Made it to about 18-19th level before I started stealing and doing the grayer to evil quests.

...played Oblivion like life, true & clean, and it turn out quite well. Playing Skyrim the same way and it's going good. Chioces! Running around Whiterun now looking for that termimal that has that game "Montana" on it.... ? :rolleyes:

Unfortunately there are no bathrooms so keeping clean is difficult. I recommend taking a dip in the waterfalls to rinse off.

You'd have to:
-Not take the thieves guild
-Not take the side of the Stormcloaks
-Not take the Dark Brotherhood quests
-Not destroy the Dark Brotherhood (unless you want to murder someone who belongs in jail)
-Not take the side of the Empire

I don't know about the companions, but I'm pretty sure there's questionable mercenary-work there as well.

It'd definately have to be an archer, because swords can hit the wrong guy a lot easier than arrows (the irony...)



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What's wrong with taking money for a task to find and kill / kidnap / harm in individual who may or may not be innocent, or destroy / steal his property?

Being a mercenary implies that you do not ask questions to the quest-giver to make sure there is justice in your quest.
It implies that you are a tool, that is used by the person hiring you for good or evil.

In the end, a mercenary is a tool.
Mercenaries are not the same thing as a private investigator / adventurer / law-enforcer / knight / concerned citizen.

Mercenary taking a job:

Quest-giver:
I want you to bring me Person.
Mercenary: How much do I get for bringing you this... Person, and is he dangerous?
Quest-giver:
I give you 1000 gold, and Person will be unarmed.
Mercenary: *** Fetches Person and returns him without listening to Person's pleas ***
Quest-giver: *** Pais mercenary 1000 gold, and sends the mercenary on his way ***


Concerned citizen / Good character taking a quest:

Quest-giver:
I want you to bring me Person.
Good guy:
Why do you want him kidnapped?
Quest-giver:
He has offended the laws of my people, and must be brought to justice
Good guy:
What did he do?
Quest-giver:
He refused to marry my daughter, and must be put to death!
Good guy:
:down: Forget it. I will go warn him about you, and PLEASE draw that dagger of yours; I'll drag YOU kicking and screaming to jail where you can rot for quite some time, for attempt of murder!

Yes, but I did questionable things. Like with Grelod, but that in the end saved many more lives, and those kids.



The Companions are sometimes questionable, I mean you just go randomly beat people, for no reason. You just say "You know what you have to do" and that's that.

Oh and



The Mages Guild was straight up "Good" no evil quests in that line, at all.

I really want a group of Crusaders/Paladins I can join. I mean the Vigilant of Stendarr are bastards.

Oh well, mods.

I'm playing a peaceful character. Even if it means I am missing out on a butt-load of quests. I'm not even going to get involved in the war, let both sides find another tool.

You'll find me going hunting or meditating with Paarthunax. Peace.

My Master Race battlemage enforces Thalmor law and thus attacks Talos worshipers with little warning, but otherwise my characters are quite clean. It has always been my habit in games that I oppose unprovoked violence, except when it's necessary for the greater good.

My character right now often refuse to do quest .. and I end up enjoying the game more .. being a completionist can be fun but after a while feel like grinding.
It's like being scared to miss something cool. My first playthrough I always metagame but I should never start with metagaming .. i think I will adopt a new philosophy.

Actually what I like about this game is there is so many temptations to do bad things for rewards. So it makes it feel more rewarding that when you have to go out of your way to resist pickpocketing because your staying true to your character and not trying to gain points to level up or to meet those slaves of Maven Black-Briar.

I'm actually trying to defy logic by playing a Khajiit who wasn't designed to steal.....

Not in general, no.

There isn't much point to in Skyrim unless it's just for personal RP reasons. But in this game, alignments and karma, etc are basically meaningless. This works into my playstyle of doing every quest that comes my way. It was disappointing, if not unexpected, to see that I couldn't play the questlines of both sides of the civil war. But if I'm offered a quest to go pick roses in some place for some dude's fiancee, I'll go do that quest (lame as it would be). And if I then get a quest from his fiancee's jilted ex to kill the first guy and give the flowers to him, I'm doing that too. This way I can be some twisted kind of benevolent sociopath. And if anything in games like this, my character is always a contradiction. I will graciously complete your quest; then I might rob you blind. I'm a high elf stormcloak. In F3, I was the guy that saved Megaton, but collared up slaves and sent them to Paradise Falls. In my next play through, I nuked Megaton and slaughtered the slavers. I like to mix it up.

