1. No fast travel, except between the cities, and then only if I have walked there
2. Try not to commit murder, unless there is a side quest that requires it
3. Avoid the Thieves' Guild and Dark Brotherhood like the plague
4. Explore everywhere I can and talk to everyone I can, and read all the books
5. Buy all the houses I can
6. Kill every undead that I see
7. Try to use only a mace and a shield, thus only using healing magic, unless there is a reason to use "Invisibility"
8. Drink only water and no use of drugs

This is a refreshing thread to read. There have been so many stating how the game "should" be, to suit individual playing styles. Most certainly forgetting that there are a few million (?) people playing. Self-imposed rules allows everyone (or almost everyone) to play using whatever features/options they want.

I don't particularily have any rules like that, although I may try and play through without using much help from online... and maybe accept more consequences for my actions!

Play according to the personality quirks of my characters. Some like to watch butterflies and obsessively harvest plants, while others hate riding horses, so whatever fits that character.

Also change outfits when appropriate, like wearing nice clothes in town, undressing for swimming, armoring up or putting on traveling clothes for exploring.

I also talk out loud as my character... I suppose this sounds strange, but its one way for me to get into role playing. For example, Naz hates rain so I complain for him every time it does.

Well ... from my experience in my recent "no HUD, no VATS, no map" Fallout 3 game, all it takes for it to work is ...

1. A working LOD system so landmarks are actually visible from afar (say, through the scope of a sniper rifle in Fallout 3). Which really fails so far: I had problems locating Arefu, not because I was lost or anything, but because all I saw was another broken bridge, and the houses on it didn't appear until I was basically in shotgun range ... (and yes, that's with full details and visibility on).

2. People giving proper directions to places. Again: I stumbled upon Big Town, and though "Oh great, I can ask if I'm on the right way to Arefu." ... Nope, turns out I can't. Come on Bethesda, my char has INT 1, but that doesn't mean he's that stupid ...

3. Somewhat interesting and varied locations. Which Bethesda's designers are thankfully very capable of.

1. Only fast travel between towns. I have to be in the town to do it.
2. Do something to get rid of a quest marker is there is one (turn UI off, not active quest, or w/e)
3. No resting to regain Hp, must be done via sleep or skills

I think that is it atm.

- Lower the timescale for longer days (assuming there is a console)

- Never use fast travel (might use it sometimes if there is an immersive system in place like a ferry or something, but I love travelling in Beth games just to see the game world they've created... seems like you are missing out otherwise)

- Make sure my character sleeps through the night, unless there is a good reason not to. Either in an inn or my house, or if I'm in the wilderness I'll use a camp mod when one comes out, before that I'll just find a "camping" spot and wait there. (lowering timescale comes into play here, with the standard timescale the day passes so quickly that you haven't got time to do anything before night comes - your character ends up going days without a wink before his work for the "day" is even done!)

- Don't do everything on one character. If there are guilds for example like OB I won't complete them all on one character, from an IC perspective that just doesn't make sense.

- Similarly don't do anything my character wouldn't do. For example if he's a saintly do-gooder I'll help people out whenever I can, if he's not I won't... unless there's a fee involved of course!

- Try to act in character most of the time, especially in towns - walking instead of running everywhere, buying a drink at the inn, keeping weapon sheathed... etc. Admittedly sometimes I can't be arsed to walk everywhere and will run.

You might think that with these immersion rules I place for myself that I would eat and drink as well. I do sometimes, but actually most of the time I can't be bothered with that. I just kind of assume in the back of my mind that my character has eaten/drunk. Although I did have one character on Oblivion who was a "ranger" kinda guy living in the wilderness, and I would hunt deer and "cook" the meat over my nice modded campfire!

If hand-to-hand is good, I'll probably make a brawler who doesn't use armor and only uses hand-to-hand. Assuming spears are in the game (And I think, with the concept art we've seen, that is a safe assumption), I'll probably make a hunter character who collects pelts for a living.

For Wulfrik the Bloody
1) No small weapons
2) No magic
3) Only use axes or really large swords
3) The option to kill will always be taken
4) Always go down the path that leads to more instability
5) Heads will be collected
6) Never side with magic users, for they're weak and pathetic
7) Never side with those who indulge in pleasure, for they're the followers of Slaanesh.
8) Side with the battle hungry, for they're the future followers of Khorne
9) Mer are weak, despise them!

Fixed.

