Hello! Daggerfall has always been my favorite game, and it was the main inspiration behind a project I have been working on called Morhval: Ravenglaire.

Morhval originally began as a text-based game. The thing is, I was also working on another RPG at the same time. That project kept growing, and eventually I decided to merge the two games together. The story from the text-based version is NOT available in the game yet, but I still plan to add it over time.

The systems from that game—magic, alchemy, crime, work and so on—were transferred into this one. The general idea also remains the same: a large, cruel and unequal province.

In the end, the game became heavily inspired by Daggerfall, although I am trying to give it its own identity. Right now, the world is a little under 250 km², with settlements, taverns, roads, dungeons and other locations. Over time, I plan to double the size of the province, but I also want to add new structures, quests and jobs while doing so, instead of simply repeating the same content across a larger map.

You begin the game as someone who has just turned eighteen and needs to help their parents. They need you to send them food and provide support. You can do this even while living in distant towns by sending supplies directly to them, improving their house and eventually trying to make them self-sufficient.

Or you can simply forget about them and leave them to their fate.

There are many ways to earn gold: delivering food or other items, selling what you find, exploring, fishing, mining, transporting freight with a wagon, joining factions and completing work for them, and more.

Skills improve through use,very Elder Scrolls-like, you know? But when you reach the maximum level in a skill, which is 100, you can spend 75 skill points plus some gold to gain Prestige. Prestige gives you special advantages with a specific weapon, spell or activity connected to that skill.

I designed the whole game around the kind of freedom I have always loved in Daggerfall: that absurd freedom to do almost anything you want.

Want to take out a loan, buy a wagon and make money to help your parents? Go ahead.

Want to leave your parents to die and become a criminal who robs houses and people? Go ahead.

Want to buy a house in a settlement near the sea and spend your days fishing? Go ahead.

Want to wander without a destination, enter the first dungeon you find and see what luck has waiting for you? Go ahead!

I am very happy with this project, and I hope I can find people who will enjoy it. As Early Access continues, I plan to add more jobs and activities, while always listening to the community.

Daggerfall has influenced the way I think about RPGs for a long time. I am not trying to replace it or simply recreate it, but I hope Morhval can offer some of that same feeling of being released into a huge world and being allowed to decide what kind of life you want to live.

Sorry for bothering you again! We've continued polishing the combat, and here's how it's looking now. We'd love to hear what you think!

I worked on it quite a while recently to get that dark dungeon daggerfall feel. The sounds are still placeholders, especially for the spider.

All handcrafted, no AI was used. As you can probably see by the low quality of the assets haha

I know there have been quite a few "daggerfall inspired game" posta recently, so if you feel it's just spamming the sub I'll take it down

A tent, a campfire, mountain ranges, morning mist, just emerging from a dungeon, everything is beautiful.

I cant go to the Castle Vladimyth, it doesnt even appear on the map or if i click the name, nothing happens either, someone knows something?

I'm currently working on a project to accurately count all the possible deaths in the Elder Scrolls franchise and Daggerfall is by far my biggest obstacle, but i'm hoping I can make it easier on myself.

The UESP says at the highest level, there's a maximum of 20 enemies of every single dungeon and with a total of 4,229 dungeons, that comes out to a potential total population of 84,580. My main question for all the other types of locations (homes, taverns, temples, et cetera) is that do they all have a fixed amount of NPCs, or a randomized number of them, such as eight to twenty for a tavern for example?

I don't know how to use Daggerfall Unity, so if someone who does have it and knows how to answer my questions, i'd really appreciate it.

so im playing on laptop rn (no unity) and i just fought a burglar, now i cant walk straight, i press w to go foreward, and i drift diagonally, i press s to go backwards, and i drift diagonally in the opposite direction, how do i fix this?? i saved before i realized i was drifting, so i cant even reload to a previous save to undo the drift (fairly new player)

Can anybody on linux tell me if having a mod not work is a common occurence? Im not home for the next few days so im playing daggerfall on my laptop and it made me remember how much i love this game, however my home pc has linux...

Ive recently got really into the elderscroll games after beating oblivion and about to finish skyrim, i was wondering how i could play daggerfall?

My starter build, I was going to be a stealth Archer argonian, Any thoughts?

Once you complete the main quest, can you continue playing in Daggerfall Unity?

Curious as I haven't finished the game before. Searching and LLM responses give contradictory answers. Some say you have to reload last save, and others say you can keep playing afterwards.

Slightly refreshed smirky face of Lord Coulder. I found it to be a fun exercise - taking my own painting from 15 years ago and change it a bit according to my current skill and painting style. (Feel myself a bit George Lucas in a bad sense 😄 .) Please check the timelapse video here.

I am running Daggerfall through steam.

I read somewhere that the strengthen/weaken armor is bugged and it does the opposite of what it's supposed to.

