Does anybody know of any fan TES rpgs on the net? It would be best if the handbook was lore-friendly. Not only based on Oblivion but also on previous TES games.

You mean pen-and-paper RPGs? Wouldn't be surprised if some people have made up rulesets and campaigns, but I can't think of anything off-hand. I'd be interested in seeing something.

MrDuke created one. Look at http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1137134-morrowind-pnp/. If you contact him, he will probably be very happy to send you the handbook.

The process of making an Elder Scrolls PNP game seems to be cursed or something to peter out without any meaningful results: DonZhou tried and fgave up, Red Eye tried and his version's apparently going nowhere, some jerk on PBWorks threw up a bunch of rules haphazardly and called it a day, and the version I'm trying to work on myself (which was started six months ago and had a thread around that time) for whatever reason is just giving me the worst writer's block imaginable, never mind that most of this stuff is locked down to some degree already in my head.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and don't forget the dude who was going to write a fifteen-book collectio0n of tabletop material for TES.


The fact that the dude refuses to put the rules up for public scrutiny comes up as a big red flag, to be honest, and considering that it's been a month since last anything was posted there, even money the project's dead.

I also tried, but finally moved to developing a different rpg. We were too ambitious. We tried to base our work especially on PGE 1st edition and Morrowind Lore, where all the really good stuff is. But many sources contradict each other and some are quite sparse. Realise we have very little on Summerset Isles or about guilds others than morrowind houses and imperial ones. Also it's hard to find an essence in TES. In Call of Ctulhu we have the mythos, in post-apocalyptics we strive for survival, in Warhammer we fight chaos and so on. But in TES there is no main motive.

Detailed lore is nice, but a good DM will mold and ignore and [censored] the lore as he sees fit to suit the story and the campaign. I highly doubt someone is going to pitch a major fit because the DM's descriptions don't match up with every obscure resource or don't fit some specific image they think the franchise has of something, and if they do, chances are they're an arsehold you don't want to play with anyway.

Motive shouldn't really be a problem, either. You could have the political machinations of Daggerfall, the theological and cultural disputes of Morrowind, epic fire and brimstone big-damn-heroes-save-the-world stuff of Arena and Oblivion, or the simple motivations of god, gold and glory that you'll find pretty much everywhere.

You could, but many of these motives can be also seen in many other rpgs. Now when I'm thinking about it, the situation in Tamriel that is described in the book is a good background for a role-playing game:
- Rise of the aldmeri dominion.
- Morrowind destroyed, ashlanders strive, and the houses fight full time with each other
- An-Xeelel rules in Argonia, disturbance in the Hist (not a good place for Imperials and Dunmers)
- The mage guild is divided
- Don't know what happened to the warrior's guild, but i'd also see them as divided into mercenary and bandit groups
- Titus Mede trying to reunite the Human Lands, where there is a great civil war
- The Mane was assasinated, and Elsweyr is probably divided

Is there there any source that tells us more about the culture of the Altmers and the geography of the Summerset Isles. My base for the rpg is PGE, but there is very little about the High elves in it.