If so then how do you RP around everyone else staying the same age and looking the same? I've aged my Nords appearance with the face sculptor to look slightly more aged and weathered then he did when first arriving at Helgen but I'm having a hard time pretending that years have passed when everyone else looks the same as they did since day 1. You can say some sort of magic or daedric devilry is at work but it seems a bit far fetched that everyone but you hasn't aged a day.

I welcome any ideas or any stories about your characters evolving over time

The fact that npc's don't age with you kind of defeats the purpose of the roleplaying aspect of it for me.

Only a little. I would feel weird aging them several years when my journal clearly states that they've only been in Skyrim for a few months.

I often change their hair, warpaint (if they have it) and scars (if they earned any new).

I like to escape reality when playing games. I am at the age now where each morning I look just a little bit older as I look in the mirror. I want my game characters to give me the illusion that my body will not continue it's accelerating path to entropy and decay.

I haven't played a character long enough to justify ageing, but my first character's beard 'evolved' from a tiny chin patch to a full, fuzzy goatee over time since Dawnguard was released. I figured he was also young enough (mid 20's) to have his face and body develop ever so slightly by making his face a bit more heroic and bulking him up a notch.

When I did age a character for fun though, I just figured "Hey, most everyone else probably in their thirties, who cares? My 50 year-old parents look like they're in their early forties." before all sorts of logic tried to interfere and I just ignored it.

Edited for clarification.

Yes, I age mine in looks and height every couple levels with console commands. I like to start out at around 10-15 and gradually age over time.

What's the point if your character's a vampire?

haha I hear you. I choose to do so to my character simply because I feel like he should look like the seasoned warrior he is, like he's seen some stuff and it wasn't pretty.
then how do you explain the rest of the population remaining the same? The only thing that I can think of is to stay away from certain characters until after you've grown and avoid the one's that you knew when you were "young".




Good point, do you know if werewolves age in lore? I think they do but I can't research it at the moment

Oh, I have some characters that are old grizzled vetrans from the get go. I even have an Arthritic Near Sighted Character with Parkinsons who is going deaf. I just keep my legs and arms crippled, and never zoom in on anything. I used to use a HUD mod that made everything blurry, but I can just rub my fingers on my RW eyeglasses to smudge them if I want that view.

Problem with that build is putting the SPECIAL points somewhere that I take out of Perception, Agility, Endurance and Strength into the 3 that are left. It's much harder to achieve this in Skyrim.

Yeah, I think so too.

If by age, we're talking younger, not older. I always make my characters as young-looking as possible. It just seems weird to put wrinkles on gray hair on a character, and then start scaling mountains.

If I do create a character like that, I'll be parking my butt on the benches in Whiterun's center and demand a Dragonborn fetch me an old warrior's helmet.

Yes they do.

Imagination.

Ever since Dawnguard I have been gradually aging my characters, and Npc's not aging doesn't even bother me in the slightest.

If I actually manage to keep a character for 30 in game years, sure, why not, but I dont think this will ever happen .

ehh it just feels weird for me since the world does not age with you so no

Try playing Fable where your character ages like ten years and your spouse does not age at all or where your turns ten after three days away from home.

*facepalms*

I would rather have everyone age than just my character or have nobody age including my character.

Then again my character is a Dunmer who should still look young even at the age Octieve San is.

I bet there is a mod that could change all the characters look at once.

No. Because Im a vampire.

Silly! That's a question a young person would ask, heheh...
The fact is, if you are 54 years old and you go into the game for two years, you don't look much different at 56. Right?
Like you're really going to 'age' in only a year or two...

Well in Fable (best game ever made) your guy ages.

I dont age them because they dont last enough years to change. The longest I played a character is 4E 204 without waiting exept for using beds.

My characters don't last long enough to age, and I still wouldn't be able to pretend that it actually happened. I only played Skyrim on Xbox 360, so no console commands for me, and it would still be weird if your character was the only one who aged and no one else did.

I downloaded the original on my xbox a few months ago. It is better than 2 and 3 but nowhere near as good as TES games.

I generally heavily role-play my characters and they retire usually within one or two game years. That's all the time I need to see about everything and do a couple factions and maybe the MQ. I have never considered physically aging the PC for this reason.

Take for example my main guy, Eric. Did the Companions and MQ. Retired. Came out of retirement to fight vamps. Retired. Came out of retirement to build a retirement home. Got married, adopted some kids and retired again. Came out of retirement to fight some old Dragonborn. Retired yet again. If I was going to age him, now would be the time I guess. But technically all this still happened within just a couple years in game.