I am curious as how do you guys and gals limit yourself playing Morrowind. For me, I tried the sleeping at nite, eating 3 times a day, when going swimming taking everything off me so I am only in my skivvies. so it will be more realistic. I found this to be too much a chore so I basically stopped all this. Then only thing I try to do, is take one potion every 10 seconds or so, but I svck at the game and sometimes keep taking unlimited potions so I don't die.

So what do you do?

I often try and set myself out rules but i usually end up ignoring them and just doing my own thing haha.

Saying all that, my next character, a witchunter type which im gonna do when Psycholex' new ordinator mod comes out, i plan to role-play better, eat and drink once a day, sleep for at least a few hours each day, stuff like that. Don't want to make it too much of a chore though.

IIRC, NoM makes it so you have to eat and/or drink regularly so as to not starve/die of thirst. Are there any that make it so you have to sleep?

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NoM does that too.

Ive tried playing with good mods like NoM.. but in the end it just makes things too complex for me to keep track of

Whenever i make house mods, i always put in baths and things like that.... but i never use them fail

One simple way to limit yourself is to stab your leg with a pen everytime you want to use the console...... :mohawk:

"i must not coc to balmora, i must not coc to balmora, i must.... oh :swear: it"

I don't have much restrictions I guess...

1- Never stack same-effect potions. (no drinking 15 sujamma in a row)
2- Use the console only for the RA command. (to avoid NPC falling from their platform, etc)
3- Sleep at night. Not for realism, but because assassins try to stab me when I wander around at night.
4- Modify/add mods only if I start a new game, never in the middle of one.

Like I said, not much.

I try not to step into swamp water cause I think it's dirty, and I normally avoid going underwater.

The most limits I ever placed on one character was a Breton Warrior who had renounced her magic heritage and refused to have anything to do with magic. This character:

* Did not enchant armor or weapons or clothes.
* Did not use pre-enchanted armor or weapons or clothes.
* Did not use spells.
* Did not use scrolls.
* Did not use potions.
* Did not use soul gems.
* Did not do Alchemy.
* Did not use Guild Guides.

As if all this gimping wasn't bad enough she also didn't wear pauldrons or a helm.

I don't steal. Ever. I only keep that which I find abandoned, or from the bodies that I happen upon or dispatch.

After reading the background for Shareel, of the MCA companions, I never kill a Winged Twilight.

If a companion has a well written background or conversation, I often will give them that which they have in their stories. Calvia, from Calvia and Rerlas, always wanted to retire to a little home by the water. So after we finished in Mournhold and all her triggered actions were done, I gave her a cottage on the shore just outside Balmora. Nona, the infertile Bosmer gal in Tel Mora, will get her child eventually, and by her own wishes, I will travel with her all the way to Valenwood, giving her a nice little corner of one of the large halls for her and the baby. Stuff like that.

I try not to kill the Mabrigash or the large camps of outcast Dunmer. I am trying to save them all after all, so unless I have no choice, I will become chameleonic and just walk past them. Sometimes, there are unfortunate slaughters.

I had a barbarian-type character like this once except I got tired of dying every 15 minutes or so, so I finally allowed him to use potions of restore health/cures.
Also: no temple visits, no trainers and no transport of any kind.

I'm nocturnal, with a lighting mod.

Morrowind's a pain in the 'tocks when your whole game is nearly pitch black.

It depends. I try to mod out or avoid the ugliest exploits. One rather restricted character had:
-No training
-No tomb raiding
-No theft
-No dealings with Imperial factions such as the Blades or the Mages Guild
-No daedric quests
-Pray at the Temple every day
-NoM and GCD to make things harder and more immersive

Another was a pure mage that didn't use armour or weapons except when required by quests (I don't recall if that mage used bound weapons). Also, few potions except for self-made magicka potions.

All my characters have 4 things in common:
No trainers
No "on strike" weapons
No Alchemy
No fortify attribute potions

After that I use different gimps for different characters.

I usually sleep at night since I hate not being able to see very well in Morrowind... I try to eat something every day, a few eggs, a little bread, some crab meat... But I do not have any special times of the day to do this and sometimes I just forget about it.

I usually set rules for my characters to make things not so easy, I always play with NoM and GCD as I feel that they are two of the best mods ever made for the game and they "fix" things that should have been in the game in the first place. Other things that I do to make my game more interesting:

--when playing a character that uses summons I have to make sure that when summoning undead I have a bonemeal to consume upon casting and if I don't then I cannot cast the spell, when summoning other creatures I have to have a soulgem with the proper soul in it and it must be in my inventory.

