Hey guys, just wondering how many of you have thought of playing two or more characters at the same time. I'm sure most of us have our game "runs" set out already, so how far in with one run will you get before starting another? MQ done? EVERY quest done?

Personally, I'll spend most of my time with my mage character, but will have my warrior character started (past the intro stage of the game) and will occasionally drop in to swing two handed swords at people (and watch cool finishing moves since magic users don't get those :sadvaultboy: ).

Thoughts?

That would be very difficult.

Waaaaayyy To much multi tasking for meh, untop of spoling myself if one character does something in a similar area? oh no thanks Im a one player kind of Gaii. I dont understand this Powa gaming some folks try to smack TES with

Im gonna start my MQ character, and a Mass Murderer Character. The Later will be for when i feel like killing some people i can switch over. I have a [censored] ton of Charcters planned

I'm personally doing it just for the sake of variety. I'm thinking at some point if I wanna take a break from using magic, I'll switch over for a bit.

I personally won't but my wife has regret pains whenever she plays a game with a chargen. I'll likely get to watch her make a good 20 to 40000000000000 different characters within the first month of release. Depends on how often she can get my pc away from me to play.

I will make three characters (warrior,mage,thief) at the start and they will join Fighters Guild, Mage Guild and Thieves Guild. I will do some of the quest there and the one i like the most will go through MQ first.

lol, This is what I usually do on TES games. I have a MQ character and a SQ character.

If I did multiple characters I'd end up accidentally saving over one or the other and start crying.

I'll play as my main alone for a long time, certainly till I complete the MQ and the Companions, and quite possibly the Daedric Shrines too (assuming they still have quests like in Oblivion - one of the best sets of quests in the game IMHO). I'll then switch to my alts, and I'll quite possibly play more than one of them at once, seeing as they'll all do different parts of the game (i.e. College of Winterhold for my 2nd character, Thieves' Guild and Dark Brotherhood for my 3rd and so on). I've not played more than one at once before, but I get the feeling I'll want to in Skyrim now the races all look so interesting.

I'll be a one-character gamer for the first... 100 hours or so though, I should think. And then my main will get some more playtime when DLC comes out - he'll always be the first character to experience new content.

I tend to make one of each play-style; spell-caster, stealth, combat... And then a bunch of secondary characters with different variations in race, class, guild, etc...

One story at a time. I want to really get into one character's tale, so don't want any 'cross spoilers' from the second character going somewhere before the first.

Not my thing. I prefer to focus on one character until I'm done with it, then switch to another.
That could have been a poll

I can't handle the multi-tasking, I just could not. I need to have one character to RP/play with before I can move onto the next.

It would be very hard for me to do it as I like to heavily RP the characters. I will have multiple characters saved, but generally if a character isn't working out and I start someone new, I never touch that character again.

I never do it. It's a bit messy with the savegames, remembering what exactly you did with what character, and the fact that I usually have specific mod setups for specific characters.

Ofcourse, I first start my main character. Then later I start with specialising characters (good, evil, mage, stealth, ect) i'm never really 'done' playing a character.

yeah but ill probably get all obsessed with playing one of my characters at some point although ill have to admit i got bored of my first character in oblivion wasn't till my third that i actually finished the game.

If the save system is more accommodating for such a thing this time, I may, but with a shared pool of saves it is too much of a hassle.

I really don't know what I'm going to do. I was planning on playing a dunmer mostly because I want my main character to be a battle Mage. But I think I should do the mq first as a nord. Being as I think the mq should be a nord, at least the first time.

Naw, I'd rather focus on one at a time so I don't get confused.

Lol...

I have five characters planned. Sibyl. will be the first, but probably within a couple of weeks, the others will be created.

It is quite possible that after they are created, some characters will be played in alternating sequence, at my leisure.

However, I believe most of them will do both MQ and SQ, again, depending on mood.

I think I tried that for Morrowind, but the saves just got too confusing. Also it svcks when you encounter something thinking you have a particular weapon.... only to realize you "left it in your other body"..