11-05-2003, 10:36 PM
Well, in my experience, you can join and get by in just about as many factions as you want. Now, I haven't gone down the Magic route very far yet, nor have I found a way to join the Camonna Tong, but I suspect that you are right. The only big no-no is don't join two different houses, but then, the game won't let you.
Oh, and a word of advice: If you're going to work for the Mages guild, build up you Speechcraft and Security skills, since 90% of what they want you to do involves stealing. Then, build up your Armor and Weapon skills, since they'll go from having you steal alchemical recipes worth about 200 septims to going toe-to-toe with groups of Daedroths and Dremoras. Yeah, they care about you that much. *snort*
Of course, mabye you can make the mage thing work, but I found that I just don't have the patience to sit there and cast fireballs at the horizon until I level. Oh, and if you join house Telvanni, get the Tribunal expansion pack, since the fourth of fifth quest you get sent on is broken. Yeah, that's right, broken. Unless you're a very good thief, which I wasn't.
WARNING: SPOILER
The broken quest is to get the Staff of Silver Dawn from someone in the Wolverine Hall Mage's Guild. So when you go ask around, the mages say, "why yes, I think Arielle has one." So you go and ask Arielle about it, and what does she say?
"Why yes, I think Arielle has one."
C'mon, I at least expected a mages duel or an upturned nose, but speaking of yourself in the third person? You need to lay off the skooma, lady.
Now, I wasn't a terribly mighty mage, nor was I a very good thief. Therefore, I did not try to kill everyone in the Mages Guild (the ones in Balmora are powerful enough, and this is Wolverine Hall we're talking about), nor did I try to pick her pocket, given that my Security skill was *5*. You might be able to get somewhere with those routes, but chatting is absolutely pointless.
So saying, don't piss off too many of the Houses too much, because later on...well, you'll see, Saint Ne...er...Warlocke.
Hee hee
-Loki
Oh, and a word of advice: If you're going to work for the Mages guild, build up you Speechcraft and Security skills, since 90% of what they want you to do involves stealing. Then, build up your Armor and Weapon skills, since they'll go from having you steal alchemical recipes worth about 200 septims to going toe-to-toe with groups of Daedroths and Dremoras. Yeah, they care about you that much. *snort*
Of course, mabye you can make the mage thing work, but I found that I just don't have the patience to sit there and cast fireballs at the horizon until I level. Oh, and if you join house Telvanni, get the Tribunal expansion pack, since the fourth of fifth quest you get sent on is broken. Yeah, that's right, broken. Unless you're a very good thief, which I wasn't.
WARNING: SPOILER
The broken quest is to get the Staff of Silver Dawn from someone in the Wolverine Hall Mage's Guild. So when you go ask around, the mages say, "why yes, I think Arielle has one." So you go and ask Arielle about it, and what does she say?
"Why yes, I think Arielle has one."
C'mon, I at least expected a mages duel or an upturned nose, but speaking of yourself in the third person? You need to lay off the skooma, lady.
Now, I wasn't a terribly mighty mage, nor was I a very good thief. Therefore, I did not try to kill everyone in the Mages Guild (the ones in Balmora are powerful enough, and this is Wolverine Hall we're talking about), nor did I try to pick her pocket, given that my Security skill was *5*. You might be able to get somewhere with those routes, but chatting is absolutely pointless.
So saying, don't piss off too many of the Houses too much, because later on...well, you'll see, Saint Ne...er...Warlocke.
Hee hee
-Loki
"How heroic. How compassionate. How selfless. I think I'm going to be sick."
-Skeletorr, the new HE-MAN
-Skeletorr, the new HE-MAN