This is a draft of the Challenge. I’ll add pictures and clean up the lists etc. when i post the finished version ^^. I'm just looking for opinions on the whole premise of the Challenge. Feel free to question the choices we (me and a friend) made for the skills and suggest your own ideas, we took some time to balance everything for gameplay and roleplay sake but are open to changes (as long as it’s not just “make it that  because i like that skill” :D).

Ok here we go.

 

The Pantheon Challenge

 

This Challenge is focused around the Aedra and Daedra. You will receive a blessing which will open up certain perk trees and powers for you. It also determines the characters alignment (maybe).

You won't be able to take on quests or wield the Artifact of another divine or daedra, the blessings are designed with the artifacts in mind so to not give one blessing an advantage over the others since not every daedra has a powerful artifact (looking at you Nocturnal). You can also choose if you want to start with the blessing and explain it in your backstory or get it by doing something during the playthrough, like finishing a daedric quest or finding your faith for the divines etc.

 

Basic Roleplay rules apply but i think you all do this anyway:

- You need to sleep, eat and drink.

- No Fast Travel except for carriages.

- Limited carry weight.

- Limited Lockpicks and Arrows.

 

Suggest more basic rules if any come to mind ^^.

 

I was also pondering to add an optional Advanced Roleplay segment with things like, your blessing affects your Personality and such but i don't know how to approach that.

Ok with the introduction and the roleplay done let's get to the actual mechanics.

 

Recommended difficulty: Adept - Master

 

Mechanics

 

This Challenge is Permadeath.

 

You choose 2 Perk Trees, 1 Offensive and 1 Defensive/Supportive. If the Blessing already provides you with an Offensive Perk Tree then you can only take 2 Defensive or Supportive Perk Trees, this is purely for balance and to encourage you to not make yet another Stealth Archer (you will still be able to do it but without the extra sneak damage more about this below). You can only put points into the Perk Trees you have chosen and the ones your blessing gives to you.

 

Example: Talos’s Blessing (Yes he is considered a Divine for this Challenge) gives you the perk tree One-Handed, which is considered an Offensive Perk Tree, thus you will have to take 2 defensive or supportive Perk Trees. You can pick 1 Supportive and 1 Defensive or 2 supportive or 2 defensive Perk Trees, just not an Offensive one. In addition, you may only have up to 2 crafting Trees as to prevent overpowered gear.

 

You also can only use the Perk trees you have chosen, so if you have let’s say a blessing that gives you Alchemy and you chose One-Handed and Light Armor then you won't be able to use Destruction magic or a Bow. The only exceptions to this rule are Speechcraft and skills like it that rank up passively. It’s not like i could forbid you guys from going shopping or building a House ^^.

 

Some small Rules:

-Lockpicking is available to every character although you may only carry up to 5(?) lockpicks. Choosing Lock Picking as one of your Perk Trees or picking Nocturnal’s blessing will allow you to carry up to 20 picks.

 

-Staves and Scrolls may only be used by Characters that have access to one of the 5 Schools of Magic or Enchanting.

 

The Perk Tree categories

 

Offensive:

1 Tree Maximum (see rules above)

 

-One Handed   

-Two Handed    

-Archery

-Destruction

-Sneak (right side of the Tree only)

-Conjured Weapons

 

Defensive:

 

-Light Armor

-Heavy Armor

-Block

-Illusion

-Alteration

-Sneak (left side of the Perk Tree only)

-Restoration (Healing and Wards)

-Restoration (Turn Undead and Sun spells)

-Conjuration (Atromancy & Necromancy, No conjured weapons)

 

Supportive:

2 crafting Trees Max (see rules above)

 

-Lock Picking

-Pickpocketing   

-Speechcraft

-Alchemy

-Smithing

-Enchanting

 

The Blessings of the Aedra

 

1. Akatosh: Thu'um, Destruction

 

2. Mara: Restoration (Healing), Illusion (Buffs & Calm)

 

3. Zenithar: Speechcraft left side of the Tree), Smithing

 

4. Arkay: Restoration

 

5. Kynareth: Thu'um, Archery

 

6. Stendarr: Block, Restoration (Turn Undead, Sun Spells & Novice healing Spells Healing & Healing Hands)

 

7. Julianos: Enchantment, Alteration

 

8. Dibella: Speechcraft (right side of the Tree), Alchemy (Potions)

 

9. Talos: Thu’um, One Handed

 

You are allowed to wear the Necklace of your Aedra and use their shrine.

