I don't know how relevant Skyrim really is anymore since it's been out for so long now, but I started replaying it recently so I thought I'd make a thread for it. Each time I make a new character, I try to play the game a little differently, usually centering around the personality I assign a character. My main characters so far have been a roguish Khajiit with a strong sense of loyalty, a benevolent Argonian who works primarily as a blacksmith and fights with heavy armor and weapons, and, my newest one, a Redguard mage specializing so far in destruction, alteration, and restoration magic. Here's my problem though. I've played roguish and heavy armor characters before, but this is my first ever mage character. Aside from "she's a mage" I'm not sure what makes this character unique. Skyrim is such a large world, so what should I work for outside of the College of Winterhold? So I thought, why not make a challenge format, both for my own sake and as something that other people could use for their own play throughs? I've made this outline for challenge ideas if anyone's interested. If you end up using it, post your own character outline(s) in this thread. I'd love to see them! The spacing right now is a little weird and I'm not sure why, but it's getting late, so I might just fix it tomorrow. Spoiler: Skyrim challenge outline Rules: You must set an overarching challenge that significantly effects your overall play style. For an added challenge when designing your character, try to be as lore friendly as possible. Your character must have a set type of armor they wear at all times and a specified weapon (or weapons in the case of two single hand weapons). They can also have a "sub" weapon they switch out to on occasion, most likely bows for long range. All magic counts as a single weapon. Your character must have a career that may be interlinked with your challenge, but should be considered its own stand alone part of the challenge with its own separate goal. The fun part is the way that random events might occur during your play through. Any significant events that take place can be used as a reason to change your play through challenge, as long as it's done in a logical way. Of course, you can make any modifications to the rules that you want, as long as you consistently play by the rules you set for yourself. Character Info (Basically what you make during character creation, plus the personality you assign your character) Race: Name: Gender: Identifying physical features: General personality: Armor: Weapons: Main challenge-(Overarching challenge that determines how you play, requiring you join at least one organization aligning with the challenge) Organization: Career-(What your character does outside of adventuring) Career goal: Story development- (Significant events that take place during your playthrough, leading to new challenges. These can happen multiple times, but should always have a new challenge associated with them) New challenge: Here's an example using my lawful good, heavy armor character: Spoiler: Character outline example Character Info Race: Argonian Name: Rava Gender: Female Identifying physical features: Three claw-like scars across the nose General personality: Cheerful and hardworking Armor: Heavy armor Weapons: Battleaxe (main), Bow/Arrows (sub) Main challenge- Lawful good run. No stealing, threats, or blatant murder. Help people whenever possible. Organization: Companions Career- Blacksmith/Weapon Smith Career goal: create the highest quality, highest level armor/weapons possible. Story development- First tutored on smithing by Adrianne Avenicci of Whiterun. Adrianne was killed by vampires on the same night the leader of the Companions died. New challenge: Can now optionally kill vampires regardless of justification. Join the Dawnguard and play through the Dawnguard DLC opposing the vampires. There have been more story development events than the one I listed, but this is just the short version for the example. I'd be really interested to see the sorts of challenges that other people come up with since mine are pretty basic. If enough people post their own challenge ideas, others would be able to try them out too. And if anyone can help me out with the play through I've recently started, here's what I have so far using my own format. Spoiler Character Info Race: Redguard Name: Tamara Gender: Female Identifying physical features: One white eye and a burn like scar on the left side of the face. Looks fairly gender ambiguous. General personality: Very studious, willing to do anything to fuel further research. (Morally ambiguous) Armor: Mage robes and basic clothing. Weapons: Dual wielding magic (main) single hand sword (sub) Main challenge (Unrefined)- Play through using only magic as much as possible. Organization: College of Winterhold Career (None yet)- Career goal: Story development (None yet, too early in the play through)- New challenge:
