Walk or Run?, How do yours like to travel? Options

[Renee]

I can't remember how to make a poll; don't see the options. But no matter. There's only like 20 of us here these days at the most. Here's a few questions to pass the time.

1). Do your characters like to mostly walk, or mostly run? Or... do you see this more as a "player" thing?

2). What about Fast-Travel?

3). Do you characters use mounts?

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1). Mostly my gals & guys walk, with the main exception being if they're getting chased, or occasionally I'll roll somebody who just likes to run, especially around "safe" areas such as Vivec where there's a lot of ground to travel, yet zero enemies.

I have (or have had) a few who prefer to actually sneak a lot as they travel. These sorts are usually archers or rogues, who often use terrain features to hide behind as they move from point A to B. Obviously, these characters move slower than the ones who simply travel the roads. But they also usually deal with less enemies along the way.

Otherwise, they're mostly walking. And this is partially because the Player (ME) enjoys the journey sometimes more than the destination. I enjoy the scenery, the random encounters, all the places found along the way which are new, or we've forgotten about.


2). Rarely do most of mine fast-travel. The main exception in Morrowind are the Mages Guild portals. Especially if I've got a character who's trying to locate ingredients or potions or whatever on-the-fly, sometimes its best to teleport from guild to guild. But while playing Oblivion or Skyrim, FT almost never happened. I enjoy the journey too much.

In Fallout 3 my Lone Wanderer guy, I installed a Vertibird mod just for him, but I can't get it to work right. It's really buggy. So instead, he'll call up a Vertibird with a special device and then I just use Fast Travel to roleplay him flying to the destination. 🚁


3). Some of them use horses, others prefer traveling on foot. 🐎 I'd say it's a 50/50 split. The games on consoles use horses more often than modded games. On PC most of my characters use horses as pack mules, almost never actually riding them.

That's all for me, how about you?

This post has been edited by Renee: Jan 25 2023, 02:32 PM

[Lena Wolf]

1). Do your characters like to mostly walk, or mostly run? Or... do you see this more as a "player" thing?

It depends whether running drains stamina or not. I most games I play, it drains stamina, and I found a mod to also make it drain stamina in Oblivion. The drain depends on how much you carry, including what you are wearing. So when setting off to somewhere, much of the way can be done at a run, but on the way back... Ugh. A slow walk to the nearest town.

2). What about Fast-Travel?

Generally NO. But sometimes we take an overnight express (which is how I role-play fast travel), but only if the task at hand requires urgency (whether through the scripting of the quest or just from my story perspective).

In the Imperial City, we do often take the subway (FT). But only within the Imperial City!

In Morrowind there are these other forms of transport - boat, silt strider, Mages Guild teleport... Still no. Well, boat sometimes. But Hauk is allergic to fleas, so no silt striders, sorry, and teleporting makes his skin crawl... So no to that too.

And of course we take the ship for long distance travel between, say, Anvil and Solitude or Gnisis and the Imperial City. But it isn't actually FT, you have to talk to the captain and pay a (very substantial) fee, and it takes days and days to arrive somewhere... As it should, too.

3). Do you characters use mounts?

Yes! I made some adjustments to the horse movement in Oblivion so that they are easy to steer now, also cancelled death because, well, because I could. And in Morrowind we ride the guar, although it is a bit buggy and crashes the game sometimes.

All my companions can ride a horse too, and many of them have their own (immortal) horses. Horses are usually not joining in in the fight, like Skyrim horses do, which is how I explain their immortality. Oblivion horses also tend to run away on their own. But there is one or the other horse that I made, that takes none of that nonsense and will beat any ogre to a pulp. But that's an exception and not the rule.

This post has been edited by Lena Wolf: Jan 26 2023, 11:41 AM