Yay, an introduction thread! I feel I need this to ask awkward questions and such.

Hi, I’m Aramithius. I’ve been playing Morrowind on and off since 2004, and have loved this project from afar for ages (since the release of Map 2, I think?). I also frequent the /r/teslore reddit and the Bethesda forums, ever and anon.

I’ve started playing Morrowind again recently, and caught Zhakaron’s interview with the TR editorial team. I have very little (read: practically nothing) in the way of modding experience, but would love to be a quest writer. I’m particularly interested in what being a member of the Temple and House Dres would be like (not necessarily at once), so that’s where I’d like to start.

My main ideas at this stage are fleshing out the factions at the lower levels. I had the idea that for Dres anyone would have to work their way in until they found enough information out about the House that they would be accepted in Dres society. As Dres also feels like a very honour/face-based society, as an outlander they can do things that full House members can’t. So it would be things like smuggling goods around for a particular member, being an intermediary for some less savoury characters, screwing over your patron’s enemies and being a source of plausible deniablilty (“it wasn’t me, it was the filthy outlander!”), after a few getting shown a few of the House rituals so that you’d be accepted into House gatherings and could earn honour either by tales of your exploits, shows of strength and/or displays of loyalty to the house or your patron. Getting higher up would then involve the political machinations of the House, which would then require choosing a clan to go with. If it’s not already settled, this would require choosing which clan and then having customised quests depending on their nature. I imagine quests up to this point would be fairly generic in nature, as I imagine Dres would mostly see outlanders in the same way – as tools or things to be ignored.

In terms of the temple, I see this mostly as playing politics with the Great Houses and trying to keep the Temple “pure” from House influence. Away from the sacred area of Vvardenfel, I imagine that things are a bit more procedural in the mainland, with quests around securing passage for pilgrims to and from various sites, management of holy artefacts (ie trying to get them away from the other Houses), overseeing burials (and their mishaps!) etc.

Before I start on anything, is there somewhere where can we see what quests have already been completed, so that I’m not redoing/conflicting with stuff that’s already been done? I’m happy to get up to my elbows in Construction Kit to find out, but if there’s a quicker way (and particularly for stuff that’s not been released yet) that would be great. And beyond that, is it just post up quest dialogue and descriptions to see what people think?

CUE THE TRUMPETS

I have truly arrived. I know... I know... You're all very excited to finally meet me. 

I'm sure you've heard it all before but I have been lurking around for a long time... yada, yada, yada... and I've been there and done that... yada, yada, yada... and I'm all wonderful and perfect... yada, yada, yada...

My name is Kate the Bionic Uterus (ktbu) but you can call me Kate or She-Ra Princess of Power

Just remember this one rule and we'll get along purrrfectly: 1) No disagreeing with me when I am right. Which is always.

RELAX... relax... I'm a professional and I do this for fun <3

Currently I am working on a new race mod, I recently replaced some trees in TR and I am always messing around with mgeXE shaders. 

See ya around dem boards

Hi… GNOMEY? HEHEHE fun nic name

Oh those little yellow trees?.. It was nothing really, I am going through TR making a list of stuff that just doesn’t look right. I just assume everybody does that

Thanks for the kind welcome.

Cheers ~Kate

I’m not sure if “I” can do everything but nevertheless I am making a list. For example the other day I was in the Fire Library and I noticed that the bricks were real old… they were put on the list. I also noticed some weird looking plants in Necrom and it made the list. It is my firts time playing TR after years of watching the project so I have lots to see before anything else gets done. I’ll tackle the easy stuff first as I go along or stuff that just bugs me so much that I am compelled to fix it right away… like the trees. The next thing that is getting done right away is the ground textures.Here is a test picture of a grass ground texture I am testing. 

Oh look, I finally found the Introductions thread! XD My name is Ana, I’m 27 and first played Morrowind when I was in high school more than 10 years ago. I dabbled a bit in modding back then although everything I made was purely personal and probably wouldn’t have been useful to anyone else. I did quite a bit of editing of dialogue for the main game and mods, simply because typos and errors bugged me to no end lol! I spent a lot of time reading in-game books and diving into the lore. After that, I played Oblivion and Skyrim, but the experience was never as in-depth and unique as Morrowind, so I’ve come back to it several times over the years. I attempted to play some of the older games, but the gameplay wasn’t to my liking.

