Dead is Dead Competition, There can only be one victor. Will it be you? Options

[Kane]

Hi folks! Just wanted to drop a note for any that might be interested, that Round V of our Haven DiD Competitions looks to have a tentative kick-off date of February 6th. If you're interested, come on over and check out the discussion threads!

(These are a continuation of the DiD Comps. from the Skyrim section of Bethsoft, we just start it at Haven now, since we make up about 90% of the usual participants. I believe we will have a thread up for it at Bethsoft, too. )

[Turija]

I wish that last bit were so! It would take a little bit of modding, and I think the only among us that have created mods are neildarkstar, and possibly Turija.

Speak of the Khajiit and he shall appear. Yeah I’ve done a bit of modding and something like this wouldn’t be too hard. Just type up the rules and add them to a note and have the existing courier system deliver it, or drop it into the world where it could be discovered. Once you get the framework set up it would be very easy to change the text for each competition.

Oh it wouldn't need to be mod-added, it could just be from imagination. Or you could put a flier up in the thread itself.

I am overthinking it though, like I said. For me there has to be an in-game reason why my character is doing this, it can't just be me joining a contest. Because I find it near-impossible not to roleplay, even for "test" characters.

Yep, back when I played in the contests that is how I did it. Came up with an RP reason for the character to do what they were doing and did not let the character know they were just a plaything in a contest. Made me feel like an Ideal Master, or Daedra Lord, playing with a poor puppet on a string. I have not participated in a contest in a while because I don’t have that much time to play and what little time I do play is spent on my regular RP characters. And the contests force a faster play style than I am used to since there is a time limit, usually a month or so real world time, so you have to play a lot and get a lot done when you play in order to be competitive. My character tend to take their time and spend a lot of time just walking the roads from place to place and enjoying the scenery. But if I recall you are the winner of the “my character actually *walks* from place to place” competition. Mostly my characters jog when traveling down the roads, but they spend a lot of time doing it nonetheless and that’s not conducive to winning competitions when the timer is running.

I had some good times though. I even won one of the early competitions and came in second in another. I would have won that one too but my character died literally 45 minutes before the contest ended because he was rushing through the falmer lair taking chances he should not have been taking. A more careful approach would have been better but the clock was running out. If he only had survived that last battle he would likely have earned enough points to put him over the top. That was a fun competition though. The only “rule” was you could only perk three skills. So it was easy to roleplay around that. And points were awarded for all kinds of stuff a character would normally do, like collect gold, kill enemies, discover locations, clear locations, complete quests. If my character had cleared the sightless pit and killed a few more falmer he would have won.

[Renee]

Wow, that sounds intense, in that falmer cave there...

My character tend to take their time and spend a lot of time just walking the roads from place to place and enjoying the scenery. But if I recall you are the winner of the “my character actually *walks* from place to place” competition.

Ha! Yeah that is me. Although I do have some who run more often (especially in dungeons if they're backtracking), in general the idea is they don't run unless they have to.

Yah, I'd fail miserably because of time limit thing.