Lol dead is dead? So what we delete the save and start over? I don't understand. And why can't we be in more than one guild what if my character wants as much power as possible?

Pretty much once you die, that's it, you start over or make a new character entirely, sounds stupid but it's realistic, resurrection is impractical.

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/user/733052-rpgnut/, this idea is just so amazing, I wish such a game was invented, where there were unlimited levels / progressions and the whole purpose is to get as far as possible, but such a game won't be around for a long time...

I already sleep 8 hours a day at inns without a self imposed rule. You get the "Well Rested" status if you do. (All skills increase 10% faster, but I wish it was 20% or more.)

I also eat in porportion to the amount of in-game days my character has been active. I do it for cost of gold realism. (I aim for 3 meals a day)

I do not do Dead is Dead, because I usually die from wierd game mechanics and unfamilirity with combat. (I am still learning even at level 33)

I fast travel, because there are just way too many dragons flying around for me to fit them into my "real-life" schedule. (I do, however, start from the nearest town when going to a new location, not the nearest discovered dungeon)

I wear weapons, clothing, and armor for aesthetics, and not min/max stats. (My character likes to look presentable, and not like a clown)

My character loots gems, gold, and small items worth large amounts of gold. And if he was to loot a large item, I limit it to one or two for realism sake. (He is a student under the Greybeards right now, so he lives with them. His treasure-finding covers his other responsibilities.)

I try not to get too intense on realism mode, so the above is enough for me. (I must admit as well, without my own self imposed rules, I don't think I would be enjoying the game as much.)

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1277166-the-skyrim-dead-is-dead-thread-ii/ might be what you're looking for.

most people in skyrim dislike magic, so if your in the college most guilds would not accept you. most people dont like thieves, and since the guild is apperently well known word would spread that your in and most guilds would not accept you. that makes them incompatible with other guilds, and there is a chance that people would know your in the dark brotherhood [spoiler] you get caught by the solitude guards, and some guards know who you are when you wear the armour so other people could figure it out too[/spoiler

and dead is dead adds a thrill to combat when you know you might not be able to play the character after the next fight.

im all for the idea but there is a few problems i think


those 3 are dependent on the person. some people can wait for hours in the same place doing nothign others cant sit still for 30 seconds. some people have the whole "three square meals a day" thing but others on eat a single meal. i can survive on 5 hours of sleep but some people can sleep 3 hours a day (my friend does) but some people sleep for 12 hours a day

Just pointing out the absurdity of the thread title. Calling it "Draconian Mode" would be a more apt description of the rule set.

Really don't see the point of this idea. You would be playing first two or three dungeons all the time.

On master some bandits with 2h weapons can pretty much one shot you in light armor. Im guessing you would be forced to play with heavy armor+shield to survive very far. I hope mods come out soon to make this playstyle possible. They really should have brought in hardcoe mode from NV though.

Sounds fine, except sticking to roads. I hike and camp all the time and I rarely stick to the roads and paths. I play the game like real life, I venture off the main roads and hike the mountains. Actually I find it easier to climb a peak in real life than in this game, I find it quite impossible to go up slopes which, in real life, would be quite simple to climb. Which is a real immersion killer.

What about meals and bathroom breaks? Gotta have those

Knock yourself out and enjoy the game as you see fit. I disagree with the amount of weight one can carry. I mean, some pieces of armor weigh 50 and a great sword can be 30; that doesn't leave much room for gauntlets and boots let alone anything else like potions for healing. Fantasy games have to have some "suspension of disbelief" aspect to them. In any case, if you want to play it like that, you won't get far at all, as the enemies are not going to hold themselves to that level of thinking as well.

17) Make it so you need to poop once a day or you rapidly lose stamina when running.

Can't tell if this is a joke, or if you're serious, but hey if there's a mod that enables pooping, why not?

I once talked to a Morrowind player that literally would reload his game if he ever got hit. He relied on nothing but conjured creatures and undead and ranged spells. Crazy bastage, but he had fun with it. Got that character epically strong too.

