On the other hand, IIRC, Knights can't wear plate armor. The repairing weapons and armor didn't bother me too much. I'd just travel to a nearby town and come right back. I played as a Warrior. Disappointing that I could not cast spells naturally, but I got some pretty sweet enchanted gear later on even though I can't remember what it was anymore. And I didn't have to worry about not being able to wear certain types of armor or wield certain types of weapons because all were available to me.

On your category for whether you are playing "Dead is dead" - LOL, yeah, I'd like to see somebody try that for Arena. No one would even make it through the Imperial Sewers if they were playing that way. Arena is so unforgiving. I believe I've heard that playing a Ranger is the worst, but you get rocked in the very first dungeon no matter what you play as. Makes me kind of curious about playing the game a 2nd time to see how much less I die, but it was at least 15-20 times there alone on my 1st time ever playing through the game.

Oh, Sir Tanley has already gotten killed once! ... But only because he could not find a place to rest in the tutorial dungeon in this one spot (enemies kept showing up). Other than that, he's mostly been facing rats and goblins, which he pretty much mows down easily.

Interesting that playing a Warrior is different from a Knight, I wonder how. What classes have you all played in this game? I've done Battlemage, Mage, and Knight so far.

Another classic Renee t00n name! Me likey!


But... no magic at all? Is that RP on your part Renee or is it actually because of his class?

That's due to class! Arena's hardcore, right?

Really the no magicka thing is no big deal. Just carry a lot of potions, Potions cost money, but there's lots of money to be made in this game, assuming some dungeoneering has begun.

In Arena, some interesting facts about Knights and Warrior classes.

Knights can wear plate armor, they cannot wear leather armor. Knights also are immune to paralysis and automatically repair any weapons or pieces of armor in their inventory.

Warriors, Knights, and Rangers are the only classes allowed to wear plate and therefore the only classes able to wear enchanted armor.

Warriors have no armor, shield, or weapon restrictions.

Warriors are the second fastest after thieves to rise in experience

I'm okay with the 'no leather armor' thing. My Battlemage wore plenty of leather back when she was doing the MQ. In fact I think that's all she could wear, armor-wise.

Nice, I forgot about Immunity to Paralysis. That means we won't have to stock any Free Paralysis potions.

GAME (Platform): Morrowind (PC)

Name: Yor Azzizgrazz

Status: Testing

Dead-is-Dead?: Sure.

Race: Dark Elf

Gender: Dude-mar.

Age:

Star Sign: The Apprentice

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Home:

Home Country: Vvardenfell

Faction and Rank or Guilds (if none, tell us what they do for a living):

Faction Description:

Class: Pilgrim

Class Description: I used Morrowind's Class Generator to answer questions this time, and it chose Pilgrim for my new Dark Elf.

Major Skills: Speechcraft, Mercantile, Marksman, Restoration, Medium Armor

Minor Skills: Illusion, Hand-to-hand, Short Blade, Block, Alchemy

Tabletop Skills:

Magic abilities or powers:

Physical Appearance: He is the default Dunmer which starts the game. I'll get a pic up later.

Eyes: Yes, two of them.

Build: Muscular & slender

Weapons of preference:

Clothing:

Miscellaneous: Yor Azzizmyne was my first Morrowind character on Xbox. Now I'm rolling Yor Azzizgrazz as my first for PC.

Mental Profile/Personality:

Biography/Life History:

Another clever Renee name!

Mer-dude. . . well I guess that works. After all, I've certainly referred to Buffy as a mermaid several times.

Renee is rocking the good ole games!

I imagine your Dude - Mar wearing a bathrobe, slippers, and sunglasses while he shops at Arielle's Tradehouse at 3am.

Uh.. dude-mar is being pushed aside. Can't think of anything for him to do. THIS character idea below is what's gripping my soul at the moment...


GAME (Platform): Morrowind (PC)

Name: Ana Khannda

Status: Deadly

Dead-is-Dead?: Within reason

Race: Dark Elf

Gender: F

Age: Young adult.

Sign: The Serpent (hisssss)

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral with Evil tendencies.

Home: Hlaalo Manor in Balmora. She also lives in a few Thieves Guild hideouts and House Hlaalu chapters, occasional mines and caves (such as Addamasartus).

Home Country: Vvardenfell

Faction and Rank or Guilds (if none, tell us what they do for a living): House Hlaalu, Thieves Guild

Faction Description:

Class: Acrobat

Class Description: I simply chose the standard Acrobat class for her.

