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helzi
Personally, I like a small but flower-filled garden, big enough for my horse to live in, I like a small house with a bathroom and, of course, a swimming pool. Not too much to ask for, eh, eh?
InfiniteRealm
It depends on who i am playing. sometimes I want a nice bloody pit with dark, gothic decor and some slaves.
Othertiems i may want a nice flowery house, with rich, posh ornaments and expensieve food and display cases for my trophies.

The possibilities are endless
helzi
QUOTE(InfiniteRealm @ Jun 22 2008, 10:02 AM) *
It depends on who i am playing. sometimes I want a nice bloody pit with dark, gothic decor and some slaves.
Othertiems i may want a nice flowery house, with rich, posh ornaments and expensieve food and display cases for my trophies.

The possibilities are endless


True, True. smile.gif
fishyx
I want a elvish style wooden house on a BIG tree in a dense forest. The stairs spiral up the tree and at night, elvish glowing lamps light up the tree. From inside the tree house, I can reach the bottom of the tree from inside its base and into an underground basement with archery ranges as well as training equipements for my elf soldiers and friend to train.
princesshelzi
A little cottage in a forest near a town, so I can nip out with my dog occasionally to grab some groceries and clothes.
Lanterns hanging by the door, and lots of flowers in the garden.
A separate bathroom and a little path leading up to the front door.
That would be perfect.
firefable
I dont really care, whether there is a garden or not. I like lots and lots of secret passages and dungeons. I have downloaded a few castle mods recently and most of the secret passages and dungeons are fine, but i feel that there could be more, lots more, i go around everywhere, examining all the candles and pillars, but mostly leave dissapointed. so id say, make lots and lots and lots of secret passages and places.
tungol
Nothing to trip on.
I hate that little table in Benirus manor--I'm like %&$! Van Dyke with that thing! Yeah, yeah: ghosts, schmosts; just keep an eye on that hellspawned table!

EDIT: ROTFL!! I Just noticed it censored %&$! Van Dyke. It's like that Family Guy episode: "And now, it's the D--k Van D---e show! Starring D--k Van D---e!"
Rosewind
NPC's i cant stand having a house with no one roaming around it. It feels bleak and depressing. Rosethorn hall i like cause atleast it has one npc even if she is a she lol

GIMMIE PEOPLE!!
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dezdimona
I don't like real big,but I like roomy,with lots of display cases and and yes,a pool is yummy!
Flowers are a must,I have plenty around my house in RL,and love not only the look but the fragrances.
A nice fireplace and a huge bed come in handy to.
myrmaad
I dream of a "Safety Barn and corral" for my horses. Somewhere they would stay put and I could have multiple horses and they only can leave when I actually ride them out through the stable door.
thekid345
I like a medium sized house, with a garden that has a decent selection of alchemy ingredients. I like to have an armory to store my weapons/armor in. One of the things I love to have is a room with enchanting and spell making altars.
Sangel2525
It depends entirely on the type of character I'm playing, also it depends on how far progressed they are in the main quest and such. For example if my character is Champion of Cyrodiil I want to be a Countess of an entire city, thank you Kvatch Aftermath. biggrin.gif Not to mention she also had several castles all over Cyrodiil that came with quests. Ravenpride, Hoarfrost, always forget the name of the last one.

If my character is a loner but good oriented, a quaint little house outside any major cities. For my more blade oriented Samurai type of characters I prefer a place with Japanese architecture for an Akaviri feel. Akaviri Kojime (sp) is really nice for that. Or even the home in the Rise of a Samurai mod, by Ronin. Snow Dragon Temple also works for some too. If I play an evil character, usually a darker feel. Depending on their form of evil this could vary. Like my Vamperic Necromacer calls Sinbloods Vampire Haven, and Pimea respectively her homes. A cold blooded assassin type of character would likely be the reverse of the good loner. Something small and out of the way but with a darker feel. Yet retain some professionalism reflecting their line of work, like having a variety of instruments of death, and poisons neatly assorted all over the place.

All in all I suppose what I want is usually dependent on whatever kind of character I'm playing. Which, reminds me I don't think I've rated Sinblood's Vampire home, or Pimea yet... Better get to that.
myrmaad
For a Farm, which I'd love, I think the basic design of Lord Drad's estate would be a great template to use as a beginning.

The house would need a basement and servant's quarters, as I agree with the poster who mentioned they like having an NPC around sometimes.

I didn't care about this at all, really, until I finished the main quest, and then I was really kind of sad, and I went back to Rosethorn and stopped in to the store, where Ehja offered her services, and it was such a funny comfort, kind of silly, maybe but she's so sweet I just felt better.

For an outstanding example of a great attic space, the Cheydenhal House Altered mod is wonderful. I can't say enough about how much I love that mod. It could be called Cheydenhal "Altared". The garden out back is lovely also even though it's inside a small space. That's the player-home I always am drawn back to. I didn't purchase any of the local House Quest furnishings for that one, I only bought a bed from Imperial furniture, used the console to temporarily disable the dresser-drawers at the foot of where the bed belonged, placed the bed, and re-enabled the dresser. Voila, complete and perfect home.