This is called meditation.

I use pretty much the same rules, except for dead = dead. However, I will run from lifethreatening situations for sure i.o.w. I don't have that rule, but I'll play like i have it (haven't died so far). If I do die I'll just punish myself one way or another (for example I'll reload and simulate I lost my weapon and backpack and discard all my belongings)

Next to your rules I also have the following:

- no using potions/poisons while in combat. If I want to use/apply any, I'll have to run from the fight in order to create a realistic amount of time I should need to drink a potion, apply poison on my weapon etc.
- no floating quest markers
- no compass (being on xbox that actually means sticking a piece of paper on the top part of my tv) I just memorize my surroundings and keep my eyes peeled.
- only using the ingame map when I am near a map in the game (for example in whiterun I run up to dragonsreach which has several maps hanging/laying around, there I open the map, memorize where I need to go, and I don't look at my ingame map at all anymore after leaving)
- I only started using the paper map that came with the game after finding the book 'holds of skyrim' (and still barely looked at it)

What a boring way to play a game.

Says you.

Here's what I do for "realism":

No map-based fast travel. Carriages are allowed.

Compass and crosshair are disabled. Pretty challenging for a bowman, actually, as I now need to use the tip of my arrow and knowledge of shooting style to judge my shots. For melee combat, it is hardly needed. Floating quest markers are disabled. Map quest markers are enabled (see below).

I don't access the map except immediately after a quest-giver has handed me a quest or I have been given an objective to travel somewhere. This serves as my "Get Directions" function.

I eat two times a day, with a beverage at dinner.

I sleep through the night whenever I can (although it is usually sporadic at the start while I slowly advance time to re-sync my clock. Due to a bug in the game, the day cycle is not synchronized with the clock).

I mostly walk when I'm traveling. Occasional jogs if I want to speed things up. This is rescinded if I need to follow an NPC who is flagged to run all the way to the destination.

I advance the quests in the game slowly. I stop often to do side-quests, improve skills, plunder dungeons, tackle some Radiant Story objectives, etc.

That is what is most fun for me.

Also, I like to turn the HUD off so I can better immerse myself in the game play. It makes a big difference, to me at least. It takes a game of stats to a game of relation and recognition. I've been using an Iron Sword for the sake of our relationship, so to speak. Ever since I picked it up in Helgen, it's been my trusty sidearm since. I've even gone to the extant of giving the sword a back story! I enchanted it, just to rename it. So yeah, I love the realism aspect you can add to the game play to further immerse yourself. x)

I am just here to support your topic of realism, basically hard-core realistic mode. Some people like to be smart-arses and comment on how it's already fantasy.

What the people who do support this want is a closer niche to real life if our world was like that. A arrow to the head kills someone with one hit etc combat wise. I don't see it being done to the extent of your OP post but I could see a mode like there was in fallout for the hard-core mode (different publishers aside).

Bump!

There's a bunch of stuff missing here:
- you catch a disease, and you die.
- you get breathed on by a dragon, and you die.
- you take a blow to any limb/joint, and you can no longer use that limb.
- strikes to the head/chest wearing anything other than heavy armour has a 25% chance of contracting a disease.
- strikes to the chest (wearing heavy armour) with blunt weapons, stun. Repeated strikes cause internal trauma and you die.
- blows to the head (wearing heaving armour) with 2h blunt weapons cause brain damage. Eventually you die.
- add 'piercing weapons'. Blows with 2h piercing weapons to heavy armour causes trauma and potentially shatters the armour. Oh, and you die.
- after a fight stamina is slowly regenerated over 20 minutes.
- you get set alight, you lose all control until the flames go out, and likely die.
- you get frozen, you contract a disease (frostbite).
- you get poisoned, you die.

-> Realism is a term for a simulation, Immersion is a term for gaming.

Turn of the HUD completely.

Turn off the music.