I bought Skyrim at about the time I started playing Rift. I still haven’t installed Skyrim yet because I’m not sure if my tiny pea-brain can juggle an mmo plus a PC rpg.
Is anyone else playing WoW or Rift in addition to Skyrim? How difficult is it to switch between them?
P.S. I am not young.
Also wondering, is the beginning inventory big enough? I always got mods for Bags of Holding in past games. In other words, playing mod-free on a PC is viable?
The inventory is based on weight rather than “space”. You can increase your carrying capacity by investing level-up points in stamina. You can also have your companion hold crap for you. I’ve never had a problem with it without using cheats. But it’s all about being selective in what you actually pick up, since you can become encumbered very very quickly if you pick up everything in sight.
There is also an item enchantment that increases carrying capacity. I see one every now and then, usually on boots.
Yep, I have a pair of leather boots that lets me carry 30 additional units of weight…just in case I ever need it. I keep it with me, along with a ring that lets me breath underwater, and a mask that gives me bonus points when I sell stuff. In on of my houses I have chests that have all my blacksmithing stuff along with my blacksmith enhancing gear and potions.
-XT
Well, as a level 44 sneak-thief with 100 in archery and 99 in sneak, I can tell you I own everything, just like your high level mage. Elder dragons may take me a few shots, and if I miss the sneak on high-level undead it might take me 2 or 3 shots to kill them. Everything else? One shot.
Pride of Tel Vos is both a random location quest, and for Brand-Shei in Riften. The latter is kinda lame, because there is no way of knowing where to go beyond the quest. Another might not be on your map even until you start the quest.
The first rule of Elder Scrolls is that you do not pick up everything. The second rule of Elder Scrolls is that YOU DO NOT PICK UP EVERYTHING.
As mentioned, there are +carry weight and +stamina (IIRC 5 “pounds*” per 10 stamina). Your followers double as pack mules.
*The wikis call it “kilos,” but I doubt Wuulfrad is 55 pounds.
Hell, that’s nothing. I got three heavies sent after by a dead man, after Septimus got his ass vaporised by Herma-Mora I helped myself to some of his books on the Dwemer. Imagine my surprise in Falkreath when I looted a note from him telling the boys to teach me a lesson. The dead have eyes!
Obligatory Penny Arcade comic. 
And then you come across some jerkass outside New Vegas who needs like 200 random pieces of metal to complete you quest, and you have to try to remember where you saw all those bent cans.
[sub] fallout NV counts as Elder scrolls in this context[/sub]
The really sad thing is you craft something, like ebony armour, which after you’ve improved it you realise is worth so much that literally no-one in Skyrim can afford to buy it from you 
According to this Wuuthrad does 1.2x damage to elves. Plus it has a screaming elf carved on it.
Once I found out what was really going on, with my next character I turned him in just to see what happens when you meet him again. He’s peeved but doesn’t attack you; but from what he said the farmer had something unpleasant happen to him. I ought to go back to that farmhouse & see if it’s just flavor text.
Nah, I’ve started several characters. Of course that sort of thing is why I tend to not finish games like this…there’s always some new character concept or sidequest distracting me.
Go to someone who sells a lot of things you’d like. Buy it off him. Then sell him the pricy stuff you have. At some point, I’d bought so much from someone that she had 6000$ and I could sell her my expensive stuff.
As for carrying capacity: There’s a stone in the northwest that increases your capacity by 100. There’s also a pickpocket perk that increases it by another 100. If you need more than 500 carrying capacity, take it as an opportunity to treat your OCD/kleptomania.
Let the record show that murdering a guildmate did not produce any TG armor items. Nor did Mercer’s corpse. I don’t think there is a work around for console play.
On the brighter side though, the quest item involving getting the TG armor upgrade from Tonilia is under Misc, but there is another primary quest involving ‘becoming a full member of the thieves guild’ and finding all of the Stones of Barenziah. That’s the one I had been thinking was now a dead-end but I was mistaken that it is just the achievement of rebuilding the guild that I’ll be missing. Somehow I was thinking the Barenziah Stone storyline and the achievement were one in the same.
You can also just say “to hell with it” and use the developer console to boost your carrying capacity.
player.modav carryweight 49700
…should do nicely.
Discovering this made the sting a little less sharp
As described here, you can sell one of the Eyes to Delvin (as part of the quest the achievement line that I already lost out on) but contrary to what is reported in the wiki article, he gave me 2800 for it. Then I saw it on the shelf and it was different from all of the other things that had ended up there by way of selling them to Delvin in that it retained the worth of 2500 while everything else is worth 0. And also contrary to the article I was able to just take it and not have to steal it (perhaps because I’m the new Guild Leader?), so I’m looking to gain at least 4800 for my troubles and offloading the Eyes by way of selling one of them twice.
I don’t think one month is quite enough to give up the spoilers. I played quite a lot, but I’ve barely started the main quest (I still can’t use voice powers, apart from those granted), I’m somewhere in the middle of the stormcloack one, and barely scratched the others (companions, dark brotherhood, etc…), for instance. Plus, there are some I’ll keep for a future game (thieves, mages..)
Of course I had to start again from scratch around level 30 due to the loss of my saved games both on my computer and on Steam, but still, I guess there are plenty of other posters who are a long way from finishing the game. And many who probably didn’t even started yet.
I suspect the thug thing is a planned event, and the person giving the order is picked amongst the people you’ve wronged, whether they know it or not. During my first game, the message was signed by the Battleborn patriarch (I had killed a member of the family, and burglarized his house, in both cases, like you, unoticed).
Second game, at about the same time in the game evolution, I got attacked again by thugs. This time, the message was signed by a “Whiterun Guard”. I guess that I had wronged no one, so that was the default.
Are you sure there’s such an item? I didn’t find any, either, and maybe it just doesn’t exist.
There is no enchantment buff enchantment, presumably to avoid the sort of bootstrapping you could do with fortify intelligence/alchemy potions in Morrowind.
I don’t think that there is any enchanting-boosting gear. Same as how there are no alchemy-boosting reagents.