August 12, 2013 8:25 AM EDT
I love using daggers as a sneak type character. I use a bow to distract my target, or force him to turn, roll in behind him, and cut his throat. Best way to do this is to go train sneak up to 50 as soon as possible to you can get assassin blade (x15 damage from sneak attack with daggers) and silent roll. I do this by joining the thieves guild straight out of Helgen, robbing Riften blind, and using what money I made to buy the training from Delvin. My sneak usually ends up pretty decent after sneaking around Riften anyway, so I usually only buy between 5-15 levels of sneak, depending.
I actually make it my goal to kill everything with dagger, not with my bow, the exception being dragons. Even then I try to take them out with daggers if they land close enough to me.
As for race, they all are fantastic. I like Khajit for their night eye and starting bonus to sneak. Argonians have a starting bonus to sneak as well. But my #1 favorite race for my Assassin is Breton. Even though he has no starting bonuses at all for what I want to do, it doesn't matter. I get my sneak to 100 on him, just like on a Khajit or any other race. I also usually go vampire, so Khajit night eye is rendered useless. That 25% magic resistance has saved me a few times though, in dragon fights. Plus, with the lord stone and agent of Mara you get a 65% magic resist with no perks or enchants. Very handy, if you ask me.