Rules

General DiD Rules:

Specific Rules for this round

Point's multiplier this round

Skills, these are the luck drawn skills any other incur's penalty points after the 2 point grace.

( Speech and Lockpicking are freebies this round )

1. Restoration

2. 1h

3. Illusion

4. Block

5. Light Armor

6. Smithing

7. Destruction

8. Heavy Armor

Dawnguard quests

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Dawnguard_Quests

***********If I have forgotten something... let me know and blame it on the lack of caffeine!!!************

For anyone thinking of playing... even though the "starting date" is/was the 29th of April.. you may "sign up" at any time...and play at your own speed through out the month til the last day ( May 30th) ... 100 hr's is the limit... if you play 10 hr's a day... cool beans... you can play for 10 days... or like me 1 to 2 hr's a day...and I'll take most of the month to get as far as I can. It's the point's that actually count... have fun!!

PLAYERS

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Aireal

http://i.imgur.com/i0Ac8uB.jpg

Nord

male

Adept

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Rick

Contessa Adella Di Nascosta-mente
Nord
Female (more than Rick can handle )
Legendary

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Kane

Rhea

Imperial

Female

Adept

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SKe3Lz

https://s32.postimg.org/tw3z1pq45/Screen_Shot218.jpg

Orc

Male

Legendary

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Neildarkstar

Brand

Breton

Male

Legendary

( R.I.P. lvl 14)

11.30 hrs

Brand ( Zombie )

Breton

Male

Master

( R.I.P. LvL 24 )

26.04

Brand ( Wraith )

Breton

Male

Eggspurt

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Rafer Darksun

Ignatius
Breton
Male
Master

*RIP Ignatius*

Level 19,

killed in Avunchenzel by Lydia.

Inuksuk ( Zombie )

Breton
Male
Expert

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FreeWitch

http://imgur.com/MCowacX

Argonian

Male

Adept

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Rick
Contessa Adella Di Nascosta-mente

Nord

Female (more than Rick can handle )

Legendary



Areial....small point. Wraiths come after Zombies, then it was ghost then I think shade.

Anyhow...the naming wasn't random, the idea was each drop down was a "less fearsome" incarnation to match the lower danger difficulty. Zombies are the most physically scary/dangerous, wraiths are angry spirits, ghost are just spirits, shades are like a shadowy faded ghost. I don't think we went lower cos no one was that persistant. If you need a less dangerous one that shade... I suggest maybe whisp ( no not a whisp mother). That drops an initially (Human) Legendary player to Novice after five deaths A player starting on Expert as a 'human' drops to adept as a Zombie and apprentice as a Wraith. A player starting on adept as a human, drops to apprentice as a Zombie and novice Wraith if they restart again.

So...

Human....first life/initial condition

Zombie

Wraith

Ghost

Shade

Whisp?


AND Thanks for setting it all up hon

Kane

Rhea

Imperial

Female

Adept

SKe3Lz

https://s32.postimg.org/tw3z1pq45/Screen_Shot218.jpg

Orc

Male

Legendary

Thank's Rick... I added those in!!

SKe3Lz.... I'll add your character pic as soon as you get it up...errr and I get to my PC

Please remember that I might answer post's from my phone while at work...but I can't do the link's or complicated edit's. I will get to it when I get home.

Ack... I forgot to ask Mr BA if he would still look at the mods... Please don't PM him unless he volunteer's his time... please post your mod order in a spoiler, I will look at it and I'm sure we will get other opinions as well...remember any mod that gives the player character an advantage is a restricted mod.

How to do a spoiler >>> [&spoiler] list or other items inside this area [/spoiler] leave out the "&" and no space.

I'll not be participating, just sporadically spectating....but should one take it that there will be no penalty for using trainers? Restoration is a bit of a bear to level initially. I only ask as I recall there being a penalty (or discussion of one) on a previous round...

No...no penalty this round, for just the reason you cited.... Restoration is a P.I.T.A. to level until you get so high...plus not something I think most of us use to it's fullest capabilities.

For those who raise their skill's by training alone, have other issues that they will have to deal with... how unbalanced it can get or be without doing it very very carefully. That of course is up to the individual... for those playing on Legendary it may make the grind up to a "playable" level a bit easier... for those who are playing on a lower difficulty... unbalance in skills and level can very easily be the death of them.... Restoration would probably be the only skill I myself will bother to train up... everything else is easy by use.

Off to work I go friends...

Neildarkstar

Brand

Breton

Male

Legendary

BTW, thanks Areial for your efforts at getting all this going, I really DO know how difficult it can be...

This is my last month at home before "fun" filled summer of vacation and agonizing relocation so I'm not entirely sure I can participate much.


I might give it a try. I'll let you know soon enough.


I have many things to finish up, supplies to purchase and anxiety to abate.


<3

Neil....thank you. I'll get Brand posted soon as I get home tonight.


Sakiri. .. no rush...on the game side anyway. You gave time to decide, let the game be stress relief. ..not add to it.

Where are you going Sakiri? Was it Sweden...rings a bell?


PS....no penalty for failure to divulge


I hope you can join in.....we'll all probably be dead three times over in ten days and too sick of seeing vamps to restart again!


Anyhow... I will just say it now!

