imperium999

At least in my little corner of the universe, playing as a girl originated with the Street Fighter series. The girl characters always had some killer badass move that could take down the biggest, beefiest dudes. We'd play the girl just so we could see the look on our friends' faces when we kicked their butt. Also, in a very sexist way, watching the sexy girl take down some guy twice her size gave twice the satisfaction. I think the same holds true for these games.

In the hopes of actually finishing the game with at least one of my characters, I've decided to try the trifecta: Nord warrior werewolf Companion, specializing in dual axes. He doesn't know much or care much about magic, unless it's enchanting his axes to make them deadlier. 1H, Archery, Light Armor, Smithing and not much else. Breton fire mage with a sword and crossbow. Not very handy with a blade, but deadly with Destruction. The Mage build I find to be the most challenging. Dunmer assasin Vampire Lord Listener. In sneak mode and undetected, she's invincible. The DB questline is my favorite so far. The whole <Say Nothing> dialog choices are really awesome and I wish they had put more of them in the game, not just in the DB line. My hope is that when I get bored with one build, I can switch to another and keep playing, returning to the other when I feel like it. I'm also playing Dawnguard concurrently with my warrior and assasin, just to shake it up a little (and to make the differences more noticable).

And, on the flipside, if the author puts up a joke mod, then takes it down because of criticism, to paraphrase TVD, he probably has other unrelated issues...

I think you should be able to get Smithing to read 101 if you have a 96 in the skill and the Notched Pickaxe (or something else with that enchantment).

Definitely a toss-up between Markarth and Windhelm. I just hate the way both cities are layed out. No matter how many times I visit, I still get lost and think to myself "Gad, I hate this city." And yes, I think calling Dawnstar and Winterhold 'cities' is playing fast and loose with the word...

A little OT, but seriously, Bethesda NEVER said that Dragonborn would be released for the PC 31 days after the Xbox release. That was something us fans made up because Dawnguard was released for the PC 30 days after the Xbox release. I, for one, am really proud of Bethesda for continuing to support a game that's almost a year and a half old, and, to their credit, it's really the reason most of us are still playing it (and are on this site discussing it). Most companies would have orphaned it after the first patch, and we would have lost interest in it 90 days after release.

Silly question, but what happens if you plug in headphones? Still too quiet?

The other responses you can give the doors at the two DB Sanctuaries... "What is life's greatest illusion?" "Marriage?" :biggrin:

1) Almost every mage you encounter in the game has a backup melee weapon, usually a dagger of some sort. Use that Enchanting of 60 to make yourself a nice dagger with a fire enchantment. It's saved my butt many many times. 2) Get yourself a staff for when you're out of mana. 3) Lydia is your tank-friend. Give her a greatsword and watch her go to town. Much of the time, my mage is really just assisting Lydia during a fight. 4) Level up your alchemy so you're never out of health or mana potions. Making potions is so cheap, it's almost cheating...

What Relativelybest said perfectly describes how I feel about it. Stop overthinking how to be you and just be you! :biggrin:

You know that garnet you get in the tutorial dungeon in Oblivion? No matter what character I created, they always kept that garnet through the entire game. It was like their good luck charm. I do a similar thing in Skyrim - the first garnet I run accross stays in my inventory for the rest of the game. Same with the flawless garnet you find in Ustengrav. Also, I always take the steel dagger from the torturer in Helgen and keep it for the rest of the game (as a backup blade/boot knife). Another thing I've just started recently doing was keeping a dragon scale and dragon bone from each named dragon I take down. When my smithing skill gets to the right point, I'm going to make a suit and sword out of the bones and scales of those dragons that thought they were badass enough to take this Dovahkiin down. Going to have to be multiple suits and swords at this rate...

Dawnguard first, if only for the crossbows and werewolf perk tree. My personal opinion is Dragonborn should be played after finishing the main quest, and Dawnguard sometime before-hand. At least, that's what I'm doing...

A minimum of two, but it's has to be a very big light bulb.

I'm going to guess this is your problem. The latest DLC included a new high-res texture pack. Do you perchance have that installed as well? It sounds like it simply overwrote a texture file or path CBBE was using. The first thing I'd try would be to manually put all the CBBE textures in the folders they're supposed to be in, over-writing when prompted.

The Elder Scrolls Wiki is a highly dubious source of info. I highly recommend UESP instead, where you will find that there are two contradicting versions of Tiber Septim's origin, and the one where he's born on Alcaire is not the 'officially sanctioned' version: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Tiber_Septim