armour, Long Blade
Minor Attributes: Enchant, Athletics, Smithing (complete Morrowind), Short Blade, and Unarmoured.
Race: Dunmer
Sign: The Lady
Major Attributes: Endurance, Luck
My justification was with the boots of blinding speed and self-made resist magicka potions I didn't need speed.
I roleplayed this character by not buying anything except spells, and only getting gold from those he'd killed. I wandered around aimlessly for the first level or so, then stumbled on the cavern of Milk, went inside, cleared it out except for the guy in Ebony armour at the end, and made it my home.
I left a lot of my gear there, and went out exploring. I found to my delight that not only did my cavern have a loom for sewing (complete morrowind) but it had an anvil for forging my own armour (again, complete morrowind). I recently embarked on a massive quest, looking for Shalk Resin, since I wasn't allowed near town, this meant I had to find and kill shalk. I searched the ashlands, found nothing but a new bow from a tomb, searched the grazelands, found nothing but a better new bow from another tomb, and an ebony broadsword. Then in the Molag Amur region (Azura's coast included nothing of interest), I got a common disease, and my strength failed me. I had to abandon my precious ebony blade, and my dark brotherhood armour, as well as all my arrows and the axe I'd been chopping down wood with. I took five arrows with me for the journey back to Milk where my alchemy stuff was.
That's when I relised that this character is the most fun I've had. Running through the wilderness being chased by ashlands, nix-hounds and the like is great, espcially when you cant' kill them with one blow, the arrows were used up very quickly, and finding Milk again was very hard, but I managed it, rested made myself a potion of cure disease, and it worked. Now I intend to return to the enterance of the tomb where I left my Ebony sword, but first I'm sewing welcome rugs for my home.
Surfice to say, what is the best role-playing experaince you've ever had. I'm not asking for the time you were really cool because you used a deadric war-hammer to prove you were 'da-man'. Just what was the most fun, and what approach has been the most fun. For me its running helplessly across the West Gash in search of my cave, and a totally independant Ranger character.
What's yours?
DM
But it was no fun. I though I'd try playing a totally self-reliant character, start off with my money from the census building and the guy in Templar armour and buy my first weapons, and that would be that. This is what I came up with:
Class: Ranger
Major Attributes: Alchemy, Acrobatics, Marskman, Light Armour, Long Blade
Minor Attributes: Enchant, Athletics, Smithing (complete Morrowind), Short Blade, and Unarmoured.
Race: Dunmer
Sign: The Lady
Major Attributes: Endurance, Luck
My justification was with the boots of blinding speed and self-made resist magicka potions I didn't need speed.
I roleplayed this character by not buying anything except spells, and only getting gold from those he'd killed. I wandered around aimlessly for the first level or so, then stumbled on the cavern of Milk, went inside, cleared it out except for the guy in Ebony armour at the end, and made it my home.
I left a lot of my gear there, and went out exploring. I found to my delight that not only did my cavern have a loom for sewing (complete morrowind) but it had an anvil for forging my own armour (again, complete morrowind). I recently embarked on a massive quest, looking for Shalk Resin, since I wasn't allowed near town, this meant I had to find and kill shalk. I searched the ashlands, found nothing but a new bow from a tomb, searched the grazelands, found nothing but a better new bow from another tomb, and an ebony broadsword. Then in the Molag Amur region (Azura's coast included nothing of interest), I got a common disease, and my strength failed me. I had to abandon my precious ebony blade, and my dark brotherhood armour, as well as all my arrows and the axe I'd been chopping down wood with. I took five arrows with me for the journey back to Milk where my alchemy stuff was.
That's when I relised that this character is the most fun I've had. Running through the wilderness being chased by ashlands, nix-hounds and the like is great, espcially when you cant' kill them with one blow, the arrows were used up very quickly, and finding Milk again was very hard, but I managed it, rested made myself a potion of cure disease, and it worked. Now I intend to return to the enterance of the tomb where I left my Ebony sword, but first I'm sewing welcome rugs for my home.
Surfice to say, what is the best role-playing experaince you've ever had. I'm not asking for the time you were really cool because you used a deadric war-hammer to prove you were 'da-man'. Just what was the most fun, and what approach has been the most fun. For me its running helplessly across the West Gash in search of my cave, and a totally independant Ranger character.
What's yours?
DM