Good luck for the move

And to Quote Elda Earlydawn

"And don't break nothing"


Rick

Ignatius

Breton

Male

Master


Good luck to you crazies playing Legendary!

I'm considering a silent play alongside the competition just to see how I do....I'll not be entering officially because I can't guarantee my attention span will hold clear through the contest or that i'll have the time to play/keep updating as I should.

Anyways, in interest of fairness i've disabled almost all mods except for retextures and the like....one I was wondering about was "fires hurt"

It's an immersion mod that does what it says on the tin....just wondering if it would provide an unfair advantage in allowing one to become injured safely and then heal to raise the resto skill

I know it's not much different to boxing with a mudcrab, but thought i'd ask anyhow

Think of it this way AccidentalNinja, if an Xbox or PS player can't do it then it's most likely an advantage. Textures are never an advantage because they just make stuff look different, not a change in interaction. There are places vanilla set ups can go to jump in fire (like a forge) and burn and heal so that particular one probably isn't overstepping any bounds, but that would be a call by our host and the rest of the folks input. Just my 2 septims.

The simplest answer to exploiting things like "fires hurt" is "just don't do it."

I have a couple of mods that I don't bother shutting off for competition. One of them allows the wearing of left-hand rings, and the other is a mod that adds a player house.

I simply don't use them. In competition, I just ignore that house, and I don't wear the left-hand rings. Problem solved. So...just don't jump in the fire and then heal up, and all is fine.

For what it's worth, there are a lot of exploits that are possible in the game, and we just don't do them. Things like sneaking for an hour behind the bear in the Helgen dungeon, or spamming Muffle to quick-level Illusion; they're just cheesy, and they violate the spirit of the friendly competition, if not necessarily the letter of the law.

On to the competition...

Glargg

Lolly Gaggin

Breton

Female

Adept

FreeWitch

Itaei

Argonian

Male (I NEVER play males. This guy is cool!)

Adept

ANinja......Well, if you're not in it you can have what you like looking at the nexus description, it just burns you if you stand in fire....yeah you could spam restoration with it......if you CHOSE to. But in itself its not an advantage mod.....except whats the bit about magicka regen from "pillars"? Don't use that aspect and I can't see an issue with it. Just imo 'natch....


But honestly...if you're going to all that trouble to be competition conformable, you really may as well just hop in mate. The comp rounds only flourish with interested people......entrants. No point in sitting on the fence....if you do well you'll just be thinking 'darn' I Should have entered! And if you fail dismally....then you've had a laugh in the company of good friends all failing dismally......


As for updating the forum.....takes two minutes every three days just to confirm you're still alive and maybe location and level. No one expects a novella format full character history! Come on mate....waddya say No pressure, but I know where you live! You look tired...you should get some rest

Bram...Glargg.....whats all this? Forge fires burn you on vanilla? Sneaking behind a bear for an hour? Duh! What the heck do you guys get upto?


I know some people spam muffle....personally I have never used it.....better to enchant your own boots of muffle for total silence! But I Love the idea of left hand rings....I so want that. Thats two whole extra enchantments possible.


I do know a place in BFB you can wedge into a wall in sight of three sleeping draugr.....if ya don't wake 'em you get good sneak rises....but risky as hell. I will have to check out that bear one too.....whats Ralof gonna do for twenty in game hours? Just my luck finding that out at the start of a competition where we can't do sneak.....oh the savage irony!


Spamming.....ah yes....as a topic.....we've had long debates on this. Its is a taboo amongst fair minded good sports.....and yet.....when we make excess weapons and improve unworn armours just for the smithing skill are we not spamming? To reach master alchemist I make maybe Circa 1500 potions....some get sold....some get used....what of the rest....spams then ? A conundrum....since without spamming crafting it would practically never increase....and certainly not in a competition timeframe! But if you accept crafting spams then what of the others....muffle for illusion, telekinesis ( Im told) for Alteration, endless troll fighting for the physical martial arts, hmmmm!


FREEWITCH.....you can only say....you NEVER play males....upto the point you actually play one....like now. So you will RUIN your long 'run' of "never playing males". Don't do it hon.....stay true to your ideal Just make "Itaei" a girl lizard.....then you can still say "you never play males". Keep your own faith! (in the non religeous sense of the word). Once you play that male....you can't undo it!

lol, I found out about forges the very first time I went to Halted Stream Camp. Jumped up onto the forge to get a bag of coins and my character started going, ow, Ow, OW!

I'm gonna try that at Alvor's asap


Adella....frowning heavily


Ok...maybe not then

Haha ... for some odd reason the coolness factor of him is lost as soon as I change the gender to female. I have NO idea why LOL.

FreeWitch. .. as was said if it can't be done on console (360 or ps3) then it's an advantage over those players. I will get your character specs up when I get home


Rafer... I'll get your character specs up when I get home.



Bram & Glargg.... did I miss your characters?. .. I'll look when I get home...only 6 more hrs...lol

I tacked it on the end of a longish reply, which I shouldn't have done. Here 'tis, in full color:

Glargg

Lolly Gaggin

Breton

Female

Adept

Uhmmm huh?

And no rush

Ah .. you at work and must have gotten me confused with someone else. I'm unconfused now