Has anybody tried incorporating Skyrim ideas into Pathfinder?

[Nightwish]

I'm thinking about running a homebrew campaign that borrows some themes and elements from Skyrim. For the most part, I don't think this will be difficult, as most of the races have Pathfinder equivalents (Ulfen for the Nords, etc.), and I'm not trying to recreate the whole thing, so setting it in the Realms of the Mammoth Lords or the Worldwound should not be a problem.

But apart from simply borrowing some storylines and quest ideas, I also wanted to try to incorporate some of the Dragonborn concepts, like Shouts and such. Obviously, I'd need to tweak some things so we don't have low level parties fighting dragons every outing. And I'd need to find a way to spread the shouts around, rather than having only one person benefit from them.

Has anybody tried this before? And do any of you have some ideas on how to make this work like a party of Dragonborns, rather than just one, without it seeming rediculously overpowered? Or do you think making this work will be a pipe dream?

[Irontruth]

Here's the work someone else did a couple years ago.

You might be able to crib something useful from that.

[Eltacolibre]

To keep it simple:

race: is whatever you want to play.

the shouts: word of power, you can recreate all the shouts with it.

The class: Skald, they have martial proficiency, bard spells list, already available in the word of power system.

[Trekkie90909]

I see skyrim themed Pathfinder games posted a lot on Roll20. I've never looked at them seriously, but you'll probably find someone with a ruleset of you browse the LFG listings for a couple days (you could also try the boards there).

[Nightwish]

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone! I like the idea of using Words of Power to represent Dragon Shouts. The system is a bit complicated for a group that has never used them, but I think we could get used to it.

What I may try, to preserve the "specialness" of being Dragonborn, is let each Dragonborn pc, regardless of class, begin with the equivalent wordspell progression of a Level 1 Skald. By finding certain fonts of esoteric knowledge throughout the world (similar to finding Word Walls in Skyrim), they can increase their spell progression on the Dragonborn (skald/bard) wordspell list (though to gain the additional benefits of a skald or bard, they'll need to take levels in those classes). Progression would be limited by the number of total class levels they have. For instance, a Level 4 Dragonborn Fighter, if he's unlocked enough knowledge/power sources, could have the wordspell progression of up to a Level 4 Skald.

I would probably do away with the Dragon Souls mechanic, as it would be unrealistic to expect anything but a high level party to be able to handle the number of dragons that would require, unless we made it so anything with the "draconic" subtype (such as kobolds) would qualify.

[Falcar]

I have been working on this Also the thread is here.
I have a complete system of races, birth signs, gods, and materials. Artifacts I tend to make when I am bored but I have quite a few made. I have been DMing this with some friends for a while now and it works well. The alternate skill system was started but never finished so we generally just use the base skills.

[BPorter]

I also suggest checking out Northlands by Kobold Press. Lots of Skyrim/Norse goodness there.