Many of us who have Daggerfall have it since its release and we are still playing it today.

This topic also concerns those who have recently acquired the game of course, but the focus is mainly on those who have the game for a long time.

There's a features of Daggerfall that I've never or barely touched.

- I have never played a magic-user for more than a few hours. (The gameplay for the mages seems too overwhelming for me...somehow..)
- I have never risen high in any factions without cheating. The highest rank I got was Punisher(5th rank) for the Dark Brotherhood
- The highest level I've risen to is 15
- I have never summoned a Daedric Prince without cheating to get the money.
- I've recently finished the Main Quest for the first time.
- I have never purchased the most expensive house without cheating. (It costs 1 450 000 if I recall correctly)
- I have never acquired daedric gauntlets. (They are pretty rare I think)
- I have never made a potion or magical item.

I think that's all for now.

What about you? What things have you never done in Daggerfall, despite the thousands of hours you've put in the game?

hmmm, hard to remember after all these years...

-i have never beat the fighter guild got to warrior (rank 8) 1 rank away from beating it.
-i have never been a mage (too difficult)
-i have never become a werewolf ( or wereboar)
-i have never roleplayed in daggerfall :shrug:

-I have never found a Daedric dagger (I can find all the other daedric weapons easily, but I can't find this - even through the inn footlocker exploit).
-I have never bought or made a potion from a guild.
-I have never delivered Prince Helseth's blackmail letter to Lord Castellian as he asks me to.
-I have never played a character without using any magic. Even Barbarians need Recall if they're going up against Daggerfall's monstrous dungeons!
-I have never been a vampire (werewolf yes, but never a vampire).

-I've never used, bought, or made a potion.
-I've never worn a long skirt.
-I've never been a wereboar.
-I've never successfully used the "steal" option.
-I've never legitimately found a witches' coven.
-I've never completely stopped playing and I've never... not had fun.

I haven't been playing it since release like some others have. Maybe six years or so on and off, I hadn't heard of it before then.


I've never completed any of the prophet quests eg: meet woman A at Town B in Tavern Z, I always get sent round in circles and give up.

I have never completed the game.

I have never made a potion or magic item.

I've never been a Vampire or wereboar, only a werewolf.

I have never managed to steal out of a shop, even hiding in it untill night time has never worked for me yet.

I have never played a mage type character.

I have never used any cheats, even when lost in a dungeon with no recall spell. I just get out my trusty map and get down to business


I can't think of anymore at the moment, but there will be plenty that I've missed out.

This sounds like a Daggerfall drinking game! :foodndrink:

Well, I've never:
Made a successful pure-mage character, and likely won't.
Completed the main quest the "bad way" (or any way other than the KoW victory, really)
Aced a guild other than the mages guild.
Gotten very far in any temple or the fighters guild, either.

I've never played a long-time character who didn't end up robbing merchants for cash and goods. It's just too easy, and I am weak.

I never actually play Daggerfall alot, lately. I only scratch the surface of the game. I REALLY need to spend more time with it. There is much more for me to uncover.

Probably a lot more than this, but:

I've never been high enough in the Mages Guild to use their teleportation.

I've never interacted with any of the witches covens.

I've never had to find Barenziah's book in Scourg Barrow.

I've never been a pure mage (or, for that matter, a pure fighter or a pure thief.)

I've never not given up on a dungeon when I discovered it involved those teleporting brick walls. :banghead:

I've never been to any province in Hammerfell except Sentinel and the Dragontail Mountains. (Come to think of it, other than for MQ reasons, I'm not sure I've ever been out of Daggerfall, Sentinel, or Wayrest. Except maybe for one embarrassing day spent searching the Alik'r Desert for dragons.)

I've never been able to get back into a dungeon from The Void (without the ALT-F11 cheat), and I've never been able to enter The Void intentionally, only by accident.
I've never used the Oghma Infinium, but have completed the quest several times.
I've never managed to find a house for sale that's just right. I want to buy one of the houses down Wayrest's main street - they have great interiors!
I've never taken a loan from the bank with the intention of repaying it.
I've never joined a Knights Guild.
I've never had a character that didn't follow the latest fashions, visiting the finest clothiers at least once every month. Even my bottom-of-the-barrel Redguard streetrat whose only source of income is pockets spends most of his money on looking good.

hmmm.

i never:

played a pure mage.

gained any high rank in mages guild

found any thieves guild houses

found more then a few pieces of Daedric armor.

been a vampire or a werewolf, just wereboar.

used the bow much, or potions.

Ok.

I've never stayed in an inn without getting undressed and actually jumping onto the bed before I rest.
I've never used potions.
I've never become a vampire; it seems restrictive and less fun than being a wereboar.
I've never taken Fighters Guild quests that involve dungeon crawling. (So I'm like... only one or two ranks up after 13 years of playing.)
I've never worn greaves. (I wear cuirasses like dresses, with just boots. Some weird habit I got into when I was younger that I can't shake now.)
I've never played argonians or high elves.
I've never made it through the Mantellan Crux without cheating.
I've never gone through Castle Wayrest without making the moaning kid moan.

I have never played Daggerfall.
I was probably too busy playing Pirates at the time.

Hmm... Yeah, even for me, there are a few things:

• I've never beaten the main quest. The farthest I got was to put Lysandus to rest, however I never managed to get the Totem.
  
• I've never attained the highest rank in any temple. I've mastered the mages, thieves, fighter's, dark brotherhood, and at least one knightly order, but not any of the 8 temples.
  
