im gonna be a breten mage with a hooded robe a dagger lots of spells and travel everwhere and be a traviling magionian(mage). how bout u

i'll be a lonesome archer, with a variety of spells as well, and probably a sword as a secodary weapon, for melee combat. hmm i hate being social.

i was originally going to do my typical heavy warrior with ebony armor and giant claymore, but now i'm actually thinking of doin an assassin type that's also a vampire.

lol what the crap is a boatmaster assanian? ROFLMAO
boat = a,s,s assanian is missing 2 S's so did you mean master assassin? or a,ssmaster assassin?? ROFL

I'll be a lonely assassin.

I will either be an assasin, Archer, or a theif.... Probebbly wont be a Vamp (i'll wait to see what the pluses and minuses are first )

Well, depending on how vampires (as well as the overall magic system) are treated in the game, I hope to become a pretty Vampiress-Bounty Hunter-Sorceress-kind of character using Necromancy and Destruction spells.

Or, a certain Blunt-weapon-wielding Altmer Healer again.

That one's my favorite.

If that whole sneak attack thing is implemented (slitting throats, etc) I will be an assassin. I will probably run four or five test characters (to test magic system, combat system, stealth system, etc) before choosing wich one to actually play.

A Battlemage of sorts, so I can test out both magic and combat on my first run.

Heavy focus on the BATTLE part, of course...

dont we already have this type of thread?

oh well, seems like "ect." is going to win anyway =

I wasn't planning to start advertising my forum yet but seeing that a large percentage of you are going to play stealth characters I couldnt help myself. I made a forum for Thieves and Assassins where thieves and assassins go to discuss all things stealth in the Oblivion universe.

Were not officially open untill the game is released but welcome to....



Blood and Shadows


When we open we will have a ton of traffic but your welcome to stop by and have a look around. Also if you have the time register and tell me what you think.

I'll just be some guy in a black cloak who wanders from town to town, I dont like havin loads of money.

I will be a warrior, but with just hint of magic and sneakieness. Still mostly melee though.

Assassin, relying on dagger/bow, probably going to throw in illusion and alchemy.

Nordic knight (well not excactly, some skills just different as far as major and minors go).

love the etc answer

I will be a pure warrior that explores everywhere looking for battles

Depending on how preventable fights are, ill become a compassionate and Noble Knight. And when a good Legion mod is added (wich it shouldnt have to be in the first place Bethesda ) Ill be comfortably sitting in position in Skingrad, foiling thieves and defending the Empire.

Name : Artiris
Race : Imperial
Custom Class : Ranger

Hooded Robe, Medium Armour (i'll see what's avaliable), No Helm, Steel Gauntlets and Boots. Always on foot - No fast travel.
Will kill stray merchants on sight.

Majors (7):

Blades, Marksman, Medium Armour, Athletics, Acrobatics, Speechcraft, Security.

Minors (14):

Light Armour, Heavy Armour, Unarmoured, Hand-to-Hand, Alchemy, Security, Illusion, Alteration, Destruction, Restoration, Mysticism, Armourer, Blunt Weapon, Mercantile.

The new 21 skills thing makes choices harder as well as easier.

Umm, your skill list is wrong.

There is no more "Medium armour" skill, nor "Unarmoured" skill. Also, you've got Security listed as both a major and a minor skill. You're missing Block, Sneak and Conjuration.

The official skill list (from the pop-outs in the E3 video):

Strength
Blunt, Blade, Hand-to-Hand

Intelligence
Alchemy, Conjuration, Mysticism

Willpower
Destruction, Alteration, Restoration

Agility
Security, Sneak, Marksman

Speed
Athletics, Light Armour, Acrobatics

Endurance
Block, Heavy Armour, Armourer

Personality
Illusion, Speechcraft, Mercantile

Oh Right. I found out about Medium Armour was gone a few minutes after posting that but I didn't realise so much had changed.

i usualy play a mage of the run and hit and run type. no more mister nice-guy-mage. i'm gonna b a cute little kitty and rip hearts out with my bare hands.
i'll likely play an archer or mage due to lack of experience if i don't succede (never played morrowind )

I am really going to try the sholin monk thing.
Robe (with maybe some light armour underneath)
Hand to Hand, which I will pratices constantly to get up nice and high early.
Athletics, Acrobatics from speed
Block from Endurance
Security, Sneak, Marksman from agility
That is the major skills covered
Be interesting to see what a high hand to hand and block skill does
added to that the dodge perks.
Any suggestions?

