Daggerfall Character Creation Guide Remake

[samuraiwarrior87]

did boilerplate only have a character build for daggerfall or did he do arena as well

[jkewl360]

Why have backstabbing without sneak or archery?

[Ultraminiman]

I have a character that I made some time ago with the help of Boileplate's guide. I believe it's identical to the one he made.

Primary skills: Long Blade, Critical Strike and Dodging.

Major skills: Restoration, Medical and Thaumaturgy.

Minor skills: Alteration, Destruction, Illusion, Mysticism, Running and Stealth.

Special advantages: Athleticism, Increased magery 3x and Expertise in Long Blade.

Special disadvantages: Critical weakness to Paralysis, Poison and Disease.

[Ultraminiman]

@Ultraminiman On second thought I don't think Boilerplate used Critical weakness to Paralysis, it's kind of an exploit since High Elves are already immune to Paralysis.

[Abramisen]

I wouldn't suggest this character. It makes the game way too easy and takes away all the fun.

[Gforcebond]

you forgot to add the max hit ponts per level to 20+ he suggested he never makes a character below 20. You had the default 8. I think he added another special disadvantage to that to even out the level meter.

[TheUltimaChocobo]

I've used this build a lot. It's really goooooood.

[calibokina]

Thanks a lot for uploading this. I also believe he mentioned adding a critical weakness to paralysis though - since High Elves are immune. :P Not 100% sure though!

[thor8808]

@calibokina

You may be right :/ at least I'll set some people in the right direction.

[calibokina]

@thor8808 Yeah it's sort of minor though. Plus, you can always add an annotation :)

[PaganusLusitani]

how can you look up and down on this game? i'm playing daggerfall for the first time now but i'm still not very handy with the controls

[christianmulley]

It's a real shame Boilerplate turned into a butthurt douche.

Good job for making this guide!

[MagistrateOIFY]

@christianmulley He probably got sick of all the butthurt "True RPG" morrowind fans ragging on oblivion like daggerfall never happened.

[thor8808]

@MagistrateOIFY

Who actually cares, though? It's intense that people get that worked up over entertainment products...

[MagistrateOIFY]

@thor8808 Lol, fair point.

[wowsnav]

why would you go short blade and backstabbing when long blade has tons of better weapons? pretty sure boilerplate had long blades

[thor8808]

@wowsnav

I think I say in the video that it doesn't really matter what weapon you choose. Go ahead and use longblades, haha :)

[MrDarkShadow64]

Impressive. I played DF when it first came out and just recently revisited. I always preferred the "Battlemage" type of character - custom designed of course. This gives me new ideas and another perspective - thank you. DF just has that "something" that modern RPGs lack - I wish they would remake it to run on modern systems with better graphics and maybe multiplayer.

[subzero1456]

If anyone want's to play daggerfall and don't like dosbox there's a guy making a program to play daggerfall on modern computers as well as adding stuff that they meant to add but never got in. Look up dagerxl

[omgalreadyinuse]

high elf rogue?? wat

[lusteraliaszero]

@omgalreadyinuse the strongest build is never what you expect. just look at Arcanum, ogre battlemage is easily one of the strongest builds.

[FateJHedgehog]

I always thought Imps cast Sphere of Negation but, after just checking, I am disappointed to find they do not. Curse you, Imps.

[anunwiseone]

I've never had any problems with the Imps, honestly, I've only recently found out that they're bothersom. I was shocked.

[RockyJemane]

buggerfall... no thanks

[thor8808]

@RockyJemane

Bugs are pretty easy to avoid :) Don't let them ruin the game for you :)

[Cassyan]

damn, i miss boilerplate's videos. good job on this one, too

[thor8808]

Thanks :)

Yeah, his whole RPG series is gone :(

[BebopMagnum7]

*thumbs up*

I miss boilerplate's videos :(

[Razielim423]

If you don't want to be a high elf there's an advantage that let's you immune to paralysis. I just balanced this out with disadvantages that forbid certain weapon types since I only use long blade and I forbid shield types since I don't use shields just dai-katanas. Also I put a weakness to disease since cure disease spells are easy to get. I just don't like high elves so I figured I'd share what I did to be another race for anyone else who'd rather be something else too. :-)

[Razielim423]

thank you for the build :-)

[thor8808]

No problem :D

[gyromancy2]

I have Boilerplate's original old character creation video on my computer. Do you guys want me to upload it to my channel??

[thor8808]

It's up to you :)

[H4xR0x]

This is very good, but I do not recall the backstabbing skill to be in there.

[thor8808]

Interesting - do you remember what might of replaced it?

[H4xR0x]

I'm not too sure sadly.

[thor8808]

Hmm... well if you remember, be sure to let me know :)

[TheEarPlugs]

your voice isn't annoying.

[thor8808]

Haha, thanks. But with me being a teenager, hopefully the Daggerfalls vets won't mind it too much :)

[HardWarUK]

You, my friend, have provided a public service and should be very proud of yourself! I am just starting (another!) play of Daggerfall and had forgotten some of the 'tricks'! I came looking for Boilerplate's vid and found your remake - a very well done Sir!!!

[thor8808]

Thank-you very much :D

Yeah, I dunno what I'd do without this build, and I thought that other people might feel the same way, so I just decided to throw it together :D