Major Skills: Acrobatics, Athletics, Marksman, Sneak, Unarmored

Minor Skills: Alteration, Hand-to-Hand, Light Armor, Spear, Speechcraft

Tabletop Skills: Alchemy (2), Alertness (2), Bow (2), Knife (1), Running (1), Silent Movement (1), Swimming (1)

Magic abilities or powers: Star Curse (a poison spell which comes with her being born under the Serpent)

Physical Appearance: What is it, sera?

Eyes: red and beady.

Build: Wiry

Weapons of preference: Short bows and throwing stars. She also found a Daggar of Levitation somewhere.

Clothing: She mostly sticks to light armor pieces. In towns she prefers Common clothes, lower to middle class stuff, since she's all about blending in, rather than standing out.
Her favorite ring is Ring of Aversion, which allows her to go invisible for 10 seconds.

Miscellaneous: Ana Khanda was my first character in Elder Scrolls Online. She was really sort of weird and antisocial in this totally social game. Despite this, she was also really fun to play! Other gamers who met her did not always know what to make of her in ESO. An example: she had a habit of hiding in the tall grass around Seyda Neen. Occasionally players would be running by but then STOP what they were doing. They'd be looking into the grass, unsure if they were seeing an enemy, or another player.

So this is merely the same idea, except she'll be in TES III instead. Not the same person, but she has the same name.

Ana, unlike a lot of my other characters, really likes to use terrain to her advantage. Rather than simply walking along some road, she has a tendency to climb any nearby hills, and travel up there (jumping sometimes on top of boulders) looking for opportunities to surprise enemies.

Mental Profile/Personality: Clever & cunning.

Biography/Life History: Ana Khannda once lived in Vvardenfell, but moved away to Cyrodiil for awhile. She comes back as a young adult, looking for something to do. She previously lived in Balmora, and knows the Bitter Coast / West Gash area fairly well.

Welcome Snake Lady!

A dark elf, huh? Read the name and thought Argonian for sure.

Snake Lady, ha! Ana likes this nickname.

Argonian makes sense, but I have no idea how to roleplay either of the beastfolk properly!

Well one of my habits with Morrowind on Xbox is I had three characters going at once: Miss Terri, Igodah Go^Pei, and Sir Galarad. I would switch from one character to the next every time I played. These three were archer, magic-user, and paladin, respectively. I'm going to do the same with Morrowind, and here's my second toon er character for this game on PC, Hera Tich. Hera is the magic-user.



GAME (Platform): Morrowind (PC)

Name: Hera Tyych

Status: DECEASED

Dead-is-Dead?: Yes

Race: Breton

Gender: Seldultress

Age: 25

Sign: The Atronach / Aries

Alignment: Lawful Evil, Chaotic tendencies

Home: None. Back in Cyrodiil she lived in several places.

Home Country: Cyrodiil

Faction and Rank or Guilds (if none, tell us what they do for a living): Morag Tong, Mages Guild

Faction Description: She's my first to join the Morag Tong, after accidentally discovering its headquarters in Balmora. Mostly she does assassin work for them. Her involvement with Mages Guild is way on the back-burner so far as quests go. She mostly joined MG for their facilities, Spellmaking, and additional places to crash.

Class: Sorcerer

Class Description: She's the standard Sorcerer class. Though spellcasters by vocation, sorcerers rely most on summonings and enchantments. They are greedy for magic scrolls, rings, armor, and weapons, and commanding undead and Daedric servants gratifies their egos.

Class Specialization: Magic

Major Skills: Alteration, Conjuration, Enchant, Destruction, Mysticism

Minor Skills: Heavy Armor, Illusion, Marksman, Medium Armor, Short Blade

Tabletop Skills: Alchemy (3), Cooking (1), Knife (1), Literacy (1), Scholar (3)

Magic abilities or powers: Damage Attribute, Fire/Cold, Invisibility, Jump, Shield, Shock, Summon Bonewalker, Summon Ghost, Water Walking

Physical Appearance: What do you want?

Eyes: pretty sure they're brown.

Build: Feminine. In my imagination Hera is not a super-athletic person, relying much on magic throughout her life so far, though she is slender.

Weapons of preference: Daggars & short blades

Clothing: Like Igodah, Hera has a love of upper-class clothes, or anything which makes her stand out. Unlike Igodah, Hera does not wear robes.

Miscellaneous: Hera shall be my first born under The Atronach, which should be a challenge for me.

Mental Profile/Personality: She seems angry. Lost. It's odd how true this is. She's always sort of pissed-off about something.

Biography/Life History: Hera Tyych lives up to her name, of course. She's got some sort of a heretical background. She was raised under religious conditions as an orphan, but rebelled through much of her childhood. Eventually she was ousted from the chapels, banished from worship of the Nine (as if she cared), and somehow wound up in Imperial prison. Hera wanted to join Cyrodiil's Mages Guild but was refused. Hence, here she is in Vvardenfell where her background does not matter.

