Smoking in the TES universe

Post » Mon Nov 11, 2013 7:28 am

So, feel free to hate me if this is already beaten to death, but I'm curious. Since morrowind, I haven't seen any smoking in the elder scrolls series. I mean you can harvest tobacco in oblivion, but yeah. Why do you guys think it's not mentioned/seen anywhere in the game, aside from skooma. I mean there's copious amounts of drinking and other vices in the game, why not this? I feel like it'd add some immersion. Anyways. Thoughts, opinions, comments, etc. Discuss.

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Kayla Oatney
 
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Post » Mon Nov 11, 2013 5:37 am

This has always seemed a little odd to me too. Especially so in Oblivion, which had tobacco. Maybe Bethesda decided it was too much work for too little gain. Or maybe they feared parental lawsuits. I don't know.

I use mods to add smoking to the games. It seems like a natural thing to me.

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Post » Mon Nov 11, 2013 5:49 am

Exactly, it seems so right to me, too. Yeah, the games are rated M (aside from the initial oblivion T rating debacle with the ESRB), so yeah. I think the parental lawsuit arguement is out.

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