All good suggestions. Looking into modding now. I have my own more challenging combat and Dragon mods. Made to taste, so to speak. And its nice having that. I can stagger opponents, knock em around a bit - but only when I catch them failing to block. And in my game, they block and bash A LOT more often. Much smarter NPC's in my game. Nice change. I think a break might be in order. I love the game. I do. But I think maybe taking some time away, maybe doing a little modding and workin' at learning the scripting language, might do me some good. Too much of a good thing, I guess. But it does make me wonder how some people can stay interested and get to 300+ hours in a month or two. Gotta be tough at times. the key to keep the game interesting is by taking it slow look at me for a chance now ive playing since the time of its release almost 4 months now ive only played with one charechter didnt restart the game havent done any thing in the main quist yet & im only 250 h of play time if u play for more than 4 h strait in one day u lose interrest very soon even if u didnt finish the game & the other thing is mods that keeps the game more harder works very good for me like deadly dragons & dragon war and stuff try doing that