Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-71.61.178.23-20130722105712/@comment-71.61.177.24-20130925150824

UselessArgonianMage wrote: Let me expand Mania Resident's point: More original quests:

-More Detective Quest, like Blood on the Ice, A Night to Remember and The Forsworn Conspiracy.

-More ACTUAL riddle quests like The Mind of Madness. (Even if the answer every time was Wabbajack)

-More quests where you are taken by suprise and thrown somewhere else entirely, similarly to A Night to Remember and The Mind of Madness.

Simply, more thought in to the quests, instead of go there, kill this, come back, be rewarded.
 * NODS EMPHATICALLY* I was thinking some kind of forensics, too...forensics spells, probably under Illusion, and some record of the weapon used and other things like that. It always struck me as boring that the only real option for your overall "life" in Skyrim is to go out and kill things. A life of dungeon crawling. Who says the Dragonborn - or the Blessed of Jyggalag - can't be a detective? A scholar? An author or a merchant or a simple, plain theif or an architect or an artist or the town blacksmith?

Ooh, getting ahead of myself there.

Anyways, that is definitely going to be a major change to the quests. XD Quests where you *gasp* don't kill anything! But instead go and study ancient ruins - more or less empty ruins, if they've already been cleared out by original explorers/archaeologists, and just collect artifacts and information. Or investigating crimes properly, not like a Scotland Yard idjit. And a few things where you just get ambushed by bandits or something, no fighting back, and wake up with a sore head and all your valuables gone, and you have to track the scumbags down. Figuring out how to make a difficult potion and then seeking a merchant who exclusively sells the rarest ingredient. Tracking a lost pet. Helping an old lady rebuild her house after an accident with the neighbor's fire spell. A proper College of Winterhold, where there's no epic dungeon-crawler questline and all you do is learn, study, and pick up the very, very few study books that aren't already in the library. Etc, etc, etc.

- WorshipsMeridia