u/Carminoculus

Title. I'm looking to reinstall DFU on my PC, but I'd like to keep the weird tan dark elves that just scream "Daggerfall" to me.

It seems the canonical daggerfallgamefiles version has them patched to dunmer. Are there any versions of the game files that incorporate bufixes but no graphical changes?

Just a thought, I'm curious what people think about this.

I like holds. Not just the mechanics (I do), but all the crazy little thematic identities. Diamond dwarves. Ram dwarves. Mead dwarves. Slaver dwarves. Ice Australia dwarves.

I'm also not crazy about Amldihr. Putting my number-go-up dopamine aside, I actually don't like having a deterministically optimum capital state. I don't think Amldihr needs four hold provinces to be what it needs to be.

I also don't like that, super-hold aside, the West/North Dwarovar feels oddly... empty, compared to say the Serpentsreach. This was prime dwarf country, back in the day.

I like the idea of breaking up the Amldihr hold-provinces (at least two of them, maybe, to not put the old capital "below" Gronstunad) and spread them to fill up the empty spaces. Give them names and maybe their own identities in time.

https://preview.redd.it/j0tl46dfqe1h1.png?width=369&format=png&auto=webp&s=313387258fb212bfc8abc83bb8a352ceec03b288

Existing holds are red-white squares, places where I'm thinking of putting new holds are red-blue lumps. I'm already thinking of doing this for my own use, but I'm curious if others feel the same way about the Dwarovar.

disclaimer, I have found some incredible people to talk to here. This isn't just me complaining, and for all its flaws, I like what this sub seems to be.

But people going with the <age>F or <age>M tags in 99% of posts leads to weird dynamics.

Most of the time, I'd just stop myself from posting something like this under the "it's just me" clause. I am kind of a believer that people can connect despite age differences. But I know most people are looking for someone in their own age cohort. I shouldn't making a thing of it, I should be letting other people do their human society thing, etc.

The reason I've decided it's actually weird is because I've repeatedly seen people turn others away for absurd age differences. Not just in the flairs, but actually thinking a three-year age difference between say 29 and 32 means "they're not of your own age category." The same person would accept a five-year difference between 32 and 37 because they're "in their thirties" (it has a 3 in front of it!)

Ranking people by numbers, any numbers, is bound to produce behaviors that probably shouldn't be there.

The gender thing is I guess harder to criticize as absurd, but I will say the most meaningful contact I've made here so far, we went in gender blind. While I get why people do it, I honestly wonder if putting the M-F as the most important marker in a SFW sub isn't being counter-productive in people reaching out without prejudice.

...the thing that really stood out was the eight playable races – which ranged from three human and three elf races to the more exotic Argonians and Khajiit. "I used to love the old Sinba movies and fondly recalled some of the stop-motion creatures they would fight", Lakshman reflects. "For some reason, the word Argonian stuck with me (from Jason and the Argonauts) and I equated that to exploration. What's at the farthest reach of your mind and the world? In my mind, there be dragons, hence the Argonians being reptilian."

That explains the humanoid reptiles, but what about the less obvious nod to The Eye of Thundera? "With the Khajiit, I'd spent a lifetime as a practitioner of the martial arts", Lakshman explains. "I've trained for 30 years, was a nationally ranked black belt and competed in over 1200 combats in the ring. I knew I wanted to make a feline race, and I saw their grace and agility as an intrinsic quality, much like a martial artist. In Japan, the art of the sword is called Kenjitsu [sic]. I modified that to become Khajiit, and thus the race of these highly nimble and agile felines was born!" And as the series progressed, the Khajiit became more cat-like in appearance.

-- 2014 Interview with Vijay Lakhshman, The Making of Elder Scrolls: Arena

Hello! I'm looking for people who also enjoy making magic systems / settings to try an RP around some kind of magical school (?) in a fantasy / low fantasy (?) setting.

Very flexible on the details: mostly I'm looking for people whose OCs have interesting supernatural ties that can be the centers of stories, or willing to co-operate in building creative magic systems. "Out-there" or weird ideas welcome!

I'm especially looking for people who enjoy worldbuilding for the sake of it, willing to OOC discuss their ideas, and (for this RP) mix them up with mine to make something surprising.