majikmonkee

I had an extremely long, very bad Kvatch battle experience myself, although I wasn't quite as high a level as you mention here. I was high enough so that the majority of the enemies were flame atronachs and clanfears, with some of those daedra spellcasters who look like Darth Maul in the black robes as well. The defenders were totally demolished, and the clanfears were tearing me apart, I had to hide in a crevice where the enemies could only approach me single file and beat them back slowly but surely. I died many, many times, I shall never wait that long before starting the main quest again. My first playthrough of the MQ, I did that part when it was all scamps and much easier foes, it was far less painful.

Good. I held off on downloading it for a long time, I was afraid it would cause issues with my computer, but I was encouraged by other forum members to get it, and I found out later I truly was missing out on some of the more exciting mods because they use OBSE.

No. it's possible to lose Jauffre at that point, he's no longer required.

I had two odd situations recently. One is when I used Combustive Convulsion from Deadly Reflex on a vampire and he exploded, but his upper toro (naked and sans hands) continued to float in mid air and punch at me. Also, I tried using the Deadly Reflex throat slit on the captain you kill for the first DB quest while he was sitting in his chair, and his head did a 180 and started talking to me angrily when he noticed me and avoided the attack (his head was still on his body, but capable of ludicrous rotation apparently).

Do you use "Actors in Charge" by any chance? The only time I've had this issue is when using AIC when I forget to change to third person before activating it. If you don't use that mod, sorry, I'm sure this is less than helpful.

Yes, but Martin is so sexy, you'd miss out on talking to him if you didn't do the MQ. I actually feel a sense of accomplishment after doing it. The high point for me though is the confrontation with Kamron. Everything else just feels like cleanup.

I actually saw an orc riding a horse near Methredehl's house, I assumed that it was some sort of glitch and was getting a little worried. Never saw it happen until a couple days ago after years of playing.

Yeah I noticed a few random horses like that in different places, you've got me wondering who they belonged to originally. Paramedic player...lol

An interesting idea, although by the time I get to the top of the tower, everything is basically dead and looted, so I have very little reason to want to backtrack. I just assume a stone powerful enough to open a portal between realms would be powerful enough to transport a single mortal back to their own realm (granted, it's a little weird that the player would know how to control that power, but that's beside the point). Still, despite me having no need for this myself, I can see how it would be useful to a lot of people.

It is kind of lame that guards and such will walk right by dead bodies, but if I were walking down the street and saw a corpse, and there were police around, I'd probably just keep moving (granted the "police" in Oblivion never actually move the bodies that you see). It is kind of weird when people stand right next to the body though talking about mudcrabs or how the Altmer have powerful wizards and act like it's no big deal. If an NPC I need happens to be lying around dead when I locate them, I just use the "resurrect 1" command and just pretend they were passed out in the street, not dead (drunk perhaps) and my character revived them. Of course, if they are dead because they angered another NPC who is still around, better watch out, because they may get killed all over again...

As stated before, Oblivion never actually ends, although in a sense Oblivion the REALM does end. So if you're enjoying closing those gates, fighting daedra, and getting the rewards from the planes of Oblivion, you'll want to avoid completing the main quest for the time being. If you complete the quest where you confront Mankar Camron, I'd strongly suggest stopping the main quest progression for the time being. You can go a little ways further, but eventually events will start triggering on their own that may force you to complete the main quest.

This is an update to one of my more frequently used characters I listed before, Christian Marquardt. First, here's a pic of him below, before and after (left and right respectively): http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f162/majikmonkee1975/c8.jpg Sorry, I know the resolution on my computer sux, that's the armor and sword from Lost Paladins of the Divines, which actually looks pretty amazing at higher resolution. But anyway...while Christian was already the champion of Cyrodiil, Divine Crusader, and Prince of Madness (though he has yet to visit the Shivering Isles since being named as such), he still suffered from occasional morale ambiguity. Despite having only excessive fame and no infamy to speak of, he found himself obsessively drawn to wine, women, and the hoarding of property, posessions, and gold. After reading "Lost Paladins of the Divines", though, he vowed that the time had come for him to devote himself completely to the "path of light", and forsake worldly pleasures. After completing his quest to obtain the "Heaven armor", he split up his properties among his various companions (basically assigning one each to every different home he owned) and set out to battle evil, disregarding the risks or potential rewards, for good is it's own reward. I know being a paladin doesn't necessarily mean having to forsake love or material wealth, but I like the idea of having a character be truly "good", even at the cost of having no companions or accepting quests that have virtually no reward to speak of. The fight for good is everything... :thumbsup:

I've had similar issues with double posting due to pc lag when I first started. I was amazed you couldn't delete posts, and afraid I'd get strikes for repeat and short posts.