Hera got killed as she was down the road from Dagoth Fel by an ordinary, mod-added bandit.

Wow, an Atronach in Morrowind. I imagine that will be really challenging.

I found Hera's theme music

Nice. I've always loved Soundgarden, yet I haven't heard this song.

I actually freaked out about the Atronach thing. Magicka does not refill, even after sleeping! Should I reroll her stats? But then I realized it's not so bad. Hera can summon a ghost, attack it for awhile, and when the ghost hits her with one of its spells, voila, most of her Magicka gets filled back up. This is actually a better solution than the way Igodah had to roll, which was... she had to pretty much find a bed, or somewhere safe to rest if she was outside (and then hope her sleep didn't get interrupted). Magicka Potions are near-impossible to find or buy, and even as an Alchemist it was awhile before Igodah got good enough to make dozens of these potions.

I barely recognize this song as Soundgarden! Wow it's pretty deep. I still don't get why he had to kill himself.

That song is on the Pump Up The Volume soundtrack, which is how I know it. Back in the day I used to listen to that soundtrack a lot.

I have never had the nerve to play an Atronach in Morrowind or Oblivion. I only gave it a try in Skyrim, where it just means your magicka refills more slowly, and can be countered with enchantments that increase your magicka regeneration.

One of my characters in Morrowind long, long ago was Atronach. I don’t remember it being especially bad, but then it might’ve been and I just blocked it out of my mind.

My Nord is Atronach but I honestly never had much problems with it. A bit initially, yes, but you learn to deal with it. Haven't played in a long time now but he always carries lots of Restore Magicka potions and of course he takes advantage of magickal attacks.

How do you find/buy these? They're incredibly rare in the vanilla game, and I know you like to play close to vanilla.

He makes them via his Alchemy skills and apparatuses iirc. Also he doesn't use a lot of spells, rather he's opted for enchanted items.

For some reason, it seemed significantly easier for me to get potions in general this second playthrough of mine, even restore magicka ones. Granted, I still tried to using the rest function as much as possible, but it does kind of take me out of it when I have to rest a whole 20 HOURS to get it to full.

There are a few potion sellers and apothecaries that have them, though I can't remember off the top of my head. But you can make some stupidly powerful potions with Alchemy, and to make them even better they always (or almost always) weigh less than the normal counterparts. Hell, with my second playthrough, some of the potions I had been making were 0.0 units of weight.

Comberries and void salts give you magicka back. I think frost salts do, too, in both Morrowind and Oblivion. The others from the base game escape me at the moment.

Oh I know about this! I read some thread on Reddit about how Alchemy can be boosted to insane levels. Next thing you know, my Altmer was making potions which were just stoopid power... Heal Self 55 points for 764 seconds. Restore Magicka 44 points for 540 seconds on Self. Stuff like this! She became a minor God.

I didn't quite try to break the Alchemy system, but even without doing so it can be seriously potent. Especially the Restore Fatigue potions, which Evelona didn't need too much because she was primarily magicka and even when she did start training Long Blade she already had plenty of Fatigue from leveling.

It may seem like I have a lot of Morrowind characters by now but I'm "only" gaming with three at the moment, and I'll stick with these three for the rest of the summer and into fall. Probably.

It's raining lightly and so I need to take advantage...

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GAME (Platform): Morrowind (PC)

Name: Joan Marie of Cyrodiil (eventually Joan of Arkay)

Nickname: Joanie

Creation Date: May 19, 2013 3:40 PM

Status: Awoken

Dead-is-Dead?: Nein, danke. (her story carries into the 3rd and 4th Era of TES 4)

Race: Breton

Gender: Lady

Age: 18

Sign: The Ritual

Alignment: Lawful Good

Home: Any local Fighters Guild chapter, Imperial Cult, or Imperial Legion.

Home Country: Cyrodiil, Cheydinhal

Faction and Rank or Guilds (if none, tell us what they do for a living): Imperial Cult, Imperial Legion, Fighters Guild.

Faction Description: She is primarily focusing on the Imperial guilds, with Fighters Guild being secondary. Some FG quests bother her, as she tries to be as much of a pacifist as can, which is often not possible with the FG.

Class: Acolyte (custom)

Class Description: I tried to choose Majors and Minor magics and Specialization according to somebody who will be relying mostly on buffing and healing-type magics which are beneficial. She also has the ability to influence other people, and has some military training.