But if I were to have one made to order, it would be a farm with a horse barn and corral, garden, house servant NPC, farmhand and quarters - like at Lord Drad's estate, Big Farm Garden, and I'd include qaz-horseCommand, horses-stay-put, and the final version of Horse Commands all integrated. If qaz-horsecommand worked on all horses, I'd be satisfied with it, as long as I could select my farm as the "home stable".

But I'm just dreaming big here.


helzi
Forests are so nice.

Just look around at all the deer. Take a stroll with your dog, pick flowers to display in your home, breathe in the warm... sweet forest air...

... Oh... it's my mum's cooking... sad.gif

I WISH OBLIVION WAS REAL!
Sangel2525
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The house would need a basement and servant's quarters, as I agree with the poster who mentioned they like having an NPC around sometimes.


Yeah I have to agree, for my more high status characters I like having NPC servants around. I mean okay my Champion obviously had plenty since she controlled an entire city, all the guards, her personal guard, her steward, and so forth. Also each of the castles, she claimed ownership to, or at least two ehhh my memory is fuzzy as I spent most of my time in Kvatch, had scripted NPC's going about their daily routine.

Even my Necromacer who happened to be The Listener of The Blackhand, though that should go without saying. tongue.gif Being Listener is pretty high in terms of infamous social status and all. So I felt she should have a place to call home, other than the Cheydinhal Sancturary, which is kind of ummm dull. Of course I also wanted underlings, which Pimea supplied. While there weren't many options to really interact with the NPC's at Pimea say for using Toasters Companion mod, their presence did make her feel like this dark authority figure.

As for more loner characters, well I've played Ranger types out in the forest every now and then, I like their houses to be nice and small. Out of the way close to the wilderness. Also I agree with Helzi, having a dog companion does add to the feel of such a character. I never really found a counterpart for that sort of abode for my ice-cold assassin type characters though. I'm thinking a runned down looking farm house. Inside pretty organized, but still with a darker feel. I have found a few neat places like, Ronin's stuff, and Akaviri Kojima, which is just a visually breath taking island, with loads of Japanese architecture for my Samurai types.

There was another home mod I used to run though the name eludes me. It was located just a bit north of the Imperial city off the road. Though it didn't really fit my character too well. But it was really nice, with a great view of the Imperial City. It was a very large manor. I could see a noble aristocratic type of character owning a place like that, good or evil. Though a place like that should have had a servant NPC or two. I mean it certainly made Rosethorn Hall in Skingrad look like a dump.

rambling..

Edit: Actually to add something more constructive. What would be neat for a really maniacal evil character that prefers to hide their true nature from the public's eye, would be something akin to Benirus Manor. Where you get this large home that on the surface seems quite fancy and aristocratic, by all means normal. Yet have a secret underground lair with all kinds of occult, and dark stuff. Having a servant, more than likely fearful of you tend the place would be nice. So long as they kept out of your 'private' area, where you hide all the evil stuff. wink.gif
myrmaad
QUOTE(Sangel2525 @ Jul 8 2008, 09:27 AM) *
There was another home mod I used to run though the name eludes me. It was located just a bit north of the Imperial city off the road. Though it didn't really fit my character too well. But it was really nice, with a great view of the Imperial City. It was a very large manor. I could see a noble aristocratic type of character owning a place like that, good or evil. Though a place like that should have had a servant NPC or two. I mean it certainly made Rosethorn Hall in Skingrad look like a dump.


That sounds something like Valus View, a place I stay a lot when in the Imperial City. It's a bit cold with no servants, such a large place after all.

Still with all the great amenities it's pretty comfortable and it's walled so no mountain cats can get in and bother your horses. I'm probably a broken record, but I like the horses and really get irritated with having to worry about them wandering off, getting lost or killed. One of my favorite downloaded horses was marked essential, not respawning and he's somewhere in the game lost. I've been looking for him forever. He doesn't return to the stable where I got him. sad.gif

QUOTE(Sangel2525 @ Jul 8 2008, 09:27 AM) *
Edit: Actually to add something more constructive. What would be neat for a really maniacal evil character that prefers to hide their true nature from the public's eye, would be something akin to Benirus Manor. Where you get this large home that on the surface seems quite fancy and aristocratic, by all means normal. Yet have a secret underground lair with all kinds of occult, and dark stuff. Having a servant, more than likely fearful of you tend the place would be nice. So long as they kept out of your 'private' area, where you hide all the evil stuff. wink.gif


There's a mod called "Benirus Lair" that has a "mini-questlet" which gives a really nice evil lair with all the evil amenities in the bowels of Benirus. Had a portal to the Benirus interior door to Anvil, which was nice. It was a bit too dark for my "white light" character.
Sangel2525
Valus View may very well be the place I'm thinking of. I'm not entirely sure as I'm not registered to the site connected to the link. As for Benirus Lair, that's something I'll have to try whenever I feel like playing evil again. As I said in a recent post, playing evil in Oblivion seems a bit pointless at the moment. sad.gif Then again I don't intend to really play Oblivion again until I get a better computer. Right now I'm just kind of toying with mods that catch my eye.

