Varus Torvyn
Jul 6 2008, 06:30 AM
Vote on your choice of how you prefer to R-P your characters. Please feel free to open up a discussion on your choices.
My answers are Good, yes, and yes. I can't help it. There are some good enchanted items in quests that are opposite to my toon's morality, and I want to have them.
Barfman46
Jul 6 2008, 07:55 PM
I always skip infamy giving quests on my good paladin character I play now.I sort of have to though because of I am a member of the KoTN. Though I do admit to doing one and using the console to remove the points but It was for my RP thing. It was the quest for Mehrune's Razor. I have a mod so you can use it as a daedric artifact for the main quest so I was sorta destroying it (Paladin quests to destroy evil dagger).
Edit forgot responses: Good, No, No (when I am playing a evil dude).
Lithos
Jul 6 2008, 10:49 PM
QUOTE(Varus Torvyn @ Jul 6 2008, 06:30 AM)

Vote on your choice of how you prefer to R-P your characters. Please feel free to open up a discussion on your choices.
My answers are Good, yes, and yes. I can't help it. There are some good enchanted items in quests that are opposite to my toon's morality, and I want to have them.

I answered Neutral, yes and yes; but the fact is that my char tends to the evil side; I just love the freedom of doing anything I want, and hey - I taught Garrett everything he knows, as it is common knowledge! Stopping to think now, I couldn't care less about fame, I just want to be a shadow - pass unnoticed by guards or whoever, and if someone happens to offend me out of the blue (and it happens all the time), ok: he/she is history: I wouldn't do anything in the open, but have anybody heard about "In Cold Blood"? With a little difference, for I wait for them to sleep. Sweet dreams honey, sweet dreams are made of "cheese". And the Garrett in MY Thief games is just like that: "it's easier to take him down... hmm, knife or arrow?" (or sword, in the two previous installments). Or (my char - Lithos - in Oblivion): "Hey, what a NICE outfit he wears, nice dagger, nice whatever! Where would I hide the body?"...
Talking about D&D rules, for a comparison: all that said, my char is not the reincarnation of evil, but what they call "pure neutral", or something like that. If I'm in the mood of doing good deeds, so be it. No morals, no judgement. Never was a Jesus in Tamriel, so we "people don't know what we are doing"... Ah, Nine Divines my *.*... (excuse my French)
macmert
Jul 7 2008, 09:07 AM
Ahhh the famous Garrett...

I just love him and how he handles the situations...
Well my character is like Garrett, a thief assassin hybrid, able with bows and the lurker of shadows...
My assassin is like, neutral to say the least cause I try to help the helpless whenever I can and I run infamy and fame quests since I would like to see all the quests available to the character, since I hate to leave quests behind whatever it is, since I dont really care about what I do as long as I get my money for it

