Playable Nord Elder Race

This would be extra fun while wearing an amulet of Mara.

4 minutes ago, Nessa said:

This would be extra fun while wearing an amulet of Mara.

"Hey, Sweet Thang! Just 'cuz there's snow on the roof don't mean I ain't got heat in the furnace!"

1 hour ago, Nessa said:

This would be extra fun while wearing an amulet of Mara.

Especially disturbing in my game since I made the female potential spouses hot,

22 minutes ago, Kendo 2 said:

Especially disturbing in my game since I made the female potential spouses hot,

Well yeah, otherwise they're all trolls.

After having mastered the ways of the voice Force, Tolfdir's long lost twin brother Tobi (aka. Tobi-Wan Kenobi the Jarl of Tatooine) finally returns to Skyrim as a Jedi Master... Spells and Abilities: Call Servant (to bring food), Conjure Viagra (you never know), Conjure (female) Housecarl (not available until he finds one), Conjure Ewok (for distraction) and Conjure Java (to pick up the loot) and Jedi Mind Tricks (for speech checks). Unfortunately for him, his lightsaber was confiscated by the Imperial authorities at the customs, so he will have to build a new one, to do so he'll need two flawless gems (depending on the LS color you want), two steel ingots, three blabla and something else he keeps forgetting...

On a serious note, most quests and dialogues in Skyrim assume that the player is quite young, so playing as an old guy would either be quite annoying or quite immersion breaking, or both, e.g. hearing Brynjolf calling you "lad".

4 hours ago, bjornk said:

On a serious note, most quests and dialogues in Skyrim assume that the player is quite young, so playing as an old guy would either be quite annoying or quite immersion breaking, or both, e.g. hearing Brynjolf calling you "lad".

Practically everyone in Skyrim is inept/corrupt/arrogant/oblivious to the point of stupidity.  The instances of the game breaking immersion when I'm playing as a NORD are too many to count.

My top instance as a vanilla race: The Companions have never heard of me even though I'm Thane in three cities (including the one they're in) and I defeated Alduin.  Bards sing about me but I'm not famous?  At least I can take cunt Vilkas outside and one-shot him with my dragonbone greatsword enchanted with fire and paralyzation.

Anyway. I played this character through all of the main quest and the college up to when the Anomalies attack Winterhold.  There weren't any extra instances of immersion breaking.  In fact, playing as an old geezer allowed me to head canon that there has to be something in the water because all these people are idiots.

Which voice set does he use? The default MaleEvenToned wouldn't fit this guy, unfortunately, I don't think the "old guy" voice (e.g. Windhelm court wizard) has matching "shouts" for that voice.

5 minutes ago, bjornk said:

Which voice set does he use? The default MaleEvenToned wouldn't fit this guy, unfortunately, I don't think the "old guy" voice (e.g. Windhelm court wizard) has matching "shouts" for that voice.

The race uses base game Nord Race presets so whatever voice the preset has in the CK (Male even toned or Male Nord) that's what they have ingame.  I used the PC Headtrackng mod to assign him the old kindly voice and the shout sounds worked.  I use that mod for vanilla race characters as well.  Can't have a 6'3" Amazonian Nord valkyrie using any other voice but Martina Lotun's.

10 hours ago, Kendo 2 said:

My top instance as a vanilla race: The Companions have never heard of me even though I'm Thane in three cities (including the one they're in) and I defeated Alduin.  Bards sing about me but I'm not famous? 

Heh, you know I always assumed (stupidly) that if I tried for those idiots at a higher level with more fame the dialog would change. Right. Bethsoft. What was I thinking?

I like the references to cash. Or other stupid modern vernacular that makes no sense.

I also love playing as an elf and literally nobody but the bandits seem to even notice.

In Bethesda's idiotic mind the Dragonborn character is a young male Nord. Not old, not female, not anything else. That's the only character that fits every situation in the game and most likely the one they used to design the game around and everything else added later as basically an afterthought. Imagine joining the Companions as an "elf" to help them retrieve the "Elf Killer", or joining the Stormcloaks as a "Dark Elf" or "Argonian", or playing as a Khajiit to be made a thane of a hold, while no one else of your race is even allowed to come in, playing as a high elf to fight against them etc. etc... I usually play as a Breton and no other Breton in the game recognizes me as such, neither the ones from High Rock, nor the local Forsworn. Even the fact that the Forsworn was put in the game as an enemy faction proves that you are not meant to be a Breton. You are to play the game as a YOUNG MALE NORD, and NOTHING ELSE if you want things to make some sense.

And I disagree with @Kendo 2 on playing an old guy not being immersion breaking, cause even though I'm fairly good at role-playing characters, suspending my disbelief etc. getting called as "lad", "whelp" etc. as an old guy would kill it for me, would be on the same level as playing the game as Alduin.

Those are poor examples from a poorly written game.  Brynjolf calls a 200 yr old elf PC lad or lass.  He even calls Karliah 'lass' and not only is she 170 yrs older than him, she outranks him.  As for the Companions, any of the members who aren't in the Circle (ie werewolves) are whelps, newbloods or younglings.  That includes the old drunk in leather armor and Vignar Gray Mane.

Realistically, I made the mod for myself so you shitting on it has zero effect.  It is what it is.

I'm not shitting on your mod or whatever that is, just talking about why I wouldn't play as an old guy in the game, i.e. my personal opinions. I'm not an NPC in the game, unlike them I have opinions on things happening in the game. Karliah may be 170 years older than Brynjolf but she clearly isn't an "old lady". As for companions, it's not just being called a whelp, which by the way, is still ridiculous cause you may have joined them as a much higher level character than any of them, after slaying Alduin, Miraak etc., but their disrespectful tone that accompanies it is what would annoy me. Why would you want to do their errands as an old guy? Take my sword to the blacksmith, take this shield to that cunt... I would want to tell them to fuck off if I was an old guy, so it wouldn't work for me. If you are okay with these kind of crap, good for you, I'm not judging or anything.

I have no issues with the idea of playing as an old guy in a role-playing game in general, but for Skyrim in particular, I think that would be utterly ridiculous, if not laughable. None of the kill/fetch quests would make any sense in the game, cause what kind of a douche would send an old guy to a dangerous ruin filled with god knows what to kill/fetch some shit? The guy might even forget what he was supposed to do there on the way. Or if some 70 year old wanted to join the Imperial or Stormcloak army they'd most likely laugh their ass off at the idea. Again, my personal opinion.

Edit:

Not to sound like a hypocrite, I must add that I often play this game as a female Breton. Does it make sense? No, and you occasionally realize that the game expects you to be "a guy". When, for instance, some douche bag of a guy wants to prove his "strength" by beating you (a woman) in a fist fight. You can play the game as a mudcrab if you want, but the more you deviate from the character the game expects you to be (a young male Nord) the number of immersion breaking and annoying instances like this will no doubt increase. It's just a matter of how much of it you can tolerate.