Caligrus

We could probably keep most clothing almost identical - perhaps different colour schemes/details for elves and others... but otherwise, it's not really described that heavily in the books, aside from typical fantasy gear. But yeah, I just wanted to say, I'd happily work on this doing anything. I've never modded anything before, and Skyrim is my first TES game, but I'd be very happy getting my hands dirty. I'd be happy to try my hand at code if that's what's required, too. My natural strength is probably in writing though - I'm a writer before I'm a gamer - although really, I'd be happy to do almost anything. BTW I am Cielina from Inheritance Forums :P

Naw, that's fine. I tend to be hit by the most random ideas and get overexcited - I should probably slow down. We should probably focus on making some tester mods in the Skyrim game - so tweaking the magic system, and making shouts learnable from spellbooks, etc. Then perhaps try to recreate a small quest/dungeon in the Skyrim world. Then create our own world, without any quests or anything - just infrastructure and some NPCs. Then obviously we place in the main quest, and other questlines come in after that - it'd be a huge WIP, I imagine, and constantly expanding. I think if we were to involve Galby, it'd be lame to have him in the main quest. Mainly because we've seen enough of him already XD

A side-quest idea: It would nice to have quests where you go into the resting place of each Forsworn, similar to this. They'd sort of be an equivalent of the Daedric quests in content - slightly eccentric, slightly different, and not your usual Here's an arbitrary problem -> Clear out dungeon -> Reward.

That's the problem with this. Honestly, I like Paolini's world - I just wish it was less... derivative? And his writing is abysmal. Honestly, even if his books remained escapist trash, if he was at least decent at prose and slightly more original, his name wouldn't carry so much scorn as it does and as lovely as the anti-shurtugal community is, it wouldn't have to exist. And there wouldn't be the stigma surrounding such a project because the original incarnation was just so rubbish. I guess having written "corrective" fanfic (or rather, anti-fanfic) for Paolini's world, I see the potential there. Just you'd have to be willing to make up your own lore, because his is lacking so much in depth and what little there is... er, stolen? And you'd also have to rehash the original characters completely into far more complex and interesting individuals, adding backstory and complexity and intrigue which wasn't there before. And of course, you'd need writers worth their salt. Probably the reason this has come up so much is because Skyrim and the IC share a lot of superficial details. Dragons, elves, swords and sorcery, voice-activated magic, Empire vs. Rebel conflict... there's rather a lot to pick out there.

Wondering how this would work. 1. What time period would it be set in? Before the Fall, during the books, or after the books? The first might be unpopular because of limited cameos (you'd be restricted to Brom, Morzan, Galbatorix, and Oromis, and their dragons... that's really about it). The second one might be difficult because of plotting (unless you would go through the main quest as Eragon, but that would deny the whole point of having an RPG as opposed to any other genre of game - Skyrim is great because you can do anything and no one is telling you what to do or who to be; you make up your own character). The third option might also be unpopular because of Inheritance spoilers, although by the time it comes out, I doubt that'll matter. 2. What would the main quest be? I'd presume you'd take up the role of a Dragon Rider and go from there, and choose races from the books. If you're not setting it in Eragon's time in the books, then you'd have to think up a completely different plot, with a new villain - possibly a shade Rider, or something completely original? You'd possibly have to make things up, since the IC's lore isn't as wide-reaching and as detailed as something like LotR or Star Wars. I think it'd be also good if you 3. What would the side quests be? I think a good idea would be following different canon characters and having several of those linked in. For example: 4. How on earth would combat work? You'd need to come up with dragon-back combat. Which'd be difficult to code, since you lack combat on horseback as it is. You'd need new weapons to do that effectively - swords are too short - you'd need something with reach like a halberd or a glaive or a lance (lances tend to be one-use only weapons though), as well as bows + magic. You could also translate some already existing Skyrim illusion/alteration spells and shouts which you only tend to use once into longer phrases. So like, Kyne's Peace could be turned into your typical 'I am a dragon rider and mean you no harm' that they tend to use to calm animals & mother nature down. You'd just change the magic-animation into a phrase said aloud. Aside from that, since you can use most magic and combat simultaneously, would choosing between being a mage and a warrior and a thief be somewhat arbitrary?