We have seen how amazing and awesome the character creation tool given to the player has become in Skyrim, and how much diversity it allows for. The levels of charisma reached with this tool lie far beyond what we've seen in any of the previous games, in my opinion.

Well, then I am wondering whether the use of such a tool could be generalized. That is, as far as I know, such a tool, made available to the players, only exists for the ten playable races in the game. Do you think it would be nice that the devs build similar tools for other, non-playable races, provided they're endowed with a vaguely human shape?

Such a tool wouldn't be available to the player, of course, but well to the devs and modders.

Making some face or body features of the creatures the player encounters random would then allow more diversity in the game in the sense that you wouldn't encounter twins or clones of one and the same individual. I think this would contribute to deepen the visual realism of the game as well as the feeling of walking into a living world.

Moreover, given the amazing results obtained with the playable races, I have no doubt that some Dreughs, Spriggans, Falmers, Scamps, Dwemers' ghosts, or whatever the creatures we'll see in Skyrim, could become very charismatic as well. And once these tools exist, probably they would make it easier for the devs to craft special individuals, such as for example an especially powerful Impish questgiver, whose wise wrinkled face would give clues that he knows ancient secrets...

Such a partially random spawning could also be used with any creature, generating, for example, black spots in the fur of light-grey wolves. Or a scar in the skin of a horker, or leucistic foxes and ravens.

Further generalization could make such tools available to vegetals, or even to various in-game items.

To be honnest, I don't expect this to happen in Skyrim (however, I may be wrong...), because I realize that building such a tool for the playable races is likely to have cost lots of work. If it isn't already implemented, there is no chance that it'll be for the release of the game.

However, perhaps we could hope such a thing for TES VI?

So, what do you think?

Do you like the idea that partial randomness could occur in the spawning of in-game creatures, and that these creatures could benefit from advanced creation tools?

Using such à tool for various in-game items could allow a respawning of the various plates, bowls and other items of this kind, that you can find in inhabited dungeons.

In Oblivion, if you took all the items you find in a dungeon that weren't in a container, they didn't respawn so that afterwards the dungeon seemed very empty. It was quite strange : if the respawning of container could be explained by assuming the new inhabitants of the place brought stuff in it, one couldn't explain they didn't bring some further stuff and put it on the tables...

Having a tool similar to the one used to build faces, but devoted to spoons, bowls and ordinary items of this kind could also allow for a partially random respawning of the common stuff, preventing exhaustive looting from generating permanent emptiness. That is, the bowls would reappear on the tables, but with perhaps slightly differents adornments, more vivid or faded paintings, or some crackles.

So what do you think? Are these good ideas, or very bad ones?

TLDR

Good Idea, but your poll makes me want to drown an Argonian!

Do you think I should remove the poll?

Yes, or a simple yes/ no/ not sure poll will do. When polls get that large, they make it hard to take it for face value (a very well thought out idea)

I fixed it. Thanks for the suggestion.

And sorry for those whose vote has been deleted during the poll simplification...

I modified the two opening posts in hope that I could make them more readable and make my point more clear. Well, the result isn't shorter, finally (and I think I can't cease being verbose), but now, the key points are highlitened...

Also, I completely removed the useless poll...