Do you roleplay while questing?

Spaghettiknight

Like do you have certain characters who do certain things? My templars always do the "right" thing when available. But my current Altmer sorc does what's convenient. Do your characters have certain personalities/quest action preferences?

Elsterchen

Sure, and my templar only does the "right" thing.
If that's not possible she ain't doing it.

Ok, this one time she didn't get left and right, right ... but then again, that's perspective I guess.

Totalitarian

For the most part, I pick the decisions that my characters were make.

But perhaps more importantly, I usually try to imagine what my character would actually say in dialogue (so I kind of make up their own choices that I'd choose in my head).

Avius

sure

Integral1900

Short answer.... hell yes

My main is a nord Templar, she started as an orphan street rat in Abah's landing, a thief and then an assassin, she's as dark as they come to begin with, waking up in the wailing prison was the beginning of her redemption more than anything. A monster becoming a saviour and finally a legend. The prophet gives her a reason to care essentially. I play it out by treating thieves guild and dark brotherhood as flashbacks. She's now every inch the heroic force of nature, bent on saving the world whether it wants it or not, she remains an utterly ruthless character, she won't kill without good reason, but give her a reason and they are just another corpse to pitchforked into the dirt

The alts I tend to treat as promising recruits to her crusade, reliving her memories, simple enough really

menedhyn

Most of the time, yes. I try to play my characters in a certain way, i.e. in line with outline personality and character traits I set out at the start. Sometimes the quest choices and resulting actions jar with what I want to do. I wish that there were more options available to avoid combat in some situations.

Integral1900

One thing that people forget about Templars is that they close the associated with Meridia, she may be a positive force, a good daedra for want of a better word, but hers is still the light that burns

Beardimus

Yep my main is a good guy, makes the good choices. And no matter what im doing in a female quest giver approaches ill help out, knights code and all that lol.

My fat healer dude eats all food in dungeons as passing it

Archer is evil and kills everyone

I dont RP per say, just casually. Makes the game fun I think

Elsterchen

Integral1900 wrote: »

One thing that people forget about Templars is that they close the associated with Meridia, she may be a positive force, a good daedra for want of a better word, but hers is still the light that burns

*lights the torches* ... *checks if the pitchfork is all nice and shiny sharp* ...

Dear friend. Please let me remind you of the 4 abdominations:
1) Daedra;
2) werwolfs; 3) undead and
4) vampires.

Templars of the Aedra do not have to pray, but fight these abdominaions whenever they spot them. No chance for any daedra to fool this templar.

(I really tried to jab her, once she revealed herself... but just like that other deadra she doesn't get aggro from someone throwing dmg at her ... very unsatisfying)

But... where was I ? ... Ah, what exactly did you want to tell the world about that daedric prince meridia?

Jitterbug

My character just spams 1,1,1,1,1,1,1

Is that rude?

But, seriously. I do try to keep with the character, and I did my best to help the covenant when going 1-50. However, my advise to people when questing on the other two factions were always "kill yourself" or "quit the war" or "run away", secretly trying to help my original faction. It does feel weird for my poor immersions, though, to be standing right next to the Queen or the Skaldking and only thinking "crit rush, boom!" but only being able to say "sure, I'll help. BRB!"
So the playing in character gets hard to maintain. Also, at one point or another, I will "accidentally" go 1,1,1,1 and I will have no actual idea what's going on. Did I say the "right" thing? RP broken.

DocFrost72

You know it!

Shardan4968

My argonion nightblade is making "right" decisions, like doing everything to save his friends. But sometimes he take the opportunity to revenge on dunmers for enslaving his kind. He mostly hates Dres and Telvanni.

rtaylor63

For my orc as a mercenary I choose the choices that benefit me the most and end with me getting paid. Though when push comes to shove he's a good guy so he'll make the good choice when it's time to

DannyLV702

If you don't you should feel bad

Seminolegirl1992

Yes! RPPVE is fun- and imo, more fun than just rp'ing in a tavern somewhere. Gives you some content to go off of.

Dustfinger81

Seminolegirl1992 wrote: »

Yes! RPPVE is fun- and imo, more fun than just rp'ing in a tavern somewhere. Gives you some content to go off of.

This! A thousand times, THIS!

