Every time I make a new character, it's so unique and fun at the beginning, and while I go through the main quest and everything, and then once I start doing the Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild, I always start turning into the exact same character, and it's so frustrating. I know I can make other choices but I find myself becoming the same character every time. Don't get me wrong, I love Skyrim more than any other game, I just wish I could change this. Does anyone have a similar problem or want to give me any tips to avoid this?

might try not doing everything with every character; specialize, be only good or only evil, only a thief or only a mage or only a warrior, etc. then once your chosen role has exhausted itself, think of a creative way to kill him/her off (or retire if you'd rather) and start anew with a different character and roleplay style. just my advice.

Someone will surely give you a nice explanation of what roleplaying actually is and why it's smart to do it TES, but I'm too tired to be this person, so...

Don't join Dark Brotherhood or the Thieves Guild? If you do the exact same quests with every character, then what's the point of creating new ones?

Hm. Thanks, I should pick out more goals to work with instead of just going through the motions. I think the problem is I was always a huge Fallout fan and never played much of Oblivion, so I'm more used to having tons of main quest options rather than this type of linear main quest I guess. And to Rosveen, yeah but it's not like I'm literally doing all the same things. I set all my goals and do everything totally unique, but then once I'm done it all and have nothing much left to do, that's when I join factions and become the same boring character.

I've done this exact thing as well.. I'm running out of stuff to do. I have yet to do a warrior though. I promised myself I wouldn't but I guess Im gonna have to. I have yet to do the companions quests as well. It's time for DLC

Right, playing as a warrior is just painful. I love using stealth and magicka and stuff. Being a warrior just doesnt feel right for Skyrim. Which is why I tend to end up being the same stealth-based hunter type, over and over.

Try a templar build if you want to try a warrior. Heavy armor knight with one/two handed weapons, restoration, alteration, and block if you went with one handed.

Stealth hunter. Same here. With the exception of a sneaky Mage necromancer...a hack and slash warrior is not fun at all nor has it ever been in TES games

The templar style sounds pretty cool, I'll have to give it a try sometime. The thing is I love archery so much I'm not sure what I'd do without it lol
And exactly, I just love being able to use stealth rather than running in and killing stuff. It makes the game more challenging and personal, I feel

try a hybrid class perhaps, a battle mage or a heavy archer.

Specialization and role-playing. As a previous poster said, to tired to get into the details. But those two words will save your Skyrim experience.

I could try the hybrid class. I just started an Altmer female so I think I'm gonna go more with a battle mage.
And the specialization/role playing thing really does sound smart.. Good advice

As mentioned, roleplaying is probably the best advice anyone can give you. Through roleplaying, every playthrough will be different from any before or after it. When you roleplay, your character wouldn't just be graphics on a screen. Skyrim is a living breathing world, it makes sense that your character is just as alive. I'm on my third playthrough, and I've roleplayed my last two.

My first playthrough I didn't have a plan. I just went out and played the game without any thought about who "I" was. I ended up doing a fair bit of the MQ, becoming a werewolf, joining the thieves, dark brotherhood, Stormcloaks, companions and the College. That playthrough got boring because not much presented me with a challenge. Fast travel also ruined it for me so I decided not to do it from now on.

My second playthrough was better planned. The Blind Breton; blind since birth which is a handicap he has since overcome. Due to his blindness, his other sense have become more acute and he has worked hard to train them. He has become very efficient with sword and board techniques and one hell of a marksman. He came to Skyrim to enlist with the Imperial Legion as well experience the local wildlife with some hunting. He witnessed the arrest of Ulfric but managed to avoid it and was in Riverwood by the time Alduin attacked Helgen (no exploits, glitches or mods because he was at the execution, I just ignored it as a formality) When Hadvar got to Riverwood, my character was already there. From there I did the main quest just enough to have a few dragons then went on my way to Solitude. During his time with the Imperials, he developed a case of gigantasophobia (fear of giants) when he was chased by a giant from Dawnstar to Whiterun. Because he heard the call of the Greybeards he does feel something pulling towards High Hrothgar which means that almost everytime he enters Whiterun he lools at HH (which can be seen from Whiterun) After his latest quest (the stones of Barenziah) he decided to retire to his home in Solitude where he makes his living as an armourer; he hunts still, mines, smiths and sells what he makes (I don't grind so this is a slow process). He only uses weapons and armour that he makes. I do plan on picking this character up again properly and do the main quest.

My third playthrough is fairly new, so it's not as detailed, but he has got a back story, as well as his time in Skyrim planned. I would go into it, but it's early hours of the morning. You must be getting tired of hearing something along the lines of "I would tell you but I'm too tired." lol.

I hope that helps.

I really don't mean to take a crap on your Blind Breton, but being a Marksman in Real life is basically all eyesight except for the muscle movement training that comes with practice. If you cant see, you cant hit them if there further than 10 feet away.

Make sure you realistically anchor your character to his/her worldly problems or else its ruined, also turn off compass, and cross-hair. When the character has humanistic problems it makes it much more enjoyable, just make sure you force yourself to have sacrifices, Like I played a High Elf that had his arms crippled at childbirth when they were ran over by a passing cart, as such they were mangled and ever since then he has had to rely solely on magic, and hes not strong enough to wear armour so he only wears mage robes. Don't get caught up in making the "godliest" character or else it gets old fast.