I wasn't going to report you or anything austin, you didn't say anything against forum rules. Sorry if you thought I was offended, I was really just joking with you.

Finding boars for quests when your character is at high level...or imps. Also, fighting will-o-the-wisps or gloom wraiths and having them damage your stats early in a dungeon.

No, there should be no slowdown, and it's a thoroughly tested and very widely used program.

Yes, it was very cold out the day that picture was taken. :whistling: Actually, BAB is to thank (or blame) for that. A few of the dresses in particular have that pronounced nipple look, but it helps talk guards out of issuing fines.

Technical aspects aside, I'm just wondering what you're dreaming up that involves removing entire cities. Don't mind me, though, I'm just nosey like that!

It sounds like you're talking about a mod, so let me suggest a solution that involves mods - companions. I won't tell you which ones to use, that's up to you, but that's a cheat-free way to even the odds in your favor against a tough opponent.

For my thief/assassin characters who I don't really care about having fight monsters, I tend to assign them seven skills that will never get used so I can level up the skills I do want to use without actually leveling my character. That way, the world stays at level 1 for the most part, but my assassins can easily take down their targets with sneak attacks (granted I use Deadly Reflex most of the time, which allows for a 100% effective lunging sneak attack, but that's beside the point).

I actually have a mage of sorts who uses a blunt 2 handed hammer to suplement his magic. He's evil, and I originally had him wearing the Sauron armor with the mace that went with it, but eventually I retired the armor and had him rely and magic and the less powerful 2 handed hammer.

Okay, I give. Here are my four most used (and most recent) characters described briefly. Only two of them have really been used extensively, while the other two were just experiments in creating unattractive males who don't follow the law. First, here's a pic of all four of them: http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f162/majikmonkee1975/oblivion4.png Top Left: Christian Marquardt, Top Right: Corrine Copperfield, Bottom Right: Filthy Farquer, Bottom Left: Old Stinky Christian is a Breton warrior who began life as a rogue and a pirate, but soon went on to save Cyrodiil on numerous occasions, and he has devoted his life to fighting evil. He has a dark side, though - the ability to transform into a brutal werewolf at will. While he attempts to use this power to battle evil, occasionally, innocent lives are lost when he is mistaken for a common monster. Corrine is a Breton thief and vampire. Corrine's lovely outward appearance masks a corrupted conscience, and her past is full of violence and bloodshed. Not only has she served the dark brotherhood, but as her vampirism progresses, she is compelled to kill for sport and use her powers to dominate others, although she is known to show signs of remorse when she becomes more human, and will occasionally attempt to balance out her evil deeds with acts of heroism. Filthy Farquer is the completely insane and savage brother of Glarthir of Skingrad. While Glarthir is tolerated, Farquer was exiled from the civilized communities of Cyrodiil and forced to live in the wilderness with nothing but his loincloth and club. He has become a menace to Cyrodiil, notorious for murdering travellers in a berzerk rage, without even taking their posessions afterward. Old Stinky was once a powerful wizard who became obsessed with the arts of summoning and communicating with animals. He eventually came to prefer animals over his fellow humans, and exiled himself to a cabin in the mountains, where he proceeded to go a little crazy. He avoids human contact whenever possible, although he has developed a compulsion for pickpocketing travellers, merely for sport and to combat boredom.

Yes I do recommend it. And OBSE is a program that allows the capabilities of Oblivion mods to go beyond what can be done with normal modded Oblivion. A lot of really great mods require it, you won't notice any differences from installing the program itself, it's just a script extender.

Yeah I was thinking of the party where you use Stark Reality. I misunderstood which party was being referred to.

Lithian's Nature of the Beast. Sun damage is still a factor, you can't glamour yourself when your vampirism is far along enough to have sun damage anyhow.