I dont think its a good idea to speculate on what specific things your character will do in the game at this moment in time. I dont think its a good idea to speculate at all, well....outside the Realm of "Im going to be a Khajiit Thief" or "Im going to be a breton mage" sort of speculizing, thats something you can stick too.

For Expample

Im Going to be a Khajiiti Rouge!

and

Im going to be a Imperial Knight!

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Under these stipulated criteria I think speculation falls nicely within the realms of suggestions for future development of a game we are all waiting for.

From all the info that is slowly amassing regarding everything from combat the skill progression I think we are getting close to some speculation.

Fancy choice of words son. But I do hate it when people use big words for no reason,
So, for the agreed rules we can predict making a game about making a character in Oblivion?

He, that wasn’t what I was talking about sir, I was talking about prematurely discussing skill choices for characters in a game that wont be released for several months.

The safest thing to do is just speculate on what kind of TES Archetype variant you will most likley be

As all I was trying to illustrate was that this is a forum and it should be open to discusion.
Yes the actual game isnt out for months, however information is becoming available that is giving us a clearer idea of the ins and outs of what it is going to be like. I assume every one here is reading anything and everything that is comeing out on TES IV - Oblivion. There for what better place to pool that knowledge and be able to "speculate".

TES Archetype assumes this game will be the same as the last in the series. And that isn't the title of the thread.

I hope you don't limit your play to just what has past.

Judging by everything I have read the Hand to hand skill has been completly overhauled and is now going to be more than just for punching drunken nords who get out of control.
So why not a "Martial Arts Monk" as an Archetype

So if you have some feelings on what it "might be like" to use these new and improved skills I would love to hear them. Constructive comments are always so much nicer to read.

And all I was trying to illustrate was the fact that people are getting into specifics based off vauge information. theres nothing wrong with pointing out what kind of Archetype variant you would want to be, put pointing out the specifics of what you will use and when you will use it is a premature act, its no more valid than saying
"Im gonna chose hairstyle 4 at 2/3rds length!" because all thats doing is making a descision based off what you hear that may not be what you want. I was only ever against speculating specific skills anyway, Race, Class, Prefrences, and to an extent, Hair "err i want Black long hair!" So go on ahead sir

Ive got no problem with that

Hmmnn... between the choices of a unskillful thief, an offensive or slightly annoying warrior, or an extremely hurried and bothered mage I'm not sure I want any I'm not sure just what an assasian is suppose to be, but given between my choices (I'd rather not be etcetera if it's anything like the others) I'd be that. Besides, having the ownership of my own boat sounds dandy.


Those damn rouges!, Always rouging me up!

Y'all are driving me nuts! It's spelled rogue, not rouge (rouge is red in French)!

I'm most likely going to be a thief, wandering around in the night around town with a bow, stealing stuff... and then maybe even take over a shop or two. You know, the typical things thieves do My thief would be an argonian or khajit.

Oh yeah I forgot to add mine...

Well since I found out Oblivion is sans facial Hair I abandoned all interest in Human characters.

Argonians this round seem to be a little red for my tastes, and depending on weather or not you can have a long flowy black mane (much like my own ) I will play as a Suthay Raht Bandit, stealing for my own subjectified form of justice and richiousness, stealing and killing in the name of justice and the common wealth

and in the name of anybody with enough money of course.

Their skincolor depends on their age.



We don't know what Khajiit subtype will be in the game. Doesn't look like a Suthay or Suthay-Raht at least. Perhaps Ohmes, Cathay, Dagi or Tojay, seeing as not much is known about the last three.

Age defined color i know of, basiclly im more interested in a Khajiit character.

And surely you know that the Suthay are the Khajit sub-species in oblivion, i mean, havent you seen the images? Excluding the fact that i mistakenly used Raht to end Suthay, wich was my bad. It just rolls off my tongue easily

Surely you have seen this picture.

Now, if that's a Suthay then the developers have made some rather big changes to their Khajiit designs. In Morrowind, we had Suthay-Raht. And the Khajiit in the picture is definitely not a Suthay-Raht. Further, we know that the Suthay (and basically, all of the other non-Raht Khajiit) are very similar to their -Raht brethren, only smaller.