Edit: Oh by the way Myrmaad, here's a mod that might help you with your horse problem. I haven't tested it much, having just found it before I lost my favorite character due to a computer virus. But it should in theory help with wandering horse syndrome. It's called Dude Where's My Horse?
myrmaad
QUOTE(Sangel2525 @ Jul 8 2008, 11:36 AM) *
Valus View may very well be the place I'm thinking of. I'm not entirely sure as I'm not registered to the site connected to the link. As for Benirus Lair, that's something I'll have to try whenever I feel like playing evil again. As I said in a recent post, playing evil in Oblivion seems a bit pointless at the moment. sad.gif Then again I don't intend to really play Oblivion again until I get a better computer. Right now I'm just kind of toying with mods that catch my eye.

Edit: Oh by the way Myrmaad, here's a mod that might help you with your horse problem. I haven't tested it much, having just found it before I lost my favorite character due to a computer virus. But it should in theory help with wandering horse syndrome. It's called Dude Where's My Horse?


Yeah I have this now, and it works great. The only trouble with it is that it won't manage multiple horses. I warped to someplace outside Bravil -probably the White Stallion Lodge, and when I got there I had the new horse I just bought with me PLUS the downloaded horse I've fallen in love with (and had since Prior Maborel's horse got killed) met me there, so I didn't want to lose the horse I just bought since I was trying to fix the Horse Armor.. which didn't work.. and anyway he didn't meet me anywhere else and he's nowhere around Bravil now, that I can find.. Aren't you sorry you brought it up? biggrin.gif I have horse issues! whistling.gif
piratemuffin
I normally have a large house with big open rooms filled with display cases and tables to display all of my armor, weapons and little trinkets that i always collect on my way around the game.
Sangel2525
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Yeah I have this now, and it works great. The only trouble with it is that it won't manage multiple horses. I warped to someplace outside Bravil -probably the White Stallion Lodge, and when I got there I had the new horse I just bought with me PLUS the downloaded horse I've fallen in love with (and had since Prior Maborel's horse got killed) met me there, so I didn't want to lose the horse I just bought since I was trying to fix the Horse Armor.. which didn't work.. and anyway he didn't meet me anywhere else and he's nowhere around Bravil now, that I can find.. Aren't you sorry you brought it up? biggrin.gif I have horse issues! whistling.gif


I had a similar problem once, but thankfully I was able to catch it with a save. I'm not super horse obsessed but back before I lost my Champion/Countess favorite character. At the time I had managed to get the Horse from The Lost Paladins of the Divines mod, which fit my character well at the time. After re-building the stables in Kvatch I decided why not buy some horses to put in there? So I purchased one from Cheydinhal, and my Paladin's Stallion inexplicably vanished. blink.gif It seems if you have more than one horse, sometimes one of your horses will just vanish! But I went back in my saves and recovered said Stallion. I never really noticed this phenomenon as I usually stick with one horse. Even when I bought a new horse retiring an old one, it never really occurred to me where the old horse went. I always assumed they were in the stables where I purchased the new horse. I didn't really notice this until said modded horse vanished. I wonder where they go? blink.gif

err let me get back on topic here...

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I normally have a large house with big open rooms filled with display cases and tables to display all of my armor, weapons and little trinkets that i always collect on my way around the game.


I loved the idea of doing this for a long time, but since I could never get anything positioned just so decorating used to drive me mad. That is, until I found The Decorators Assistant mod. Now I also love doing the very same thing. smile.gif
shadowace
I personally being an animal lover and nature lover, prefer a house somewhere with a nice woodsy (err, woodsy is a word, right?) area around it. Lots of trees and flowers. Have a nice little quiet house, with animals roaming by every now and then. Being able to go outside, sit down, watch a nice sunset through a spacing in the trees. Pick a few flowers for my nice garden outside the house, maybe a few for inside. Then go inside, play with my little fox as a pet (sadly there are no mods that add a fox, or from what I've seen...I love foxes) feed it, then head to bed, and then maybe go swimming in a little pool in the enclosed fresh water spring, behind my house. Head into town bye some items. Head back home, and spend the rest of my day either reading a book from my expansive shelves of books, (some I have personally written for my own interest in Oblivion) or training in my personal Dungeon I had built near my house (currently working on this mod actually ^.^). Then probably heading to sleep, and starting a new day after that. And it having a nice, stable for my animal mount. (I'm going to make a fox as a mount, like a giant fox as a mount, I would so love that, I already have an idea how, just got to put my texturing skills to the text)

Yes I'm a guy, live with it! I love nature, and animals alike. Especially foxes, so cute......anyways, that is my dream house. I am actually currently working on a dungeon, near the house Helzi so happily made for me. Thank you, I love the house by the way! Anyways I'm done talking, anyone elses house ideas?
Sangel2525
Wow Shadowrace, if you're making what your described into a mod... I think I'll play a Ranger again. smile.gif I probably wouldn't want to ride a giant fox though. Having one as a pet on the other hand would be great. Sounds nice! biggrin.gif
shadowace
Ok well now I definately am going to work on it, I'll start a topic for it in the General Mod Talk area (whatever its called) Look for it, just look for one made by me, but what should I name it mate? Before I can start a topic on it I need a name for the mod!
LoginToDownload
Newer Mart's Monster Mod releases include an optional plugin that includes foxes. I think they're retextured wolves.
shadowace
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Newer Mart's Monster Mod releases include an optional plugin that includes foxes. I think they're retextured wolves.


Yes I know this, but A. I don't use MMM, and B. I don't like how the foxes look, I'm going to try my hand at texturing my own.
myrmaad
QUOTE(shadowace @ Jul 8 2008, 01:13 PM) *
I personally being an animal lover and nature lover, prefer a house somewhere with a nice woodsy (err, woodsy is a word, right?) area around it. Lots of trees and flowers. Have a nice little quiet house, with animals roaming by every now and then. Being able to go outside, sit down, watch a nice sunset through a spacing in the trees. Pick a few flowers for my nice garden outside the house, maybe a few for inside. Then go inside, play with my little fox as a pet (sadly there are no mods that add a fox, or from what I've seen...I love foxes) feed it, then head to bed, and then maybe go swimming in a little pool in the enclosed fresh water spring, behind my house. Head into town bye some items. Head back home, and spend the rest of my day either reading a book from my expansive shelves of books, (some I have personally written for my own interest in Oblivion) or training in my personal Dungeon I had built near my house (currently working on this mod actually ^.^). Then probably heading to sleep, and starting a new day after that. And it having a nice, stable for my animal mount. (I'm going to make a fox as a mount, like a giant fox as a mount, I would so love that, I already have an idea how, just got to put my texturing skills to the text)

Yes I'm a guy, live with it! I love nature, and animals alike. Especially foxes, so cute......anyways, that is my dream house. I am actually currently working on a dungeon, near the house Helzi so happily made for me. Thank you, I love the house by the way! Anyways I'm done talking, anyone elses house ideas?


*chuckle*

You know, the Weynon Retreat house is a lot like you've just described, with deer running through the yard and woods off the edge of the property to the north, and Weynon Priory garden just up the hill to the south. Except for the Fox! sad.gif

WARNING
SPOILER AHEAD



Sangel, that's the same horse I lost. He really did suit my character. I had named him Lucifyr*, and I won a horse named Savior in the Weynon retreat quest, which was quite fitting I thought. Now I have a Cheydenhal black named Moonshadow, and a Palomino named Stardust (slof!) from Anvil stables. I still have Savior because I never ride him. And then the Horses at Valusview, which thank goodness are programmed to respawn at
Valusview if you lose them. * I named him Lucifyr after Venus as the morning star, he was so bright and beautiful.

My character's going through something really weird now. It's almost like writing a story when you play this game, you know, the characters seem to take on a life of their own and dictate their own storylines.

She just hasn't been the same since the main quested ended, she's going into a really dark place. I swear to god she stole something I never even saw her take! (It was a beer.) I only caught it because I was going through my inventory.

She's made it all the way through 80 percent of the game and the main quest without a single murder, she's been nothing but goodness and light, but she came *this close* to murdering Falcar, she said, HE'S NO FRIEND OF MINE!

She's listless and seems to have nothing to do, too much time on her hands. Her "power" is in name only, everything runs as it always has and no one cares if she shows up or not. Her only real friend is dead.

I captured a screenshot that really shows her mood perfectly, I'm going to post it in the screen caps section.--> The quality didn't turn out great.
http://www.tesnexus.com/imageshare/image.php?id=11350

shadowace
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*chuckle*

You know, the Weynon Retreat house is a lot like you've just described, with deer running through the yard and woods off the edge of the property to the north, and Weynon Priory garden just up the hill to the south. Except for the Fox!

WARNING
SPOILER AHEAD



Sangel, that's the same horse I lost. He really did suit my character. I had named him Lucifyr*, and I won a horse named Savior in the Weynon retreat quest, which was quite fitting I thought. Now I have a Cheydenhal black named Moonshadow, and a Palomino named Stardust (slof!) from Anvil stables. I still have Savior because I never ride him. And then the Horses at Valusview, which thank goodness are programmed to respawn at
Valusview if you lose them. * I named him Lucifyr after Venus as the morning star, he was so bright and beautiful.

My character's going through something really weird now. It's almost like writing a story when you play this game, you know, the characters seem to take on a life of their own and dictate their own storylines.

She just hasn't been the same since the main quested ended, she's going into a really dark place. I swear to god she stole something I never even saw her take! (It was a beer.) I only caught it because I was going through my inventory.

She's made it all the way through 80 percent of the game and the main quest without a single murder, she's been nothing but goodness and light, but she came *this close* to murdering Falcar, she said, HE'S NO FRIEND OF MINE!

She's listless and seems to have nothing to do, too much time on her hands. Her "power" is in name only, everything runs as it always has and no one cares if she shows up or not. Her only real friend is dead.