I’ve done a lot of things over the years that helped me acquire skills that I think would be beneficial to this project. First and foremost, I’m a writer, and I take special care to make sure my dialogue sounds natural, so hopefully I can be of some use with quests, general dialogue, or even books. I have a little experience with coding of a few different types. I’ve been using Photoshop since I was a kid, so I’m pretty good at that. I have a tablet as well but I prefer to draw traditionally. For the past couple years, I’ve been modding for The Sims, and I learned how to mess with meshes via Blender. I don't have quite enough skill to be able to make good-looking meshes from scratch, but at least I can reduce polys and make UV maps. Other than that, I’m probably not the most knowledgeable about the lore, but I have a deep interest in it, particularly cultural and mythological aspects of the mer and beast races. Ashlanders and Khajiit are my favorite.

As you can see, I’m sort of a jack-of-all-trades but master of none type, so I’ll probably stick to concepts and discussion for now. If anyone has anything they need a bit of help with, I'd love to help! I’m just not quite confident enough to take on a project of my own yet. But hopefully that will change eventually! Even if it doesn’t, I’m glad to be here and watch   the process of mod creation on this scale. :D   

Oh that is a good idea… i think I’ll do that. Cheers

Hi! We don’t actually have any interiors up for claiming at the moment, unfortunately. We could, however, certainly use more reviewers to look over existing interiors for errors and get them ready for merging.

Oops, I should have been clearer: if you’re interested in becoming a reviewer, the first step is to make an interior showcase. Once it’s been approved, just contact Seneca37.

As far as NPCs are concerned, we currently handle dialogue on the forums, here. (There are no dialogue threads there at the moment, though, as we’ve fairly recently moved from our old forums). Feel free to start a thread there if you’ve got dialogue ideas. At the moment we do not handle placing NPCs as individual claims.

Scripting knowledge is always welcome, but by nature is handled on commission, so unfortunately there’s probably not too much work there either at the moment.

Welcome back! Observing (and naturally contributing) to TR has certainly taught me a lot. I just hope the lessons you take away from it will be of the what to do variety rather than the what not to do variety, as historically there has been a lot of the latter.

Hi all, I’m FifthEstate. Browsing through this forum has been immensely gratifying for me, it’s clear there is a variety of ages and lifestyles drawn to this wonderful game (and the TR Project). That’s foreign to me, as most people in talk to IRL give me an odd look when I tell them my favorite game is an RPG from 2002. It’s very exciting prospect to be part of this community. 

This will be the first TES related forum I’ve made an account on, barring a few contributions to /r/teslore’s immense Apogrypha of fan-made content. I’ve tossed the idea of joining TR for months now, but when I heard the TR team’s callout for quest writers during Zhakaron interview, I decided it was time. IRL I’m studying a writing concentration at an American university, so this would be a valuable opportunity for me to flex my creative thinking muscles. If you still need public relations help I’m happy to lend a hand; I have experience writing articles, managing social media, and broadcasting. I don’t have modding experience, although I download the Steam patch for the Creation Kit today along with a modding manual I’ll probably skim through in my free time. I assume it’d be best for everyone I stick to words, at least for the time.

I’ll start brainstorming some Dres/Temple content while I get a feel for the forums. Last note: Thank you all for making such an amazing addition to the game. I’ve spent a lot of time on the mainland, you’ve all done some amazing work.

Thank you for the encouraging words, 10Kaziem! I didn’t see a PR dedicated thread, but I’m willing to make the time to attend one of the Discord/Skype meetings or chat on the IRC channel about what the current PR operation is and how I could possibly get involved. 

In the meantime, I’ll start generating a couple ideas for the Quest & Dialogue forum. Are there any specific locations/factions/individuals that the team is currently focused on at the moment?

As far as I know, we’re still looking for some quests for the Thirr River Region, which has primarily Indoril and some Hlaalu and Imperial influences. We are also starting the planning for the Deshaan Plains, a Dres dominated area.