Do you roleplay as in, no fast travel, eat at meal times, sleep at night e.t.c or do you guys do the opposites?

That's how I play. It makes the game go at a slower pace and is generally more enjoyable for me. I only break those rules if I'm trying to fix a bug or something.

Do I count as a lore buff? I'm going to pretend I do.

The first time through the game, I do very little roleplaying, almost none, and just go through every quest in sight, read a bunch of books, and experience as much content in a single playthrough as I can. Then, I go back through certain questlines and make characters designed for really heavy roleplay in those questlines. I'm way too impatient and way too curious to do all that roleplaying on the first playthrough, and I can't suspend my disbelief enough to believe one character is the head of every guild in Skyrim AND the Dragonborn, and again, too impatient and too curious to make new characters for every guild.

I use my knowledge of lore to enhance my roleplaying experience. Too often do people try to apply real world stuff to Tamriel, in my opinion. For example, my characters aren't going to eat three meals a day because there's not enough time for that in a single day. Plus, no one else ever eats more than one meal.

This is exactly what I did in Skyrim. First play-through was full quest [censored].

They play rough
They play hard
Woe unto those who dislike the search button
Woe unto those who disagree without valid (or at rather, interesting) points of argument

OH, the game!

I am not a lorebuff. lalala, disregard, yadayada
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i use fast travel, cause in reality, despite how Evil and Black the world is, gangsters and mountain lions are not omnipresent. The highway is not a damn watering hole :>

Or maybe it is!

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Depends on the character. My imperial is a mindless sheep for the Legion. Nord-barbarian thing is mindlessly chaotic.
And I always sleep at night. Dungeon delving is terrifying. But that's me.
Otherwise my sneakers sneak in the dark.

I might download a realism mod in later playthroughs, but I never bother with all that crap when there isn't an incentive within the gameplay mechanics. I might rp a "scene" of my character taking it easy, eating a meal, or something, but only on whims. Until there is an actual gameplay incentive (realism mod, NV hardcoe mode) I don't bother.

Really, lore has nothing to do with that whole realism malarkey anyway. Lore does have everything to do with the agenda of Thalmor, but nothing at all with whether or not the pc gets his sleep. As such, I doubt there will be any "consistent" set of answers.

I generally play at my own fairly fast pace and leave the simulationism to the tabletop rpgs.

The lore I see as more of a nice bonus that occasionally turns out to be more interesting than the game itself.

Lore colors how I create my characters and how they will behave. That's about it though.

First character in TES and Fallout tends to be just an idealized lovable-rogue facsimile of myself.

Subsequent characters tend to be actual characters, with personalities and proclivities and junk, not just fantastic ego-stroking.

Don't think I count as a buff, but the lore of the game is what interests me the most. And generally on the first playthrough, the story and any ground breaking lore I can find is all that matters. Slowing down the game and roleplaying ( to which im not against on later playthoughs) is not an option on the first playthrough when I know there's new lore out there I'm missing out on.

I said playthrough too many times :rolleyes:

Do I roleplay? A little bit. Generally, whether I accept or reject a quest depends on what I'm playing as, I try to role-play internal thoughts (I might mutter, "stormcloak scum" if I'm playing an imperial-sympathizer in windhelm), and stuff like that. I enjoy realism mods like vim & vigor for OB, and I preferred MW's travel system, but I use quest markers and fast travel now that the game relies on them. I also "play dress-up" with my characters. Usually I have several outfits in my inventory for combat, walking around in third person inside a city, in my home, or in the wilderness, or in a certain area, but that's just aesthetics, not role-playing.

I roleplay in the sense that my character has the same knowledge as myself, so I spend a lot of time screaming at the screen, "SHUT UP PAARTHUNAX I ALREADY KNOW WHAT A KALPA IS!"

I roleplay in the sense of letting my backstory and personality dictate my actions. I've never seen religiously eschewing fast travel, eating, sleeping on a schedule etc. as anything but silly. I don't remove my character's pants and carefully squat him over a bucket once or twice a day either.

lol, ditto.

I started playing Skyrim in whatever way came naturally to me. I knew that I didn't want to go to Riverwood, so I struck out in the other direction and found Falkreath. I just traveled the world, exploring and clearing dungeons, doing the quests that were in my way. I did sleep if I was near a tavern at night, but that was more to avoid the darkness rather than for roleplay. That's the same way I handled Oblivion and Morrowind.

Due precisely to my being a "lore master," that couldn't persist. I was being spoiled plot points by being in this forum, and needed to discuss things, so I needed to complete the main quest. Since Wednesday, I've been using fast travel, ignoring side quests, and occasionally tcl'ing when I'm too lazy to spend 30 minutes to go around to that one door back in the start I missed. Basically, grinding the main quest. The fact that I'm still enjoying the game despite this is a testament to its awesomeness.

Dude. I already have to cook, eat regular meals, sleep at night, do the laundry, go to work and study at a university. Doing all that again in game seems like waste of good gaming time. :flamethrower:

I'm playing for fun. Do the quests that seem interesting, walk when I feel like it or when it's close, or when I need souls, or furs. For added realism, and because my laptop keeps overheating, I do play with the windows open so it's kinda cold in here.