I captured a screenshot that really shows her mood perfectly, I'm going to post it in the screen caps section.--> The quality didn't turn out great.
http://www.tesnexus.com/imageshare/image.php?id=11350


That's all good and all, but I'll make this for myself, it'll be my first attempt at a "house/dungeon" (the private dungeon located near the house) mod, and well I want to see if I am capable of doing this. And besides I'd rather make this myself, get it exactly how I want it!
myrmaad
QUOTE(shadowace @ Jul 8 2008, 08:58 PM) *
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*chuckle*

You know, the Weynon Retreat house is a lot like you've just described, with deer running through the yard and woods off the edge of the property to the north, and Weynon Priory garden just up the hill to the south. Except for the Fox!



That's all good and all, but I'll make this for myself, it'll be my first attempt at a "house/dungeon" (the private dungeon located near the house) mod, and well I want to see if I am capable of doing this. And besides I'd rather make this myself, get it exactly how I want it!


Yeah, I know, if I only I had time and ambition, I'd love to try to figure it out. Good luck to you!

Sangel2525
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That's all good and all, but I'll make this for myself, it'll be my first attempt at a "house/dungeon" (the private dungeon located near the house) mod, and well I want to see if I am capable of doing this. And besides I'd rather make this myself, get it exactly how I want it!


That sounds reasonable by me, though it does sound rather nifty. I mean it takes a lot to mod. I know as I do very, very minor tweaks sometimes and the hours just fly by while I'm doing them. Truly building something like what you describe, would more than likely cause me to die of an aneurysm. I can do tiny things with CS, which usually takes me a long time. But I am a total laymen when it comes to actually crafting an actual mod, let alone texturing, and meshing, and scripting, and ughhh! How people pull this off is beyond me, but I'm happy they are there! smile.gif It blows my mind how people can just do it sometimes, even with the tiniest of mods. Not to mention so many modders put a lot of work into their projects only to get yelled at by people. That always, always annoys me! It's like you're providing me with a free-addon to my game? Whether I like or dislike it THANK YOU! So by all means keep it for yourself. I made a bunch of Katana's mixing Snow Dragon Temple, and Samurai Sword OBSE, which is basically a script that enables you to hold a one handed blade with two hands. Took me forever but, I made a bunch of one to two handed katanas with that script for sale at Fighting Chance. I even posted screenshots in the Samurai OBSE mod screenshot dealy, and someone PMed and asked me if I could release "my mod." Uhhh since it isn't exactly "my mod," rather me using existing mods and playing around with the CS. I told them I don't have permission from either author, and that it's for personal use.

Bleehhh anyhoo,

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My character's going through something really weird now. It's almost like writing a story when you play this game, you know, the characters seem to take on a life of their own and dictate their own storylines.

She just hasn't been the same since the main quested ended, she's going into a really dark place. I swear to god she stole something I never even saw her take! (It was a beer.) I only caught it because I was going through my inventory.


Oh I can relate believe me... Maybe it's because I'm a writer? Despite my grammatical errors on message boards and such, yes I'm an aspiring writer and in the process of trying to get published right now. Maybe it's because I used to LARP when I was teenager? Vampire The Masquerade. wink.gif Maybe it's just because I'm insanely eccentric, but believe me I can relate... Especially with TES games. My brother started my addiction when I was 14 with Daggerfall! With TES games it becomes very, very easy to form an attachment to your character, even if they are nothing like you. I had this occur with Daggerfall, I had this occur with Morrowind, and I've had this seriously occur so far twice in Oblivion.

I'll stick to Oblivion, since this is a forum for it. smile.gif The first character I really had that crazy kind of attachment to, where I could write a book about her was Allecia Lestala my Vamperic/Necromancer/Meglomaniac/Psycho character. The thing about playing evil is you have to get in your characters head, which can be difficult. But from Allecia's perspective she felt perfectly justified in all her actions. She felt Tamerial by in large was flawed, and impure. Being such an impure realm she felt it was her place to essentially grow in her power to the point where she could jail the souls of Tamerial. In a way she was an aspiring Daedric Prince looking to call Tamerial her domain. She was clever, and knew to start small, and conceal her misdoings well. But the little megalomaniac in me wishes there was someway to actually conquer the cities of Cyrodill, eventually conquering all of Cyrodiil its self! I mean with a really neat Necromacy mod, she had like a horde of undead servants, pretty much a small army who could easily take most of the cities, say for the Imperial City... She would need to harvest more body parts and souls for that task. But I mean, yeah that would be my dream for this character, to wage war on The Empire, and conquer it. It certainly took me a long enough time to build my army and level this character. By the time Allecia was done with Cyrodiil, the forces of Oblivion would think twice about invading Tamerial let me tell you. wink.gif But while she turned into a vampire in the Dark Brotherhood questline, I wound up in my head saying okay she's been Listener for several centuries and now she's looking to take over the Mages Guild for political influence, and to stamp out rival Necromacers. She was a fun character to play, her mind became really twisted by Dark Brotherhood fanatasism, and that of course evolved into her own warped philosophy over the imaginary centuries. But she believed what she was doing was good. I'll spare you the details.

