Lots of stuff, first arrows. Yeah, they can come down and hit people, you just have to get the trajectories right and tweak the arrow life settings. It's easier if you aim it at a 80 degree angle (or abouts), just barely pull back the bow string, and stand about 5 feet from someone. If there are alot clumped together (like borderwatch prequest) you could probably try with more power and distance with some success.

Second, yeah, fighters guild seems to be a rather mismanaged organization. 80% of the active members only seem to stand around and hit targets every now and then. The other 20% only do something if you happen to have to talk to them, otherwise they just stand around like an idiot. Porters on the otherhand never sleep, or eat, yet have enough energy to run around after you in heavy armor. I would imagine that whole "master" title being because current masters only feel their own family is worthy of the title.

Third, mages guild members do frequently summon daedra, just not outside or typically when you're around. It's their "training" package.

This leads to another point. NPCs spend how many hours of how many days smacking targets or eachother around "training" but never improve their skills.

Or how NPCs don't seem to mind you running around naked, but if you have your weapon out, suddenly they're offended. (Not sure I said that right)

After you've sold umteen sets of fur armor to a vendor, does he just go right around and sell it back to the next nameless NPC to decide to be a bandit. Who then goes and camps out at the exact same spot where other bandits were killed only days before? It's no wonder the guards are so worthless, all the capable fighters in tamriel leave to become bandits and marauders.

Speaking of guards, they all seem to sound the same, are they all related? Do they formally change their name to "XXX Guard" upon joining up, or is that all too confidential?

And about the LARP... This is what happens when you use strips of foam (or is that cardboard) instead of metal for making your armor, you look stupid. Should use the real stuff, it enhances the reality of it all, helping you get more in touch with the character. Ok, maybe not, but atleast seeing a bunch of geeks trying to run around in 50 pounds of platemail would add some entertainment for anyone watching.

This was my biggest disappointment about Oblivion. I remember cracking up in Morrowind when I found out by accident that NPCs take offense to nudity.

Especially when you had better bodies installed. "Put that back!"

That was very funny in Morrowind, indeed

I assumed this was true in Oblivion too, and i'm suprised bethesda either overlooked it or purposefully left it out. Mabye somebody could make a mod to put it back in...



Reminds me of the nurses in the pokemon games...

What would Ma'iq have to say on the subject?

"Ma'iq is happy as Khajiit. Being covered completely in fine fur means no tan lines to worry about. Ma'iq sees many humans who have no worry for tan lines, too."

I keep hearing that my enemies have fought mudcrabs more fearsome than me.

Where can I find these level 42+ mudcrabs?

More on the subject, a mod which checks for value worn, and tied to some currently existing voice might work, but given the fact that clothing values tend to be really low, and wearing nothing but an expensive ring wouldn't garner any response, it wouldn't work too well. Then there's the task of trying to setup the greeting dialogs to work off the sounds... But given the dialog system, it is wholely possible without having to change each and every NPC. You would still however have people suddenly changing their voices on you every now and then. Just incase someone has a few hours to kill just on searching through voices that might work.

Anyway, what about those imperial hunders... Dunno how many times I've been running around torching deer, only to have one pop out of nowhere, steal my meat off the still smoldering corpse, then pretend like nothing happened. I tried taking it back, but then got arrested... Wasn't there something about corrupt guards?

Traveling the Green Road to Leyawiin, I came across a Wood Elf Bandit Archer who was examining a Mud Crab she'd just shot in the middle of the road.

Guess what was the first thing she said as soon as she began fighting me?

quite simple. they kill if you dont give them money. BUT there is a way to get out of this thats light on your coin purse and light on your health. Get clothing that is under a certain amount of value in gold for example the clothes you get for free when you visit the jail and say you dont have the money to pay, wearing the cheap clothing he will believe you and let you pass... what a sucker BEERS, MY TREAT AT THE TAVERN!

How come when you're in sneak mode npcs don't get suspicious? I mean you go into someones house or a store and you start sneaking around and all the owner does is follow... I know if I was the owner and someone was sneaking around at my place I would call the cops. lol

Because, they think your trying to sneak away from them and it makes them so happy, it doesn't cross them that stealing is on your mind, or maybe murder. Ha ha ha! The dumbasses...

*Might be a spoiler* How come when you bribe people its only for information... why can't you bribe the gaurds to look away for example... like in one of the dead drops. "I have picked up my next contract from the dead drop in the Castle Skingrad well. I have been ordered to kill the Khajiit J'Ghasta, who can be found at his house in Bruma. J'Ghasta is a master of unarmed combat, and will prove a challenging opponent. I should also be aware that J'Ghasta is expecting trouble, and has paid off the guards to look the other way if our fight spills out into the city streets."

