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Rinn

Sweetroll Kleptomaniac
So recently I made my third character, Rinn, which I made for role-playing and trying new things in Skyrim to make the game more interesting than it already was.

However, I am pretty new at role-playing. I don't have many experience and I want to ask you people if you could give me some tips to enhance my role-playing experience and to make everything a bit more "professional". I really want to become better at it, because it makes the game more fun in all kind of different ways.

Note that I have a little bit experience, I am not a total newbie at this thing :)
 

Twiffle

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Hi, best i can say at the moment is you need to choose what type of character you want to play, EG, do you want to roleplay a warrior or a mage, both play differently, but again they can play similar, it depends how you want to go, , and what rules you want to put in place from the very start.
 

Rinn

Sweetroll Kleptomaniac
Hi, best i can say at the moment is you need to choose what type of character you want to play, EG, do you want to roleplay a warrior or a mage, both play differently, but again they can play similar, it depends how you want to go, , and what rules you want to put in place from the very start.

So you have to make some rules to live by? Like making certain limits what your character can do and what it cannot do?

Rinn has several skills she is good at and which she'll be using most of the time, but I didn't make up gameplay rules. Perhaps I should think of some gameplay rules to start with?
 

Twiffle

Well-Known Member
Yeh thats right, rules such as no fast travel, or must sleep every night, if you play a mage for example, why would you train up warrior skils and vise versa, if you play a thief you could do no saving on pick pocket etc etc, the Rping style is endless, but speak to psiberzerker she is good at this type of style/build.
 

Rinn

Sweetroll Kleptomaniac
Yeh thats right, rules such as no fast travel, or must sleep every night, if you play a mage for example, why would you train up warrior skils and vise versa, if you play a thief you could do no saving on pick pocket etc etc, the Rping style is endless, but speak to psiberzerker she is good at this type of style/build.

Okay, thanks. I didn't use fast travel anyway because I think it kills the game's realism. I'll write down some rules to start off with. I had some standard rules though, but never made any additional rules.
 

Skulli

Is that fur coming out of your ears?
Develop your moral code, think D&D alignments here.

Are you, loyal, do you feel bound to complete a promised quest objective?

Skyrim gives you multiple opportunities to turn on people and change allegiances at will. Do you have any interest or a side preference regarding the Civil War?

Make sure you eat and sleep everyday and when taking quests from people, really listen and read to determine your own sense of moral obligation or lack thereof.

Most of all, explore, have fun and react to things as they happen in the moment, trying to stay true to your character's own moral compass.

Hope that helps a little.
 
I don't play by rules, but Role Play is all about immersion. That's the rule to live by, don't think about the real world, or game mechanics. Don't be yourself, this isn't a first date, Be Rinn. What's she thinking, feeling, what does she want, and how would she go about getting it? Try to avoid cheats, but the best way to do that is to forget they're there. Ignore the Inventory in battle, and pull through so you can chug some potions to recover. If you even think about Savescumming, you're doing it wrong. And start a journal. In her own words, what she did, and so forth. Like the quest journal, but in character. Nothing gets you into your PC's mind like writing as her. I like to "Remember" things from their past, rather that starting out with a background, but for a first timer, you might want to start there.

Where's she from? What did she do there? How old is she? What happened to her familly/Friends (Since you'll have no opportunities to interact with them, they're assumed gone, though they could just be back in Cyrodiil rather than dead.)..?
 

Rinn

Sweetroll Kleptomaniac
I don't play by rules, but Role Play is all about immersion. That's the rule to live by, don't think about the real world, or game mechanics. Don't be yourself, this isn't a first date, Be Rinn. What's she thinking, feeling, what does she want, and how would she go about getting it? Try to avoid cheats, but the best way to do that is to forget they're there. Ignore the Inventory in battle, and pull through so you can chug some potions to recover. If you even think about Savescumming, you're doing it wrong. And start a journal. In her own words, what she did, and so forth. Like the quest journal, but in character. Nothing gets you into your PC's mind like writing as her. I like to "Remember" things from their past, rather that starting out with a background, but for a first timer, you might want to start there.

Where's she from? What did she do there? How old is she? What happened to her familly/Friends (Since you'll have no opportunities to interact with them, they're assumed gone, though they could just be back in Cyrodiil rather than dead.)..?

Well, I already made a profile and posted it here on the forums. Here's the copy of the original post I did:

Name:Rinn Erdhir
Race:Redguard
Age: 21 years old
Gender: Female
Class: Warrior
Date of Birth: 8th of Sun's Dawn, 4E 181

Skills:
One Handed, Smithing, Light Armor, Archery, Alchemy

Personality:
" Rinn is someone that keeps her promises: if she says she is going to do it, then she will do it - no matter what.
She doesn't like it when people are being vague about things and prefers it straight to the point. If she fails achieving something, then she will find another way to achieve it anyway.

Even when she doesn't seem like it, she is happy to help people out when they have a problem. However, she is not the person that talks to everyone in town - socializing isn't something she's very good at.
Exploring is one of her favourite things to do, to discover what is behind that hill and what secrets a cave hold. That probably is the reason why she ends up in dangerous situations and sometimes barely escapes. "

Story:
" When she was three years old, Rinn lost both her parents due a bandit raid in her village which only she survived. She has been adopted by her uncle, a skilled smith and retired soldier of the Imperial Legion. He started teaching her the art of the sword on her sixth and on her eighth he brought her with him in the woods hunting on the wild animals that lived there. Thanks to her uncle, she also became very good at smithing and is able to craft her own equipment.

On her fourteenth her uncle became sick and passed away a year later. It didn't took very long until she decided to move, leaving her uncle's house and started traveling in Tamriel.
For several years she traveled through Hammerfell, Cyrodiil and Morrowind, ending up in Skyrim at the age of twenty-one. Never did she ever commit a crime or she got captured by a group of Imperial soldiers, mistaking her for a criminal that looked just like her... "

It was something to start off with. However, I don't play Skyrim that often and I forget about all the things I made up for the character because I am pretty busy in life. There should be something that should remind me of the entire profile, but I haven't really figured out what I should do about that.

About the journal, I did do that but I stopped for a while since it took too much time for me to write and I didn't have the time for it to keep track of every event every day I played on the character.

Your story does inspire me, Psiberzerker. I can try a lot of things you just mentioned. I'll write it down and make some sort of "plan" and do a revision on all the things I have so far. Maybe I will be starting over and do it right from the beginning, perhaps I pick up the diary again.
 
That's great, but Role Play is something you do for yourself, to enjoy the game more, or in different ways. The best advice I can give you is: "Don't over-think it."
 

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