My first couple of characters were pretty evil. My second character was totally evil, ruthless brotherhood assassin.....after awhile after I did so many bad things, I grew to hate my own character. So this is my first true good character to date and I haven't even started him yet.....I'm about to start him right now.

That's how I play my character too, I'm roleplaying a Paladin. So far it has been pretty easy. I obviously avoid the DB, Thieves Guild and the Daedra quests, but besides that she's been able to do most quests since they involve helping those in need or those who cannot defend themselves.

I play a good character, never needlessly kills, never steals, never pickpockets, killed off the dark brotherhood and hopeing to eliminate the thieves guild. pays off debts for everyone and forces others not to fight. Hell i even let bunny rabbits and foxes rome free without killing them. I would say the worst thing my character does is tear the wings of butterflys.

Well, if someone were to play truly clean, we'd only be leveling up our Speech, and wandering around towns picking flowers for Alchemy, and Smithing equipment to trade with merchants.

But, to the actual point of your question - yes, I tried to play an honest and clean character. There were a couple times where I slipped, either because I didn't realize the consequence of my choices, so I ended up doing something unintended, or because there were a few moments where I felt the ends justified the means.

My nord dragonborn character is an honourable man of the gods. You'll never catch him helping any daedra and the one time he accidentally came into possession of a daedric artefact he quickly hid it away in his house despite the huge value of it, so that it couldn't be misused. He will never do questionable things for a reward and, as instructed by the greybeards, he won't even misuse his power of the thu'um. He sees it as a gift from the gods to help his people. He'll never use clear skies to change the weather, that's Kynareth's job. As Talos is his patron deity he will often pray at Talos shrines and leave offerings, and he despises the Thalmor.

He's sort of clean I guess...

Unfortunately, I broke into his house and stole it and then sold it to the highest bidder. :thumbsup:

I agree though, I think there is little to the game to "encourage" a pure spirit. You really miss out on most of the game if you do that.

For the most part, I've been able to play clean on my first playthrough. I honestly can't remember what I did in Markarth, though. I'm not welcome there anymore, so it must have been something pretty bad.

ill just let you say that to my friend over here. the one in the corner with the blade and goggles... see ya.

My first and, as of this post, only character, Lord Benendearu, is a 'Knight in shining/scaly armor' type of character, but very extremist towards criminality.
He helps almost everyone in need and 'failed' every daedric quest that required him to stab people in the back. The only item he stole was the Ebony blade, but only because he wants it for safekeeping. (and its a nice wall ornament)
One character flaw of his, is that he actually likes to kill bandits and other 'evil people'. Whenever he makes one suffer, he feels satisfaction for ridding the world of filth.
During the forsworn questline, he chose to ally with Madanach, since Madanach is a honorable, albeit bloodthirsty, warrior compared to the corrupt Silver-Bloods.

His use of the Voice might come over as arrogant, but not harmful. He constantly uses Clear Skies when he wants sunshine, uses Slow Time and Aura Whisper when playing tag and hide-and-seek with kids, just to impress them with his powers.

So my character is heroic, but not exactly clean in that he has a darker side that surfaces with fighting criminality.

What's good and bad anyway? Morals in Tamriel are not the same
as morals in RL (in fact those differ from place to place). You should
judge people's actions by the times in which they lived, not through
an "objective" sense of right and wrong. FWIW, in regards to Tamriel
standards I consider my character to be a stand-up guy.

Downloaded the clean skin mods as soon as they became available. Hope that counts.

I was so disappointed when I found that out. Future content, perhaps?

I try to be good. Really I do.

Interesting you say this.
Source of Tamriel good/evil standards?

PETA would like a word with you, dragon slayer.