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Dark Assassin

Obsessed with the aldmeri dominion
Im trying to finish a quest but the ppl are way to OP. I am super bored with no other quest to do. Do you think creating an Argonian would be fun, purly because of the perks that come with it? Or, can you guys comment any other races that are fun (besides high elf, orc, dark elf, and nord)? Also if you could tell me what are some fun things to do in skyrim.
 

coinop25

Member
I got bored with my wood elf once and created an Argonian just to try something different. Their lore suggests that it's totally expected by society for any of them to join the Dark Brotherhood, so I made a "nice guy Shadowscale" focused on sneaking, poisons, daggers, and swimming away underwater (for as long as I want!) after kills. Good fun. Also, I enjoy the Dragonborn kind of actually looking like a dragon-man.
 

Saozig

Hippy
I've played all the races. I was able to crate a pretty fun Argonian character using porchdrinker's random character guide (see the tutorials forums). He's a social climber, and wants to gain status, because he's terribly envious. I've forgone the main quest entirely--instead of going to Riverwood, he wandered around, raiding bandits for money and collecting ingredients to make potions to sell (he spent a few ays at teh Alchemist's Shack), before he went to Riften. Once he got to Riften he sold his poin for some coin, made freinds, bought a house, got a thaneship and went to Windhelm to schmooze with the Argnoan dockworkers and oter Windhlem folk and to court and eventually marry Shahvee. Now he struts aroun Riften in his fancy clothes like a lord and is all "How you like me now?" to Talen-Jei, his rivel (at least in his own mind). Now he need to do something to support his lavish lifestyle and to gain more clout so he's going to join the Theives Guild.

It is a little interesting that with the Argonian or Khajiit, you reallly feel more like an outsider, which is the complete opposite from what it felt like for me to play a Nord. All the other races are kind of somewhere inbetween--the Imperials and Breton fit in a little more easily than the redguard, Bosmer or Dunmer. I've only played one Altmer and although he didn't feels like an outsider it seemed like there's not a lot in Skyrim for an Altmer to do, I mean, besides walk around in Thalmor robes and sneer at locals. If I ever create another Altmer character, it'll have to be an exile or a rogue of some kind, more of rebellious fringe type.

Some fun thing (for me at least):

--create a personality, likes and dislike for your character and develop habits around them. My Argonian for example hates cooked fish and will only eat raw fish (his favorite is apple cabbage soup with a piece of raw salmon). He also like to take a swim in the lake by Riften after nightfall. And of course, when he's in Riften he always wear fine clothes instead of his armor--it helps to remind people he's a Very Important Argonian.

--create motivations for your charcter and focus on them, rather than doing everything that comes your way. Also have a different starting location othe than Riverwood or Whitern. With my Argonian, he hsn't gone to Riverwood yet. Instead he went to Riften because his backstory is that he did something pretty shameful and had to leave Riften before, and nwo he's returning to redeem himself. He's limiting himself to just the eastern part of Syrim, at least until he joins the Theives Guild. I've had character who hung out in Falkreath, Rorikstead, Riften, Ivarstead or Solitude before heading to Riverwood or Whiterun for the first time.

--I've done a couple "no dragon" play-throughs where my character had no interest in informing the Jarl about the Dragon at Helgen, and when I did Bleak Falls barrow to befriend Lucan, I left the Dragonstone on the boss draugr. I did that with my last Bosmer--she only has gone to Whiterun once, to complete the Night to Remember daedric quest and instead of asking to see the Jarl at the city gates, she bribed her way in to talk to ysolda. ther than that, she has had nothing t do with Whiterun at all. It is quite a differnet feel to wander around Skyrim without any dragons to worry about, or to never go to Whiterun. (Note that without taking the Dragonstone to Farengar and completing Dragon Rising, you will not be able to complete the Civil Wat QL as the Main QL and the Civil War QLs are linked. Also the shout ability cannot be unlocked without finishing Dragon Rising, ever though you can still collect Words of power from the Word Walls--you just can't use them. So only try a no-dragon play-through if you dont want to do Civil War QL and you can do without shouts.)

--One play-through that I really enjoyed and want to try again some day: I had a Breton battlemage who went around collecting shouts from Word Walls around Skyrim, via teh "letter from a friend", where you use a shout in city or another location, and you get a letter directing you to a new Word Wall. Then you go find that Word Wall, learn the Word of Power and then repeat the process. For the early part of her game, that was her main objective. I was able to get teh Thu'um master accomplishment with that character that way (you do need to the main quest to get that accomplishement though, as 2 of the shouts can only be learned from the Greybeards and a third from entering the Time Wound on the Throat of the World)
 

Nocte Aeterna

Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Film
Im trying to finish a quest but the ppl are way to OP. I am super bored with no other quest to do. Do you think creating an Argonian would be fun, purly because of the perks that come with it? Or, can you guys comment any other races that are fun (besides high elf, orc, dark elf, and nord)? Also if you could tell me what are some fun things to do in skyrim.

Asking yourself if you should make an Argonian is like asking yourself if your body needs oxygen.
 

Twiffle

Well-Known Member
I have been playing an Argonian lately with a build of my own making, Kleggs-the-Herb, alchemist only for crafting no enchanting/smithing, uses 2h hammer, light armor, no magic apart from basic healing spell, and when you get your alchemy high enough you can make some pretty serious potions, for example i can sneak around invisible for nearly 2 minutes sizing up the opposition, then chug a 2 handed potion and add 84% to the damage while having a 50 point poison for 2 hits on my hammer or paralys for 17 seconds, i dont do the MQ or war yet, just raiding bandits and forts doing jobs around skyrim collecting masks, words and causing general mahem, oh and the coin is good also, i dont need to collect everything i find, if i need money i just make a dozen potions and sell them for around 700 gold each, and training is paid for with the coin from potions, great fun, dont need stamina just health perks, stamina from soup and potions.
 

wrighty

Thalmor 3rd Emissary
Argonians are good they have 50% disease resistance, underwater breathing, Histskin health regen power and they have additional unarmed damage(but not as much as Khajiit). They make good assassins, underwater breathing helps for escapes and Histskin is good to activate when your discovered and against multiple tough enemies. If your bothered about starting skills then they have 25 lockpicking as their highest which aids assassins and/or thieves.
Personally I prefer Bretons as I like human characters but I don't like the brutish Nords and I don't want to support the Empire so no Imperials, + Bretons would probably be my race if I were in the TES universe as I'm from Southern Britain where real life Bretons originate from.
As for creating an argonian I don't think the race itself makes the game any more or less fun it's more to do with the backstory you create, it's easy to make an argonian assassin due to the fact many argonians are shadow scales like Veezara.
 

coinop25

Member
Oh yeah, I totally forgot to mention Histkin. In terms of pure practicality, it is one of the best racial powers in the game. The Argonian's other racial perks are nice, but can be replicated pretty easily through potions or enchanted items. (Every non-Argonian character I have always carries around a ring of water breathing as soon as he can find the enchantment, just in case.) super-fast health regeneration is a life saver, though.
 

Dark Assassin

Obsessed with the aldmeri dominion
Well, my friend made a spellsword out of a khajiit. And a thief out of an orc. I believe you can be anything, if you work to the skill
 

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