How To Fit Fast Travelling Into RPing? : V

» Fri Dec 16, 2011 1:22 am

I enjoy coming up with creative excuses for being lazy in this game xD but what is your RP reason (excuse) for fast travelling?

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:41 pm

Wind Walking, an ancient art that allows one to swept away in the winds to any destination they know of.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:41 pm

Take a carriage, You sleep on the way.

Buy a horse, "the ride was uneventful"

» Fri Dec 16, 2011 2:07 am

Speed up travel time so that I can do other things but I do put in rules, like I can't travel all the way across the map like for example Markarth to Riften. That would be too far.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 10:42 pm

I either RP it where my character's exploits are a story being told (kind of like the original Prince of Persia: Sands of Time game), or I only fast-travel after I get a horse. A story-teller wouldn't waste time explaining how he walked three hundred miles to get to Riften from Solitude.

That said, I use carriages to travel between towns until I get a horse.

» Fri Dec 16, 2011 3:52 am

I prefer fast travelling. It opens up more possibilities. If you go from,say, Falkreath to Riften, you can imagine whatever happened along the way. It's not a "teleport" button as some people may want you to think because time does pass. It's simply a "Few hours later....." button. Nothing wrong with fast travel.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 10:56 pm

A night to remember doesn't have to be your only alcohol induced blackout.

You just cleared out a dungeon. You're cold and tired so you decide to drink some of the wine you picked up. Before you know it you're back home ready to pass out.

» Fri Dec 16, 2011 3:50 am

I run or ride my horse to the nearest town or settlement. I fast travel and roleplay that I have talked an NPC into giving me a ride to wherever I'm going.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:01 pm

Just imagine that you apparate. That is to say teleport to a chosen destination.

» Fri Dec 16, 2011 3:48 am

Fast travel is only fast from the players pov outside the game.

Ingame it takes the same amount of time it would take to manually travel to a destination if the journey was uneventful.

Basically it's not a teleport button... it's a "then after an uneventful journey he arrived at Windhelm several hours later" button.

So imo it's perfectly valid to use in an RP context.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:13 pm

You don't need an excuse. Plus,

It opens up more possibilities. If you go from,say, Falkreath to Riften, you can imagine whatever happened along the way. It's not a "teleport" button as some people may want you to think because time does pass. It's simply a "Few hours later....." button.

^ It's sometimes a lot more interesting & relaxing on my sanity to think of things that could have happened during the journey rather than riding my horse over already-discovered terrain and waiting for (follower) to stab the remaining, suicidal (seriously, Ice Wolf, attacking three of us?) wildlife to death.

» Fri Dec 16, 2011 6:03 am

I just imagine its me making the trip and nothing exciting happened on the way, so why write in a book "day 3 on the road to Windhelm. Saw a butterfly, didnt try to catch it as one more ounce and I would have been crippled to a slow walk. Lydia once again exasperated about carrying my burdens. I did not think that shiny new shield I gave her was all that heavy. From the way she talks, you would think I had given her a wagon of iron ore to carry on her back."

» Fri Dec 16, 2011 5:33 am

I only use it for tedious tasks...like traverse the entire map to grab one thing and bring it back or dropping off/selling loot...I RP what happens during the load screen lol

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 9:52 pm

I think they should give you a hardcoe list in the options where you can choose what to turn on/off. So you could have a hunger/drink/sleep meter and you could turn fast traveling off.

For my next character (waiting until after patch 1.3), I will try to only use the carriages outside cities, my feet or a horse to travel.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 5:23 pm

I make fast travelling cost "travel rations" by having to carry specific foods with me (beef stew) that allow me to fast travel. It's not an expensive impediment, but raw beef is difficult enough to get that I can't fast travel all the time.

It's also nice because I find that shopping for ingredients and cooking to be a nice diversion from hacking and slashing, so it kind of balances off breaking roleplay by using fast travel, by having to do a roleplay activity to pay for it.

» Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:19 am

Think of it like this, nobody would ever get anywhere if they had to fight 12 wolves, 3 bandits, a cave bear and a dragon on their way to see their brother in Whiterun.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 6:32 pm

I enjoy coming up with creative excuses for being lazy in this game xD but what is your RP reason (excuse) for fast travelling?

Simple... Don't be lazy and walk. You find a lot more that way :wink_smile:

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 6:55 pm

Fast travel is only fast from the players pov outside the game.

Ingame it takes the same amount of time it would take to manually travel to a destination if the journey was uneventful.

Basically it's not a teleport button... it's a "then after an uneventful journey he arrived at Windhelm several hours later" button.

So imo it's perfectly valid to use in an RP context.

Yep.

It's a regular "scene transition" type thing.

"Later, that night...."
"Several hours later...."
"Uthgerd traveled back to Whiterun. Having helped pacify the bandits and being familiar with the terrain, the journey passed uneventfully."

Not really a big problem to "RP". :shrug:

I enjoy coming up with creative excuses for being lazy

I find the easiest method to be.... don't consider it "lazy". Consider it a valid gameplay option that the devs intended for people to use.

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:19 pm

I enjoy coming up with creative excuses for being lazy in this game xD but what is your RP reason (excuse) for fast travelling?

just imagin that you walked there, its not hard, in game the time changes as if you walked there anyway

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:16 pm

We should be able to fast travel with our own home-made Vaermina Torpor... You guys that have done the quest know what i'm talking about

» Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:40 pm

My battle-mage hardly used it.

My thief however? He hates nature. Flora and fauna make him itch/sneeze. So he uses the carts. (In my mind, RP wise, they go anywhere he desires, for the right price. Bribes are not only for the guards, in my Skyrim. Though no money actually changes hands. :whistling: )

Only when forced to does he venture out into the wilds, with his antihistamines and decongestants close at hand.

» Fri Dec 16, 2011 1:12 am

Everyone fast travels, a hone who says they don't is lying! Everyone fast travels, you might not do it that much but you do it.

Cheers