Last night I fell asleep. I woke up around 5:30 AM, and could not sleep so I logged onto these boards and checked out the Skyrim section. I saw this topic by a Developer Post your Roleplaying characters. I checked out this thread, it was by a developer I can't remember the screen name but he said that they were looking for ideas for NPCs and they were asking us to post role playing characters that we used for Oblivion and Morrowind. They asked for the basics: Race, Birthsign, Class, Level, and backstory. They said that they were going to choose the 5 best ones that would fit in with the Lore, while I was about to post my characters I woke up it all had been a dream. The cause of this dream is obviously from preordering Skyrim the day before and still being a little anxious to get it and it didn't help that my cousing was playing Oblivion with the volume way up to rooms down. Anyway this is a great idea and I am extremely ticked that it was a extremely realistic dream and not reality. Anyway what are your thoughts?

My thoughts!? Don't eat cheese before you go to bed!!!

Seriously though - it sounds like a fun idea although right now I'd rather see the devs working hard at delivering an excellent game rather than trawling through the many, many characters that people would offer - even though I'm sure a lot of the offerings would be excellent.

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This would actually eliminate some work for the devs because they wouldn't have to come up with NPCs. They could always have someone to look through the characters submitted so that they can focus on the game.

This is a good idea. It would add a few very unique NPC's to the game - something which many of us want.

Exactly, could you imagine your roleplaying stories being voiced by the voice actors for each race? That would probably be every TES fan's dream.

That's what the intern is for

It sounds like a good idea and could be fun.

But

When Bioware tried it, OOOOOHHHH the heart-ache, the drama, and the name-calling.

Sigh, I liked Gromnir
HA! Good Fun!

Bioware did this?

Not directly.

But they did do some sort of competition to get your username put into Baldur's Gate Throne of Baahl. I can't remember if the folks had to submit write-ups, backstories, or a popular vote. But 2 board members' names were put into the game: Gromnir and ...Neebler? There was much forum rankor after the two were chosen, and Gaider vowed to never do it again.

Found a link with some insight:
http://meforums.bioware.com/viewtopic.html?topic=454115&forum=104

Ah, and a good post by Gromnir's Ghost (yes, that's actually Gromnir, the namesake of the character in ToB)

couple examples...

the contest for bg2 were a submit-a-character kinda thing.

2 winners: scimitar throwing thief & wild mage githyanki

bio announces winners and chaos errupts. "How could you have chosen those two?" these two guys who made submissions were publically eviscerated by the community, and it were ugly. s'posed respected 'members o' the community made complete arses out of self.

nwn had a contest too... another character submission thing, but bioware reasoned that if the community didn't like their choices, they would allow the community to vote. *groan* any guesses as to what happened?

cheating were rampant and chaos ensued...

etc.

every time the biowarians has a contest that requires submission and judgings, they get Lord of the Flies.

HA! Good Fun!

LOL I believe this forum is alittle more mature than that crowd.

Hahaha! You'd hope so but I'd imagine if they did such a competition the DB would see alot of work coming their way.

I had only heard tales of these events till now, thanks for sharing. I wonder how'd the new social site would react if they did a similar thing with Dragon Age and Mass Effect. I remember the near riot that happened over the Return to Ostargar DLC issue. o_o

Im going to summon a developer to read this forum...tho they might not answer

Unglabugala aasit!

hope some dev sees this becose I think this is a great idea as someone said that they could focus on making the game while we make the stories

Yes do that. The devs will have more time to do Main quest story and factions story if we do the side quests and NPCs. It would be perfect if they did indeed do this, I was disappointed when I realized I dreamed this.

Hasbro did this once, for Masters of the Universe. Their winner was Fearless Photog. A muscle bound dude with a mechanical movie camera for a head.

Your dream about the contest, presents an interesting concept, whether implemented, or not.

lolwut? That's the best quote I've ever seen on here!

How do you know that you're not still dreaming?? :unsure:

I could be nothing more than an aspect of you're subconscious trying to wake you up. Perhaps we are all mere figments of your imagination. :chaos:

WAKE UP THETRI...WAKE UP BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!!!!!! MwuA-HA-HA-HAaaaa! :ahhh:

More than likely won't be implemented but it would save the developers some time.