I collect a little of everything but mostly rare or magical items and books.

I had the Cowl of Nocturne sitting on my desk in my room in Skingrad, a stack of books to the side and drunky mcdrunkersons dagger and mug(I can't remember his name but he was the Dunmer who was murdered in Chedenhal.)Also a bottle of human blood and a bowl with a human heart in it. I had a few skulls here and there for decorations and all copies of the Mythic Dawn Commentaries in a glass case. A trunk full of robes and magical staffs and a collection of wine next to my bed.

And a copy of the Lusty Argonian Maid on my bed next to my pillow.

And that's not even half of it. I also collected corpses of people in the game with the Staff of Worms but I don't know if they are still in my basemant. And I collected followers from ever guild I became head of and had them stand around my house in various places(the Adoring Fan locked in the basemant).

Glad to see I am not the only pack rat in the bunch, lol. In Morrowind, for some reason, my favorite collector items were lanterns and lamps, along with some of the books. In Oblivion, after installing a couple mannequin, furniture and bookshelf mods, I gathered some of the shields, art, and "boss" armor. My main character was a mage, so the armor was not worn in game play, but sometimes It would be worn to see how it looked on my chars.

Here is hoping we can find interesting things in Skyrim to collect, and display.

I collected gems and skulls in Oblivion (the only reason I had installed the Rune Skulls mod was so I had these awesome looking skulls to collect). Rib cages too, but mostly skulls. I will most likely continue this tradition in Skyrim.

Oh, I collect gems. Lots of gems. The problem again is displaying them.

"Too many items in the room makes the game do funky things."

I used to just leave them on the floor of one of the houses. Every time I got a perfect gem I'd just drop it on the floor.

Eventually however, they started exploding every time I went into a room or touched one on accident. Then they'd get stuck places I couldn't get them out and there were so many items in the room that I damn near crashed the game every time I went into that room - and I couldn't reach the items to get them back out of the room.


I collect the gems still, though. I just keep them in a drawer. As my roommate pointed out to me yesterday though... "That's just stupid. You can't even see them."

I collect everything. Everything! :hubbahubba:

Worst of all...

8. The physics system [censored] up anything displayed. Each time you load a cell in Oblivion the physics engine comes in action messing with anything you put down. So if something isn't put down perfect it will end up on the ground.
I especially noticed this when using the display cases from the display mod shop.

I hope that the different clans have their own marking on things such as shields. This would add to the decorative value and make it worth collecting. However collecting will still be lousy unless the physics allow us to display our acquisitions in a good way.

Storm

In every RPG i that i have ever played, where it is possible to do so, i have atleast one "Smaug" Character, who hoardes all.
All armour types, All weapon types, All trophies from quests.
I love to have a home where i can return to and see all my loot, and i hate dropping useful items ingame.
I display wherever possible, but it was such a pain in Oblivion that i almost gave up...

Definitely.. In all games of this type I try to collect one of everything. In FNV it's even harder because of the crafting.. I end up over collecting junk that I really don't need to collect.
But yeah.. weapons, Armor. I like to play dress up with my characters. See what all types of armor looks like and see what combos of armor might look interesting. Oblvions armor choices weren't all that fun to collect. There just wasn't enough different pieces of each armor to make unique or interesting combos. In Morrowind you could make really funky looking characters. Especially because of all the unique helmets you could find. In oblivion it was more about finding all the magical weapons. Some were quite interesting.
I am quite a pack rat when it comes to games that have stuff to collect.

gem's and shiny objects... most likely

I'll probably collect some stuff.

How hard it always is to place them makes me not do it.

That was SO annoying, I hope they change that in Skyrim back to the old Morrowind way of placing objects.



To answer the thread question: I used to collect candles and lanterns in Morrowind to decorate my house, and I collected swords for no particular reason in Oblivion.

I had read in a thread like this years ago that someone would collect a pitcher from each dungeon/cave they were in as a trophy. I thought that was kind of a neat idea. As for me and this run through of the game, I'm collecting one of each perfect gem and putting them in a silver bowl in front of the sitting room fireplace at my home Rosethorn. I have a bowl of keys I no longer need, but can see that I'm going to need at least another bowl for those. I am also collecting the daedec artifacts (the ones I'm not using) but some of them, are a pain to display. For instance, that mace thing sticks through the top of the display case and looks dumb. It also moves all the time - kinda creepy like it's alive or something. It's next to the artifact helm and it moves too. I'm half afraid to move it - it might talk or something. I have saved the robes I received from the mages guild advancements and have them displayed in one of the display cases. I got some special shields for helping various counts and countesses and have them in display cases. I can tell that I will soon run out of display cases. Thought about collecting books but after spending 20 minutes trying to get 3 books on a bookshelf, I decided that I'll just let that idea go.

Ask for Skyrim, that really depends on how they handle the ability to display and what kinds of items we have in game. If we get special shields, robes or other items for gifts, I would love to be able to proudly display them. I also hope they have lots more display cases or racks in "the big house" assuming there is one. I might try the "trophy" idea for cave crawls, again depending upon space and ability to display. I agree with previous posters that having stuff shoved in chests just isn't quite the same as displaying.

In Morrowind i use to collect Pillows and all magical looking weapons
and Oblivion i use to collect potion bottles and keep them scattered around on the floor in a cupboard, i also collect skulls and bones aswell

so il proberly collect the same. i just hope there is a better system in place to organize it all and keep it on display

well since dwemer stuff is back il get back to collecting the mysterious technological items of the dwemer

In oblivion, i collected every book that raised skill levels, but i dunno if those are in skyrim. I usually don't collect any of the more common stuff, i find something small and unique (at least to a certain level). I'll probably find something that i like in skyrim to collect other than books, but i have to see it before i know it collectable worthy.

I've collected rare books in Morrowind like those one from the secret Library, it was quite a hobby for me. I collect unique & rare weapons and armor in Oblivion. I really hope they add more interesting and rare stuff to collect for Skyrim... like horn-cups, dragon scale, pelts that can be used to decorate floors, crests for house decoration, shrunken head, human and beast skulls and hopefully they add a secret library with the rarest books from all tamriel, but it should be difficult to find and enter the library....

I'll collect money.

Either vintage 399 is going to be really valuable now, or they really ought to replace it with another rare alcohol, so I can put it in a cupboard next to my Cyrodiilic brandy and skooma.

It's kinda sad, really. But I collect a full set of every type of armor, including any oddities (referencing Morrowind's different but equivalent pieces), and full sets of every type of weapon. Special arrows/bolts. Unique items. Try to get one of every book. Sometimes, just rare stuff, too.

In Oblivion, I kept my shackles from the beginning of the game. That sorta thing.

Then I spend hours laying it all out in my house, trying to get it to look like a museum.

I will definitely collect things if we are better able to display and organize them

I'll be getting a mod to have soul gems have the races of the person/creature's soul you take. I'll collect at least one soul from every race and creature. Then, I'll get a house and put them on every table I can find, like a museum of sorts.

In Oblivion I collected varla & welkyn stones. Since they probably won't be in Skyrim I will collect some other sort of old artifacts, perhaps left long ago from the snow elves. (Fellmer I think was their original name)

I collected Wine and Books. Basically my Oblivion character was a liberal [censored] from San Francisco.

On that note I do hope placing objects accuratly can be made easier. I probably spent more time arranging my bookshelf than I did on the main quest.