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Currently I'm roleplaying as a Assassin/Hunter. I roam the wilderness of Skyrim hunting game for their meat and hides to conceal my identity as an assassin. I only enter cities to sell my goods and to carry out my assassinations.

What about you guys? What do you roleplay as? Any suggestions? I'd like to hear what you guys have to say

Well, I'm currently playing through to get fan fiction material and flesh out the world in my mind, but my Nord character is a huntsman's daughter from an imaginary little town near Riverwood. A life-long troublemaker from a pro-Empire household, Brynn's father finesses her into allowing her "better" brother to masquerade as Dovahkiin. Well, at least as long as they can keep up the charade. She becomes overwhelmed by the image of Talos and the anguish he must feel since he has been forgotten, forcing her to take control of her rightful role. Not sure where it will go after that.

As I play I try to keep her character in mind.

My sorceress character Miko Afrancius, is seeking infinite knowledge, and after completing the college, im in current search for all 8 dragon priest and to obtain each ones mask, i so far have krosis and vokuns.

Business
You start of as a training for your proffession of
-Blacksmithing.
-Cooking.
-Enchanting.
-Potion making.
-Mining.
You advance everyday and depending on your trade, you can start off as an apprentice for another smithery/bakery/etc. You then become a master at it and sell your goods you make.

Guilds
Of course you always have the options of being a
-Bard
-Thief
-Assassin
-College Scholar
-Companion

More Obvious Things
-Imperial Soldier
-Stormcloak
-Dragon Born

Outdoors man
-Hunter
-Cartographer= Grab a big piece of paper. Pretend that Skyrim hasn't been explored yet and don't use your map. Give your own names to places because you get to name them.
-Rouge=Don't interact with strongholds or villages. Find a tent of somesort and eat 2-3 meals a day and sleep at night by hunting or farming.

imperialkhajiit wrote:Business
You start of as a training for your proffession of
-Blacksmithing.
-Cooking.
-Enchanting.
-Potion making.
-Mining.
You advance everyday and depending on your trade, you can start off as an apprentice for another smithery/bakery/etc. You then become a master at it and sell your goods you make.

Guilds
Of course you always have the options of being a
-Bard
-Thief
-Assassin
-College Scholar
-Companion

More Obvious Things
-Imperial Soldier
-Stormcloak
-Dragon Born

Outdoors man
-Hunter
-Cartographer= Grab a big piece of paper. Pretend that Skyrim hasn't been explored yet and don't use your map. Give your own names to places because you get to name them.
-Rouge=Don't interact with strongholds or villages. Find a tent of somesort and eat 2-3 meals a day and sleep at night by hunting or farming.

The map idea is awesome i have a good idea for business. First get married, then mak your house store like and add stuff on shelves as merchandise. Then when she gives you money take the equivalent merchandise of the shelves and put them in a barrel somehwere.

These are two that I am currently trying out.

Hunter: Become a Wood Elf. Go around exploring the forest and hunting animals for their pelts. Find a shack or camp to live out of. Only go to town when u need to buy supplies or sell pelts.

Necromancer: Become either a High Elf or Dark Elf. Find some necromancer or conjuration robes. Then buy the reanimate undead or raise zombie spell. Plus every necromancer has to have a nice little cave to hole up in.

Just started these so dont know how much fun they'll be.

Yeah, I didn't try the cartographer yet. I plan on using a wood elf for that. I think I might want to do that business one soon. Maybe with a Breton.

After pounding down a lot of SMA lately, I am tempted to roll up a Zoicite expy. Just because. *thumbs up*

im roleplaying as a batman'ish'character wearing the nightingale armor and useing bows and hand to hand. lol. its pretty fun

crc de fluffy nord wrote:im roleplaying as a batman'ish'character wearing the nightingale armor and useing bows and hand to hand. lol. its pretty fun

Nightingale's armor is more like Moonknight's armor, see this link http://forums.uesp.net/viewtopic.php?f= ... gale+armor

unokitsune wrote:

crc de fluffy nord wrote:im roleplaying as a batman'ish'character wearing the nightingale armor and useing bows and hand to hand. lol. its pretty fun

Nightingale's armor is more like Moonknight's armor, see this link http://forums.uesp.net/viewtopic.php?f= ... gale+armor

your correct. (long distance high five) but i still like batman more. and my characters name is bruce. lol

crc de fluffy nord wrote:

unokitsune wrote:

crc de fluffy nord wrote:im roleplaying as a batman'ish'character wearing the nightingale armor and useing bows and hand to hand. lol. its pretty fun

Nightingale's armor is more like Moonknight's armor, see this link http://forums.uesp.net/viewtopic.php?f= ... gale+armor

your correct. (long distance high five) but i still like batman more. and my characters name is bruce. lol

You can also do Terry ^^

After speaking with Jarl Maven Black Briar where she was most nasty considering you aided her people, I had an idea for role play. Simply be listener of Dark Brotherhood and Guild Master of the Thieves Guild Then refuse to aid Maven? Or someow come to an understanding that she should treat you with more respect?

You could try being a drunk/addict. Wear ragged clothes, drink a ton of wine/mead/Skooma, and get into fist fights with everyone, including guards and the Jarl. You must also steal food twice a day (or once if its something nice like a home cooked meal or sweet roll) and eat to survive. Can only sleep outdoors. You are allowed to carry basic weapons and wear boots, but no armor.

