New Toon!, share your development character ideas Options

[Renee]

I think there is a thread somewhere around here about our Oblivion characters once they are already extant. The New Toon thread, however, is going to be about developing a character, or 'toon', as it were. I usually keep the process of developing new ones to myself. I might ask others what this new one's name should be, or something basic like this, but I want this thread to be more interactive.

I'm developing a Druid idea. Going to be a 'he'. I have a very vague idea of making a Breton male druid who lives almost entirely outside of civilization. I know nothing of the druids though. I know nothing of their history, other than the stereotype in DnD, in which they remain close to nature. My new toon will stick to this stereotype. He will be somewhat like glargg's Wild Elf character, methinks.

I want to explore the possibility of all those cool weapons found in other games (like quarterstaffs and pole weapons, perhaps, maybe even blowguns and slingshots! ) for my druid guy. I know there's gotta be some mods out there like this. I've already got some sort of spear mod in my games, but the only way to access it is to visit the basement of the Skingrad FG. My druid aint going that far.

That's as far as I've gotten. I never could make a druid in the vanilla game, because it doesn't support the sort of nature scene I've been visualizing in my head for years. The only peaceful creatures are deer and butterflies. So on PC, the doors have opened. MMM adds tons of peaceful (and not-so-peaceful) creatures. Witchcraft makes a lot of hostile creatures (like wolves) into passive animal acquaintances. That sort of thing.

I am going to do some reading on druids this weekend, no doubt. This should be fun!

This post has been edited by Renee Gade IV: Aug 22 2014, 11:04 PM

[SubRosa]

Jana looks like a goddess to me!

I used the Silverlight Armor for Astarte - The Last Queen of the Ayleids. I wanted something exotic and unique, because she is a person out of her own time - by 4,000 years. The Silverlight gave her a wonderful otherworldly look.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Mar 28 2015, 03:18 AM

[gpstr]

Jana looks like a goddess to me!

She does to me too - that's why I made her one. She's one of those characters that started with a face that I just happened on and grew from there.

The problem I ran into though is that she's just really not a goddess - she's a person who just has the grace and manner and some of the power of a goddess. So she just sort of languished until I happened on Pimpskinny's Paladin Mod, and that just fit her perfectly. It plays off of her grace and dignity and power, and actually adds to it over time, and believably, so she's actually in the process of becoming sort of goddess-like for real, beyond just looking like one.

More to the topic: I tried out a quick all-in-one bound armor and weapon mod on a quick sketch of an Elenin-like character (none of the ones I've come up with yet have been so good that I bothered to save them, so I just threw together a quick "innocuous-looking Altmer" for the test). It worked fine. I figured it would - I've played around a bit with magic effects and such, but just hadn't done anything with bound items before. And I noticed that there are a bunch of extra entries for bound items, so it'll be easy enough to add more stuff. For now though, I'm going to just let it percolate a bit - browse some over-the-top armors and weapons (I'm considering one of those gigantic swords I never bother to look at normally or something like that) and maybe poke around in the character creator and see if I find a face that speaks to me. She's close enough that I'm starting to figure her out, but this is the point at which I have to be careful - if I rush into it now, there's too much chance I'll end up taking her in the wrong direction. And it's not like I don't have other characters to play...

I haven't forgotten about my druid idea from the OP. Matter of fact, for some reason I am wanting him to be created deep into springtime, when all the flowers start blooming in a few weeks. Seems appropriate for a character who will be a very outdoorsy type of person.

Oh, and gpster, welcome here. I used the word 'toon' in this thread's title as a sort of tongue-in-cheek joke. It's a word which makes me cringe, but also it makes me laugh.

Anyways, check this out. <snip for brevity>

I like this idea.

I've always wanted to play a druid, but haven't found the right character for one yet. That was one of Hanna's failed paths. It seemed appropriate to her, since she was already conjuring wildlife and didn't have much use for people. I found though that she didn't have much use for being a druid either. She doesn't summon wildlife because of some profound respect for nature - it's just convenient and fits her temperament better than daedra or undead (especially undead).

So yeah - a druid needs to be more than just someone who prefers nature. There has to be a deep and abiding love for it, and a desire to serve it and even to worship it. Hanna didn't have that, but it sounds like this character will.

You know... I was just thinking...

Part of the reason that I tried Hanna as a druid is that I envisioned the little elves as relatively nature-oriented. And when I made Belladonna (my third female little elf) I was reminded that I still haven't played a male of the race at all. And a male little elf would likely make a good druid...

As if I didn't already have enough characters...

This post has been edited by gpstr: Mar 28 2015, 08:49 PM