You can. Once you get a guard's disposition high enough (through, say, bribery), his "goodbye" dialog will become "if you run into trouble, come find me." If you get a reasonably low bounty after that and yield to him, he'll take care of the fine and let you run off.

You'd actually be surprised at how much an increased disposition -- and thus, bribery -- can accomplish.

I did that before I gots me a plant

I always wondered, when u kill somebody and their bodies mysteriously disappear a week later. where does the bodies go.

Necromancers, or rats. Either one is a perfectly acceptable answer.

Better question is how there are alot more bandits, marauders, conjurers, and necromancers than there are people in all the towns combined. That's without any of them respawning.

they get dragged somewhere probably

Given the abhorrent lack of sanitation (or even simple toilets) the cities and towns most have a particularly special aroma that will linger in one's memory (and clothing ) forever. Given that little fact of life, it's no wonder that a great majority of Cyrodiil's population sought the unfettered bounds of the wilderness rather than fester in the reek of the urban areas.

I've got a few...

1. Why do corpses randomly burn and then get snuffed out, and then are lit on fire again in a few days?

2. How does a tiny Bosmer in dirty leather armor with a rusty bow have more experience than the Kvatch guards? Altough it sure explains quite a bit...

3. Why can't you get Human Blood from a dead body? A few slashes doesn't completely drain a body of blood...

4. Why do people run into fires, traps, and other dangerous things? If your smart enough to bring an extra sword and two healing potions before entering a ruin, I think you'd be smart enough not to run onto a rising panel three seconds in!

5. What happened to the Daedric War Machine at Kvatch?

6. Why do caves filled with trolls and ogres sometimes have Children's Trousers in them?

Spontaneous Human Combustion. It's not just for X-Files fans anymore.


Mind you, before you cracked down that first 'Blivvie Gate, the Guard Cap'n thought you were going to be nothing more than a redshirt meatshield whose only purpose in life (seeing as how it was going to be over with in about 30 seconds) was to soak up the first fireball thrown by a Scamp. Once you did the impossible (and that makes us mighty) he concluded that blowing up a Gate made you more experienced than his guys.

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You can't even dismember a person while wielding a big honkin' greatsword in this game— just how are you going to cut a vien and drain their blood?


I'd object to this too, but that guy was a Bosmer. I hate Bosmer, so the whole squish-squish thingy made me smile.

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Decommissioned in the wake of Congressional budget cuts to military spending.

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6. Why do caves filled with trolls and ogres sometimes have Children's Trousers in them?

Same reason why there are no kids in Cyrodiil. Point of fact: clothing is not edible.

Why is a Breton a fighters guild porter anyways?

A nord or orc following you around would be to intimidating for new members. A highelf or darkelf would have better things to do than stand around staring at you, and chances are they would be secretly evil. An Argonian, or Khajit just wouldn't work. A woodelf wouldn't live very long given the annoyance factor and the large, sharp objects close at hand. An imperial would want to be more important than a lowly porter. A breton however, is tolerable, expendable, and not much good for anything else.

Fitzey, please avoid posts like this in future. They're overly short and spammy, and don't really add anything to the thread. Thanks.

I have a few more...

1. How many more times do I have to look at the stupid little Arena Fan!? He's ugly and won't feck off! I'm throwing him off Dive Rock if he doesn't leave me alone...

2. How is it that two bandits can leave me barely alive, but three mudcrabs can leave two bandits in a pool of their own blood?

3. Why do vampires talk so cheerfully when you can see there fangs? The one guy for the Order of the Virtious Blood or whatever it was called was showing him fangs for the entire conversation. I thought vampires were cunning...

4. Why do people say things like "I see you're a follower of the Gray Fox too," right in front of the guards!?

I've well-dismissed that fellow with flippant disdain. I mean, what exactly are we supposed to be scared of?

"Look at me! I'm a big, bad High Elf vampire! Blah! I want to suck— wait, is that a torch you're holding!? Arrgh! Get it away! Get it away! It burrrrrrrrrns!"

Stupid Altmer. Forgot his asbestos underwear back home.

People like that make me wonder if High Elves are high, and I'm not referring to how tall they are.

Also, i never use torches, it's pointless when you can just turn up the brightness under video settings...

I think the torch makes the game more immersive and stuff

And why does everyone hate high elfs?

Because they're supposed to be great
who ever has anything to say about argonians
people don't bother because they know everythings been said

And why do guards after seeing you kill a guard over pondscum comments still say it

Well, guards are like mosquitoes, they can see anything even a murder with no witnesses behind closed doors, but they can't hear for crap.

