Wow, already a month has gone by, thought I would give a progress report.

I'm still the straight as an arrow paladin and have no assaults and only 2 stolen items, both quest related. I'm a protector of the Fighter's guide and a Holy Crusader, running around with all the KOT9 armour. I occasionally take a knight around with me on missions now but they die too quickly so I just leave them at our retreat. I've started working hard on closing oblivion gates and at 6 now but man is it getting hard. The enemies are getting brutal and fitting up the tower is becoming a grind! My last gate, I had 3 creatures and other summoned creatures chasing me as I pulled the stone to close the gate, get hit from behind as it shut. I had all intentions of closing all the 60 gates, but I'm thinking now that is going to be hell...anyone ever close all 60?!

Bought 2 homes, the cheap one's @ 4k and 5k, my son really liked the haunted one, it creeped him out when the ghost woke me up.

My fame is over 40 now, everybody love me in the cities now except those cult people that yell a curse at me and attack on sight. I just keep walking, got to give the guards something to do.

Really enjoying it, but man the battles are getting hard!

All of my Oblivion characters have been semi-Paladin types too. I've never been able to play a thief or asassin character in Oblivion. Cyrodiil NPCs are so amiable and the land is so sunny and cheerful that that kind of character just feels out of place to me.

Anyway, congratulations! Glad to hear you're still at it and still having fun.

Fifty-two Gates here. My decrepit avatar is akin to yours in that he pretty much adheres to the "straight and narrow". Some in this forum have termed him a paladin, though he himself would scoff at the very idea. He too tackled much of the Crisis in the guise of Divine Crusader. He did not set out with the goal of closing every single Gate in existence (and unlike me would have no idea exactly how many there were) but, as the Nine's representative on Nirn, felt a moral obligation to terminate any he chanced upon situated near a roadway or inhabited area.

You have him beat assault wise. He racked up some early on before discovering that launching sneak attacks on outlaws counts as assaults. Still, his total remains in the mid thirties, not bad for a 1.7k-plus play-through. He even has four murders to his discredit, though none were intentional. Best I recall, none resulted in infamy.

-Decrepit-

I know what you mean.

I tried an "evil" character, a murderer actually. His name is Olaf. I played him for about 40 hours or so, and he became a member of the DB and all that. But I find him morally sickening and cannot bring myself to play him anymore. I've loaded up his most recent save (July of 2011) several times, but the blood on his hands brings me back to the load screen.

My most-played current character is Maia. Maia is a classic paladin.

My newest character is a stealthy bow and magic-user (Arcane Archer), named Kira. However, Kira is no murderer, and neither does she steal from the innocent. She only steals from people she knows to be evil (Agarmir, the pirates of the Marie Elena, etc.). I, too, prefer for my alter-egos to be on good footing with the good people o f Cyrodiil.

Lothran does that too and more often than he would admit!

That was the case for me, too, until recently. Then I got to thinking about real-world people, and how they respond to negative events. I imagined a character who had been exposed to degradation and abuse since childhood, and the scarring that would result, and I saw it as a chance to play someone who takes the evil path, and later seeks redemption.

Etta sees the sunny, cheerful land, and it just makes her sadder and angrier, because the door is closed. She can see it, but she can't touch it, because she's caught up in her conditioning.

It's not an easy character to play, and I don't think I could do it if Etta was my only character. Fortunately, there are Wild Elf, Linaea, and WabbaJill.

That's a very interesting way to approach your character, glargg.

See, that's so interesting. Back in my TFT / AD&D days, I always played "good" characters. I never played an evil one, not that I remember. I carried this attitude into Oblivion when I started gaming this game 3 years ago. But somewhere along the line, I saw the potential for a character who could "fall thru the cracks" so to speak.

http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/ad208/xenaclone/Image007-1.jpg was technically a Chaotic Good character, which means she put herself first (rather than the law) but she mostly "did the right thing" during her days. But during her roleplay, she started stealing. Especially horses. this was my entrance into an eviler side of TES. If she was in the situation where she needed a horse...let's say she was being attacked by a couple trolls and there was an Imperial horse nearby, she'd sometimes let the Imperial guard who owned that horse do all the work while she stole his horse! And then when she started doing KotN, she kept having to repent for her sins, cause she kept screwing up by stealing. It was interesting because Dyan never ever got the urge to steal, but with RG2 it was an ingrained habit.

I think http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/ad208/xenaclone/Photo-0059.jpg was my first "evil" roleplay. I wanted to base a character on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MargaretHamiltoninTheWizardOfOz.jpg, I made Luci a dark elf and tried to get her skin bluish-looking and her face a constant scowl. Even though she didn't do any official quests, her roleplay was extremely strong until she died! There's something about Cyrodiil's sunny, cheery atmosphere that Luci just HATED!

She hated sunlight, even before she became a vamp. She basically would only go outside if it were overcast or rainy or nighttime. In that respect, she is a part of me somehow, since I myself refuse to game any of my characters it's a sunny day outside. Earth-outside, not Cyrodiil-outside.

There was something about escaping into the Great Forest, also, that was really fun with Luci. Her home was Weatherleah (pre quest). I enjoyed riding off into the forest, a set of guards hot on her tail, to arrive at Weatherleah. She'd be looking over her shoulder, then...unsure if the guard was about to show up. Sometimes he managed to follow her somehow!

Look at it this way, Pseron. A character like Luci, who is from Morrowind and was imprisoned in the IC for basically being accused of witchcraft (even though the beginning of her career in Morrowind was supposed to have involved minor Alchemy at best) is now extremely angry at society. Luci was supposed to have been imprisoned for such a long time, her sanity eroding, to the point that she had no interest in being "good" anymore, and instead foudn herself wanting to vilify all those happy, shining people of Cyrodiil she encountered. Unless they were lower-class dark elves, maybe.

HTH

Strange, I've been thinking of making my next character one who "fell through the cracks" as it were. Though at the moment I'd need to be three people to play all the ideas I have