 

The Blessings of the Daedric Princes

 

1. Azura: Enchanting

 

2. Boethiah: Heavy Armor

 

3. Clavicus Vile: Speechcraft

 

4. Hermaeus Mora: Thu’um, Black Books

 

5. Hircine: Werwolf, Light Armor

 

6. Malacath: Two Handed

 

7. Mehrunes Dagon: Destruction

 

8. Mephala: Sneak (right side of the Tree)

 

9. Meridia: Restoration (Turn Undead & Sun Spells)

 

10. Molag Bal: Vampire Lord (any suggestions? We think this and his mace is strong enough.)

 

11. Namira: Necromancy, Conjured Weapons

 

12. Nocturnal: Pickpocketing, Lock Picking (20 lockpicks)

 

13. Peryite: Alchemy (poisons), Alteration

 

14. Sanguine: Conjuration (Atromancy), Conjured Weapons

 

15. Sheogorath: Illusion (no Courage Spells)

 

16. Vaermina: Sneak (left side of the Tree), Illusion (Fear spells)

You can use the Artefact of your chosen Daedra.

 

Ok thats all. I’m looking forward to your suggestions and opinions. ^^

Thanks! ^^ Yes the total is 2 chosen skills plus the ones you get from the blessing, i might have worded that a bit weird :D what i meant was you can only choose 2 skills, 1 offensive and 1 defensive. But if the blessing you chose gives you an Offensive skill then you can not choose an offensive skill along with it, you will habe to pick 2 of the other categories ^^ I'll give 2 example characters: Gryfore Darcel Breton Male Hircine's Blessing (ability to obtain Lycanthropy and the light armor skill) His chosen skills: Smithing and Twohanded. Brexius Cacades Imperial Male Malacath's blessing (The Two Handed skill chosen skills: Heavy Armor and smithing. Since Malacath gives this Character the Two Handed skill he will not be able to pick an offensive skill. We made this simply to restrict overpowered builds like sneak archer . I hope this was clearer ^^ And yes Please use mods, this challenge is great with mods. ^^

Exactly, mods like apocalypse or Phenderix could give alot more options but you would have to see for yourself what spells are appropiate, i dont think Mara would like it if you poison everyone :D. Yeah we didnt really know what to give Bal and all i really knew about him was his vampire making and the Daughters of Coldharbour spmo that seemed appropiate :D any idea for Namira?

Yeah Namira was probably the hardest, i picked necromancy for her because thats the only skill that fits the disgusting theme of her. I also considered using the spiders from Dragonborn but i never used them and i do t know how possible it is to use them as a major weapon. I would agree with the Alchemy point and it would be a nice fit if the spiders turn out usable. Peryite was also a challenge because we'll we have 1 poison spell, all we could think of was poisons for that aspect. Thats where mods could come in like phenderix which has multiple poison spells.

Yeah i might have overlooked that one, an idea i had was that you can use weapons just not put points into the skill tree. But i'm kinda hesitant to do that since sneak is just so overpowered. You dont really need any perks in one handed to one shot everything in existence. The bow is another story since you only get a small crit bonus. Any ideas to fix that?

Yes mods rely on thr player's on discretion. If you have a mod, that adds enough poison spells amd perks then feel free to exchange Alchemy (poison) with Restoration (poison), as long as you don't overdo it and just add 5 skills to a blessing because it "fits".

Maybe i can add a mod section where i can Show which blessings can be changed with mods.
For example im certain that there is a mod that adds nature spells like a locust swarm and such which is perfect for namira but i can't build everything around that since that would be a middle finger towards players like myself who don't have access to things like Ordinator, Perkus Maximus or Apocalypse.