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Sir Edward:
Cool, I subscribed to that mod. I also picked up a mod for conjurable ethereal horses. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but it looks excellent. They're also slightly faster than normal horses, and you can summon them as a spell-cast (5k gold as a tome from a vendor). They de-spawn as soon as you dismount, and also will not run off into combat without you. :) I'll probably save up the gold and use that.

According to Steam, I've put in about 5 hours, but it doesn't feel like I've done much yet. I've only done two mission excursions outside of the towns, and otherwise have been doing in-town quests and talking everyone up. I'm around level 4 or 5.

I'm mostly going pure mage, but I'm drawing my sword as soon as the magicka runs out, so I'm keeping some skill going with that. I'm also using lockpicks to get into boxes and the like, but otherwise am avoiding the thief skills. It's beneath my honor. :)

Excellent game, but I can see how it can become a huge time-sink, like an MMO. :)

Sir William:
HUGE time sink.  I was wrong, I'm not quite at 70 hours yet...but there's still so much left to do.  As I said, I like wrapping up the main story after I've cleared out a lot of the secondary and tertiary quests...that's just me.  Once the big story's done, I have a hard time staying focused in-world...so I usually just start a new one.  Well, after countless hours of having done that, I'm going to do it right this time.

Its just...I keep finding myself getting side tracked and having an absolute BLAST doing it.  Forgot about the Magicka drain (as I'm primarily melee and bow-oriented, I use magic as a back up to my main weapons)...that will be less of a bother as you go.  Bone up on your armor spells; then you won't need to wear armor- you can either augment clothing or conjure up armor before battle...one word of caution- there is a LOT of loot out there.  I have to remember to go back and revisit some of the dungeons I've been to before...and they will have a status of 'cleared' once you've beaten them once, but I know there's a great deal of loot that I couldn't take with me because I could only carry so much.

Sir Edward, ordinarily we would agree, but I entreat you to begin thieving...some really nice stuff to be had that can't be had unless you can get past the lock.  ;)

Hey, if you feel really bad about it, start donating gold to any of the Holds' destitute residents, that's what I do!  Not often, but only because I haven't found them all yet...but I don't shirk the largesse part, that would be beneath my honor.  ;)

Sir William:
Every time you start the game, this is the song you hear at the title screen; I love it.  This one actually has the lyrics to the song.



Sir William:
This an excellent cover of the Bard's song (you'll hear this at some point in every tavern you enter in-world), by Malufenix.  She does this cool splitscreen thing where she's singing the other harmonics as well...pretty cool.

Leganoth:
Just a warning here, dont put any skill points on stuff your not going to use. Like speech. Putting points into speech is USELESS in my opinion. every level you get 1 skill point, the max level is 83. so thats 83 skill points. Dont waste any cause you cant revert your skills!

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