This is kind of an interesting idea I've had when roleplaying as myself in the game. I've always thought the idea of reincarnation (having your soul reborn into another person) was an interesting idea, and since Oblivion is set on another planet far away from our galaxy, I thought that when roleplaying myself I could pretend that my soul was reborn on Nirn and that I became a new race like a Breton, but still have my memories of Earth and find it confusing to be in this strange new world where magic and monsters exists. I could attempt to slowly adabt to this new world and become a part of it.

Does anyone else think this is a cool idea?

I think you should try, and it sounds very cool. But i have no idea how i would roleplay that way, but it could be fun to try.

Well, that may be possible, but it'd require a level of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief that certainly not everybody has (or nobody, directly). It's also difficult to achieve it in a limited world by nature as Oblivion is.

Maybe in the future, as technology and software advances and there are better graphics, AI, etc...it'll be easier to do it, although that means it'll be much easier to be caught in some sort of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism...(only Tamriel and yourself exists, and not the physical world, or other people rather than NPC's). If some people already get caught with actual technology...with a game that ressembles a new world nearly to perfection, and where you feel better than in the *real* one...in which one would you choose to stay longer? and which reality is "more true" to your true nature?

Oblivion is full of lore about other worlds / gods coliding to form Nirn.
So why not, with some suspension, you could just fit the events of the past leaking into the current timeline due to the Oblivion crisis.
Although thats just a very thin loophole, its the best I can think of off the cuff.

I normally don't like playing as myself because I don't think it's roleplaying. But this sounds like an interesting idea. I have 'reincarnated' characters when switching between games and even when beginning a new character in the same game, so I'm sure it's perfectly possible to do the same thing when playing yourself.

Most of the work when playing an RPG happens in the imagination. If your imagination can pull it off then I say go for it.

Maybe a Warp in the West like thing?

Yes, it is a cool idea. My character has been reborn several times, even traveling from one game to another. Each time I find her, we join and travel together while each retaining our own identity. We cross planes and boundaries between fantasy, reality, pixels, flesh quite readily. When we are in Nirn, I travel with her and she calls the shots. The situation is reversed when we are on earth. The relationship is mutually dependent symbiosis.

As Pseron Wyrd alluded to, imagination can be a powerful thing. :dance:

Go for it.

I'm not sure I get this. How could two player avatars meet each other in one Oblivion file?

My idea of roleplaying this is to use the save on the exit of the sewers a lot.

Basically, the character in the sewer grate is innocent, free, and full of potential. When that character dies, the spirit enters Nirn, the sins purged, memories erased, and taken to that one point in time where it all began at the sewer grate and is reborn into another being.

Another way you could do it is have two characters at the same time. Pretending that they're all in the same universe, one character runs around while others live in a house or is just out there and we never really get to see them. Same thing when you load the other character.

It's a cool idea. I could never do it personally (I'm convinced all my other past lives have been non-adventurous types!) but if it suits you, go for it. :thumbsup:

Once I roleplayed sister characters in Morrowind. Sister #1 was released from prison normally and did about half of the main quest. When she reached that point I stopped playing her and recreated her as an NPC. Literally picking a cell at random with my hand over my eyes, I dropped her somewhere into the game world. I then began a new game. I created sister #2 and used an alternate start mod to start her off in Dagon Fel, newly arrived from Skyrim to search for sister #1.

Sister #1 was nearly level 40 by the time we accidentally stumbled across the corpse of sister #2 outside of a Dwemer ruin. It was a shock, and a very sad moment for me. I'd expected to find her alive. I even had plans to reunite the two sisters in a new mod and place them in a house outside of Dagon Fel. In the end only one of them moved in.