One size fits all. Not for me.

Post » Fri Jul 06, 2012 10:24 pm

One thing I've always found funny about Elder Scrolls games is how all of the armor fits anyone. I know that it has been requested for there to be different body types for a while now (skinny, normal, fat, etc.) but for whatever reason it just has not made it into a game yet. Perhaps in The Elder Scrolls VI? I also find it curious how female character's armor fits us as well. Now this, like many things, can be fixed with just a touch of imagination.

I'm pretty hard-core with my role-playing and I've recently been implementing something regarding the one size fits all phenomenon in Skyrim. Here are my rules.

1. I'm a male character, so female armor never fits me. Period.
2. I usually do not take a fallen enemy's armor and if I do it must "fit."
3. In order to take any type of armor, whether its in a chest or on a fallen enemy I roll a six sided dice. If I roll a 1, it fits. If I roll anything else, it doesn't.
4. I cannot carry multiple armors in my inventory. Only a pair of clothes, which conceivably I could have under my armor. If I do carry armor in my inventory (just to take and sell) it must be where I could have taken it and put it on my horse.

Do any of you guys do anything similar? Related to armor or anything else? I'm always interested in good role-playing ideas.
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Austin Suggs
 
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Post » Fri Jul 06, 2012 6:21 pm

My basis of RP sticks with classes and background.
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Post » Fri Jul 06, 2012 8:41 am

Well, I'm not worried much about armor, since most of my characters wear clothing anyways, but one picky thing about me is that I feel the need to put more into the separate guilds than needed. For example, the college of winterhold is well, a college. So in between EVERY quest for that guild, I need to get a minimum of 10 levels into magic skills. That way by the end I'll be a well-trained mage. Or for the thieves guild in between quest I'll do 2-3 quests for delvin and vex.
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