My first 4 characters I've created have been the jack-of-all-trades. The first 3 weren't able to make it past level 35, so they didn't do much, but my last jack-of-all-trades has done almost everything. I decided to do some roleplaying by creating a new character. It's a bit fun, but I feel so limited and after a while, I feel like I've done everything possible to fit the roleplay, nothing becomes available. I always have a strong urge to just do every quest that I come across. I don't know, I might have OCD or something because I can't stop playing until I have done everything there is to be done.

Anyone else feel the same?

I did at first. It alright to do that with your first character (or every, what do i care?), but are you having trouble with finding content for an RP, or trouble immersing?

Thats the beauty of RP'ing. You're done when you're done. If it's level 20, so be it. If it's level 60, so be it.

This is the nature of a Roleplay in a Sandbox. Once your done with the role for that character, retire them and roll up another one to do the other quests you want. I have had dozens of characters that finished their roles by the time their levels were in the 20's.

The easiest way to do this is ask your self, would my Mage really go out and steal stuff? Would my Knight really go become an Assassin?

Nope. I love RP characters differently. It totally changes the game but requires a bit of practice until you fall into the role for a particular character. Learning to ignore quests that your character wouldn't be interested in can take some time.

No, I get that way as well. I'd always try and "role-play" but sometimes I ended up doing a quest or w/e simply because it was there. I've only really role-played two characters.

I would agree but if you have a strong RP, then it shouldn't be an issue.

By doing different RP's, you limit your character to a specific amount of quests and favors you do. That way, the game stays fresh. To me, a jack of all trades character would be boring after the first playthrough.

This. I don′t know on how many chars I gave the finger to Brynjolf or told Aela to go to the ladies room, because it didn′t fit their character.

I juggle about a dozen different characters, all with their own unique skills and RP so I don't really have this problem. The only character that I feel this with is the one that I've created in my likeness as I want to do more as "me" and have done everything that suits my character

Lol, I actually sprint AWAY from Aela after that giant gets killed so I won't even have the initial Companions quest pop up.

You can also do the same with Brynjolf in a way. You gotta get him to talk to you but not to pull you into a conversation, which is possible. I did this on a few characters successfully and the crazy dude never bothered those characters again (thusly never getting that quest in their journals).

I do that only after I shot Farkas in the fleshy thing he sits on. Accidentally of course

He doesn′t bother me on the market, he only annoys me in the Inn

I like to roleplay different characters but some are rather short lived.

My Kaileena character was really made for the thieves guild only and when that was done and she had returned it to glory, I retired her. I also made an assassin who completed the Dark Brotherhood. Once that was done... I retired her.

I think my longest RP was on my Salessi Darkwater version 3. She made it to lv 65 I think it was. was mostly through the Dragonborn DLC when it glitched and the final Miraak battle would not conclude because of an animation issue. I went to a previous save but just couldn't play her anymore... so I retired her.

Otherwise most of my characters retire by the time they reach 40s as far as lv is concerned. Valeria Stormborn is probably my highest lv character I still RP from time to time and she is around lv 48 or so.

I'm a do everything at whatever lcation I arrive at, turning over every rock. Then move on to other locations, so many locations left that it will take a lifetime to do really everthing, the quests will make sure of that as well. I always keep changing what I do after a while as well, that kind of keeps everything fresh as well, there's so many alternative ways to do something in the game.

I do the same with fewer characters. I have a Vamp, a do everything explorer, and a hunter. None are really suited for what the other does. If I want to stalk the night, I load the Vamp. If I want to run a guild or major quest line, I load the explorer.

Same here. Currently using a Ranger/Hunter, Pure Thief, Orc Barbarian, Alchemist, and Necromancer.

It's not an OCD, you're just not cut out for RPing. You shouldn't force yourself to do it if you don't really dig that playstyle.

Kinda.. I try and usually keep at it.. My current character Falin Tide-Ripper who is a mage that uses maces only, a backup dagger, a backup bow for when he cannot cast ranged magic, he just now found the backup dagger lol I couldn't help myself I had to use it but only for annoying things like when a Druagr deathlord disarms me or when I run out of magicka for close combat... On the quest side I've been alright I've only really done two major ones like the Civil War and the mages college... I really also only have done radiant quests for Morthal.. And the occasional Dungeon crawl... But doing what I have done I'm level 24 Breton and climbing I honestly have also never hit the hundred mark for any skill... I have came closethough like my last cccharacter Squire sputterdike who is a level 33 Redguard warrior type he uses no magic.. I believe.. I might go back and get into him again after I level my mage to his.. And on the heavy RP side like eating and sleeping.. Well I do it when I can, however I make sure there is always food for Falin and I rarely wait now I go to an inn and sleep if I'm adventuring and usually have a set Time when he is at his manor he has a job other then killing things he cuts wood when he isnt busy at the manor or doing quests/exploring.. He wants to be a Smith though just for selling stuff he makes but I haven't delved into that skill yet as I just now got dwarven smithing.. Thats about it... I think

Edit: Falin also uses heavy armor just like Squire but squire uses light and heavy..

me thinks you peeps are making to much of a bloat out of this RP thing. the guy dusted much of the content in the game no? to what motivation would he have to go through all of that again?

that said.

you can bend (you have too) situations in game to fit your outlook on the character you're playing, even unrelated events you think wouldn't apply to your character. the ingame book series Begger, Thief, Warrior, King is paramount to the change you can have on your character and is the philosophy i am following for mine right now.

