Imagine Skyrim with more playable races for a second. Would it be better, or worse? If there were races like Gnomes, Gremlins, a Spriggan, Ogres, Goblins, ect. I just listed a few creatures that are for the most part Humoid, either Elf or Fairy. Would you like the races or hate them? Maybe even play as them? These beings are for the most part from Norse Mythology.

Gnomes - a gnome was a small humanoid creature that lived underground and were more interested in alchemy and magic.

Gremlins - a gremlin was a mischievous fairy that was mechanically oriented with an interest in aircrafts.

Spriggans - they were depicted as grotesque creatures guarding old ruins and barrows. They were a type of fairy that was small and could also shape shift it's height to appear very tall so some thought they were the ghosts of old giants. They were mischievous and sent storms of blight crops at any offenders and would steal children leaving changelings in their places. And a changeling is the offspring of a fairy, troll elf, or any other European mythological creature.

Ogres - they were visualized as large and very hideous creatures that would eat babies.

Goblins - they were evil and mischievous whom were greedy and loved money. They would be depicted as a few inches tall or the size of a Dwarf with magical abilities.

I think having more creatures to play as would be cool since Bethesda did use some creatures that were in European mythology like the Draugr, Spriggans, Elves, Orcs, Trolls, and Dragons. What do you guys think?

I'd never play as any of those. Give me Tsaesci, Sload, Imga and Dremora and I'll be happy.

Why would you be able to play as an ogre?? Even if you could it wouldn't be fun.

Running around as an obese ugly creature would be fun! You know, there's a swamp for every Ogre and you know, Shrek could have always been the real Dragonborn...

Your descriptions of those creatures don't really match up with TES lore. In all cases, they are mostly mindless animals.

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So basically you're saying Bethesda adding in Trolls, Draugrs, Elves, Orcs, and Spriggans are just "random"? And I hope you know Bethesda based some of their ideas, maybe most, off of mythological creatures. So if none of the people from thousands of years ago had the imagination and beliefs of most these creatures, most Fantasy based games and movies would never exist. Just hope you'd like to know.

you are misreading Da Bombs post...

what he is saying is the creatures you named in your OP exist in "The World of the Elder Scrolls", but are completely different from what they are in standard fantasy. so your discriptions are completely inacurate as to what they are in the TES world.

He's saying that some of these creatures don't exist in the lore that's been established, and it would be shoe-horned to force them in now. Those that do exist in the game don't match the descriptions you provided.

I honestly don't think there's many races you could add. Dremora are the most obvious choose, and they wouldn't mesh very well with the other races and would require a lot of work just to implement.

Not completely, in Norse mythology they believed that the Draugrs were undead beings that would protect their treasure buried with them. However, unlike Draugrs in Skyrim, they don't have superhuman strength believed in mythology. But they technically did make Gremlins a race, the Dwemer. The Dwemer were mechanically oriented, just like Gremlins. Maybe they don't look the same from what people picture them to look like but they have the same ideals. Almost same with Spriggans, not entirely alike according the myhology but somewhat same actions. I can be a big man and say that I did read it the wrong way but hey, if it wasn't for our ancestors' belifs, we wouldn't have The Elder Scrolls, Lord of the Rings, and so on.

The only other races I'd be interested in, are the ones from Akavir.

True but according to the Lore, Dremora's walked the plains of Oblivion an could only walk on the ground of Tamriel if they were summoned. But I don't believe it would be forever they could be on Tamriel? But hey, forget about the Lore sometimes and enjoy the game however you want. Playing as a Dremora is Lore breaking according to some but if you want to play as a Dremora, who's stoping you? Even though it's for PC just download the mod and play as a Dremora! I know nothing about the PC version of Skyrim other than it's a popular mod. Besides, who knows, what if there would be more creatures added that roam the plains of Oblivion? It's always fun to imagine.

Here, just read these few things.

http://uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Dwemer

http://uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Imp#Imp

http://uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Spriggan

http://uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Ogre#Ogre

http://uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Goblins

So you can see that all of the creatures you mentioned are already present in TES lore. They are all basically animals who just attack whatever they see. You couldn't play as these "races" because you wouldn't be able to do anything.

Maybe it would be an interesting mod.

Oh and the Dwemer (closest to the "gnomes" you mentioned) are all gone.

Meh, there's no real difference between races now so I really don't see the point. Races are basically in Skyrim for aesthetics only.... Which is both sad and a poor decision on Bethesdas part.

So I guess my answer to the original post would bethat it would just make it worse. More is not better, especially in this case where the only reason to add even more races is so you could change your appearances.

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Most of the creatures in the OP exist in TES already in one form or another, and most of those aren't sapient (at least at the level of humans/mer/argonians).

If Bethesda even considered the introduction of 'Gnomes', I would have to call in the Dark Brotherhood.

They could start by taking out every innkeeper in the Iliac Bay with a tavern featuring the word "gnome" in it.

I'd rather have the game recognize my chosen race regardless how many there are.

Ayleid.

Though you could just make a dark-skinned Altmer...

Ayleid, of course! Yes.

But, I would prefer the Dwemer.

Yup, I find it incredibly stupid that BGS somehow neglected to include this feature. It would have added a lot to the game by having people actually recognize what I am and show a difference depending on what race I am. Like obviously Nords should generally be given the best hospitality and Khajit shout be given better prices by the traveling Khajit merchants.... Little things like that.

Oh, also recognition when I enter a peaceful village decked out from head to toe in Daedric armor. They should in all honest attack on sight. I know they have the capability to do so since Fallot NV had this feature. If you wore an opposing factions armor infront of them they would become hostile.

None of these really qualify as "races" that a player would become.

HEEEELLLLL NOOOOO!!!!

Some Akaviri races would be fine.

Playable character: Any of the Daedric Princes.... oh boy oh boy... fun fun fun

How would you even begin to rp that? And why? Eh I'm just not of a mind to play those. At least not seriously. I don't touch beast races either.