If you think of it from a realistic perspective, then yes, it is weird to become the leader of anything after a few days. Unless you're a celebrity or expert in the area.
A concern regarding the guilds in Skyrim
- Thread starter Demut
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In The Witcher 2, your speech skill is 100% successful. At least, in my case.
Speech in Skyrim should be influenced by a myriad of things, not just chance. Perhaps your relation with the NPC you're speaking with, or your previous dialogue decisions as well as what they think about you and your morals.
Speech in Skyrim should be influenced by a myriad of things, not just chance. Perhaps your relation with the NPC you're speaking with, or your previous dialogue decisions as well as what they think about you and your morals.
hexperiment
The Experimentalist
I guess it is easy to overlook those factors. I almost forgot about them... Well, speech skill is there in case you don't have much credentials so you have to be persuasive? You could be a very good person and your help toward the community will get people to want to help you etc... Or you could be a very good conversationalist, bargain with people so that you'll get what you want regardless of what people feel about you. It won't hurt if the guy likes you for some reason, of course. I've been comparing it to Fallout too much that I forget about these things.
Demut
Veritas vos liberabit
Yup, we shouldn’t forget to think out of the box.
Argh, I forgot about that since I still had the minigame in my mind. Maybe talking to NPCs for the first time could give you speech skills? But at least you’d be guaranteed to have players talking to every character there is
hexperiment
The Experimentalist
Yeah, I guess there's numerous ways of increasing speech skills. Just talking to people in general, and even buying and selling stuff to merchants since mercantile and speechcraft merged together. With that, speech would increase but not as a conscious effort.
It might be just easier to use illusion to increase an NPC's disposition though. There's a lot more to illusion compared to speech by itself... Intimidate can be replaced by demoralize, dispositions can be increased by good charm spell all while illusion provides invisibility, frenzy and other fun stuff. At least it's better in Skyrim since they merged mercantile with it. I could be very wrong about my doubts on speech. Speech does bring huge advantages to quests since most quests involve interacting with NPCs. Not to mention some funny stuff you might convince the NPCs to do while you're at it. I do always go for speech first in Fallout. Now that's merged with barter, it's even better
It might be just easier to use illusion to increase an NPC's disposition though. There's a lot more to illusion compared to speech by itself... Intimidate can be replaced by demoralize, dispositions can be increased by good charm spell all while illusion provides invisibility, frenzy and other fun stuff. At least it's better in Skyrim since they merged mercantile with it. I could be very wrong about my doubts on speech. Speech does bring huge advantages to quests since most quests involve interacting with NPCs. Not to mention some funny stuff you might convince the NPCs to do while you're at it. I do always go for speech first in Fallout. Now that's merged with barter, it's even better
If speech skills could lead you to influence the NPC to let you complete the quest at the beginning... that would be great in my eyes
You could also convince NPCs to marry you, even if they're a man.
hexperiment
The Experimentalist
Oh, gay marriage has been confirmed for a very long time.
hexperiment
The Experimentalist
Apparently, not all races are available for marriage. I'm not sure about pre-set sexual preferences but I sincerely hope so. It would be just plain weird if they all happened to be bi-sexual. Not to mention, that would totally cancel out the possibility for interesting and unique companion with a defined personality.
That's odd. I guess I'll be sure to choose a race that IS possible for marriage. Just so I don't go and need to re-start to experience a key feature of the game. I'm not saying that everyone should be bi-sexual. I just mean there should be different classes of people, who may be.
hexperiment
The Experimentalist
No. I guess it has to do with character design. I think (and I sincerely hope) your spouse as your companion would be as interesting as it was in Fallout: New Vegas, each with their own preferences, personality and background story. They just didn't make one for each and every race. I think it would be bad if they made one for each race just because they were pressured to do it. But yeah, my guess is that it's one of the man-race.