I for one enjoy the thought of RPing it is called a role playing game right?

That being said..

Not only does it give you more of a challenge but it gives you a more sense of being than "I'm this badass that yells at dragons bro.. You don't have to do the main quest you don't have to go to whiterun you can form your dos and don'ts from what you already know.. NOW mind you that im not saying this person can't do everything in one go if that's what wets your jimmies then alright but he asked for help so help is what we gave him he doesn't have to take in the info he can go and bury it in a hole if he wants.. Metiphorically.. we just simply gave him a base idea of how to do it.. He doesn't have to but he seemed to want to know.. Anyway im losing track.. So.. Yeah lol

Same here, I try to make them as different as possible for different moods.

I tend to do one character at a time, mainly because I don't have the patience to get Mod Organiser to work (it seems like an awesome tool but I couldn't get it to work and it just wound me up...) and I don't want to risk messing up manually changing the active mods in a given game (ADD is a PITA.)

I don't RP super-seriously, in that I sometimes do quests which might not completely fit a given character just because they turn up. Not major questlines, I pick one or two factions and usually one or the other of Dawnguard and Dragonborn (I've only actually completed DG once, and never finished DB, mainly because said ADD tends to lead to restartitis) and I only do the Civil War if I can find a convincing (to me) reason why that character is bothered enough to take a side. Sometimes I do the MQ, sometimes not (have never completed it, either).

But in terms of the smaller quests, if I stumble across something interesting, I'll probably give it a go unless it's *blatantly* wrong for my character - e.g. there's no way Llerethis would have ended up with Mehrunes' Razor, and there's no way Rozenn will be walking around in the Ebony Mail at any point - or with the Ebony Blade, for that matter. She might, conceivably, obtain the Blade through peaceful means and then find a way to dispose of it somewhere safer than its current location, if she happens to hear about strange goings-on, though. I think the Daedric quests are generally among the most RP-friendly (or potentially RP-breaking) quests, because whether you a/ start them b/ continue with them once you figure out what's going on (in some cases, e.g. Molag Bal's quest, arguably Namira's) and c/ complete them this way or that way (Vaermina, Azura, Mehrunes Dagon) can be pretty pivotal moments in a character's 'development', in a way that 'please go and defeat such and such a bandit' doesn't, beyond 'I am some kind of badass who goes around killing bandits'.

I have had a few shortish more seriously RP playthroughs - a huntress who never went anywhere creepier than a bear's cave, a labourer who never strayed off the roads when travelling (but did end up in a few fights to the death because Skyrim loves to throw adventure at you...) and they were great fun, though.

I'm currently playing with Requiem, which I think may help in some ways - it's definitely a long-haul type thing, but I think it'll allow my current character to be rather more realistic than the typical Skyrim mould, because you aren't an amazing killing machine at level 3, there's apparently no way she'll be able to face draugr or anything more monstery than that for a good few levels yet (I've got the difficulty dialed back a bit, but am compensating by not being very good at video games...) so she's starting off wandering around, practicing fighting a bit on animals and being tempted by the idea of bounty hunting, seeing as she appears to have a bit of a knack for fighting with a battleaxe (okay, that's not so realistic, but it *is* a game, I still want it to be fun!) and she's getting pretty good with her flame spell. Eventually, after a much longer period than is usually the case, even when I try to go about things this way, she might feel brave enough to try to go on the frankly ridiculous errand the Jarl's wizard gave her.

Llerethis (my last main character) was pretty badass, but I *did* structure her playthrough to be mostly adventuring around for the first thirty or so levels, with only the very beginning bits of the major questlines I wanted her to do under her belt by that point, and it was much more fun. Unfortunately, I mucked up some mod stuff and ended up abandoning her around level 45, so she never got very far with most of her plans, but previous characters I've got to that level were pretty much done, story wise at that point, and I've abandoned them because they were straight-up overpowered and dull (however much I'd enjoyed playing them up to that point).

This, as much as I'd like to roleplay and feel refreshment, I can't. I know everything there is to do (at least that's what I think)

But, I'm going to give it a few more shots. I'll try to make my characters more complex and diverse to spice it up a bit. The only roleplay I've done so far is a Khajit Paladin (similar to Aslan).

I've been thinking about this for a while and maybe I could do a role-play of Altair Ibn La Ahad? He's my favorite assassin and I could have him reside in Winterhold, sort of like the Masyaf Castle. Also, he could destroy the dark brotherhood for he believes the assassins have been corrupt, and when he does do this he is torn apart