Like lots of people, I tend to create roleplaying characters over and over and only play them to low-mid levels before starting a new playthrough. However, my current character (a pure breton mage with the goal of understanding every bit of magic in tamriel and uncovering the best kept secrets) is currently level 64 and I have no intentions of throwing him away. What about you?
Posted Jul 31, 2021, 2:24 PM UTC
I have played MMOs and RPGs for decades using random roleplay, keeps them from getting stale and can experience a new start every time.
I roll random choices (with random preset) with Random Alternate Start Reborn VR, and quit them when they have a good death. It is not strictly permadeath more of a last save was too far back since I play on novice so can be more about their story and not gettng ganked. Random alternate start gives you a morrowind loadout for a class, but does not actually modify anything else - I only use and level up skills that would be in that morrowind class. This helps me explore other playstyles other than stealthy archer.
first one was a redguard pilgrim who escaped a near sacrifice from forsworn, escaped the markarth jail by siding with the city. They sent her out to kill forsworn and got overwhelmed with ice bolts trying to solo an encampment.
now I have a bosmer acrobat who just crossed the southern border as she heard there was a thieves guild in riften, and has been killing bandits for the city as her day job and all the guards are in her pocket for the night job since she also strong arms for the lady who runs the meadery. So yeah...stealthy archer... but I did roll it so its not my fault! Supposed to use spears but I did not want to futz with leveled lists to get them modded in, instead just throw daggers with Weapon Throw VR. Keeps getting assassins and thugs in her way because of her sticky fingers. Lives in the riften house with a barmaid. She has an offer on an estate in Falkreath (she did nothing but passthru town) so I suspect she will eventually learn where the assassins are and double cross them so I might take her thru imperial side, thieves and assassin guild lines and call it good.
I make zero effort to become dragonborn, they have to stumble upon it and want it. All the thief did in the Helgen ruins was loot the place. She would not know that I got a quest that I am supposed to report about dragons, she has never even been to riverwood. So I try to play what they would actually know and not what the quest system is telling me. She has been to whiterun on some meadery job and has a fence there, but when the champions tried to recruit her she dissed them. I think that keeps more of the morrowind feel that you do not have to be in every guild.
Over 300 from using exploits and other stuff but my highest legit character was around level 80 something but that was on my xbox 360 and I cant be bothered to check
Level 65 with an Altmer spellsword. She hails from the Summeret Isles as the daughter of nobility, but rejected a life of privilege to travel Tamriel and learn about other cultures.
Currently learning the arcane arts at Winterhold and freelancing as a relic hunter for Auryen at the Dragonborn Gallery in Solitude to pay tuition.
I've been modding skyrim on and off for 7 years and never gotten above level 22 with like 95% of my time tweaking my mods.
Glad I'm actually now playing it in VR. Level 12 with overall experience gain at 20% and zero-ing out pickpocket/lockpicking/speechcraft contribution to player level
Before adding a ridiculous amount of mods and breaking my game I managed to make it to 9 on my most recent. My biggest issue is starting the MQ again, so I downloaded this:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/33498
Super handy! I don't mind restarting and doing different things but doing the MQ for the shouts gets old. Racemenu and good to go, no more need for alternate start mods.
Eh, 3, still tweaking my modlist
44 - one of the highest levels I've ever gotten to - still haven't done Bleak Falls Barrow. Having such a blast in VR, using mostly YASH.
730 items in LOTD.
Level 35 now, Theif / Asasssin, 100 hp. The hardest part is that i havent leveled light armor anything, so lots of enemies oneshot me -.- Perfect challenge when playing a sneak character though.
Pretty cool playstyle if you ask me! My char gets to the armor cap with just his max upgraded scaled bracers and boots and its kind of unfair. When you have smithing, alchemy and enchanting on 100, armor choice becomes a purely cosmetic matter. And I actually refrain from smithing my own weapons, because the damage stats i can achieve make the game way too easy.
I see you are a modder.
How'd you know (°ロ°)
I've been watching you.
Go promote my ENB then. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