Rickter

Integral1900 wrote: »

One thing that people forget about Templars is that they close the associated with Meridia, she may be a positive force, a good daedra for want of a better word, but hers is still the light that burns

@Integral1900 I honestly cant find that much lore on templars. or any of the classes save for dragonknights to be honest

Integral1900

A lot of elder scrolls goes of visual associations. For example the great conspiracy of the worm cult to destroy tamriel, other than the dark anchors, is very much told using little hints, notes and even behaviour... along with the occasional dead body, to infer the presence of this vast web of plots behind the scene. One really good example is a little town west of dune in reapers march, recommend taking a long time to rummage through that little gem

Meridia is the only daedra associated with light, a light that purifies but also burns, this is the same motif that the templars use, they are warriors of purifying light but by definition they are also destroyers. There are hints in the lore books in game that also point to it but off hand I can't remember which ones

Ilsabet

I generally think in-character when I'm doing quests on my main, and sometimes if the quest details or dialogue relate to her personal interests then I'll read a little more into the RP side of things (and if it hits really close to home, it might get a writeup in her headcanon journal). Her general values aren't too far from mine, and it's usually pretty easy to see what the "good" or "just" choice is. Sometimes she struggles a bit before she decides what to do, and a few times I've had to look up quest outcomes before I could make up my mind. But yeah, I generally go along with the relatively strong storytelling angles of ESO quests and treat them as part of my character's journey rather than just a means to get some exp to level up.

Shogunami

I'm usually in character when questing and roaming around the world. But especially when trading and selling things C.O.D., I always write a little in character letter - though I doubt anyone ever reads them.

BlackSparrow

Totalitarian wrote: »

For the most part, I pick the decisions that my characters were make.

But perhaps more importantly, I usually try to imagine what my character would actually say in dialogue (so I kind of make up their own choices that I'd choose in my head).

Yep, this is what I do, too.

It's what makes the game fun for me, to have all these different characters who experience the world in different ways. They all value different things and approach problems from different angles, so even repeating content for the umpteenth time isn't too dull when it has a fresh perspective on it.

Recently, this has been reflected in housing. Each of my characters has their own house (small to medium ones), and I've been decorating each to reflect the personality of the character it's associated with. It really gives a new dimension to this playstyle.

Dracindo

Sure, I always roleplay during quests. One quest at a time, though.

sonxio

Sure, i role play Avatar with my dark elf warden with a towel wrapped around wriest. Whatever I do I consider it happenning on future Pandora.

Idylliqe

I'd like to say that my decisions are character based but I find that my own conscience wins out almost every time. I feel bad for killing people even though I try to look and act like an assassin to the end. I find that I am not the assassin that just kills for the fun of it but for purpose. I always think to myself "do they REALLY need to die?" "is this person a jerk?"

BlackSparrow

Idylliqe wrote: »

I'd like to say that my decisions are character based but I find that my own conscience wins out almost every time. I feel bad for killing people even though I try to look and act like an assassin to the end. I find that I am not the assassin that just kills for the fun of it but for purpose. I always think to myself "do they REALLY need to die?" "is this person a jerk?"

Perhaps that's a quality you should give your assassin character, then. Don't play to an archetype... just because they're an assassin doesn't mean they're going to be evil every chance they get. For example, my assassin doesn't steal, because she's a professional and such behavior is beneath her.

That, in itself, is part of the fun of roleplay: not blanket all good/bad decisions, but rather factoring the character's personal experiences into the decision.

Idylliqe

BlackSparrow wrote: »

Idylliqe wrote: »

I'd like to say that my decisions are character based but I find that my own conscience wins out almost every time. I feel bad for killing people even though I try to look and act like an assassin to the end. I find that I am not the assassin that just kills for the fun of it but for purpose. I always think to myself "do they REALLY need to die?" "is this person a jerk?"

Perhaps that's a quality you should give your assassin character, then. Don't play to an archetype... just because they're an assassin doesn't mean they're going to be evil every chance they get. For example, my assassin doesn't steal, because she's a professional and such behavior is beneath her.

That, in itself, is part of the fun of roleplay: not blanket all good/bad decisions, but rather factoring the character's personal experiences into the decision.

Very good insight I feel the same way. She wants to be a professional, not a blood-crazed lunatic. The contracts that she is given are done without shame or guilt, but she is not going to murder someone for fun. Although she will sometimes make her own judgments about NPC's and choose their death (when the questline allows) if she feels that they had too much of an attitude

Neyane

Yes I do! It was easier to do with my first character. I still do it though, and very much enjoy it

Nestor

Of course I role play.

I have comments and responses for NPCs and MOBs that fit the character. Although I do not voice them in a woman's voice if I am playing a female. My GF does wonder who I am talking to sometimes.

I have one character that has done the DB, all the rest won't. More will do the Thieves Guild, but most of them won't do that content. My DB Character takes all the "Jerk" choices in the quests. All my other characters tend to be nicer.

Loks22

Yes, My Mage likes to think that he is never wrong, and is pissed when someone ignore his advices.

Dystopia2020

My avatars mostly do what Sithis tells them to do at that particular place and time. This may vary from one incarnation to another.

FlaviusVoyage

Oh yeah, I roleplay A LOT while questing. That's what makes this game entertaining for me.