^^^this :biggrin:

In the wallpaper Bethesda released today, the Dovakin appears to be a leftie...

IT depends on whether or not the game automatically assigns the left hand as an off-hand in the game mechanics. We couldn't really be a lefty if we were getting penalties for using our "off-hands." Things like bows could be written off by players of lefty characters as their character doing something right-handed because they were taught to do it that way or something.

You should choose left, right or both during character create and it should buff and de buff those hands accordingly .

I thought everyone did it that way?

Don't worry about not having that option. The http://download3.zenimax.com/elderscrolls/skyrim/wallpapers/dragonborn_1_1920x1200.jpg is left-handed himself

Morrowind allowed you to use a bow left-handed. Unfortunately, that didn't please a number of right-handers, because there was NO option to use the bow right-handed. I didn't even notice it until someone else pointed it out; it looked "correct" to me.

While I don't think it's a big deal, the ability to have the character use either hand is a nice touch, and at least one of my characters, if not most of them, will be a "lefty".

They do; you usually use your dominate hand to draw back the string on a bow.

Ah but can you really equipe a shield in your right hand? When equipping a shield, doesn't it always default to the left hand? It would be nice to be able to place which hand the shield can go to, but I have a feeling as soon as a shield is equipped it will be in the left hand sadly. :sadvaultboy:

Yeah, I'm a lefty too, and I support this.

It also adds some practical elements. I know this is a shooter game and completely different from TES, but I played Omega Strain and b/c my character was a righty, I'd frag myself instead of hit the toughest baddie in the game, IMO. I couldn't really hit him while in the left side of the pillar because a righty throwing an M61 smacked it in the pillar, I broke LOS trying to throw it from the right of the pillar, and I didn't want to break from cover since this guy had a minigun that cut you down in less than a second.

Like I said, that would rarely apply to TES, but there IS a chance that you could get into a point where the situation favors a left hand over a right.

Lefties are teh devils own! I kid, i kid, Besides i want to play as link from zelda and playing lefthanded will go a long way to making me feel like i am

there should be a lefty or right handed option on the character builder. not so just we can see the weapon on the left side and so on and so on. but also to gives the effect of being a left handed/right handed character. something as simple as left handed get that creativity skill bonuses while right handed get intelligence skill bonuses... i think. and the most important part is that in a combat especially in a melee close combat left handers will die quicker yet do more critical damage then right hander (there's a reason why you wear your shield in the left arm..) or in simple term left hander get an offensive bonuses while right handers get a defensive bonuses
and the character should stick with this rule.. which mean: no changing main weapon placing trough out the entire game
... but then again if you manage to make your character rise into that godly level, non of that matter anymore.

i'm a lefty too.. did u know that only 8-15% of the world population is on their right mind? ^__^

oh haha I thought you were talking about mastvrbation because the game is so awesome, just get used to right handed stuff...

This is not related to Bethesda but to the general apathy companies tend to have to left handed people. I find the complete lack of acknowledgment for left handed people to be disturbing. I am right handed, but I try to stick up for others.

The most disgusting example of this is the Legend of Zelda series of games. Link, the hero of the games, has been left handed for several decades. With the release of the Wii, they decided that players should "feel like they are wielding the sword." They literally flipped the entire game world of Twilight Princess mirrored left and right for the Wii release compared to the Gamecube release to do this, with no option to allow him to be left handed. For their next game they have no plans for a left handed option. To all the left handed children out there, including a relative of mine that is extremely disappointed, that was a disgusting move. It tells those kids that it's okay to ignore them to appease the majority insofar as altering a decades old character to be left handed. I thought that kind of bias was left behind several decades ago, but I guess not!

I applaud Bethesda if characters can be left handed, even though mine will be right handed like I am in real life. When it comes to established characters that were originally right handed or game systems that by limitation are only right handed it's one thing, but when it's a case like with Link (who was originally left handed) or Skyrim (where you can hold things in either hand) I think it is a matter of simple respect to allow a character to be left handed.

I am ambidextrous (and dyslexic on top of that), so I don't really care about this that much, but I do agree that it would be small, but great feature.
Total support!
Even though, I think it will be possible since you can just equip sword in the left and shield in the right hand (for example) and enjoy.