[Serra Britt]

I want to play this for the customization. First person game or not I like the ability to make my character look "just right" >>

I have literally spent more than an hour when they give you the right customization tools :P

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Dunno. I don't think I've seen anything in Morrowind that wasn't in Daggerfall. I don't think they really need anything new. I still havne't played most of them. My dad likes Bretons, my friend likes Redguards (I think), my stepbrother is a dark elf type, I mostly have Khajiits, etc. I've only significantly played Khajiits, Argonians, and Dunmer. I have one Bosmer character and one Nord but haven't played very far in either game yet. Argonians can move quite fast, and the water breathing ability is great for pearl diving early game.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

I'm partial to Bosmers, given that I'm nearly always some kind of assassin.

And as far as I know, all the races are returning.

[M e w]

I don't think I'm very particular to a certain race... though there are several I haven't played as, like Imperials, Bretons, Orcs, and Nords.
Perhaps I'll pick up Oblivion again and see about playing as some of those races. o 3o

[Suzerain of Sheol]

I'm not sure I've ever played anything besides a Bosmer, now that I think about it...

[M e w]

Well then you should try some other races, maybe you'll find out you love playing as another one. :]

[Quiet Man Cometh]

I think I recall one of the books in MW talking about a connection between the Bosmer and Khajiit, like the used to be the same race or something but one changed or something and they didn't like each other, usual stuff. I'll have to go look. I have the book around. Since I pretty much own everything I'll ever need and steal most of the rest I've stopped selling books and am stashing them in my house now. The book of the Deadra is a curious one, and common. There's a popular quote I've seen around from it about the daedras view on mortals.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

o_O. That's kind of weird. Don't see many similarities given that one's an elf and the other is a anthropomorph.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Well we are talking fictional mythology here. Ancient Greece has three ages of people of varying ability. I'll look it up if I can dig up the book. My "library" is not sorted all that well at the moment.

I was going to post some screen shots of a couple of my Morrowind characters here but that requires tweaking an important file and I don't want to risk messing it up. Maybe I'll see how good my camera is if people want to see.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

I spent over two hours editing the face of my last character in Oblivion. She came out staggeringly better than my previous characters. I have it on PS3, though, so I'd have to take a photo of my t.v. to show you what she looks like.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Found the story I was looking for. It's in the books "Words of the Clan Mother Ahnissi" and details the creation mythology of the Khajiit which includes the Bosmer. It's hard to be brief, as the story is full of many names and details, but essentially involves the two favoured children of the mother godess. One she gives the ability to make children and the other she gives her secrets and tells her to take a child from her sister and make a new people and call them the Khajiit. Why the Khajiit are the way they are has to do with the details of the story but in a nutshell, the siblings don't get along and a third littermate tells the childbearing sibling what the other one did, and in thanks the childbearing sibling allowed the third littermate to make a people of his own, and he makes the Bosmer, at which point the two lose their relation because the Bosmer are changed too much.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

*head swims at lore* Don't you know these games are about wandering the wilderness and mass murdering guards!? Who takes the time to read the books, seriously? :p

Oh, and horses are definitely in, and looking much better. One might even say epic.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Huzzah! I gets mine destrier!

Okay, enough of that. ;)
And you've already got the Tolkein nerd slot covered so I may as well delve into something nerdy too! I'll need this stuff if I every get possessed to write Elder Scrolls fanfiction.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Oh, right, forgot about that project. You should get possessed to write that. :p

[Quiet Man Cometh]

I would first have to have something to write about. Nigiri's adventures are pretty dull so far, minus the Dark Brotherhood assassin that tried to kill me who was incredibly weak because he was scaled to my level but his armour was not so now I'm level 8 or so running around in one of the bests sets of light armour one can get in the game. I'd call that a flaw on the part of the game but I suppose the designers might not have expected players to make new characters for an expansion.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Well, that's what Morrowind was all about. Lack of level scaling puts high-level gear in reach of low-level characters.

I think Bethesda said that item scaling will be in Skyrim, but I hope it's a bit more flexible than Oblivion's was.