So like a year and half or so later I made a character raised on the Akaviri Kojima, Akane Tsunada. She was trained how to fight there by her sensei, but she wound up becoming more of a Ronin than a Samurai at first. Since she never completed her training, and wanted to go off to do her own thing and right wrongs. But she was a little misguided until she wound caught up in the main quest, and yes like you're character she had a thing for Martin. She wandered a bit after she became Champion, helping people wherever she went, finally attaining the status of Samurai. This included helping out these castles that had quests attached to them. When complete and so-and-so offered her the castle she would decline and just wander, almost trying to run away from the scars the whole Oblivion crisis left on her. Then she's asked by Ocato to become Countess of Kvatch, which is apparently rebuilding. Well she lead the troops well enough in the Defense of Bruma, which I used a mod to make much, much longer, and feel more epic. Not to mention she felt as though she needed some kind of purpose, and meaning. Maybe she could help the people of Kvatch rebuild? She was welcome as their Countess with open arms being their Hero and all, and yeah... Again I'll spare the details, but I became seriously attached to this character, and then a computer virus killed her. I really should have backed those saves up more. sad.gif

I just had to respond to this because, yes I know! I used to have a lot of screenshots too, chronicling my Good characters adventures. But they were lost. Ah well my next Hero will probably be even better, but I'm going to wait until either the mood strikes me to play again, or a new computer before trying to save the world again. Hopefully both will kind of happen at once. Also are you by chance running BAB? Because I recognize that clothing as BAB, either that or Eshme? I used to run Eshme before BAB. smile.gif
myrmaad
QUOTE(Sangel2525 @ Jul 8 2008, 10:53 PM) *
...<snippage> I just had to respond to this because, yes I know! I used to have a lot of screenshots too, chronicling my Good characters adventures. But they were lost. Ah well my next Hero will probably be even better, but I'm going to wait until either the mood strikes me to play again, or a new computer before trying to save the world again. Hopefully both will kind of happen at once. Also are you by chance running BAB? Because I recognize that clothing as BAB, either that or Eshme? I used to run Eshme before BAB. smile.gif


Fascinating!
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and then a computer virus killed her.

Oh that sucks!

I think I'll make a disk with a few saves on it, just in case.

Yup, Eshme and UFF boots and accessories. She really needs a few more things, so I'm installing Apachii's goddess store today. Some things I can make work on Eshme's body, but I have been playing around with the textures and CS a bit, I had toyed with modding another game in the past, but I really need some things that suit her, and she's just not into skimpy ho-wear. I need some plain black tops and more red, she prefers solids and understatement. I think the only way I'm going to find what she really wants is to make them myself. I have all the tools to do it, so all I have to do is figure it out and actually accomplish it if I can. Looking at clothing and facial textures is like being on acid!

This has been my first experience with any roleplay games, though when I was young I knew a lot of people who were into it, esp D&D back in the dark ages before there were personal computers in the imagination of anyone. I also tend to be a writer of sorts, so it has really taken hold of my imagination, and I know exactly what you mean about how you could write a book about your character.

I was also thinking last night that as humans we all have our dark sides, and it's human nature that we can justify anything, our conscience is pretty malleable that way, it just comes down to how much justification is necessary to convince yourself that you're justified in whatever you're convincing yourself is actually just. heh heh
shadowace
QUOTE(Sangel2525 @ Jul 9 2008, 02:53 AM) *
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That's all good and all, but I'll make this for myself, it'll be my first attempt at a "house/dungeon" (the private dungeon located near the house) mod, and well I want to see if I am capable of doing this. And besides I'd rather make this myself, get it exactly how I want it!


That sounds reasonable by me, though it does sound rather nifty. I mean it takes a lot to mod. I know as I do very, very minor tweaks sometimes and the hours just fly by while I'm doing them. Truly building something like what you describe, would more than likely cause me to die of an aneurysm. I can do tiny things with CS, which usually takes me a long time. But I am a total laymen when it comes to actually crafting an actual mod, let alone texturing, and meshing, and scripting, and ughhh! How people pull this off is beyond me, but I'm happy they are there! smile.gif It blows my mind how people can just do it sometimes, even with the tiniest of mods. Not to mention so many modders put a lot of work into their projects only to get yelled at by people. That always, always annoys me! It's like you're providing me with a free-addon to my game? Whether I like or dislike it THANK YOU! So by all means keep it for yourself. I made a bunch of Katana's mixing Snow Dragon Temple, and Samurai Sword OBSE, which is basically a script that enables you to hold a one handed blade with two hands. Took me forever but, I made a bunch of one to two handed katanas with that script for sale at Fighting Chance. I even posted screenshots in the Samurai OBSE mod screenshot dealy, and someone PMed and asked me if I could release "my mod." Uhhh since it isn't exactly "my mod," rather me using existing mods and playing around with the CS. I told them I don't have permission from either author, and that it's for personal use.

