In oblivion I never role played at all and I haven't in skyrim either. However I'm tempted to try and role player your average Joe who works the mines and lumber mills. Saving up money to buy a house and get married and so on. No Dungeon diving and only carry an iron dagger and no armour. I don't think it's possible to keep it going for ages but I'm tempted to try it out. Anyone tried anything similar?

I think you can only buy a house in a city if you gain the Jarl's favor and he gives you permission to do so. I don't know if this is true for all cities but I know it is for Whiterun.

Yep, there was even a series of mods for Morrowind that made this a gameable experience, Necessities of Morrowind was the mod. I think they did this for Oblivion, but those mods are not my cup of tea.

This game has even more already built in to allow this, as we can work in the lumber mill and actually do something. There are also tons of misc quests that are more like jobs than adventures which would fit your role well.

I think your normal joe should go off on some adventures or travels at some point. Just don't be a hero about it, be a scared scurrying little mouse as we all would be if we had to go into a barrow or dungeon full of things that want to kill us.

As a rule, all my "RP" fun happens AFTER the Western Watchtower fight.

This way, you can have your whiterun house, and Dragons are flying around.

If you start your RP adventure without doing this, you have no home, and dragons are effectively turned "off", although I never tried going to a roost without talking to the Jarl...should do that to see what happens. Maybe there is another way to turn Dragons on.

Sounds pretty boring, the only appeal seems to be differentiating yourself for the sake of being "original", but there's a reason original isn't usually better. But it could be fun, if you're going out to mine all the time yourself, but you'll be dying a lot. or sneaking around a lot.

I think it could be quite a fun experience, for example to declare yourself a hunter and just skin animals/level from beasts there are plenty of quests that involve animals out there. Of course you have to give yourself a personality too, so if you make your character gullible don't pick the smart/intelligent dialogue options when someone is clearly running a racket/trying to scam you.

I think it's safe to say we play video games because normal is boring.

Well I was interested in being a regular adventurer, did that in Oblivion too, but the Dragonborn bussiness feels a bit forced. Especially as I'd still like to encounter Dragons as a regular adventurer.

But OPs idea sounds more like playing Sims.

I did this, I got a normal set of cloths, got a job at a lumber mill /mine /inn /camp/ tavern type place (kynsgrove, perhaps?), made some friends at the mill and spent alot of my time relaxing in the tavern. That is untill a dragon showed up and started flaming the crap out of all my friends, I then proceeded to beat the dragon to death with my bear hands.


So yes, it is kind of fun if your into role playing.