Elyrius said:
At the minute I'm still really unsure what to play, I just want to explore and see all the stuff I haven't seen before, there's so much particularly the dawnguard side of dawnguard dlc and the dragonborn dlc, I don't like crafting much. The...

I did that one myself, darkened and resized it for here. It can be found in a lighter tone and larger format here, as I uploaded it to show the effects of the mod.

I'm going to start with some credit: This would not have become a build had I not tried and enjoyed Mason's Arcane Archer. That build has answers to many scenarios in game and the build I'm outlining here has some weaknesses and shortfalls that the Arcane...

Favorite Love/Hate quest in Skyrim?

What's your favorite Love/Hate quest in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim? (Ooh, fancy!) As in, what quest do you just love to death, but also wish you could literally just love it to death? If you can't think of anything: 1. How? How in Obl...  moreWhat's your favorite Love/Hate quest in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim? (Ooh, fancy!) As in, what quest do you just love to death, but also wish you could literally just love it to death? If you can't think of anything: 1. How? How in Oblivion do you not love to hate/hate to love at least one thing about this game?! Is everything just completely black and white to you? Are you inhuman? (Don't take that literally as I'm sure some of you would love to correct me...) and 2. Well since we don't want you feeling left out, how about you talk aboiut your favorite/least favorite dilema or decsicion?  less

There's already been no new ES in six years... the idea of them dragging them out to a possible ten year gap is depressing, yet believable.
I'm not counting ESO as it's a pretty different beast.

You actually can have Aela go on your trial, just don't take the quest from Farkas when he says "By the way, if you're looking for something to do..." and go and speak with Aela instead.
 
I love the Companions quest but going from mocked whelp to Ha...  moreYou actually can have Aela go on your trial, just don't take the quest from Farkas when he says "By the way, if you're looking for something to do..." and go and speak with Aela instead.
 
I love the Companions quest but going from mocked whelp to Harbinger is far too fast, I have some problems trying to get my head to keep up with the story RP wise.
 
I hate the sodding Gildergreen quest. I know it's a side/optional, but I hate it from the moment I'm told to kill a hagraven who will undoubtedly kick my arse if I'm remotely unprepared to stabbing a tree in the root. The quest makes me feel like a wang; even if I go down the sapling path (branch?) I still stab a tree.
 
And I might be all alone on this one, but I hate the Dark Brotherhood. The quest in and of itself is ok, though in spite of my many hours in Skyrim I only completed it for the first time recently and I found it was one of the most overhyped things ever. I was disappointed almost every step of the way, the only truly awesome thing be...    less

The idea of not being from/being fully raised in Elswyr is probably the best way to address the problem. The follower mod Inigo's title character was adopted by a couple who lived in Cyrodil and grew up with the grammatical structure of the Imperials. If ...  moreThe idea of not being from/being fully raised in Elswyr is probably the best way to address the problem. The follower mod Inigo's title character was adopted by a couple who lived in Cyrodil and grew up with the grammatical structure of the Imperials. If you'd like to explore your Elswyr roots then your character could have visited for a multitude of reasons - or they could be headed there via Skyrim.  

I don't really consider myself to be "casual" but to be honest it's a very broad and subjective term. I usually play on adept but effectively never power game - I don't take more than one crafting tree most of the time, for example, and I've always played...  moreI don't really consider myself to be "casual" but to be honest it's a very broad and subjective term. I usually play on adept but effectively never power game - I don't take more than one crafting tree most of the time, for example, and I've always played with the unofficial patches which fix a lot of more powerful exploits/glitches.
I don't think Skyrim is too easy. Yes, with certain builds/playstyles you can pump up the difficulty and feel immortal. I recently tried an Arcane Archer build which was fun, but ridiculously OP. I was slaughtering the world without taking any damage within the first couple of levels. When I've tried to level cloth-wearing destruction mages though, unless I run like the wind I'll get a giant hammer to the skull and die in one hit. And running like the wind can be tricky in some of these caves! It's the same when you're just starting out on a dagger-sneak character if you picked something that's not a wood elf or khajiit. Your leather wearing gimp arse is going to get handed to you w...    less

Sean A said:
I'm able to get a mod to use like the vampires daylight ring but other than that I can't think of the spells, Unarmed or One handed, light armor or clothes, fire (prob), frost or shock, etc. So if there are any ideas please help.

You'd pr...

I'm looking for suggestions for a mage play. I have never played extensively as a mage and I'd really like to give it a proper whirl, so what would anyone suggest for a caster who isn't a pro at maging around? I'm likely to fall flat on my face/mess thing...

Thanks for the suggestion. It's actually interesting for a few reasons. I forgot to add in my original post that I would not like to play anything involving cannibalism - I have strong feelings about cannibalism, mostly those of disgust. Well, that would ...

I'm struggling to put together something... bowlingballesque.
Ideally, I'd like to try something that hurls itself into enemies and will come out the last one standing, maybe a bit bloodied but ultimately a survivor. Damage output isn't all that importan...