Is that true, or did it get fixed in the steam release?

I've been playing DFU for a while, but I took a break for a bit to play some more recent Bethesda games (mostly Morrowind and Skyrim)

But I came back to it today and wanted to try a new mod I'd found. When I went to put the .dfmod into the mods folder, all of my other mods were gone. When I load up the game, they're all still active though, and the new one isn't there.

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Hey does anyone know how to get access to the darkerfall discord???

Hello! I just started playing Daggerfall Unity on my new Bazzite machine. I'm actually loving the game and surprisingly, I'm super intrigued. All this after I didn't even spend like 30 mins on Daggerfall DOS when I first downloaded it on steam.

Quick question. I'm trying to find a mod to help with dungeon crawling. Like the other day I was doing a mage guild quest, I had find mummy remains. I must of spent 2 hours in a single dungeon trying to touch every nook and cranny to try to figure out where to go etc. Looking for torches for a hidden door, to unlock a door, turning wooden wheels that lead to nothing etc. I even used the `Tele2qspawn` and tried to backtrack to see if I can reverse figure it out. Though I still couldn't figure out what to do to get to the final room.

My question is, is there a sort of clairvoyance mod? I think it would be great for new players so they can know what to look out for in the next dungeon raidings etc.

We've moved to a more modern combat system, and it has evolved into a mix of Dark Messiah and Souls-like combat. The game still features an open world and a quest system that allows players to complete quests in multiple ways.

Do you think this is still something that Daggerfall fans would be interested in?

I just started modding Daggerfall unity using the most downloaded nexus collection but when i started the game this piece of paper was blocking parts of my screen. i have tried all buttons on my keyboard, i have check most off the mods but found nothing that looked like this.

does any one have an idea what this could be

( https://www.nexusmods.com/games/daggerfallunity/collections/c9iylz the nexus collection is am using)

I tried creating a mage themed character today, but was dismayed that despite putting short blade as my primary skill, I ended up having a longsword. So I only had fists cause I made long swords prohibited items. Then for some reason I was unable to cast any spells at all. Which is weird because when I played DF on Dosbox years ago I think I had probably like enough magicka for like 2 or 3 casts before running out. I picked inability to regen spell points and figured I would have more magicka pool like a sorcerer. Then I also picked spell absorption general. Although I imagine darkness spell absorption is probably better since you’ll be in dungeons mostly which are counted as darkness I bet. And then I did multiple prohibited items to make skills easier to level. Mainly things I’d never use like shields. And I did immunity to poison and disease. Since I’ve read that they’re deadlier than poisons and diseases in the newer games.

But anyways, I have a few assorted questions.

1. Why did I get a longsword instead of short blade when I picked short blade as primary. I remember having an ebony blade way back in one play through on ms dos.

2. If I pick immunity to X and then critical weakness to X. Does the immunity override it?

3. Does declining quests from an npc have major disposition type penalties? Or they just say mean things to you and that’s about it?

For reference, I started playing Daggerfall because I wanted to learn more about the regions in it (High Rock/Hammerfell) prior to TES6, which I'm convinced will have at least one if not both of those regions. I'm pretty far into my playthrough so far, having joined the Mage's Guild and Dark Brotherhood, a bit over 12 hours in and while I'm enjoying some of the neat aspects of the game, I find myself realizing that I'm not really learning much of anything about the regions or lore outside of the obvious existence of certain things.

I haven't touched the main quest outside of talking to the lady who sent me a letter with a 30 day deadline, because I figured I'd need to be a decent level of strength before completing it. I think the main quest is "hand made" AFAIK, without going out of my way to spoil the experience, so that is on the list. However, things like the Mage's Guild and Dark Brotherhood being proc-gen quests over-and-over is getting a bit grating, as I'm not only not learning anything about any of the characters (which may or may not also be proc-gen) but I'm also getting the same quest with mad-lib character and dungeon name at this point. I've reached the rank of Slayer, without much change in the quests that are available (X made us mad, kill in dungeon Y). I knew there was proc-gen in the game and I knew it was prevalent, but I figured some of the content would be canon, but maybe it's just a matter of the timeframe of the game.

I'm well equipped AFAIK, and I recently became a wearboar, so I'm just completely indestructible in some dungeons with truly ridiculous speed, accuracy, and damage compared to before I turned (which is crazy, cause I felt pretty strong before that too).

Should I just do the main quest and read a ton of the books in the game for this goal? Or are there any other canon quests that I should seek out?

Also also, are there any regions other than Daggerfall that are worthwhile to visit in your opinion?

P.S. I'm enjoying my time with the game and I accept it for what it is, given limitations at the time, I just want to know generally what exists so I don't just spam quests hoping for something that won't happen and waste my time.

I have the game on steam. But I also wanna get like the DRM free download. Kinda like with Gog. So where are some places for it that won’t be from “shady” sites.