Bleehhh anyhoo,


That's all good and all, but I can do a lot of modding, just never made the interior of a house before!
Sangel2525
hmmm I think I misread your post Shadowrace, as you weren't going to release your mod when you finished, and keep it for yourself. If you do release it awesome! Good luck with it, I'll be sure to download it. smile.gif

Myrmaad:

Wow we seem to have a lot in common in terms of taste regarding Oblivion. blink.gif So I assume you run Eshme, that is a really nice body mod. As is BAB. I like both for the fact their both kind of athletic builds, as opposed to ginourmous goznagas. haha! Not that I have anything against other body mods, it's just a matter of personal preference. smile.gif

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She really needs a few more things, so I'm installing Apachii's goddess store today


Even though I don't run Exnem I've found this mod to be really neat! The amount of work to make it must have been enormous, and if you mix and match correctly you can pull off some outfits. Plus the wigs are really nice. I can't see most of my characters wearing 'hooch outfits' as was coined by friend when I used to play World of Warcraft with my ex-b/f way back. But there's a lot at Appachii that if you mix and match right does indeed work nicely, even if you aren't using the Exnem body. I don't have much time as a friend is due to visit in a bit just wanted to add. smile.gif
shadowace
If I like the outcome of how the mod comes out, THEN I'll upload it. Otherwise it's mine only!
Carah
I want Vilena Donton's house in Chorrol, but I would tweak it, and have more windows, and morning glories growing everywhere in the house. I would also want to have a tree growing inside the house. I love bringing nature in.
Stewb
My needs are simple, a big garden with a variety of alchemy plants and a huge storage area, with chests clearly marked with what they contain, or mannequins i can outfit with the armour they contain. Anything else is a bonus wink.gif

Edit: oops, forgot the reason why that you wanted, The storage area coz i'm a notorious collector of EVERYTHING. The garden coz of my collecting habits i need alchemy potions to sell for money sad.gif
myrmaad
QUOTE(Carah @ Jul 16 2008, 02:35 PM) *
I want Vilena Donton's house in Chorrol, but I would tweak it, and have more windows, and morning glories growing everywhere in the house. I would also want to have a tree growing inside the house. I love bringing nature in.


I recently finished the Fighter's Guild quests and I really liked that house, myself.

Well, now that I have a posse, I've been going around to all my large houses to see if there's one that suits us all. The Valus View Manor is ok, because the top floor has three bedrooms in one space.

The Tiber Septim Suite was nice when there were two of them, and I just got a room of my own when I wanted some privacy. But for three it's a bit cramped though really comfortably appointed. I like modern couches and chairs dammit. Anywhere you tell them to stay they are held captive in the cell, so ideally, a cell would accommodate several bedrooms, a living area, and a dining area, since they seem to like to "eat and drink" during down time. I did the quest for the Divine Watch Castle today, but it's a bit too formal and cold.

Planning to try Kumiko Manor, but I don't know--We hung out at Ancient Source Firewater Manor today, but the same problem with the bedrooms, and they couldn't eat since there's not a comfortable dining/lounging area. I ended up going over to Weynon Retreat, however: I'm still trying to manage optimizing their inventories so I'd like them close at hand, plus they're fun, if a little repetitive.

Also I'm probably pushing it but I'm wondering about companions and horses? A summonable enchanted horse would work for them, if I can find something that works.

On a side note, I actually found the horse I lost in the game on June 16, last weekend after a month of daily game play and never finding or seeing him. That was incredible. During the Fighter's Guild questline the fighters camp out at a cave near Leyawiin, and I saw them fighting in the distance and went to investigate.. it was them "back to work", and as I looked around low and behold my beloved Lucifyr was standing around with them. Just crazy, it's really what makes the whole Oblivion game experience so amazing when things like that happen.
Michlo
Until today I wasn't sure. Now I am.

Glenvar Castle.

End of.
Michlo
QUOTE(shadowace @ Jul 8 2008, 05:13 PM) *
I personally being an animal lover and nature lover, prefer a house somewhere with a nice woodsy (err, woodsy is a word, right?) area around it. Lots of trees and flowers. Have a nice little quiet house, with animals roaming by every now and then. Being able to go outside, sit down, watch a nice sunset through a spacing in the trees. Pick a few flowers for my nice garden outside the house, maybe a few for inside. Then go inside, play with my little fox as a pet (sadly there are no mods that add a fox, or from what I've seen...I love foxes) feed it, then head to bed, and then maybe go swimming in a little pool in the enclosed fresh water spring, behind my house. Head into town bye some items. Head back home, and spend the rest of my day either reading a book from my expansive shelves of books, (some I have personally written for my own interest in Oblivion) or training in my personal Dungeon I had built near my house (currently working on this mod actually ^.^). Then probably heading to sleep, and starting a new day after that. And it having a nice, stable for my animal mount. (I'm going to make a fox as a mount, like a giant fox as a mount, I would so love that, I already have an idea how, just got to put my texturing skills to the text)

Yes I'm a guy, live with it! I love nature, and animals alike. Especially foxes, so cute......anyways, that is my dream house. I am actually currently working on a dungeon, near the house Helzi so happily made for me. Thank you, I love the house by the way! Anyways I'm done talking, anyone elses house ideas?


Oi mate, I'm pretty sure MMM adds foxes. You can't ride them though, poor little buggers. heh

Cheers.


Edit: Drat, I should have kept reading before replying. tongue.gif
kitsuneshoujo
Oh!