I wouldn't consider myself a lore buff, but I know my fair amount of lore, and I always try to involve that in my characters. For instance, my first character, a wild elf (or Ayleid) from a small Cyrodiilic clan named "Haromir Agealattia" was a scholar in his small clan, before being captured by Nordic Ayleid Hunters, who brought him to the Imperials for execution. This back story gave me an excuse to involve lore in my roleplay, for instance as he had lived in a very traditional Mer society, he had spent his entire life worshiping Auri-El and would in fact welcome Alduin's destruction of the world, as he had wished for Talos and Men to fall and for Mer to ascend to Heaven, as documented in the Altmeri Prophecy.

However, in the sleep you have before you awake on the carriage at the beginning of Skyrim, Arkay visited Haromir and taught him the importance of life and death in the world, and introduced Lorkhan, who taught him the evils of Alduin/Auri-El/perhaps even Akatosh, and Talos, who taught him the importance of Men, and the great evil that resides in the Thalmor. With these revelations, Haromir completely changed, and soon found out he was dragonborn, and a prophet of Arkay, Lorkhan and Talos.

Involving lore in such a way, to mold your character, can be very gratifying and allows for some very interesting decisions to be made whilst playing Skyrim, and to those who may say the game does not provide for such a roleplay, you'd be surprised.

On the role playing sleeping and eating etc front, whenever I had finished doing something, I always aimed to sleep at an Inn or return to my home (which was at the College of Winterhold) and whenever I did that I would eat. I also never fast travel, and rarely take a carriage. And I do not use horses due to them forcing you into third person, and I'd like to be my character, not a flying camera behind him. The end of a journey also provides for an opportunity to sleep and eat.

Of course, most times I will only eat once a day, and in a long dungeon crawl or something, I may go days without eating or sleeping, so I do not play 100% accurately, but within reason. Of course, I also do not use waypoints, I never have any active quests on, as telepathically knowing where to find something is totally ridiculous, and the waypoints take away an element of control in the game, forcing you to play in a linear fashion at times as you merely constantly go towards the waypoint.

I hope that covers how someone with knowledge of lore may play the game.

I find the extraordinary events make about any character as likely as the next, so I don't get hung up on character background or eating, least of all. No matter how well my PCs eat, they'll never poop. I hear poop is Bethesda's toughest feature to implement, but prospects look good.

For my current character, absolutely no Main Quest. I'm a wandering librarian, scholar, and necromancer, not the Dovahkiin. And I do use FT, because I'm lazy as [censored].

Also, I do roleplay. I don't enter certain guild, I don't do certain quests, I generally won't help people from the bottom of my heart, unless they're Marsh-Brothers/Sisters, and I generally won't take tasks that do not involve some sort of knowledge diving.

Also, he's a Monomyther, with a strong dislike of the Thalmor.

I started playing slower once I got more interested in the lore. I think there is a difference between RPing; eating, sleeping, drinking, etc; and being into the lore. Like Lady N said in her post she was after the juicy lore within the MQ.

I RP as much as I can, while I don't eat all the time I do sleep when I'm near a bed. After contracting lycanthropy though you lose the rested bonus so now I don't sleep as much.

I also didn't use fast travel until recently. I walked or rode my horse everywhere at first just to really take in the world. I've still not been to every major hold but I have been all around Winterrun to Riften area. I use FT now that I've been to most of the areas and it avoids going through the same ol terrain.

Yeah... I'm no lorebufff. When i first got Skyrim, I didn't go to school for a week. It was okay though, half the lessons were cancelled. I became effectively nocturnal, played nothing but Skyrim. I didn't do the main quest untill a full week of intensive playing. I played with the command console a bit, gave myself coupla thousand magicka points, little else though. Purely a immersion thing, I never heard of Galerion or Mannimarco, or Master Aryon running out of magick in a fight... So why should I? Being Dovahkiin n' all.

80,000 magicka doesn't mean you're invincible, especially when playing a "Mage class" on master difficulty.

Became the archmage, then started on the main quest. I never play a character that is "leader" of two incompatible factions. In Morrowind it was different, I felt I could judge the culture and political climate of Morrowind more than Skyrim, not just because of the amount of factions it had, but because there was simply so much more dialogue and information in the game.

I only used fast travel when I had my horse with me, or at the city. If I was in the middle of nowhere, I would walk to the nearest horse selling settlement.

BS, Lord Hyamentar. If you're not one, than how can I revel in the fact people occasionally call me a lore master. http://youtu.be/kpxnUUi-Mmw?hd=1

Fake it 'till you make it.

I don't see what playing a realist (all that eating at appointed times and whatnot) has to do with lore. I could be completely ignorant to the gameworld and do those things.


As for qualifications for being a lore-buff, you don't have to know what you're talking about, you just have to be better at talking about it than the other person - it just so happens that the former sometimes helps with the latter.

You're right that lore has nothing to do with whether or not the player character sleeps at night, but it has everything to do with how your character might perceive certain events, the knowledge he or she should have just based on the fact that he or she was born and raised in Tamriel. (Why exactly can I go around asking idiotic questions in Skyrim like "Who is Mara?" or "Who is Azura?" Could my character be so dense as to not know who the major deities of their universe are, even on a name-basis? I understand wanting to give the information to new players, but surely there's a more appropriate way, such as "What can you tell me about Mara?" etc. But I digress.)

Understanding lore for the sake of roleplaying is the difference between having an Argonian named Bob the Lizard who acts like an Imperial and an Argonian named Kajeei-Zel who feels the Hist. Both might go around making their characters eat and sleep all day, but I'd be willing to bet that one of them is far more immersed in their character and in the world of Tamriel than the other.