My idea of Tamriel in modern day, summed up in one description:

"Beep! Beep! Beep!" "Thud!" Ri'matal shoved his alarm clock off its stand. 6 A.m, another crappy day freezing his ass off. The Khajiit pulled on his clothes, and stumbled out of his Bruma apartment. There was traffic backed up all over the city. This made Ri'matal glad that he walked.
Things had been different since Chancellor Matello had allowed cars into the formarly pedestrianized cities. Ri'matal pushed the thought into the back of his head. He hated politics, ironic considering his job: Imperial Commerce Officer. Seated in his office at the commerce complex, he settled down for a long, boring day in this icy hellhole.
11 A.M: Clocking out. Ri'matal had the morning shift, so the afternoon and evening were his. He started back to his apartment. Nothing on TV, as usual. Just some nonsense about a gang of Argonian thieves. Ri'matal sighed. Even in this day and age, there was still beastfolk stereotypes. These guys weren't helping.


Again, this is just a rough idea. I might have a couple of stories in this period if I get decent feedack. Tell me what you think!

It dosnt look bad. But I really have never enjoyed futuristic TES fan-fictions. But I dunno, this looks OK, despite length

It's just an excerpt. And it's modern day, not futuristic.

Personally speaking:


NO.


I play Oblivion and the entire TES for the magic. Remove the magic - even if you keep the magic along with the cars and the factories, it is still removed - and what do we have left?

For myself, a whole lot of nothing.

But other readers, weigh in. What do YOU guys think?

I agree. I'm not a big fan of modern technology in TES, mainly because there's next to no way it would develop in the same way it has in the real world, and that's the beauty of it, in my opinion. The farthest I've ever gone with tech in TES is making an extremely primitive pistol that can only shoot once before becoming useless. A prototype of a prototype, if you will. I had the Gray Fox steal it, of course.

It's the kind of idea that could be really good if done well. It's also the kind of idea that would be really hard to do well. You would have an awful lot of thinking to do. What's happened to magicka? What changes have technology brought? What technology would Tamriel realistically have progressed to? Tamriel isn't earth, you couldn't just take it in exactly the same direction...

So, yeah. If you're willing to put in the sheer volume of work and research and educated guesses this would take, why not? I would suggest with something like this though, which could easily polarise opinion, that getting one of the better writers here to beta read and offer suggestions before you post, could be very beneficial.