From what you are saying, it seems you are closing the Race Menu window each time you are making changes to your character's appearance. This is what is causing your stats to change each time you make changes, as the game is treating it as if you're starting a new character. However, there is a way to make changes without your stats messing up or level resetting to 1. This is accomplished by doing the following: 1. Open the Race Menu and make your changes as wanted. 2. Instead of closing the window, bring up the pause menu (pressing ESC). 3. Save your game into a new save slot. 4. Now immediately load your new save game without closing the pause menu. There is another method you can use, but I personally use this method when I want to make changes to my character's appearance. Check out this thread here for more information on this. Hope this helps :)