Interview with Jobasha


So no, I really do not think that the Khajiit we've seen is a Suthay.

I´ll play as her as usual.......


Or maybe as him.....

But surely you're not instigating that the Khajit in Oblivion, or moreover Cyrodil, are
another breed? like the Cathay or the Cathay Raht. and CERTINLEY not the Tojay, Dagi, or Alfiq? too cat-like to be Ohmes, to many of them to be Mane. And too small to be Cathay

What do you sugest These Guys are then?

Point me to a place where the Cathay, Tojay and Dagi and their appearances are thoroughly described. And no, Tamriel Rebuilt's fan concepts will not do.

And I never said it could be an Alfiq or the Mane. We can easily count those two out, seeing as we do have a description of them.

But seriously, look at the Khajiit we have in Oblivion and then at the Suthay-Raht we have in Morrowind. Notice any differences? Something about their legs?

So, I still say it's either Ohmes-Raht, Dagi(-Raht) or Tojay(-Raht). This is based on what we know from before about the subtypes.

Who said Nords can't be Thiefes awas either a fool or an Orc. Or both.

The Legs mean nothing im afraid to say, I read an Oblivion F.A.Q awhile ago
So the only reason we have the Homo-bipedal beast man is because.....well that^

And if the only thing seperating the Suthay from the Raht is fully functionable monkey legs.

Then This must be a new species of Argonian because its certainly not a Sils

So basically, they'll just say screw the lore and change the Suthay(-Raht) so that it's easier for them to model the Khajiit.

You know, I really hope that's not the case.

But anyway, I'm done for now. I still don't think it's a Suthay(-Raht) based on what we know about that type right now. We'll just have to wait and see what Khajiit we'll have in Oblivion.

I think I read somewhere it was due to being easier to model the beast races in a Humanoid stance to avoid making a whole other set of animations and stuff, since there is a fair amount of animations per character. They just plugged on a Havok'd tail and made the feet bigger. lol.

Before in Daggerfall I was always a "knight" sort of character. Heavy armour, swords, shields, horses. But in Morrowind I found my real calling was in the legion! I always played a legion member, and rarely was a mage or thief, simply because it didn't look fun.
Now with my legion gone and thieving and magic looking very exciting I am clueless what to be. I was thinking a combat heavy assassin that minored in some magic , but I really have decided.

I've always prefered Beast Characters. I dropped my Argonian's Disease resistance so he could be a poison/spear Basalisk-Vampire. It was fun and he turned out one of my best Characters.
I think on Oblivion I'll be Imperial or Breton, though, because change from Orcs, Dark Elves and Argonians might be good

I'm going to play around with all the things you can do in Oblivion, but I just know my main character is going to end up being a wood elf theif again. Not all thief mind you, just mostly theif. And I don't know what's so terrible about them...

I am going to be a dunmer warrior, with heavy armor, a poweful weapon and a trusty steed. I will be more of a adventure type. Though i think mostly i will be working to be the leader of the fighters guild. Once im the leader there, i will make our main head quarters in Anvil, and i will work for the anvil duke

I'd say a nice thiefy character with shortsword and bow would rock hard. I cant wait to fill my new pad with stolen trinkets and go on nighttime excursions

Might as well post my majors then:

Attributes: Intelligence, Agility

Skills: Blade, Marksman, Security, Sneak, Alchemy, Mysticism, Acrobatics

My character is going to start off as a pretty asocial dark brotherhood assassin, and I'll mainly focus on the DB in the beginning of the game, I may become a vampire, but very doubtful. After a while I'll probably, pull a 180, realize my responsibility to the world, and start interweaving the mainquest with side quests, the guilds, and dungeon raiding,

Probably a thief because the revamped stealth system looks amazing. Unlike the other new systems this seems more like revolution rather than evolution(at least for TES). At first there was no need to be a thief, being a good warrior was good enough for stealing. Now that it seems more complicated and strategic a stealthy character seems the way to go. Ah and do not forget the havok engine!

2 words

axe and bow

LOL

You should really take a look at my character history on the "Official Forum" thread titled "What's Your Character's History?!?"

EXACT same..... every word!