Just try and immerse myself as much as possible, believe that these are real people and real problems. I'll hunt and live off the land, being a ranger, and create a deep and complex character to act in, and develop over the course of the game. In cities I'll walk, and I'll hunt and eat daily, unless I'm doing a big dungeon that takes a few days to complete, in which case I'll feast as soon as I get to the nearest inn. I won't limit myself to rules that I come up with before hand, rather, I'll do what seems right to me in the game, and follow those rules as I develop them.

After reading these I realized that I never did any of what you all have been saying. Because of this I am now starting a new character in Oblivion. These are the rules I will follow on my new character and all of my playthorughs in Skyrim:
1: No fastravel.
2. No reloading.
3. Sleep, eat, and drink daily.
4. Explore much much much more.
I will most likely think of some more.

The magic in Beth games for me is playing like this and immersing yourself into your character and the world he/she lives in. Without any of that and just playing for the sake of levelling up and getting ph@t l00t (let's face it the stories aren't the greatest... or longest) leaves a pretty crappy game to be honest, but with it I've had some of the best gaming experiences of my life.

Although personally I don't do no reloads... that's just a pain in the [censored]!

Answer: However the game lets me play. In TES, the only self imposed rules are the (unacknowledged ) invented personality quirks of the PC.
Mechanically I have no restrictions.

1. Strike down all homless people that say "thank you kind sir".
2. Strike down all men and women that do not have magnificient beards.
3. Murder all strangers so i can loot their corpses.
4. Destroy all text based NPC's if there are any.
5. Give my horse a thorough beating every time i do not find it where I left it. (if they are in)
6. Crush any bards that do not sing about beards.
7. Kill all wood elves.
8. If playing as an argonian I will steal items from peoples houses and hide them in barrels. (remember?)
9. Follow all elves with stupid hair around while holding a torch and yelling "by Asura, by Asura, by Asura!".
10. Collect callipers and tongs to hold the water in the air so the boat can fly. :batman:

Hey man, do you know the video title of your avatar pic? Reme,ber watching that ages ago, but don't know it's tag name or whatever.



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Fitting. That'll be one hardcoe destroyer of Skyrim. Alduin ain't gonna have anything to burn after you've been through.


Personally, I'm not adverse to reading UESP etc. provided I have given a quest 100% of my efforts, maybe tried some of the different options etc.

Keen to have a hardcoe mode, that would be great.

I like limiting the amount of item types you can carry, sounds appropriate.

The Puppet is "Flat Eric"; they did several commercials for Levi's jeans.

1. Stop Dragons

2. ???????????

3. Profit

4. ???????????

5. World Domination

i will t-bag every character i kill

I won't use fact travel for a long while, after 50-60 hours maybe even more though and I will start using it, after 150-200 hours I will use it all the time.

I won't steal with my first good guy character, and I consider cleaning out a guild hall stealing, sure taking an apple is alright if your a member, but cleaning the place out, is absurd.

No mods other than UI for my first play through.

Wow, dead when dead never occurred to me! :cryvaultboy:

That would really make the game awesome to play... there should be an achievement for completing the game without dying just to reward that RP choice. Then I would really go for it. Without the achievement, well, it seems borderline masochistic. :unsure2:

If there is a command spell: bring a creature through the entire MQ (is mah pet ). Only fast travel either from city-city (if thats how it is in a civil war) or when I come across a guard on the path (my guide), after a fast travel drop some minor loot - my 'payment'. Death is death, I'll play like I cannot load a previous save. If there's majar/minor skills use only majors and maybe 1-2 others. Not use map markers, but will use the big map if I'm completely lost but I'll use the compass a fair bit (though only as a compass and hopefully I can toggle off landmarks coming up on it).

Cool, thanks man.



Nice. You ever read the Hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy, by Douglas Adams? There's this one guy who randomly flies up to the main character, and says: "Are you Arthur Dent?"
To which Arthur replies: "Uh, yes?"
"Arthur C. Dent?"
"Yes."
"You're an arsehole."
Then he gets back in his ship and flies off. Apparently he somehow became immortal through some amazing cosmic incident and, having become bored after already living for over thousands of years, has decided to insult every single person in the Universe. Alphabetically.

Wasn't that Restaurant at the End of the Universe? Classic.

"I shall go mad!"

Yah I think so :turned:

Not for my first character definatly but maybe for any future ones I might say no fast travel.
I like to do eat, sleep, drink almost always.
Other than that I think I'll just see what goes, but I might try the dead means dead thing.