I am a fanatic COD player. And I play Skyrim to relax, to enjoy the world, the NPC's, the books, everything.

I love to roleplay, I start a character right now called Jalaya, she's an Imperial female, she is a traveler. She never fast travels and she sleeps when it's night.
She doesn't love to fight, she just loves to experience the land of Skyrim. But, don't think bad about her, she knows how to handle herself in a fight. So watch out..

Jalaya is a character that I chose because I always ended up fighting everything I see. I wanted something different! This is a fun way to see alot of the land of Skyrim.
I think about making her an alchemist, in the night she makes poisons and stuff like that in the inn's, and when it's day she is searching for ingredients.

Nice huh?

Very nice! I might do that one day....create a character that just wanders the land....

Of course I enjoy role playing. It would be silly not to in a RPG.

That's all I do in Skyrim, what else.
It's a RPG.

Of course! Roleplaying helps me relax. It's wonderful. And I feel quite happy when I manage to create and develop a character that truly feels 'alive'.

I like to RP, I'm just not very good at it.I remember there is Quest such and such and then i grab it, then realize it does not fit with how i was meaning to play the character or their back story but i am compelled to finish it so it doesn't clog up my quest screen.

Yes! I know that feeling! I always killed everything, and it always felt like a game. Now for an example: The hunter near Riverwood and Embershard mine, I always killed him, now I don't.
I become friends with him and sell my stuff to him. I will go to Riverwood in about 3 days, instead of rushing to Whiterun!

For me, roleplaying is what keeps the game new and fresh. Characters with different personalities can make quest lines feel like a different experience each time you play them.

Course I do.

I never used to but now I'm hooked. I tend to have three characters "on the go", one all out Rp, one "kinda" Rp and one "just for fun"

Roleplaying is the only reason I play. To build a character and tell their story over time - it's the most rewarding way to play, I think. I've roleplayed dozens of characters in my time with TES - some of them more than once - and it makes every playthrough feel fresh through their eyes, no matter how many times I may have cleared out Bleak Falls Barrow.

My current character is named Agam-Seema. He's an Argonian who was born into slavery under House Telvanni in their waning years. His Mage-Lord masters instructed him in the use of rudimentary fire spells to heat their bath water. He took this knowledge and developed this minor cantrip into a formidable fireball over time - burning down their tower with the mages and their families still inside. He escaped into the night, but when his Telvanni persuers caught up with him he was surprised when they offered him a place of study among their House - he had, after all, advanced in the traditional Telvanni way: by destroying anyone who stood in his way.

He would reluctantly accept. He would use them to gain enough power to secure his own freedom and the freedom of his people. He would flatter and collaborate with his fellow mages, all the while working with abolitionists to crush his enemies and free their slaves. His colleages looked on with approval, as to them it appeared he was just climbing the hierarchy in the traditional Telvanni way, all the while oblivious that they, too, were in his sights. During this time he would master the Destruction school, consort with Daedra, and plunge ever deeper into the arcane. Agam-Seema the master Sage was born.

When the Red Year occured, Seema was quick to turn his back on his colleages in Telvanni when the armies of Black Marsh marched on Morrowind. He was instrumental in organizing numerous slave revolts, arming them with steel and spell, that chipped away at Telvanni's holdings in Vvardenfell. When at last Black Marsh reached the Telvanni he assisted them in hunting them down to the last man - burning most of them alive, resurrecting the particularly cruel as undead shocktroopers and sending their black souls to Oblivion. It would take years before there weren't any more to find - Telvanni had been shattered and scattered to the winds.

When at last his work was done, he would return to his ancestral home of Black Marsh to commune with the Hist and learn of his land's many mysteries.

But here he is, arrested during a border crossing into Skyrim almost 150 years later. Why is he here? What magicks did he employ to extend his lifespan to such a degree? Are there perhaps old scores to settle in the old, white North lands? And why does he so single-mindedly persue the power of Dragons? All questions that will be answered in my playthrough. =)

You are a rare breed good sir. Bravo.

I love roleplaying. That's all I can say.

One thing that I've learned that helps roleplaying a lot is to keep a journal on your character. I just write a detailed entry every once in a while, I reflect on my character's past, an epic battle, my thoughts on Skyrim.
I like to cook my own food, hunt, decorate my house, relax by a fire, take in the view of a river, those small little things help immersion for me a lot.

I'm freaking love your username.

lol, I got tired of it long ago. I wish I could change it, but I don't want to make another account.

Roleplaying in Skyrim is what has kept me able to play it as long as I have... I got burnt out just playing it, so once I defined my character and what Factions I would be into or what kind of person my character would be it became fun again.

Also: Rolepaying a hunter is a ton of fun In my Opinion. Wandering around with Faendal (Who is also a hunter) making my own armor out of the game I've killed, cooking the meat or selling it added a lot. While it may not be the most "Intense" Roleplay, it certainly is enjoyable

Jalaya is also a hunter. She cooks, and survives in the woods and inn's.

It can get pretty intense when your hunter sets his eyes on bigger prey - namely Dragons and mammoths.

RPing is awesome... to yourself. Explaining it to someone else usually destroys the fun, at least for me.

I post my character bios on Facebook sometimes...the more confused responses I get, the better.

My fiance roleplays just as hard as I do, so I feel no reason to hide it.

I hear that

No matter how hard I try, I just cant do it. I just want to create sixy female characters who marry sixy female characters, kill stuff and be as overpowered as possible. I RP to the extent of my characters being evil bada$$es who complete each and every questline in the game. Also, they stick to their "skills" (i.e., necromancer does necromancy; 2hand dude uses 2hand weapons, etc.). There is no way I can create elaborate back stories about them, where they are from, where they were born, why they are where the are. One thing I cannot do with any of my toons is harm Paarthamax.

As great as I feel Skyrim is, Im sure that if I were a role player I would get even MORE out of it.

Used to but I grew tired of it TBH. Now I just made a character and am mindlessly grinding through quests, with the sole aim of making him powerful. Playing it like a hack n' slash game.
RP-ing seems pointless now. I used to do it pretty diligently; walk through cities, eat, sleep, come up with a backstory etc. but it's just a waste of time to me now.

I'd really love to get into roleplaying a character, but I just can't do it. It intrigues me how so many can and do.

I find the dialogue often so crap it ruins immersion and any quests you do hideously linear, I can't see how you can stay 'in character' without shutting yourself off from huge swathes of the game because the quests don't offer choices that reflect what different personalities might do. I could do it with New Vegas because it was a more convincing fictional world and you had lots of options about what to do. I really enjoyed my lunatic playthrough of that whereby the courier had been brain damaged by being shot in the head and attacked everyone he met - I can't even do that in Skyrim because of all the essentials.

I love the game as a mindless romp, but I find it too vacuous to support really getting into a character unless that character potters about in the world not doing any proper quests, which personally I get bored with.