Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-110.146.134.32-20130814063646/@comment-65.158.174.2-20160907183244

Court Appointed Shrub wrote: "Mentally playing Skyrim as a 14 year old kid from Earth c. 2014 is a waste of your time, honestly, at least for the first few playthroughs." A lot of new players can't RP with this game, especially in the first few playthroughs because they simply don't know enough about the lore. Have you considered your character's religion, for example?

Any time you play Skyrim as one of the Bosmer, you either follow the green pact or you're an Apostate, doomed to the ooze.

If you follow the green pact,

Say goodbye to arrows and houses. You aren't allowed to use wood to build anything, and if you're a strict follower than you won't even use items that someone else built. (Seriously, how did the bosmer get a reputation as archers? Do they all have bound bows or something?)

Say goodbye to any potion that you didn't make for yourself and to food or drink that isn't strictly meat or animal derived (you can have milk and cheese. mushrooms (fungi, not plants!) and honey are a little more open to interpretation. If you're really devoted though, you won't risk it.) You aren't allowed to consume anything that comes from a plant.

You can't ever become a werewolf or a vampire, any type of shape change is considered anathema.

Also, you had better take care of the Namira quest before you do anything else, or at least console spawn a ring, because you only have three days to go back and eat the corpses of all those people you killed during your escape from Helgan.

It is also your sworn duty to kill (and eat) any Apostates that you come across while in skyrim.

If you are an Apostate,

You have to kill any bosmer that you come across, under the assumption that they are going to try and kill you for not following the green pact.

You have to live with the assumption that you are doomed to the ooze, either you accept it, which is depressing, or you fight it by trying to live forever, or by integrating yourself with some other god/goddess.

You have to be looking over your shoulder for Thalmor agents, both because you are a traitor of the aldimari dominion and because you probabily disagree with them about the whole "lets kill people that disagree with us religiously" thing just on principal.

The point I'm trying to make is that RP is difficult. Rewarding, definately, but hard to do. There are a milion and one details about the world that influance how your character should think and act in a given situation. How are you supposed to RP sucessfully, if you don't know any of those details? So for those new to elder scrolls, they may actually get the most enjoyment out of the game by playing as themselves.