Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-32308762-20180928191336

So first of all, this is not something that i think should necessarily be prioritized right now. I am mostly interested to discuss the idea, and put it on the table. (i haven't seen anybody say this idea before, but if somebody has i apologize in advance)

Let me begin by telling the reasons this would be useful 1. immersion. Currently the mod spawns you in the shire and people talk of you as a man of the north. For a lot of people this is fine, but especially on multiplayer, not all players want to be exactly that. Many players want to be elves, dwarves, orcs, haradrim and so on. But in the current game, it just kinda forces an identity onto you. 2. more immersion. Lets say you want to be an orc of Mordor, who will SLAY ALL HUMANS! But then an orc calls you man flesh, and kills you. Because of your human identity you need to get 100 alignment with Mordor, and 50 with Mirkwood or they attack you. This, again, kinda ruins immersion for people who wants to play as elves or orcs. 3. visual-ish. So... this one is not as important, but i feel its worth it to bring it up. If you play on different servers (PLUS different mods (PLUS PLUS non-modded)) and you want to play as completely different characters (yeah, this is mostly for roleplayers) its hard to have a skin which fits all. (quite literately when it comes to orc helmets. badum tsss) Also its wierd to have human in dwarf armor leading dwarf army.

and now MY MAGICAL SOLUTION A character creator let me tell you what it would allow 1. It would spawn you in a logical area. It doesn't make sense for a thaurethim to spawn in the shire. 2. race-picking. The ability to choose who you are, this would affect general looks like height, ears, skin color and so on. 3. even more **customization**. it would let you pick stuff like skin hue, eye color, hair color, hair style, beards, and so on (to a lore-accurate degree of course) 4. npc's reinforcing that sweet immersion. ok, this one would maybe take some time for the speechbank people. tho they could do general stuff like, if you're dalish most npc's would just call you human, but only woodland, erebor, and dale would acknowledge that you're dalish. 4.5. more npc immersion. orcs don't attack orc player (unless theres a skirmish or something) unless they provoked, on the other side any enemy of mordor would most likely attack you without provoking. 5. the possibility to be an orc on one server, and elf on another. this one explains it self

and if you still even slightly understand how this would look i made this example picture



(yeah, its only an example to show kinda how it would look) (ALSO it would not be ELF, it would be subraces and stuff like that) (ALSO ALSO yeah, i know it says M but its a girl) (ALSO ALSO ALSO doesnt this random picture i found fit pretty well? it shows both elves and lothlorien)   