Class Specialization: Magic

Major Skills: Block, Heavy Armor, Restoration, Short Blade, Speechcraft

Minor Skills: Athletics, Blunt Weapons, Conjuration, Destruction, Mysticism

Attributes: Endurance, Willpower

Tabletop Skills: Alertness (2), Axe/Mace (2), Charisma, (2), Literacy (1), Sword (2), Shield (1)

Magic abilities or powers: Detect Life (1), Fire/Frost (1), Heal (0), Turn Undead (0)

Physical Appearance:

Eyes:

Build: Slender, with lots of girl muscles.

Weapons of preference: Maces and short blades.

Clothing: Like a lot of my holy-type characters, Joan demures herself when standing amongst the common populaces, by wearing common-class clothing. When appropriate, she'll dress in robes occasionally, especially when dealing with Temple folk.

Miscellaneous: Joan will be my first character to do the Morrowind Main Quest. Her story continues later into Elder Scrolls 4, though in that game she mostly does mod-added quests, as I like to RP all the main stuff has already been done by my earlier characters on Playstation & Xbox.

Mental Profile/Personality: Devout and holy. Joan always looks for ways she can give herself to help the causes of (some) others.

Biography/Life History: Joan grew up in Cheydinhal, receiving training as a knight, scholar, and an acolyte of the Chapel of Arkay in her home town. It is due to this worldly combination of training that she eventually becomes to be known as Joan of Arkay, later on during the 430 years.

Cool to see Joan again! Now she is moving to the east.

btw. The Our Fake History podcast did a 3 parter on Joan of Arc that was really good. You should check it out.

This may seem a bit convoluted, but in my roleplay with her in Oblivion, she's the one who owns Battlehorn Castle. The in-game explanation of how we get this place (willed to us from a dead uncle or whatever) is pretty weak, so I began thinking of the real reason she gets this DLC. One day it struck me that she has some sort of history in Vvardenfell. I don't know if she'll become Nerervarine, but she's gonna try to at least do some missionary work in the province with Temple and maybe join Fighters Guild, too. We'll see how that goes.


Awesome, yah, I have something new to listen to!

I am bored, stuck at work today (we're overstaffed) but can't just leave yet.

So to keep busy, I have organized ALL of our characters into Post 1 of this thread, underneath the template which we have been using to copy/paste our character info. Find your character, click on the link, and voila. You won't have to dig through all these pages.

GAME (Platform): Morrowind (PC)

Name: Fay Daway

Nickname:

Creation Date: December 7, 2022 (5:48 PM)

Status:

Dead-is-Dead?: Yeah, sure. Unlikely, though.

Race: Nord

Gender: Femme

Age:

Sign: The Tower

Alignment:

Home:

Home Country: Skyrim, from the town of Windhelm

Faction and Rank or Guilds (if none, tell us what they do for a living):

Faction Description:

Class: Illusionist

Class Description: A custom-made class which includes Illusion of course, along with Sneak as a Minor. The idea here is for her to have total control over her ability to evade.

Class Specialization: Magic

Major Skills: Alchemy, Conjuration, Illusion, Mysticism, Short Blade

Minor Skills: Alteration, Light Armor, Sneak, Spear (b'cauz she's a NORD!), Unarmored

Attributes: Agility, Intelligence

Tabletop Skills: Cooking (1), Knife (0), Literacy (1), Pole Weapons (2)

Magic abilities or powers: Absorb, Bound Daggar, Calm, Chameleon Lock/Unlock, Summon Scamp, Telekinesis

Physical Appearance: Here she is

Eyes: blue

Build: Slim torso, larger bust. 36-28-32, perhaps. I use Robert's.

Weapons of preference: Spears, Knives

Clothing: I'm sure she'll be a robe-wearer

Miscellaneous: Fay is the first character I've rolled who comes to Morrowind from an alternate start mod. Her game started in Molag Mar instead of Seyda Neen.

Hera Tycch, my evil Atronach Sorceress from Cyrodiil, died recently. Since I've had two evil magic-users in a row, I wanted to roll somebody who's more of a good person. A student, in fact.

Mental Profile/Personality:

Biography/Life History: Fay Daway comes to Vvardenfell from Skyrim, with the goal of joining the Mages Guild. Her boat arrives at Molag Mar. As a pale-skinned Nord in a land full of dark elves, Fay really stands out. She really feels like an outlander, even before she's called this name, over and over.

Molag Mar is a strange place. She had her choice of taking a boat to Ebonheart, which would be much more like one of the towns of Skyrim, basically a much-more familiar place for her. She chose Molag Mar instead, perhaps because she wants to immerse herself into this brand-new province, meeting its actual home residents.