I'm talking about trying to create your real life self in skyrim.

Tell us about you.

I usually make an orc when trying to make a cool character, but after going back to fallout 3 for a while, where I love to make myself, I decided to make a "me" in skyrim and I'm enjoying me quite a bit. "Anthony" the breton. The long haired and goatee'd regular dude with dark circles under his eyes from a lack of sleep and dirt on his face.

I'm finding it easier to slow down and role play, and also easier to be a coward and admit defeat from time to time and flee. As I probably would if fearing for my life in a place like skyrim. My badass warriors always have to be optimally badass and courageous, but me is just... me. The pressure is off and the decisions more intuitive and realistic.

I've been chopping a lot of fire wood, as I seriously love doing that in real life and due to a lack of ambition would probably find myself doing something like that in a medieval world. I've been hanging out at gilfre's mill because I have a crush on her, chopping wood for her, selling it to her, helping her at the mill by loading the lumber in so she can push the lever, all very flirty and suggestive. But perhaps starting to slip into the friend zone. Some hired thugs showed up at the mill to attack me for stealing off someone, but I imagined instead they came to shake her down for some debt she owed and I stood up to them. Attacked for a while and then used a calm spell scroll, and I hate spells and magic usually but I imagined instead I used my slick talking to persuade them to leave. I was seriously having trouble with them too, my guy is still a low level and I'm not used to how bad breton's warrior stats start out. Previously only ever playing as an orc, or maybe a redguard, and I think once a nord.

Keep in mind I'm not saying me or my character are wusses, it's just "within reason". For once my character is also bravish and toughish "within reason", where usually they were just balls to the wall chuck norris badass. For example I'm standing their in rough spun tunic with a wood cutting axe and two heavily armoured mean looking thugs come menacingly towards me, realistically I'm not gonna just kick the crap out of them, I'm gonna try and calm things down, and that's what my character did.

I'm enjoying the magic resistance, and also the dragonskin power, again twisting things in my mind but I'm a skeptical logical rational person so my character just flat out doesn't believe in magic and this is why it doesn't hurt him much.

So, anyone else make themselves, tell us about your skyrim self.

Pics welcome, I might upload myself later.

Generic blond Nord who's too cowardly to go on an adventure, so my whole playthrough would revolve around mixing potions and reading dusty old tomes in the Winterhold College library.

Now you know why I never model my RPG characters after myself. It would bore me to tears.

I've never tried to recreate myself in a video game. In my opinion, "playing as myself" is not roleplaying.

But if I were to create myself in Skyrim, my character would most likely be a Bard and would live in the Bards College. My character would rarely ever leave Solitude, would rarely get into any adventures and would spend most of his waking hours writing poetry and fiction. When he wasn't writing he would spend hours unproductively playing tag or watching sea birds overhead.

That's a neat idea. My characters would have to be a lot less naughty. No Companions, Dark Brotherhood, or Thieves Guild.

Once I made myself as a Khajiit for no special reason (I'd probably go with imperial if I were to match what I really look like).

I don't think I even got a full hour into it. The plan was to try to find enough gold to hire a mercenary so I could go exploring, and even went as far as giving myself a crossbow just in case. I got bored a few minutes in reasoning "if I'm just going to play as myself in Hiking Simulator 2011 I may as well just shut it off and actually go hiking or something." So I did. I saw some deer!

I sometimes create myself as a character to test mods. However a quick check of the archives reveals that I have not taken screenshots of these women. Here’s my current me: http://i.imgur.com/BRGTQ1c.png, languishing in a space that has not yet received its final lighting. I must admit that my actual hair is a frizzy mess and not smooth like hers. Also she is taller than me and a mage. Plus she lacks my character-enhancing crow’s feet. And she wears too much makeup.

Sigh. Vanity.

You'd probably find me running a sawmill, or fixing people's houses. I'm an old woodworker/craftsman, and I have run a small sawmill. I'm not going to climb up on your leaky roof, though. You need a thatcher for that job.

I would probably get a carriage to winterhold, enter the mages guild and only left when I got destruction, illusion, conjuration and alteration to 100!

Yes, I'm a coward =D

This.

I made a character that shares my morals and another one, a nord, that has my looks, but I never thought of making one that shares all of my traits. Stuck in Skyrim with magic abilities I'd go to the college and develop them thoroughly. However, living there without them (just my real self) would prove quite a challange. I'd seek a follower, practice swordfighting and raid tombs (at least the first chambers).

My history with this is somewhat interesting to me. Originally with Beth games I just made a character named "Jaramr", and I wouldnt really roleplay, but I wouldnt play myself either. This changed around 2010-ish, when I started to knuckle down and get into the deep immersion roleplaying. Thats where I found what ultimately made these the best games in the world for me.

Some parts of myself do bleed through into the characters I make. I find it hard to roleplay a character that I wouldn't like to hold a conversation with in real life. This does not mean that my characters are mirrors of my beliefs, as often evidenced in my Fallout characters which are much more indvidualist in their thinking. If I was to play myself in Skyrim specifically I think that it would probably be the most interesting. The cold climate is one that I prefer, so I would probably stay in the north, and I would most likely devote most of my time to independent magical studies. Adventuring would be way too dangerous for me to actually attempt, but with Tamriel being such a dangerous place no matter where you go I would know my way around a fireball spell or a dagger just in case.

I would likely travel a fair bit. I'd love to chat up the Telvanni mage lords, assuming I can get them to give me their time. I'd also like to visit Elsweyr at some point, and see the various breeds of Khajiit. Really though, when travelling id probably hire a mercenary, and even then there'd be a chance of getting killed by some monster or creature while en route to my destination. A single sellsword is going to vary in skill and devotion, and there isnt really a immediate way to figure out if he's going to lay down his life for you or rob you of your magical items when first hiring.