How do you prefer to play?

I have always been drawn to the the Noble Knight. I've always liked to be the crusader for good and all things honorable and noble. I've tried to be the bad guy, but I always get bored with it, and you never heard of the bad guys triumphing in the end in the stories you heard when you were younger. But then there is the side where you just go with the flow, you do what is best for you and get what you need and nothing more and nothing less.

So what I ask is what type of character do you like to be (and I'm not talking about race or class haha)?

Good question...
I enjoy a mix of good and bad, characters react to people and see what to do when they tick them off, or make them happy.
Every time I play a new game I start off usally playing a psycho then a goody for a short time, but thats just to see the highlights of the game, afterwards I just go with the flow.

Mostly, I play either (in Oblivion) a paladin/crusader/knight Imperial who goes around safing the world, or a bad evil necromancer who tries to bring death and doom upon Tamriel. Sometimes a crossover between too.

If I had to chose a total favourite, Necromancer I guess. The necromancer mods in Oblivion are just too much fun

I'm sort of neutral. I'll usually do the good thing, but then I still break laws and steal things and whatnot. Not to mention the Dark Brotherhood but hey, even me IRL is into the whole secret cult thing. lol.

But I'm still praised as the Champion of Cyrodiil!

In my experience, there are very few people that are either all good or all totally evil. Most of us are kind of a mixture of both, most of my characters are kind of like that too. Except for the Dunmer Vampire I made one time. He had no redeeming qualities at all.

My character is a mixture too. She has a temper and a vengeful streak, but she is very loving and loyal to her friends.

She is small, weak and vulnerable, but darn good with a bow and illusion - very much a 'glass cannon'. This influences her approach dramatically. If she fights fair or goes toe-to-toe, she will likely die. Therefore, she strikes from the shadows to survive.

mostly, i dont pay attention to the fame meter. if someone crosses me there gonna have to have there ashes swept out of the door. but if you dont cross me ill make sure not to aim at you (unless you jump in the way that is)

turns out every time i look my infamy exceeds my fame :angel:

The dismissive warrior

He likes to fight because he likes to fight. He won't go out of his way to do evil deeds simply for the sake of being evil, but he also won't do honorable deeds simply for the sake of being honorable

If it seems like a good idea to him, he'll do it. He's generally decent but doesn't like being bound to the code of a knight or paladin

My characters tend to have a different way of viewing things, instead of evil its for the greater good

the insane Shezarrine of a paladin; Pelinal's successor; slaughterer of Mer

I just follow wherever the game takes me. My current character started off in the Arena, got into the DB after the grand champion fight and currently is doing MQ and a lil bit of MG after getting Shadowmere and stopping DB for a little bit.

I love being a good guy. Unfortunately, I'm kind of obsessive about getting things perfect and I love the Scales of Pitiless Justice, so sometimes my characters do less than honorable things :whistling:

Ya I'm kinda like that but I have a hard time stealing stuff in the Thieves Guild since the people I steal from have done nothing to me. For the DB I don't mind since the victims seem to have it coming for doing something to piss off someone. I hate the Molag Bal quest tho.

My characters invariably end up inhabiting the morally ambiguous grey are between good and evil.

My favorite character, Valiri is definitely a do-gooder. She'll help just about anybody who asks her, unless they ask her to kill someone. She's the video game incarnation of my Feminine, warm and fuzzy side. :hugs:

If I were to RP a character more like myself, I think I would be more on the fence as far as good and evil goes. I'm generaly something of a realist. I think of myself as good person (gruff and silent on the outside but a cudly teddybear on the inside) but if I were a tough adventurer/mercenary in a hostile situation (which you pretty much are in Oblivion) I wouldn't have much trouble doing dirty things to survive. But I certainly wouldn't go out of my way to do bad things. I've got more pressing matters to attend to than harassing the locals.

Well my characters are for the most part the goodie two shoes, but I have made characters for the more bad intentions just to see what the quest of the same like were about. My characters that were made for the purpose of good doing (like how I prefer to do things myself) never touched the stealing and hurting of innocents. As far as the dark-side characters the only reason there was ever more then one was save-game corruption or having to reinstall from the bottom up.

The sole reason the dark-side characters existed was to see the story, and that was the type and kind of character required and usually only done once.

If there was a way to add a kind of open faction wars with repeat raiding of towns and settlements with generic respawning npc's merchants and guards just like world of warcraft (at least that's where I first experienced it) I'd be all over it. Raiding towns and smaller settlements was rather fun but with the situation with both morrowind and oblivion if you kill the merchants and guards only the guards come back and you get a universal bounty vs if you were raiding an enemy nation you wouldn't get into trouble with the home guards. So its better just to leave the townsfolk alone and not make trouble so you can still exist with out repeat guard attacks and really empty towns.

Something else I've heard about reading on other games there was another game where they had some similar things to elderscrolls but some interesting additions. One was quests to help take control of a town by opening the gate allowing say orcs or marauders to take the town, or helping defend the whole town from the two said forces. Then after if you had helped the invaders a force of soldiers would come to try and retake it. Also your character would be only remembered by npc's for what they last saw you doing. Like if you helped save a village the villgers would remember you for that but in the next settlement if you stole or raided the npc you stole from or villagers you raided resources from would hate you for said actions. So no universal champion of cyrodiil etc title for that game you reap what you sow for every action.

If I could remember the games title I'd post it for reference I guess I'll just so a search latter and add it in as an after thought among other things it was a living world, stuff didn't only happen when the player was in the same location so the raids and town take overs so it would be in control of one group when you last visited and another the next. Its not mount and blade though it has some of the same concepts it was played from a lone adventurer perspective.

grayer than gray itself is my favorite alignment

I experiment with different personality's. My characters are usually evil though.

My actual char is an odd mix of everything I like: Sailor (has his own, functional ship and crew), adventurer, witchhunter and merchant. So his aligment is neutral-slightly good.

How do you become a Sailor?? Is it a mod or something?

Side's excellent http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=29688, although sadly right now it's pretty much limitted to Anvil and the small part of the Abecean Sea avaliable. I'm waiting for onra's final Tamriel Heightmaps* (which will recreate all of Tamriel's terrain) in order to be able to sail to Elsweyr (via south and East thought Valenwood's coastline), the Topal Bay and up the Niben.

Here's http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/4356/aedanxx.jpg on his ship, taking a break after exploring the Lost Coast of the north of Anvil (Unique Lanscapes mod).

*EDIT...which have finally been released. I'm off to sailing, byee!

Me too. I've played good, evil, and sort of "neutral" characters. But good and righteous is the easiest and most satisfying for me.

Noble heroine all the way. No infamy, no murders, etc., and if people would stop jumping in front of my weapon, there'd be no assaults...and if only the red-flagged items counted as thefts, there'd be 0 stolen items too! Ah well, we'll live with those problems. I'm happiest playing this way, for now.

I can do characters who are cruel and vengeful, or simply self-interested, but most of the time I always come back to the Kwai Chang Caine types. You know, people who walk the earth, get in adventures, and help people out. It is just what truly suits me.

So you just go with the flow then and generally be a good person? No infamous quests?