Strife:Morrowind

How Strife came to be
The least important section; about me and how Strife came to be.

My name is Connor, I’m a masters mathematics UoE student that started making this in second year. I’m 21 (as of this version) love skating, climbing, and work out 6 days a week. One thing that takes the cake over all of those though is Elder Scrolls; I got into it through a friend when Oblivion came out (which remains my favourite game of all time to this day) and never looked back. When Skyrim came out I actually saw the trailer, and as an 11 year old I didn’t know it was a TES game so I thought it looked stupid, but nevertheless I saw Yogscast of all channels play it on early access and realised how cool it was, getting it for 2011 Christmas. Later on at ~16-18 years old I then got really into alternate games, emulating the DOS and not PC native TES games, and of course playing Morrowind. Morrowind (as is with most) was hard to get into but I eventually started properly playing it in 2020, loving the story wholeheartedly, which led me to asking my DnD group (now play testers) if they’d like to see a Morrowind based campaign from me. I chose Morrowind because of the story writing, base mechanics, ease of UESP access, that no-one but me knew the story so there would be no spoilers, and I could do Oblivion after. The morning after (21st September 2020), I’d made the first version in 3 hours and a Discord server for it, we sorted out schedules and started playing ~a week later, on Tuesdays. It has remained my love and passion project ever since!

My only wish with this free TTRPG is to have a platform to talk about it with just a few people from across the world if anyone is even interested. If there’s enough support then I may go through with making a dedicated Discord/Reddit page, and possibly even an ESO guild.

Why the name "Strife"?
Up until August 2021 we just called this Morrowind, but up coming up to release as I encompassed more games we needed a new name. I settled on Strife, because:
 * I feel the name reflects the gritty and bloody combat systems of Strife.
 * The word "strife" means conflict, or bitter disagreement, reflecting a lot of the settings of Elder Scrolls games.
 * "Strife" was an Imperial Board Game. Not only is this table top RPG a board game, but also Imperials played a large part in most if not all Elder Scrolls games. Further, Imperial politics and war strategies in large scales with lots of soldiers can also be described as a "game". A risky and bloody one at that, but nonetheless "played" on planning boards among nobles that may or may not even see the lives of the less fortunate fighting for them as a "game", alongside any immortals that may be watching...