• I've never managed to assemble a full suit of silver armor. It seems vastly rarer than daedric for me, and I've assembled full suits of every other type. (orcish took a long while)
  
• I've never become a vampire. (hated the "take damage in sunlight" bit) Have gotten lycanthropy loads of times, (though only once a wereboar) and played through the quests for that every way, though.
  
• I've never played a magic-free class. I have played a pure mage, and a lot of my characters are almost pure, save for using a dagger. (they're forbidden from using armor, usually)
  
• I've never played a pure fighter or thief, as a consequence of the above.
  
• I've never managed to successfuly use the "steal" option in stores. I have played a couple characters that didn't do stealing at night, but it's VERY tempting to do.
  
• I've never kept the small ship. I've bought it at some times, but quickly exchanged it for the trireme within an hour of playtime.
  
• I've never played a purely naked character. The closest I came, I think, is wearing only some armor without clothes (keeping all the right parts covered) and conversely, only wearing a couple of pieces of clothes with no armor.

That reminds me, I've never played as a fully clothed female. I usually just wear a tasteful buckler.
I've never found a full suit of silver either, but I have cheated via a inventory editor to make my daedric look silver. I figured they've got armor paint in DF.

When I was 12 I had a character called "The nvde Bandit".

True story.

Ah, you've reminded me of another Daggerfall feature I never touched: Childguard

Probably should've. Thanks to Daggerfall my first instinct when I see a naked woman is to ask her directions to the Yeomcroft Residence. That's normal, right?

It's practically a daily occurrence!

No, it's not. I've discovered that asking for the specific person ALWAYS winds up more likely to get a better answer.

Mages really aren't popular it seems. I'd love to play a pure mage, but what seem overwhelming is knowing what spells to buy and if you already have the spell in your spell book. Also, the spellmaker and item maker, while offering countless options, always seems very complex to use. I'm more fit for stealthy types I guess, stealing gold and bat guano from citizens here and there then outrunning the guards by roof-jumping in Sentinel.


That's something I also always do.



That's normal! But do you also ask her where you can find the lady in green? It's even more precise.



Excellent idea! Let's all drink each time we see something in the list we haven't done.... I won't last long I guess!

There are a few things I've never done :

- I've never made a backup of my Daggerfall CD... (Maybe I should do one after all these years!)
- I've never came across a random dungeon while doing some real-time travel.
- I've never got all the books from the King Edward series or read more than one chapter. (I want to read them in the correct order)
- Counting King Edwards out, I've never read all the books of the game.
- I've never explored an underwater section of a dungeon for more than 2 minutes... too scared of drowning in the middle of my swim.
- By the way, I've never understood why skeletons tend to hang out in underwater areas....and be able to do their asmathic scream at the same time.

Ive only had this game a few months and play on an off depend ing on the day and situation. SO i havent done much at all really.
- Ive never found a quest item in a dungeon
- Ive never 'walked' anywhere


but im still a newb so :shrug:

I've never managed this, either. I very rarely stumble across things in the wilderness at all, and for that reason I don't tend to go far. The dungeon entrances are often those tiny lumps in the ground, which you're likely to miss even if you are quite close.

The dungeon entry area usually play different music than the wilderness so that helps. I actually succeded with this once, while I traveled a distance for real.

This actually saved my life a couple of times. When I was in a dungeon and was really sick and couldn't heal myself and when I fast-travel to the nearest temple, I die. But if I travelled that distance for real, less ingame time passed and I survived.

Actually, the music only plays once you get pretty much within sight of the dungeon anyway; farther out, you'll notice one or two of the yellow messages at the top of the screen, of the type that warns you what kind of dungeon it is, i.e, "blood soaks the ground everywhere" or "there are footprints. BIG footprints." And yeah, I've found a few that way.

Also, just to test it out, last night I started up a pure mage. I realized that it's actually easier than I thought to make it out of Privateer's Hold, as long as you can resist the urge to fight any skeletons. I think I might make an even "more" extreme mage than what I did, (which had crap health, STR, and END in favor of a pre-roll 75 INT and WIL) and perhaps record a video going through the dungeon just to show how it can be done. The only problem is resting a lot to recover magicka, something I usually make up for by simply taking natural spell absorption, and casting only explosive spells like Fireball.

-I've never become a werewolf or vampire.
-I've never attempted a thief character in the game.
-I've never joined a Knightly order. The only one that caught my interest, the Host of the Horn, is supposed to be a group of thuggish enforcers for the brutal local baron in Lainlyn, but for the aspirant PC, it doesn't appear or behave any different from an honorable sect.


Wow @ all the people who don't want to try out mages in Daggerfall! Here's a hint to get yourself started:

1. Make a character with Spell Absorption: General
2. Create a devastating area-at-range spell
3. Cast the spell, making sure to be close to the explosion
4. ???
5. PROFIT!!!

-never an Argonian (was actually never anything but High Elf, I guess)
-never as a female
-never even tried being a werewolf (tried vampire, didn't like it)
-never NOT used a magic type character (recall, open, levitate - how could U do without these?)
-never joined the dark brotherhood (and still can't)
-I could never stand listening to the music in game (sorry DF music lovers)
-I never gotten the Daedra Prince laugh out of my head. (Nor the ancient vampire whine.)

After Andel Crodo's Fashion Gallery started the "Rare picture gallery" or something to that effect, it gave many of us new and unusual things to try and to explore.




True. At high levels, I remember clearing a room full of Daedric Princes in one shot; reabsorbing the spell and moving on.