since I am both gray fox and head of the DB, I am a little greedy and a little eager with a bow...
Ziller
Jul 9 2008, 04:08 AM
I would have to go with Nuetral, BEACUSE chararcter morality in Oblivon has no big effect on Gameplay. Sure, you can change an ending here and there, but all the guild quests, and the main quest are all the same regardless of fame/infamy points. That said, I love mudering entire populaces of iscolated little towns, one by one. I'm crazy.
-out
nachtefuchs
Jul 9 2008, 05:28 AM
Neutral, Yes, and Yes. There's no point in limiting yourself by choice.
If you want to be a murderer, great, but think before you kill someone: Will I 1-hit them? Do I know the way to a safe house? What is my Plan B? Will I still be able to enter cities without being arrested? Will this affect the Merchant's dispositions?
If you want to be a Paladin, fantastic, but think before you dismiss the darker side: Where do the better weapons come from? Am I limiting my potential by shunning these quests? Can I still achieve a satisfactory resolution without resorting to murder?
Don't fully lock yourself out of what could be fun, or profitable, just because it doesn't agree with you morals (or lack thereof).
dezdimona
Jul 10 2008, 11:19 PM
Neutral,and yes,yes! Just how I am
Aerin Morth
Jul 10 2008, 11:35 PM
My answers would be Neutral, no, and no.
My characters have very diverse personalities and alignments, so I can't choose just good or evil, so I picked neutral.
If I'm a good character, I avoid infamy quests, seeing as how those quests don't involve things my character would do. The same goes for if I'm playing an evil character, I'll normally pass up the fame quests in favor of the infamy quests.
tungol
Jul 13 2008, 06:20 PM
Neutral, no, yes.
A good character generally won't do evil things, but an evil character should have nothing against doing goods things if it helps him. Take the DB: in a way, you're doing a good thing by killing all those assassins--but why not? Or why not help Henantier, if you're rewarded for it. I mean, unless your take on evil is that you're a misanthrope who WANTS people to suffer, rather than just enjoying the hunt or the chaos.
But my good characters (and even neutral char's are good by this standard) judge by their own standard. So like Barfman, if you destroy an evil artifact, you're doing good. But I'd still take the infamy hit, because people aren't always going to understand you--like Batman.
GenghisKhanIT
Jul 15 2008, 12:27 PM
Neutral, Yes, Yes.
Especially because some of the DB quests are pure genius and I (player) do not like to lose this fun only because the character I play tends to good.
Snake932
Sep 11 2008, 04:41 PM
neutral yes yes.
all quests are good (expecially with a reward

)
Lord Barkmann
Sep 11 2008, 04:57 PM
My character is soo evil, makes Satan look like a nice guy
But had to do all quest for gold, items etc etc
Kalas_Ragnarok
Sep 13 2008, 01:54 PM
It is a bit complicated to truly answer this because even when you do the good good quest there is most if not all the time a way to play it let say not purely good. Even if it is just in the behaviour (breaking the siege of Kvatch : you let the guards do the job, without involvement for instance but getting the ring and mocking the count death).
And at the opposite as said before, some quests like the DB ones....a good character can take them as well depending what your character seek (even a paladin extremist may decide to go into this sect to then stop the activities of the DB) because think about it : what would happen if once reaching the top you never go listening for new contracts?

)
So I think it's more a matter of how you do the quest rather than which quest you choose
But interesting poll though, allow to see how we play oblivion
Wrath_Of_Deadguy01
Sep 13 2008, 07:15 PM
Neutral, yes, and yes. If you'd offered a chaotic good option, I'd have chosen that- my chars tend to be a bit miffed with the law over having been dumped in prison in the first place, but are generally good-hearted (will give to beggars, defend the weak, etc). However, there are infamy quests which lean towards chaotic good (i.e. Untaxing the Poor), so I do play through many of the less reputable quests to stay in character.
My Dunmer assassin wasn't really evil either, just incredibly bitter and vengeful- she did a lot of the fame quests even though she was DB and killed pretty much anyone who crossed her.
Playing around in the moral gray areas is much more fun... makes for a more dynamic character who's easier to relate to no matter what basic alignment you pick.
wasder
Nov 10 2008, 07:22 PM
I'm evil, try and RP but run fame quests.
My guy is famous sure, champion of Cyrodiil, Head of Fighters guild. To the public, a hero, in secret he's the Listener to the Night Mother and one hell of an evil, theiving, murdering sod. I got the Maid at Rosethorn Hall and (he's a vampire) feed of her when I'm not stealing someones house and feeding off of them. He's not some dull brute butcher, but a really nasty evil (and slightly phsyco) guy that is only for personal gain.
All hail the dread father Sithis.
myrmaad
Nov 10 2008, 07:32 PM
My current char is Good, so she doesn't do Infamy, but she's complicated, and I'm not completely discounting her; she's almost 900 hours old, and she has gotten pretty p*ssed off a few times. Don't know exactly what would happen if she was pushed a bit too far, but so far she's not "gone there". Even though I've left the option open for her, she manages to avoid going the infamy way.
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