I don't know how much farther you could go with it but it might be worth a try

I've been thinking of roleplaying a monk.

Haven't decided which race but I'll probably choose an Imperial or a Breton. He will wear monk robes and footwraps/sandals if I can find some. He will carry a mace, but only use it against the undead and wild animals. Any other human enemies he will calm/paralyse them. Thinking about making a pilgrimage to all the different temples in the land. Maybe doing quests that have to do with killing the udead, vampires and stuff like that.

I'll use illusion, restoration and maybe one-handed.

Do you guys think this would be a good idea for a character any other tips or ideas on how to increase my roleplaying experience.

imperialkhajiit wrote:Yeah, I didn't try the cartographer yet. I plan on using a wood elf for that. I think I might want to do that business one soon. Maybe with a Breton.

Interesting ideas. I would use an Imperial for the business once since they're greedy [&@%!] that always seem to have more gold than everyone. :p

Mythic Dawn, Dwemer/Falmer Philosopher, Hermitty Cavedweller, Priest/Monk/Cleric/Pilgrim of ______, Hunter, Bandit with Companion, Dragon Priest, Thalmor, Werewolf, Vampire, Spy, Bard, Thane of ______, Outdoorsman, Soldier of ______, Orc Stronghold Defender, Necromancer, Tradesman/Artificer

I'm roleplaying as rapist an imperial warrior ATM, he is basically in love with the empire and hopes to eradicate all of the Stormcloaks, including Ulfric himself! he hates any evil (he thinks Stormcloaks are evil) and does any good for the people... his dad was a high ranking member of the fighters guild back in Cyrodiil, and because of this he was rich, but when his dad died in a bandit raid, his mum was left to look after him. He was old enough to fend for himself by that time though and learnt to handle himself in combat. He left Bruma quickly and got into Skyrim, only to find a war was going on. He 'joined' (infiltrated) the Stormcloaks and was caught with them crossing the border to Cyrodiil... he wants to follow in his dads footsteps and lead the companion one day though.

Kinda terrible RP, but whatever...

Hell fun to play though

adamly wrote:

imperialkhajiit wrote: ...
-Cartographer= Grab a big piece of paper. Pretend that Skyrim hasn't been explored yet and don't use your map. Give your own names to places because you get to name them.
...

The map idea is awesome i have a good idea for business. First get married, then mak your house store like and add stuff on shelves as merchandise. Then when she gives you money take the equivalent merchandise of the shelves and put them in a barrel somehwere.

Yess! I think the map is an awesome idea, too! ImperialKhajiit, your idea is cute too, if you don't mind me sayin'. lol

Right now I have been living on Rorik's Lawn and putting 1 gold in the cooking pot every night. I usually harvest from some of the farms and in return I 'protect' their crops. (I just walk the perimeter of Rorrikstead once a day) I'm eating three meals a day but I soon may need to start stealing things.

Im roleplaying as the Listener of the Dark Brotherhood I do a contract once a week usually and when im not doing that im just chillin bein a G

phoult37 wrote:You could try being a drunk/addict. Wear ragged clothes, drink a ton of wine/mead/Skooma, and get into fist fights with everyone, including guards and the Jarl. You must also steal food twice a day (or once if its something nice like a home cooked meal or sweet roll) and eat to survive. Can only sleep outdoors. You are allowed to carry basic weapons and wear boots, but no armor.

I don't know how much farther you could go with it but it might be worth a try

Dude, I'm so gonna try that.

The two roles I have on my table right now are:

1. A vigilant of Stendarr, I hunt down Daedra, their worshipers, and undead of any kind. Mostly a very monk-like roleplay, but more fanatic than peaceful fisticuffs
2. A Berserker, you know from Bloodmoon...having the Stormcloak Bear helm and the Ring of Namira help...

I'm currently running a Character much like Pelinal Whitestrake. (I used him as a base for my Char) He is an Imperial named sanguinor. He is not a mortal but a spirit, He is the Son of Lorkhan (Shor, Shezzar) who was sent to aid mankind against the early Aldmeri. (According to the Monomyth this war was fought between the Aldmeri led by Auriel and Trinimac against the Men led by Lorkhan, my character served as the champion for man at that time). Much like Pelinal, He has a huge resentment against all Elvish races.
As I played Skyrim a little more I tried to tie his story in with Dragons and came up with that he was once again sent from Aetherius or Sovrngarde to Nirn to aid Mankind's struggle against Alduin, He could by considered Aedric since being a possible descendant of the Et'ada or Padomaic since being considered the son of Lorkhan. This is just to keep my option open during gameplay

My character is a Dunmeri spellsword from House Indoril trained in the arts of swordsmanship and fire magic who has left Morrowind in search of a better future elsewhere. After being caught up with the Stormcloaks and narrowly escaping death in Helgen (and losing all his equipment & money), he has decided to put his skills to use and traveled the land as a sellsword and general adventurer. Now that he has a full set of Dwemer armor and plenty of gold, it may be time to settle down and figure his life out. Start doing something really useful. Not sure what yet!

PS. I'm completely ignoring the dragon crisis. And by that I mean I'm not progressing the main quest -- which means no dragons at all.

Im thinking of playing as a vigilant of stendarr, carrying silver weapons or just a steel mace and wearing novice robes of Alteration, amulet of stendarr, steel boots and gauntlets basically running around clearing dungeons of undead and clearing vampire caves and that shizz.