Skyrim, or, How I Ruined My LifeFollow

Funny, so far when they land it's when they are easier. I just bash them with my shield and wail on them with my sword. I hide out in a hut while a Fire dragon breathed fire all around me, just waiting for it to get bored and land. It got bored, but instead of landing it flew over to the not-so-distant distance and started a fight with three Mammoths. It got raped, and flew back over to me, landing on the ground with less than 1/4 HP.

The only Frost Dragon that's attacked me so far did so outside of Whiterun in one of the local farms. Luckily only one NPC died, and it was one of the pointless Battle-Born women (not the one who purchases vegetables, just one that doesn't have any conversation options). She did end up having a key to the farm house on her though, which I now possess.

I'm always afraid that the dragons will kill someone important. But my brother said that any important NPCs, if they fall down dead, will get back up a minute or so later. Is that true? He said a lot of the Dark Brotherhood people did when he was ******** around and tried to wipe them all out after joining them.

Am I the only one who pays for training, then pickpockets the gold back?

The irony just cracks me up when I do that to the pickpocketing trainer.

Pretty much this. I'm considering making some pickpocket gear+%... I should be able to get enough of a boost to be close to 100%, making the skilling process easy. Have I mentioned that enchanting is as broken as always?

well, ****.

my last two saves get the message, "this save relies on content that is no longer present. some objects may not be available. continue loading?" and the other 90 saves are all "this save is corrupt."

wtf happened?

axhed, you might want to check this.

Some posters mention possible solutions on the second page.




Don't know if it works, but might be worth looking into. Regardless, time to do backups of save games!

I was thinking of moving my save games to a different folder when playing different toons. That was I can keep track of what saves are relevant to which play through. I wish Bethesda did a better job of separating the saves when you start a new game.

Okay, do dragons attack in packs? I just left a dungeon (Spoilerthe one with the dude who's complaining about the necrophiliac desecrating his ancestor's remains or something) and got bum rushed by two dragons. Luckily I seemed to have one or two shotted the first one with arrows. But now I'm like 100 units of weight over and nothing I want to ditch.

Shadowmere to the rescue!

Oh wait...

(BTW, that horse is insane...SpoilerHe tanked Alduin perfectly fine!)


Edited, Nov 21st 2011 3:29pm by Ravashack

The Thieves Guild can solve that problem, if you're dedicated enough. :)

I don't think I'm gonna do the Thieves Guild on this character, but I honestly haven't decided. I can't decide on what I want to do--I tend to gravitate towards Jack-of-all-Trades characters, but the "Master of none" is a little to pronounced in Skyrim for me to want to do that.

This character is already taking One-Handed, Archery, Armor, Smithing, Enchanting, and (at least basic) Alchemy. I'm not sure that really leaves me enough room for The Thief skills.

It kind of annoyed me that once you start the Thieves Guild quest line, you can't end it. The main quest line had me go to Riften to speak to some dude about Esbern, next thing I know, I'm stealing stuff and none of the conversation options are "***** you guys, I'm leaving" or similar. It's all "This is bad... stealing is bad..." and then you get the quest anyway.

Gah!

Yeah, I probably just missed an earlier opportunity to bail, but I thought it was part of the main quest.

From now on, whenever someone asks me to do something against my moral code, I'll make sure to choose the earliest bail option.

Or Bethesda needs to implement a quest cancellation ability. My OCD demands that I do all the quests in my journal before I continue on the main quest, in case the game ends before I'm done, so to speak.

You can definitively bail on the Thieves guild. After you find out the location of the guy for the main quest. You can tell him your not interested in joining and he will tell you find him if you change your mind. You just don't talk to him in the sewer bar. If you talk to him he assumes you want work and gives you the next quest but you don't have to do it if it does not fit with your character theme. That's what I did on my Warrior toon. Although I am looking forward to doing those quest chains on my theif toon eventually.

Same thing goes for the mage College. The main quest will send you there at one point. But you don't have to start the mage college quest line after you get the main quest info you need.

I may never actually finish the main quest line on my alt toons though. I mostly just like building new characters and finishing the guild quest lines related to the style of character they are.

Unless there are radically different endings to explore. Like in Fall Out NV I actually played through 3 different ending's becuase who you allied with in that game affected the ending so much.