Preparations for Skyrim.

[infohippie]

Stealth, sneak and marksman, just as I did in Oblivion. I will probably try out magic since in most games I prefer to be a mage, but in Bethesda's worlds I somehow prefer going the sneaky thief/archer route. I don't like to get into melee much (again, only in Bethesda's worlds), so I doubt I'll go for blades and the like. I might mix-n-match stealth archery with magic, depending on how it all works out.

 

[Saelune]

Im going to not make a class since that was scrapped. Now...had it kept the old system...

Blade (Long Blade)
Light Armor (Unarmored)
Destruction
Restoration
Marksman
Mysticism
Armorer
(Spear)

Parethasis are if they bring those skills back, if next to a diff skill it would replace that one.

 

[badgersprite]

Depends on the levelling system. My design changes significantly for something like Oblivion because you basically have to min-max every level to max out your attributes. But I always end up playing a sneaky archer who snipes targets from afar and has a great investment in speed and swiftness and steals absolutely everything that isn't nailed down. And if it is nailed down I remove the nails and steal them too.

 

[Bobbity]

I usually play as a warrior type in TES games, but I experimented a bit with a thief in Oblivion, and it was a lot of fun. Right now, I'm tempted to go for a nord thief - think an urchin who grew up on the streets - who knows the odd spell.

After that, I'll probably try and run with an arch-mage type of fellow, focusing solely on magic.

Finally, a spellsword/battlemage; a veritable walking armoury, deadly in the extreme.

 

[Demitri Kamoraz]

Victor Zasz
Imperial

Blade
Blade again
Athletics
Acrobatics
Illusion
Sneak
Picklocking

Any honest Batman fan knows what would go down.

 

[Littlee300]

Will I actually be immersed enough to care if I steal from people? If not, then picklocking.

 

[Tax_Document]

I'll be an Assassin and do what I did in Morrowind/Oblivion.


Murdered everyone beginning with J. . .

 

[Kenko]

Krunk the Nord Barbarian. He hits things.

 

[wizard_joe88]

Mage with a sword, same as oblivion
Either that, or a barbarian, which ever one I feel like

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

Going to keep it nice and close to my best Oblivion character:

Male, Wood Elf, Acrobat. That worked a treat for me.

 

[Rusman]

Selene, a deadly female Bosmer

Weapons of choice: Bow (Duh) One handed blades, most likely daggers. And a metric fuck tonne of poisons.

Almost definitely will be highly skilled in Stealth and Acrobatics or whatever they have changed it too. Really looking forward to daggers not being rubbish any more, Backstab time!!!

 

[MadCapMunchkin]

Well, for the atmosphere I'm going to play a Nord Barbarian by the name of Crom the first time around (cookie for the reference).

Then I will play a Dark Elf duel wielding scimitars (or the equivalent) that will totally not be a rip-off of Drizzt Do'Urden. [small]*cough*[/small]

And then likely branch off into a stealth and mage character, just to balance everything.

 

[Echo136]

I always always always go for Breton for the added Magic defense. Its the best racial trait in the game.

 

[Jonluw]

I can't decide between making a crazy ass dual-wielding warrior type or a dignified all-powerful mage.

The kind that only wears a bare chest and a robe respectively.

I'm sort of worried that dual-wield combat won't look good.

The problem with robes though, is that you have less items on your body to enchant if you wear them. Always bothered me that if you wanted a stylized mage, you would have to give up on greaves/pants for enchanting.

Are you listening, Bethesda? Robes should give some bonus to the enchantments cast upon them!

[sub]Or maybe I should go for the staff+sword travelling wizard, Gandalf style?
Damn you, Bethesda, for giving me so many possibilities...[/sub]

 

[Viedrick]

I'll prolly go with a sword/shield guy, your basic grunt, for my first character.

 

[captaincabbage]

lol as soon as I saw the pic of the redesigned Orc I decided that for the first time ever, I would be an orc.

I've already got a character set out. . . for November.

Name: Krag Borak
Race: Orc
Main Skills: Axes, Bow and Arrows, Sneak.
Minor Skills: Lightning Magic, Lockpicking.
He'll be a real barbarian, pretty much the opposite of what I played in Oblivion, which was a sneaky khajiit ranger, with awesome sneak, lockpick and bow skills.

I really want to just push myself to try something new, hence the Axes and the Orc as a race. I might have a lightning spell in the other hand, but I'll most likely have a shield, or possibly a shortsword.

 

[9NineBreaker9]

I feel like a major nerd right now pointing out that:
There are no classes.

They removed the class system because they noticed how stupid it is to expect players to make choices that will influence their next 200 hours of gameplay in the first thirty minutes.

This. Thank GOD. One of my many gripes against Oblivion.

If I end up picking up Skyrim, I'll probably go the same route as my current Oblivion attempt - a Witchhunter. Stealth, marksmanship, and destruction/illusion magic. If my stealth shots and poisons don't kill you, I'll just blow you up!

 

[MintyNinja]

I have a tendency to lean towards stealth based characters with heavily enchanted and poisoned weaponry. I'm all about sneaking through the hidden entrance and hitting the target once or twice and leaving a twitchy corpse... in game, that is. Don't look at me like that.

 

[DustyDrB]

I can't decide between making a crazy ass dual-wielding warrior type or a dignified all-powerful mage.

The kind that only wears a bare chest and a robe respectively.

I'm sort of worried that dual-wield combat won't look good.

The problem with robes though, is that you have less items on your body to enchant if you wear them. Always bothered me that if you wanted a stylized mage, you would have to give up on greaves/pants for enchanting.

Are you listening, Bethesda? Robes should give some bonus to the enchantments cast upon them!

[sub]Or maybe I should go for the staff+sword travelling wizard, Gandalf style?
Damn you, Bethesda, for giving me so many possibilities...[/sub]

You should make a lazy mage who wears his robe open and name him Lebowski.