- Tanner Robertson

Actually, being blind doesn't mean you can't see in other ways. There are several people in the world that are capable of using echo location to great effect, so a blind archer is not beyond the realms of impossibility. All senses are heightened to compensate for the loss of sight. Touch; even the slightest breeze can be felt, even if someone with perfect vision can't feel it. Hearing; that bandit that you haven't seen yet, my blind Breton is already aware of his position. You get the idea. With touch and hearing alone, provided they are highly tuned, you could make a half decent archer

I usually roll a Thief/Archer type too. I'm playing a sneaky Mage atm, but not putting Perks into Sneak itself.

It's a really diverse Class. it's fun making your enemies fight each other, but you could also go the passive route & calm them instead. or Conjur/Reanimate up some allies & roll over them

I'm pretty much going down the 'one character per guild' route. It's the best way to have a diverse set of characters with different motivations and abilities. Of course, the downside is that some of the guild quests are pretty short. You need to supplement the character with other quests if you want to make them last - for example, my mage is ambitious and power hungry. I did the College of Winterhold quests and next am planning to do all the daedric quests. Collecting all the daedric artefacts fits in with his personality nicely (hunger for power) and adds more to his story.

what i usually do is plan on what kind of character i want to have like a serial killer, a war veteran, a vampire, etc. be sure it also matches your race too.

Funnily enough, my mage is taking the same route. He lives out of the College, though he travels across the frozen wastes to Solitude where he also attends the Bards College. Once he is done with them, he was going to happen across a Daedric artefact and been drawn to them and that would be the start of his descent from good to evil. I had some plans for him involving Conjuration, but they only kept the Bound weapons >_<


Why does it have to match your race? There's an Orc and a Nord mage, one race that is better suited to melee combat and one whose race thinks magic is weak and cowardly.

I'm on my 4th play. This is the first time to do Riften related quests or the DB. I usually take a character and start in a different hold. That way, each new character has a different start. Also, I try to pick three skills to really focus on to alleviate redundancy.

matches your race? that isnt possible because no race has set classes, sooooo, yea, and if someone has a prefrence for race they should pick it and do whatever they want (i never play outside of argonians but i have warriors, mages, tricksters and other things not "sneak thief"). OP there is 2 things you should do, DID (dead is dead) and roleplay, i do do DID much but most people who try it like it (at least, untill they die in a horribly stupid way...*caugh*kickedthebucketanditkickedback*caugh*)

Haha, sounds almost identical to my character! Great minds think alike I'm just trying to decide which daedra I should 'happen across.'

Another good quest for this type is the Forbidden Legend, if you haven't already done it!

Try playing a Nord barbarian who thinks sneaking or using a bow is cowardly.

Or a mage who never deigns to touch a weapon or smithing forge.

Or an archer / ranger type character who lives off the land (you might try http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=11123 , http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=15294 , http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=13685 and http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=13056 if you're on PC)

My first character was a Dunmer thief and the stealth system is definitely a lot of fun and much improved in Skyrim. But I've had a lot of fun with my Nord 2-handed warrior character and my Breton mage as well. Planning to try an Argonian next. I try to only do one or two major questlines for each playthrough. Been saving the dark brotherhood questline for last.

I only do certain quests with each character to avoid that

Aaah im jealoua because this ia one of skyrims biggest downfalla for me. I never play gamss to grt trophies eve4 but ehen i had skyrim on ps3 i realized after crawling trhorugh 150 bugged and crashy hours i had about 80% so i sais why not try and get them. It got to the point where it juat got so laggy i had to start a new character. After 20 hours that game was a rotten mess so i traded it ib ans got it on xbox(best gaming decision ive made!. But noq i had a vendetta. After my old levwl 56 "do everyrhing himself character" got axed i felt i wanted to try for al rhe achiwvments on xbox so now i have anothee level 53 character that juat learna evwrtthing and does evey queat.

My xbox skyrim has been a bitter experiance. Instead leveling on character and mocing on im stuck in a bitter battle trying to do all the stuf ny old guy did. I even game him the samw laat name! Sp now essentialu ive gutted skyrim twice and bother timeswere the samw. Ot fot to a point where i waa offered to join guilfs through quests and it just seemed so stupod because my character can kill everyone eveeyqhere so wjy would o want to so amything? I was hopibg to make a super character feom the start and then subsequent character wouls be highly specailized....but it just suxks that i was almost done with my first guy and my second playtgeough was auxh a xhore trting to relive my old gamw through my nrw character. The old bugs from release day still echo in my mind as i play tgis mostly big free 1.5 on xbox.

Its ironic that everyone saus skyrim is a game about immersioni becauae its the only gamw whwrw thw firsy mobth of release i was so detaxhed from the game( due to glitches freezing and poor overall framerate for ps3) that i spent more time on this messagw board than in taltamriel. Maybe once i get 1000/1000i can bess a i can be a aneaky theif or a hot female mage....but for now i guess ill just keep. onbchuggin as my nearky invincableb nord who is so good at smithing he never needs to leavebdown to make a jillion dollara. Next time a beth game comes out i decided ill do what i did with fallout...buy it a year or 2 after its releases zo all the beta testers(day one buyers) can hash out most od the crippling bugs(the the game being totally worthless on one platform forbthebfirst 4 months