what i usually do while playing is hunt the shores of the lake around I.C. {(RUMARE)bad speller} then in random intervals i set out on my own mini adventures, occasionally encountering town, cities, farms, caves, monsters, big mountains, forts, ruins, game and ingredients. Then when the sun goes down i go back to the lake to retire for the night. Five times a week i go to I.C. to chill with the homies, oh and buy gear spend cash usually when i go to the I.C. everything's closed so i stay the night and do my business in the morning. i have a few char. saves that have a lot of the quest done but my most recent and favorite is a procrastinator. he has done none of the quest because: he loved all the quest from morrowind and wants to wait until oblivion has as many quest as morrowind did before he finishes them all. Every morning i go down to the lake, i go to ic the most of all the cities. i play on the standard time scale and with grass off. i make my own little mods for myself that tweak oblivion pretty good i get a lot of really crazy npc's in my tweaked version. What i did is made one of the original races semi gods that way when you are going through the main quest and what not you will occasionally run into someone that can knock essentials unconscious, and or summon powerful creatures. part of the same made i re-size some of the creatures like rats and bears. Then I have custom enchantments and spells made from scratch but never the less good and not over powering. i put them into the game world right in the tutorial. kinda of a "double mix up @ the watch captain" they left my weapons in my cell and a nifty enchanted amulet called The Royal Signet of Nevar. That's pretty much the extent of what i usually do in oblivion but I'm truly far from usual. i like the spots along the road along/around the lake. [{Quote Gargoyleski}"I even hunt down NPCs who cheat on their wives."] this is an cool idea and i think that i am going to give this a try, even though I'm not and orc. Thank You for Reading; Dylandvillian p.s. sorry for the length of the post, seems i' ery bored.