I would absolutely *love* a Japanese style house set out on a tranquil lake, surrounded my sakura trees in bloom. I would want it completely decorated in Japanese style with a tea ceremony set in an appropriate room. Those wood screens that divide rooms up for privacy. I would want a huge garden I could actually grow stuff in. A kotatsu (the table with the heater underneath it) to keep warm, as well as a fireplace somwehre. Kitchen and bathroom of course - I find it silly online games with housing dont include bathrooms lol. And somewhere on the island... I would like a hotsprings. There could also be a Buddhist shrine with the shinto arches out front. And a miko tending it. :3 She could train in restoration or mysticism. And sell archery equipment. biggrin.gif
A koi fish pond would also be neat, but not totally necessary, maybe have the koi out in the lake. Put a fishing boat on the shore with a rack of smoked fish somewhere.

Thats my dream Oblivion house. ^.^

Shadowace is a person after my own heart! I love foxes too, I have ever since I was little... my forum name is even Fox Girl (in Japanese). biggrin.gif So I would like to see foxes around my house too, especially near the shrine. A fox pet would indeed be cool.
shadowace
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Shadowace is a person after my own heart! I love foxes too, I have ever since I was little... my forum name is even Fox Girl (in Japanese). biggrin.gif So I would like to see foxes around my house too, especially near the shrine. A fox pet would indeed be cool.


Haha, I may have already stolen your heart ^.^! Nah, anyways, foxes own! Point noted.
myrmaad


Yes I like a vixen here and there too, but the deer thrill me. I love them in the game.


The Princess Stomper IC Apartment conveniently located in Talos Plazo has a bathroom which I think is "sittable". I don't get the bathroom thing though. That's private. biggrin.gif I don't wanna see it.
shadowace
Haha, this house mod that I'm going to make, is going to be implemented into a bigger mod I'm making.
reaper9111
QUOTE(fishyx @ Jun 22 2008, 09:31 AM) *
I want a elvish style wooden house on a BIG tree in a dense forest. The stairs spiral up the tree and at night, elvish glowing lamps light up the tree. From inside the tree house, I can reach the bottom of the tree from inside its base and into an underground basement with archery ranges as well as training equipements for my elf soldiers and friend to train.



yep, an elvish tree house sounds really good, since there is only (to my eye) one house of that type in game already... so an other one whit a complete new idea (the circular stairs and stufff on a super huge tree and high in the air sould be something to consider modding ! specialy if you have the skills to do it ! something like fishyx said sounds great !
edit: more detail !
- high in the tree
- half inside half outside the tree
- lots of lamp that you could change the color inside and outside
- spiral stairs sounds great
- u could use the hidden system for the amazing (druid tree house??? or something like that) to hide the stairs (be able to see or hide the stairs and the exterior as well)
- the house would be well hidden by lots of leafs and stuff, so when u look up from the ground u cant see it (even if the hidden system is not "on") !
- the house could have many part! (to different height part of the tree)
- since the house would be in a tree the decoration theme should be base on nature...(lots of beautifull plants, and flower) since elven love nature !
- that it for now... other idea that match the description i give would be appreciated (i repeat that match the description) last words (i truly hope someone will invest him, her self into that project !
simonp92
the mod is already released,,

- this is what i would call necromancy..
reaper9111
[quote name='simonp92' date='Nov 3 2008, 05:52 PM' post='615514']
the mod is already released,,

- this is what i would call necromancy..
[/quotewhat is it ???

what is the name of it ???
Deus Ultima
I prefer a house in the sky with a heaven-ish look to it like say, up in the clouds with a golden gate for the entrance leading into the courtyard with gold streets leading to a palace of white marble.
Yeah, I prefer good rather than evil.
wasder
Some nice roves and ledges to run around on. Maybe a chapel or temple to anything, Aedra, daedra or Sithis (he's neither).
Hidden passages a must.
What is is whith you guys and being nice, do a mod that can be used for good or evil, preferably slanted to evil. Mwah ha ha ha!
pedantic
The first Time I lost a horse (Prior Maborel's) was when I got it armoured. If you pay for (or get the free) armour, then don't mount your horse, the horse stays right where it is when you teleport away. I now use this to my advantage and simply ride them from there to my dwelling.

Myrmaad, you almost described my ideal house which I was going to make up in the Valus mountains. So, there is no point in me describing mine. I've just got to make sure there's no possibility of an Oblivion Gate up there - which is why I haven't got around to it yet. Laziness.
Nothing as flash as you, mind, but most definately a suave dwelling with a coral and stables. Thanks for giving me the inspiration to start work on it. biggrin.gif
XanAlderon
I think I would like a nice sweet little cottage on an island some where, that has a secret door in it that takes you to a secret base!

In the base would be a whole lot of servants to do your bidding as well as countless other alchemy gardens and training pits.
Term1nated
I have to admit, I prefer cozyness over size. Which is why Rosethorn Hall didn't appeal to me...

My ideal house would be a little tiny cottage type house built by a waterfall with enough tree space to see a nice, relaxing sunset! It would have a nice big bed warmed by a toasty log-fire with a few shelves for my rare books and some space to place manequins to display my armour...

Finally, I want a nice little front portch where I can sit and admire the sunset and the glistening waterfall after a hard days adventuring! smile.gif
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