--Sleep at least 5 hours a day, no sleep spamming allowed. Which means that if I have slept already that day and I need to regain magicka or health then its time to return home and do something else to occupy my time until I can sleep again. This rule makes for an interesting time in game because it kind of forces you to spend time doing other things instead of going out and killing monsters and questing the entire time.

--Trainers are a no-no, I see trainers as a cheat and an unnessesary one at that because I have never had any trouble keeping my skills where they need to be. Trainer leveling also takes away from the immersion of the game as well.

--Using only potions that I have personally made, I played one character who was paranoid that the merchants were working for the assassins and were going to put poison in the potions that they were selling so he wouldn't buy or use them, and he didn't trust that other people knew the proper way to make the potions either. Was very fun playing with this rule as it forced you to learn the best way to make effective potions and also allowed for a lot of exploring to find ingredients.

Speaking of sleeping, I know what you mean being up for like 36 hours. The way I get around this, is because I use restore fatigue amulet alot, it restores my fatigue as well as keeping me awake. If I don't use it, then I must sleep then. Since I am the Antronach birth sign, I really have no need for sleep. But I do try to roll play. Not as successfull as I like to be, but then again, I am playing a game, and I find it a chore to do sometimes. I play games to get away from real life so this is one of the rules I gladly break and not feel bad about it.

I only sell Creeper things that make sense for a black-market portal: skooma, booze, and Dwemer artifacts, basically. I wish he bought gems and ebony/glass, because it would make sense to sell him those things too.

Other than that, no killing without dialogue, if available, and I only sell potions like cure disease/sure blight disease when they are "left over" after a certain point in the game. Aside from those, if I make a potion, I either use it or throw it away.

Hmm... this sounds interesting. What do you mean by this? Would this be like killing the guy behind the Arielles Trade Store and you kill him because of the dialogue? So you wouldn't kill anyone for thier house if the option wasn't there to talk to him?

I might try this, so can you please explain more.

I limit myself in Morrowind by having set-up a timelock on the folder so I can access it for only 7 hours a week. Really helped curb the addiction.



Really though, I carry only minimal items. One main weapon, a dagger for "eating and utility," only the one set of armor, change of clothes and a handful of potions. Everything else, such as repair equipment, potions stuff, spare armor, etc was all at one of many drop points. I had one agent character who had a different set of armor and clothes for each major city and its environs.

Used to have an ex-con/survivalist who never made use of traders, just took what he needed to survive and slept in the wild and in caves.

Had a set of shackles magically enchanted to keep his abilities constantly dropping every so often.

I know this sounds strange, but before I used GCD I use to put my favorite skills, the ones that depended on my favored attributes
in the minor skill section, and then I'd put other favorite skills that didn't depend on my favored attributes into the major skills section.
That will slow things down and level your player out more. Just an Idea.

I personally dislike NoM. I installed it, but there was so much food that didn't cure my hunger that it was just annoying. I didn't feel like being restricted to eating specific foods that only NoM selected, because then I have a bunch of other meats that don't even do anything. Is there a way to make it so any ingredient cures hunger? And any 'potion' cures thirst?

I don't know if the ingredients category and the potions category could be tied to global variables somehow; perhaps MWSE might be able to do something in that regard. As it is though, eatible ingredients and foodstuffs are specified by name in NoM. It's relatively easy to add items you can eat to the scripts, but if the above methods don't work you'd be faced with a big script rewriting job if you were to include everything.

As for limiting myself, I wrote my own sets of guidelines in Vivec Says and a couple of simple mods to limit guild guide travel and spellmaking in my http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=8002

Clothing.

I've only played for a couple of hours and have the skills to show for it. I bought extravagant robes or something like that and when you are so bad and keep dying you feel like a fraud

I always play a physically weak character and wear very little armour, and what little I do wear is low-quality.
My custom character body I made back when I could make 3D stuff, though cool, kinda limits what I can wear too.
Fighting a big tough Orc in full steel is pretty hard for a guy in rags and leather gloves no matter what level.

I play with NOM so I gotta spend money on food and eat it.
I don't join a lot of factions. Or at least wait a while before joining one.
I usually don't haul whole suits of armour from any raids I do unless I guess I have a guar.
I don't abuse the wait feature or train for severals days straight. My character sleeps at night though not with NOM's rules.
I don't carry all of my money with me. I actually use a bank mod and a money weight mod. Makes buying expensive stuff hard.
I pretend I don't know where every artifact is. Never really used them much anyway though.

Not at all, really. I just RP that there is a drunken talking mudcrap that has a lot of gold and is an idiot and buys things from me at full retail price.
It's magic.