After ten months of playing Skyrim, I'm sure we've all played through a lot of different characters. I don't know about you, but I've witnessed Alduin's destruction of Helgen well over twenty times!
With that being said, I would like to know what type of characters you all usually play. Do you play a warrior? A mage? A thief? Some type of combination? Leave your Character Type in he comments, let's see how many of us have the same taste in character!
I'll have to go with strong hybrids, if I'm running a pure mage I miss combat and vice versa if I'm running a warrior class. I don't mind characters that start weaker because of varied skill options because I know the end result will offer far more enjoyment and versatility.
I really enjoy crafting (maybe I'm the only one) I just feel weird running past 4 butterflys when I'm using a character that doesn't utilise alchemy for example, feels like a waste. Most of my characters will use one or two crafting skills.
My favourite character so far was as a pure Sorcerer I think, lots of magic yet able to embrace close combat and tank beautifully.
I play a wide range of characters; from "single class" to pure hybrids - old, young, male, female, mer, man, beast, powerful, gimped. Their common thread is role-play. I usually design my character's background before creating the avatar. I choose a 'profession', personality traits, goals, and a quick background. My characters are mostly good aligned, partly because it is more restrictive than 'evil', making for a more interesting playthrough (even my 'evil' characters work within a set of personality traits - I never play 'insane psychos' - really no role-play elements there). I retire many of my characters in the mid-20's, and never play past 50th.
To summarize: I play a wide variety of characters, always with role-play.
Interesting discussion, Emer! I kind of take a similar approach to Rune Red, and develop character backstories with certain goals in mind. However, I always find myself personally attracted to making a spell sword type character in the first couple of play throughs, and then a pure mage.
I do try to role play as much as possible...even if I cannot find an inn or bed roll to sleep, then I try to find a fairly secure place to "set up camp" and just wait the game out a decent amount of sleep time. I do not do dead is dead like Rune...maybe some day when I am more skilled.
I like crafting, too, Mason, but try not to do them all in one character.
I'm new to this website and this is my first discussion post. I love this blog site and the character builds you guys make are super awesome. I've seen Alduin burn Helgen down more times than I can remember but my absolute favorite characters have a sneak base and with that base usually comes alchemy and archery but I've played around with totally different builds. Nothing beats sneaking behind someone and supplexing them to death!
The characters I seem to be most successful with are the ones that utilize stealth.
With the exception of most dragons enemies can be dispatched before they even know you're there which, for me, is very satisfying gameplay.
Added to this the amazing *thunk!* you hear when your arrow strikes its mark - Bethesda did such a good job with that sound.
Well, my most played character is a sort of archer/paladin/assassin thing. Maxed out archery for range, Skyrforge Steel sword and Restoration spells for close-range combat, and enough sneak so that I can easily assassinate people, even while wearing my Ancient Nord Armor. No crafting at all (still leveled smithing but put no perks into it).
Having that much variety sometimes brings difficulties(there was one particularly frustrating battle with a Death Overlord that stays in my mind) but actually makes the experience more satisfying. If I can kill a fully armor clad warrior in three swings, why shouldn't he be able to do the same? Makes combat very intense and visceral.