This. You're poll is too biased. I can't believe that many people voted on it.

Plus, randomly picked stat values ftw, right?

Now THAT could work, seeings how not every NPC is going to attack a Scamp on sight, like with a Sload.

Honestly, I don't think the topic creator did as much research into the Sload as they claimed, if they did, they wouldn't have bothered with the suggestion. Seriously, it just wouldn't be remotely feasible.

I like the idea of facing off against a really powerful Sload character, but I'm not counting on it happening in Skyrim. Geographically-speaking, it's extremely unlikely there would even be any anywhere near the province of Skyrim. The western coast of Tamriel, I could see that. Of course, this is assuming there ARE any Sload left, seeings how Thras was destroyed by the All Flags Navy some time ago in retaliation for the Thrassian Plague. It's believed that the Coral Kingdoms have returned, but not truly known.

You couldn't even design a game around them either, they sit around doing nothing most of the time. How exciting. :rolleyes:

As dumb as Sloads becoming a playable race is, I would like to have them seen in a future game in some capacity.

I would too, they could make for some interesting opponents. There's so many unknowns: Does their blubber protect them from weapons? Magic? Are they especially susceptible to magic, like the Altmer? Being paralyzed? Not that I imagine you'd really have to, at least out of the water. Speaking of which, can they breathe underwater? That'd be a tremendous asset in combat, they could the force their opponent to plunge to great depths to pursue them.

One thing we can say for certain is that if and when we ever come face-to-hideous-face with a Sload, it will likely be after hacking and slashing our way through an entire army of undead. I can see it now: You come to a cave in the north of Skyrim. You go inside to find a huge, nearly-frozen lake with a dim but visible red light near the center. Being a hearty adventurer you drink a Potion of Water Breathing and dive in. The red light leads you to a winding tunnel, littered with skeletal minions and rotted-looking fish, all of them hungering for your flesh. You make your way through them to find an even larger cave than the one you just left, as flooded as the tunnel leading to it. Near the floor floats one of the most bloated and disgusting things you've ever laid eyes upon: a Sload! You've descended to your doom! Or have you...

Awesome. :rock:

I said no, because Sload are too rare.

I'd suggest this makes them perfect for inclusion as they behave exactly like the people who make multiple polls per day...except that as I understand it the Sloads aren't sitting around "doing nothing"- they actually think.

I'd like to kill several. Maybe even a DLC in which you're teleported to the Coral Kingdoms and have to fight your way out through several under and above water coral passageways. Hack/ sneak/ cast your way to some kind of long-range teleporter, and you're back in Skyrim. I'd play it.

But playable ones...no. Reading the USEP article really made me want to slice some up, though.

No, for the same lore reasons as have been mentioned multiple times in this thread already. Please include a standard "no" option in your poll so that we can get an accurate idea of how people feel about this subject.

I want sload NPCs, but I don't think I'll play as a sload...

Don't count on it kiddies, Beth doesn't usually change the playable race line-up.

True, but they have added to it. Orcs didn't use to be playable.

"advlt Sload have four appendages which behave partially as pseudopods, in that they mold themselves around whatever the Sload is grasping. This takes some time but allows them to attain a very good grip on practically anything, allowing them to climb things many other races can't. Despite this, their ability to use tools is limited."-UESP.

Sloads are fat blobs of goo, all the other beast races are basically their head on a human body.

"As they age, Sload tend to grow in size and corpulence, and many older Sload would collapse under their own weight if not bouyed up by water or by magic means. There is no known limit to either the age nor the size of an advlt Sload."

The fact that anyone would want to play as a gigantic, fat man-slug who can't even support its own weight without magic or water absolutely astonishes me... How are you gonna get armor on a thing like that? It looks like Jabba The Hutt with legs. Implementing Sloads would cause a boatload of clipping issues...

I wouldn't mind seeing some NPC Sloads, but I certainly don't want to see them as a playable race...

um... im extremely unlucky, and im not a dead-obsessed monster...

you should be smacked for thinking luck/fate is prejudiced.

obviously, to a sload, being lucky would probably involve things no normal people would be interested in, like finding corpses.

I'd love a couple of Sload NPCs, but I don't really see how they'd work as playable characters.

I say make them creatures that can talk (with decent lip-synch!), so they're not constained by the humanoid skeleton.

Swimming underneath a frozen lake, to do a quest for a massive and ancient Sload necromancer? Yes please!

Biased poll much?

Indeed.

I think if any inhabitant of Tamriel has the presence and civility(somewhat) to warrant inclusion in the ranks of playable races it's goblins.

Wait, wait, I've got it!

We bring back M'aiq the Liar. Rather than stationary like Morrowind or running the circuit like Oblivion, in Skyrim he runs a zoo.

As he gives you a tour of creatures and/or NPCs, he comments on each one.

"And here, the Sload. How fat. How ugly. How disgusting. Some people want to be Sloads. M'aiq thinks these people are fools."

:D

If anything i would pay to play a fallen Dremora Prince.

Hey, ease off on the bashing of people-who-want-to-play-Sload. It's not as if the tone of the thread (or its poll) was exactly serious. Yes, I'm aware the bashing isn't exactly serious either, but we should be free to request our misunderstood, misrepresented Sload masters as PCs without being judged. Besides, there are at least 18 of us in the Sload cul-- err, in the poll. So yes. Go about your business.

On a more serious note, this-


Is the kind of thing I had in mind when I mentioned NPC Sload, and would be really cool.

No on my account. Namely, I find it real hard that anyone would just accept a Sload, struggling around a town and expect respect. Their race as whole wasn't taken too kindly when the Sload release a plague on Tamriel. The fact that we are in Nord territory, those guy don't really like elves that well, I don't think being a Sload would able to live there without being hunted down.

Save it for TES VI: Summerset Isle. Amphibian slugs from a coral kingdom from across the continent have no business being in the mountainous snowy climbs of Skyrim. In fact, if there's one province I'd say is the most unsuitable for the Sload, it'd be Skyrim.

Oh, wow, quite a few humorless zombies lurk these parts, eh? :meh:


This makes my day, if this thread gets a M'aiq line I will die happy.
:woot:

Nope, don't want 'em as a playable race. Although I do love variety.

Sloads pose unique problems and obstacles that none of the other races will have to face. You'd be dependent on magic to move out of the water, you'd teleport when distressed, you'd take enormously long amounts of time on every decision, you'd probably break most of the furniture.

They'd be hard to implement.

As NPCs, they're fine.

Reminds me of the part in the story of Beowulf where he goes to kill Grendel's mother. Maybe she was a sload!