there was a thread a while back that asked what our character's name meant, giving meaning to a name is actually pretty useful for coming up with one

Understood. I call this reality crap because of the way the world is ending up thesedays. :swear: GOP.

People find it fun creating a character and writing a journal, just because some people find it fun doesn't mean you have to, you seemed very rude in your thread.

Like I said before. I play the game and make decisions I'd normally make in real life. (i.e. helping people, not mercilessly slaying.)
This doesn't make me less immersed into the game, I'd say it makes me more immersed. If I would roleplay (I've tried) I'd have to think before making decisions in quest lines rather than just doing what my gut tells me.
The only difference is that I don't go carrying around swords in real life and that I don't shoot fires from my hands. Though I've always been drawn to medieval fantasy games, and TES games are pretty much the only ones where you can play like you want to play.

From what I've heard I'll be immersed into Skyrim like never before. Only hearing people who've played the hands-on talk about people begging for their life makes me shiver and it feels a lot more natural to grant them a second chance rather than to mercilessly kill them.


I guess we just have to agree to disagree.

Skyrim has alot of excellent writers working on alot stories/quests , so would I need to create a story, when there are already so many good ones in the game?

I often just put my personal opinions, morals and ideals into my character and goes along with it.


Like... how would I have been if I had been born a Dunmer?

But... that's about it.


The only thing most RPish about me is that I get ANGRY BEYOND MEASURES when I die! :swear:

Or it can be a creative outlet in an already full life. The fictional aspects make the game a richer experience, justifying the time spent playing instead of on other interests.

i see. i shall try this.

I've run a pen and paper Role playing camapign for over 2 decades and I use characters ideas from my NPCs nad players in my camapign and go through the game world like they would. For me it reaaly enhances immersion, gameplay and replayabilty. I run several differnt characters at the same time and each is a very different play experience.

The story is missing its main character. That’s the player’s job. You can make a well-rounded main character, or not. I wouldn’t have much fun with a boring main character. Hence the fiction.

i find that statement rather loose, todd says himself they let YOU make the story and YOU make the game what YOU want it to be, if they didnt want us to roleplay surely they would make it more linier? plus if you go back to the days of daggerfall or even as far back as those pen and paper games, imagination and backstory was cruicial to the experience, i see skyrim as the last shred of that goodness that was role playing games

Cos you can't ask a writer to create a story for your own char?

Anyways...this is a SP game, so you guys enjoy it as you want

my first character is simply named after hsi weapon of choice (its a back story, and thats apperantly not wlecome in this thread :tongue: )

I can relate to that... But im just having just too much fun partying and stuff because im just 16 , have fun!

I'm not here to make a good statement, I'm here to express my opinion, and to ask others for theirs. If you want to role-play that bad, why don't you go larping xD xD

Well sure.
But that doesn't mean you have to roleplay. The Elder Scrolls is just one of a kind because they let you make the decisions, about literally everything. You don't have to roleplay to fully enjoy that.
I'd say it's very likely that people who "don't roleplay" still roleplay to some degree. As in they hold true to what they have in mind for their character, if it's a murderous assassin they'll base their choises on that; roleplaying or not. The same goes for a virtous knight, a mighty wizard, etc.

Roleplaying is a very flexible term. For me personally it's assuming the (ingame/virtual) identity of someone else. So I claim not to roleplay, as I don't go that far. My character are essentially me, my characters choises are mine, hence I don't roleplay. It's a very relative term.

Sure it helps for some people to think of a little background, some people even like to write a 5 pages long background. For me, my creativity died around the age of 12, I can't really go back to that stuff. Sometimes I wish I did though, I might be able to squeeze some more entertainment out of my 50 euros, and I'm a very cheap person.
But like I said on page 1, my own "stories" barely exceed 2 lines.

That's exactly why a bland and empty character doesn't fit the game, in my taste. It would contrast too much with the environment and just wouldn't make any sense.

fair statement but your op seemed slightly arrogant so it was required to correct you, and because i myself find more immersion through playing a video game rather than hitting a person with a foam stick.

Yeah sorry if it seemed arrogant... Were cool bro (Y)

Heck, I make characters that will run away from a fight.

Like I said in my earlier post, I see it sorta like writing a story, but without words. I never create myself in games, I find that incredibly boring, I like to create characters with different personalities to me; whether this means a senseless murderer or gruff old man.

Ugh I just can't play murderers, damn realistic games.

Especially what I heard from Skyrim... People begging for their lives. Dear god I'll never survive that torture.


P.s. More people get in here for some civilized discussions about roleplaying and seeing it from different angles!

Really? Maybe there won't be any senseless murderer characters this time :nope:

I'd like to mention http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1185185-roleplaying-2/ I think it gives more insight into what people do with Roleplaying and some interesting little stories.

I think it's just an evolution from the old tabletop roleplay games. Really, it's just like theater or film, but in the form of a game.

Then videogames came along; the developers prepackaged Ye Ole Dungeonmaster in the form of loops and variables. Nothing really different. Some people just happen to use more background when they play.

Yeah, 16 year old parties are pretty wild. I don't really roleplay myself, but I can definitely understand it. Have you never felt yourself immersed in a book or movie? I think RPers simply choose to enhance that feeling by giving context to their actions in games.

Yeah there have been reports from people playing the hands on that people crawled away while begging for their life.

Anyway about that link... Those guys talking in 3rd person always creeps me out a little because I imagine them doing the same irl. But yeah that probably has something to do with me playing characters that are an extention of myself, thus if I would write about my character it would immediately be in 1st person.