I was pushing around Heronymos Lex (sp?) when i noticed his armor started breaking. so after a while he was punching me in his undies. He never went to fix it, Why?



Wheres the rest of the Elder Council? theres 30 chairs but only 1 is ever used (Chancellor Ocato's)


Where do all the guards come from? I killed all of the men at the prison, only to find them all replaced a week later.


Do deadra hav families?

How come all the boats never sail in Oblivion?


SO MANY QUESTIONS?

I have no clue about the Lex one, but I can answer the other four.

Regarding the other members of the Elder Council...
Ocato either killed them all, or they were all killed by the Mythic Dawn when they were trying to kill Uriel... or... *cough*mypersonalmeatsheilds*cough*

The guards are all raised from their graves every Tuesday by a cult of necromancers, of which I am the leader. You should join, free donuts before unholy incantations to raise the dead!

Daedra families are the ones that put laughter back into manslaughter and fun into dysfunctional.

Ships don't sail because of rising wind prices. Mages took control of that branch of economy long ago. You owe the Archmage 20 septims every time you breath. Just think of how much it would take to move a ship.

I don't see any sense in raising a big stink about necromancy. The only reason Necromancy is banned from the Mages' Guild is because the Arch-Mage wants it so.

Well— Hell's Bells, my pretties: you end up becoming the next Arch-Mage. What stops you from bringing the Men in Black back into the fold? Nothing, except Bethesda's idea of "open-ended sandbox gameplay"...





When one casts a Fire damage spell on Touch, why don't we burn our own hands? High Elves are notoriously vulnerable to elemental damage, yet their high Magicka ensures that they are in intimate contact with said destructive elements...

i have always wondered how a common rat can kill a deadric that i have trouble killing

Why do random animals have gold and other stuff on them? I have found mudcrabs carrying forks, bears toting ale, and wolves with silver pitchers!

Open ended sandbox game design - within the context of a consistent world, perhaps? Necromancy I thought was banned by Imperial Law, not the Archmage. Also - what is to stop the Mages Guild from bringing necromancy back? Perhaps their constituency?! It seems to me that the Mages Guild is anti-Necormancy pretty much throughout, with a few exceptions.

I think that is very important to this type of game. If Necromancy were to be brought into the fore it should be an involved quest that splits the Mages Guild into two factions. That isn't a bad idea for more evil characters. The good ones could stop it instead

Sound argument— if it didn't fly in the face of every single rumour that is repeated over and over again by every single member of the Mages Guild.

"Necromancy may be legal in Cyrodiil, but few will openly admit practicing it since the Mages Guild banned its use."

"I don't know what Arch-Mage Traven has against Necromancy, but the first thing he did when he gained the position was to ban its use."

"Half the Council of Mages resigned when Traven took office as Arch-Mage."

"The Mages Guild lost more than few members when Necromancy was banned."

From all indications, if there was a rift between two factions within the Guild, it was Traven who broached it.

when does my character use the the toylet i mean if i where him and 143 day whent by i think i would feel a little backed up wouldent you

Buy new pants, thats all I can say.

Yeah. The underwear your character has on is greenish-brown for a reason...

What do you mean? Of course there are toilets! They are called leveled enemies. Seriously though, people in the middle ages used the streets as toilets, and rich people just used a nice little stone tube.

has eny 1 els noticed the simaler name and qwest the the fighter gild rat qwest allmost same name and insted of killing rats you save the rats , but the lady is obsast wil her poor babes and not hundreds of pillows

I've always wondered why the daedra are such a threat, I mean they are so weak....

And why is a champion needed if the guards themselves can handle the daedra?

What happens if you keep running until you reach the boarder of Cyrrodil? I haven't try that yet. Anyone has?

I have, it says something like this "You can't go any further, turn back" or something

Can argonians sleep under water if there was a bed? How about sitting on a chair under water? Do you sink when you are overencumbered in the water?

House under sealevel, anyone? ^^

You don't sink if you're overcumbered underwater. It just stays there

and have you noticed that the animals in the gild halls are members to dont wabakakafy them (wabajck)

DAVE 7HE RAVE!!!

You know the guy with the magic paint brush, where u go inside his painting?
When he locks himself in his room, do you think he ever paints himself a nice Dunmer girl, to have his way with? His wife would never know
the kinky bugger!

I want to know why people talk normal when they're underwater whilst talking (yes, I've did that in Bravil with that Dunmer guy in the recommendation quest associated w/ that city). And why they don't drown.

Why did I get kicked out the mages guild for killing my horse?