Summary
In their long and storied history as developers, Bethesda Games has come out with a lot of games. The most notable being their suite of open-world RPGs: The Elder Scrolls series, the Fallout games, andthe sci-fi RPG Starfield. Though those games are quite different from each other thematically—fantasy forThe Elder Scrollsandsci-fi for Falloutand Starfield—broadly speaking, they share a lot in common.
As such, you might have noticed that the people who play these games tend to create the same characters over and over again. Whether it’s because they’re easy to play, hilarious to see in action, or both, these are the characters that everyone creates in Bethesda games.
7The Stealth Archer
Because of the safety it affords and the overall ease of the playstyle, many Skyrim players will opt to play a Stealth Archer at least once. Stealth is an easy mechanic to game, even if you don’t specialize in it, if you keep enemies at a distance.
The damage you deal with an unseen arrow is enough for most mook enemies, and even if the first arrow didn’t do them in, you’ll often get a second (third, or fifth) arrow in them before they ever find you.
Though this is mostly associated with Skyrim to the point of memedom, you can do a version of this in almost every Bethesda RPG, whether it’s with a bow, a silenced pistol, or a suppressed rifle.
6The Cowboy
The romance of the Old West never really goes away, especially among Americans. There’s just something about a desperado, a gunslinger who can shoot his way out of any trouble with a quick draw and a steely glare.
The Cowboy is most likely to be found in Obsidian’s masterpiece, Fallout: New Vegas, since it was specifically set in and themed around the American Southwest– saloons, revolvers, and all. But wherever there’s a way tospecialize in ballistics weapons and pistols, from the ruined wastelands of the United States to the stars themselves, The Cowboy will be there.
5The Smooth Talker
Not every conflict has to end in a bloody sword fight; not every disagreement has to end in a pile of bullet-ridden corpses, especially if you happen to be a Smooth Talker. Armed with a high Charisma and every speech-related skill under the sun, you can charm (or scare) the pants off of most people, or at least get them to lower their weapons if they’re not committed to violence.
However, if push comes to shove, you’re not a slouch in combat, either. You might not be the best shot (or sword hand), but depending on the game, your leadership-empowered companions can make short work of enemies, or your charm can distract foes enough for you to put them down. Or wild animals might randomly come to your aid in a fight like you’re some kind of wasteland Cinderella.
4The Movie Character
Bethesda games tend to have robust character creation and skill customization, further bolstered by an active modding scene. you’re able to tackle challenges in numerous ways, with builds and equipment allowing you to express your presence in the world.
…so, what better way to do so than as your favorite character? You can give yourself Ashley Williams’ heroic chin and penchant for boomsticks, or don a tuxedo and solve your issues with some smooth talk, subterfuge, and espionage like 007. Do you ever wonder what John Rambo would do in space or after the nuclear apocalypse? You can make it happen.
3The Walking Armory
You like always having the right tool for the job, and when the job is murder, you’re always prepared. With a high Strength and a mastery of every kind of firearm, you wield an assortment of weapons: pistols, shotguns, rifles, miniguns, portable nuclear launchers, and more.
Likely each of your armamentsis uniquely named, a rarity in your world, possessing special traits. Of course, it’s overkill, and any one of your weapons can pulverize 90 percent of your enemies. And none of them will help you against your greatest foe: the carrying capacity limit.
2The Assassin
You’re a master of death, and when you’re done, all that’s left is a pile of corpses and silence. Like the Stealth Archer, you operate mostly in stealth, but unlike them, you’ve taken it to an art form.
While you might snipe from time to time in the interest of ease and thinning out the herd, you do most of your work up close, taking advantage of the greater damage multiplier of a dagger than an arrow. Or to apply an insidious poison up close.
While you’ll need to be more careful than an Archer to not get caught, your effectiveness isn’t limited to mooks, and even bosses can be brought low with your specialized skills.
1The Master Crafter
Not only do you like to have the best tools for the job, but you also believe that if you want a job done right, you gotta do it yourself. Either that or you find that the crafting system of your Bethesda game is particularly exploitable. You might not be the best at wielding your gear, but if your gear is the best, what does that matter?
The Master Crafter specializes in the various item creation skills Bethesda games have to offer. Through crafting, you’re able to make yourself some truly astounding weapons and armor, even improving (or at least customizing) legendary pieces you find in the world. In the single-player Elder Scrolls games, Masters Alchemistscan make some powerful brews, making potions that briefly make you a living god and poisons that will have enemies choking to death on their own blood in seconds.
