What do you collect? : IV

» Tue May 17, 2011 2:21 am

I quite enjoy collecting wine and of course, Daedric artifacts (who doesn't?)

» Tue May 17, 2011 2:52 pm

Pretty clothes. Oh, and matching shoes of course. And friends all over Cyrodiil! :twirl:

» Tue May 17, 2011 7:17 am

One of my characters assembled quite the library, collecting books. Another was unable to pass up crystal balls, and had quite a large collection of them.

Other good ideas for collecting might be quills and inkwells, tools, skulls or other bones, crumpled pieces of paper, scales and weights, yarn, or various other clutter...

More valuable items for collecting... Goblin totems, zero-weight clothing, shields & armor from all the various city guards, the stuff hidden on the outsides of forts...

» Mon May 16, 2011 11:57 pm

Ah yes, that reminds me, I am also an avid collector of diaries and journals, I love 'em

» Tue May 17, 2011 4:49 am

Random Gemstones

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Nothing like having a barrel overflowing with various flawed rubies, sapphires, and emeralds, to make you feel at home

» Tue May 17, 2011 8:52 am

Calipers! M'aiq the Liar must be onto something!

Nirnroot and lovely gemstones are also hunted down by most of my characters.
The hourglass is also cool. It reminds me of Raistlin Majere.

» Tue May 17, 2011 7:25 am

Nirnroots, daedric artifact, wines, the black hourse courier, unique clothing of all kinds, oddities from the shivering isles sigil stones. I try collect everything that I think I could make a collection of.

» Tue May 17, 2011 4:06 am

Skulls, crystal balls, scales, alchemy equipment and potions to line the shelves in my Cheydinhal home. There are several baskets full of pearls arranged neatly about the first floor. The desk is covered in amulets of all kinds and the small table is covered in rings and gem stones all all kinds. Arround the fire place sitting chair are stacked volumes of cool looking books and the dinner table is covered with Deadric hearts (nom! nom!). A large weapon stash is by the door and the upstairs room has many fine examples of armour sets. I also have numerous Alied artifacts on display.

» Tue May 17, 2011 10:55 am

Carrots.....

» Tue May 17, 2011 2:51 pm

Various types of arrows and bows.

» Tue May 17, 2011 11:11 am

The thing that makes collecting work for me is having a "complete set" as a goal. So I've had characters collect each of the city guard armors, or all of the Goblin Totems, always something that has a finite set to find. Then it's fun to find an appropriate place for the display.

That "complete set" doesn't have to be unique items, as long as there is a sense of "having them all", so you could do an Immelda Marcos and collect a pair of each of the types of shoes in the game.

» Tue May 17, 2011 3:35 am

Calipers. Those things rock.

» Tue May 17, 2011 4:01 am

guard shields from every city, i tried not to kill any of them, and a matching guard armor.
Skill books, i kept all of them and stacked them in my basemant, its way to hard to get them into shelves
Full suits of every type of armor, started at level 25 couldn't find dwarven for the life of me, also i didn't buy any for my collection
enchanted swords
spell tomes
restore health potions, mine are better so right now i have over 200 lol

» Mon May 16, 2011 11:28 pm

In oblivion? Black soul gems. but when I used to play morrowind I stole everyone's pillows and made a gigantic tower of them in the main plaza of Balmora. It kept me greatly amused :tongue:

» Tue May 17, 2011 1:56 am

I sneak into peoples houses and put all of their stuff into barrels.

» Mon May 16, 2011 10:22 pm

I miss pick-uppable pillows from Morrowind. Without pillows, my life is empty.

In Oblivion, gems! Sparkley.

» Tue May 17, 2011 12:45 am

I miss pick-uppable pillows from Morrowind. Without pillows, my life is empty.

In Oblivion, gems! Sparkley.

Pillow forts ftw!

Helena likes collecting gems, pearls and clothes. Pretty things, basically.

Edit - I forgot to add her fondness for books. Especially series of books. She aspires to one day have the most complete library in Cyrodiil.

» Tue May 17, 2011 12:45 pm

Harrisono, best avatar ever on this forum :-)

I ususally collect varla and weklynd stones, and gems. also journels/diarys, and i read them before bed in skingrad

» Tue May 17, 2011 12:59 pm

Some of my characters collect things, some don't.

My female Bosmer Assassin (Drehdwyn) collects town guard uniforms and shields. Of course, she has to kill the guards first.

My male Dunmer War Mage (Dreloth Vandaal) collects Welkynd Stones, Varla Stones, Sigil Stones (only the ones he doesn't use), http://tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=36362 and http://tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=9412 (again, only the ones he doesn't use for enchanting-some are very useful to mages).

My male Bosmer Recon Sniper (Elberond) collects Ebony arrows, enchanted or not. He never fires them, just collects them.

» Tue May 17, 2011 5:07 am

Some of my characters collect things, some don't.

My female Bosmer Assassin (Drehdwyn) collects town guard uniforms and shields. Of course, she has to kill the guards first.

My male Dunmer War Mage (Dreloth Vandaal) collects Welkynd Stones, Varla Stones, Sigil Stones (only the ones he doesn't use), http://tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=36362 and http://tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=9412 (again, only the ones he doesn't use for enchanting-some are very useful to mages).

My male Bosmer Recon Sniper (Elberond) collects Ebony arrows, enchanted or not. He never fires them, just collects them.

And Sir Killsalot collected bounties! :wink_smile:

» Tue May 17, 2011 1:08 am

Random Gemstones

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Nothing like having a barrel overflowing with various flawed rubies, sapphires, and emeralds, to make you feel at home

That and daedric artifacts.
I also collect shovels.

» Tue May 17, 2011 4:40 am

Attractive armor, clothes. I use my own mannequins, and the Armory Lab mod (5.x) to show them off.

Also gravitate to companions with genuine personality: Vilja, Fergus, Viconia, Stoker Wolff, Arren, etc.

In Morrowind, I collected books, but Oblivion has added so very little, and most modded homes provide their own libraries. I tend to grab one-off items if I can find them, and if they're not only part of the untouchable background.

» Tue May 17, 2011 11:02 am

And Sir Killsalot collected bounties! :wink_smile:

:rofl: That he did. Now, where did I put that image? :shifty: Ah, here it is: http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/3407/sirkillsalotstatsjpg.jpg

» Tue May 17, 2011 7:12 am

Robes and their matching hoods

» Tue May 17, 2011 5:10 am

Vintage 399, nothing but the best will do.