They were all over in Oblivion but they weren't really major, only really used in the Speechcraft training quest. Do you want them to have more significance?
Do you want beggars?
Will there be more?
What if we could beg ourselves?
Will they be involved in quests?

Discuss!

What I want is for them to stop swapping voices in the middle of conversations.

The rest I leave up to Bethesda.

That would be cool if we could go around wearing poor man's clothes and begging for coins.

In old, creaking voice "Thank ye kind sir"
*Click rumors*
Normal voice "They say that all the...."

Actually, In Oblivion, they were a big part of the Thieves Guild Questline, you could get information from them for Septims.

giving them coins was pointless

We made it pretty clear that this was an issue after Oblivion, if they do it again its because theyre trolling us.

dang beggers...using my coins to feed their skooma addictions

*Old man voice*: A coin for an old war vet?
*gives coin*
*Strong Nord voice*: Thank you kind sir!
._.

That just got creepy at times. Hopefully it's fixed.

Killing them and dumping their bodies in front of my house was a highlight of the whole game lol!

Well in a few quests anyways. Nothing really of significance though considering only like 15 septims was required.

In the slummy areas of Chorrol or Anvil I expected more beggars there. Slums in cities should be almost a haven for beggars, maybe people will like you more if they see you giving coins to beggars?

I wonder If they'll all have the little subtitles like Bob the [censored] ect?

Ahaha, yeah it did

I was a nice guy. Except for my Dunmer Assassin. He remembered the OP beggar with full ebony armor in Mournhold.

Maybe the weak sounding, pathetic voice was all an act?

I gave beggars enough money to start their own empire and they still wandered around looking for handouts.
Bloody conartists.

Riffraff gives the world character and as long as they aren't karma wells like they were in FO3 i'm fine with their presence. They should show a little more desperation and willingness to do whatever it takes to survive though. There's likely be some peasant children too so look out for that "lovable band of cockney pickpockets". <---cookie for reference

They could be a good source of disposable meat shields for that extra tough dungeon too. " hey buddy, wanna make some money"

Nothing major?
Only 15 septiums?

LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING SIR.

While you just run out tamrial in your young body able to kill off rats for the fighters guild to get money, my brokens and legs forces me to life on the water front, BEGGING FOR BREAD. You think its oh so nice, but NO we are SUFFERING, and ever since the last Emperor died, the Imperial Guard has taxed us for LIVING and treated us like scum, and I can't get back to work because I can't afford a doctor. We have to depend on a group of THIEVES TO LIVE. Of course everyone scremes "THEY STEAL, THEY DESERVE TO BE POOR" but NO we use the thieves BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE HELPS US.

So if it's "only like 15 septims", why don't you just drop off those 15 septims at the water front every day for us.

K
THANKS

im telling you they spent it all on skooma

I did in Oblivion, the problem is I often gave beggars thousands of septims but many just stayed were they were, still asking for handouts!

I was slaughtered time and time again trying to get that ebony beggar. Spells? Reflected. Melee? Lots of health & armor. He's more difficult than any last boss in the game..
Anyways, as for beggars in Skyrim? I'd say that there's a pretty high chance we'll be seeing those. They've been in almost every TES game so far as I can recall. I just hope that if they are included, they're properly voiced this time.

Levitation + Bows = Winning.

Just fly up somewhere and pepper him with arrows!

This. It's funny how some poor beggar woman comes up to me and asks for a coin in a crackly little old woman voice, and then she stops to talk to another woman a few feet away and her voice changes into a noble imperial womans. It just makes me think, "Oh my god, I got taken by a rich woman who has nothing better to do with her time but pose as a beggar! When will I learn!?"

Archery has never been a strong side in any character I've made, unfortunately.

Same here... Think I ended up doing the unspeakable...

Open console, tgm...

I'm ashamed. ;(