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Is it sad to be a "natural" 78 and still have not completed over half of the main quest's? Its very easy to get distracted

So just out of curtiosity is there any dogs out thtere you can get as a companion ? Not that i will since well Lydia does a decent enoug hjob in pretecting my scaley ass, but I was just curious if there was.

Yeah, there's one that hangs out around Meeko's shack.

So much study and homework and tests... drive Melissia crazy... MUST HAVE GAEM. MUST SLAY DRAGON.

Time to finally load up Skyrim and see if that patch REALLY fixed the bugged out dragons.

let us know if it does, Sadly I don't have any time to play Skyrim at the moment :( What is it supposed to fix exactly ?

The way they fly or someother bug I am cassually unawares of ?

Manchu wrote:

halonachos wrote:A do gooders mod could deal with stopping an assassination attempt, a really involved Tom-Clancyesque mission with you finding documents and informants and then a final rush to kill the would be assassin.

Whether the quest is "good" in this case has more to do with whether the assassination target is good or not rather than with the player's choices/actions. If the target was an evil guy, preventing the assassination would not necessarily be good in a fantasy world. A true do-gooder quest centers on the player's choices being good, which means (IMO) that the player must have the choice to be evil as well.

You don't hear too much about people who assassinate bad guys, its typically the assassinations of good guys that people readily remember. Also, all of that was kind of implied with it being a do gooder mod instead of a bad doer mod.

Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:too late for that Im afraid, I did it a while back and I don't know if I made a save before I did. I'll check next time I play, but I may have just lost it.

the first time I used it I turned a guard into a sweet roll...

"Let me guess someone stole your ARRRRGGH"

Sheogorath took it back.

a Daedric Prince chooses how long the Current Champion can carry their Artifact.

srsfaic, I dunno.

Out of curiosity, whats the fine for turning a guard into a pastry?

Probably 40, if you eat or destroy the pastry afterwards I think its 1,000. Turning people into pastries is an assault charge IIRC, those Nords need to redefine their code of law.

halonachos wrote:Probably 40, if you eat or destroy the pastry afterwards I think its 1,000. Turning people into pastries is an assault charge IIRC, those Nords need to redefine their code of law.

To think that they had the forethought to put a "turned into a pastry" clause is quite amazing

Ensis Ferrae wrote:

halonachos wrote:Probably 40, if you eat or destroy the pastry afterwards I think its 1,000. Turning people into pastries is an assault charge IIRC, those Nords need to redefine their code of law.

To think that they had the forethought to put a "turned into a pastry" clause is quite amazing

Skyrim's legal system is very robust.

As long as Tiber Septim doesn't park his dragon within twenty meters of an apple cart, they've got a law to handle everything.

Nerivant wrote:

Ensis Ferrae wrote:

halonachos wrote:Probably 40, if you eat or destroy the pastry afterwards I think its 1,000. Turning people into pastries is an assault charge IIRC, those Nords need to redefine their code of law.

To think that they had the forethought to put a "turned into a pastry" clause is quite amazing

Skyrim's legal system is very robust.

As long as Tiber Septim doesn't park his dragon within twenty meters of an apple cart, they've got a law to handle everything.

It's no wonder there are so many bandits around then.. I am almost certain that most of their hideouts are not up to building code.

Question (PS3) ... bought the home in Whiterun ... and I dont know if its a glitch or something else but one of my bookcases and the armor display piece int he front area of the house doesn't work. :(

PC recently got a patch about bookcases amongst other things.

And yes, the patch fixed dragons woooo. At least as far as I can tell.

What was wrong with dragons?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkdJbXgqLj8

For me, the dragon flew backwards, it was unable to be targeted, it didn't die when I hit it with enough fireballs (it just vanished and respawned when Ireloaded, didn't give me any souls or drop a corpse), and prevented me from fast traveling.

I found a stray dog out in the snow yesterday, but I blew him away with a fireball from a distance, thinking he was a wolf :( After the fact I was wondering if I could have made him my pet, but it was too late then. I think I'd rather have a pooch follow me around than "Hi, I died again" Lydia.

Will Lydia come back if she actually dies? I accidentally killed her while she was trying to get back up, and was able to loot her corpse. I suspect it is the end of the road for her, but I thought I'd check with this community, since I can't be the only one that killed her.

yeah I think once she's dead she's dead. I kill her all the time cuz I don't see her fall down. Then I have to go back and load my last save because she decided it would be fun to leap in front of one of my fireballs :(

She regularly decides to shield my enemies from my soul-sucking ethereal arrows of doom, but manages to side-step just in time to dodge a fireball I now have half a millisecond to dodge myself.

Lucky for me that dragonplate armour isn't great at conducting heat.

After reading many lydia horror stories I stuck with using zombies as meat shields, they seem to be smarter...

Once she's dead, she's dead. However I managed to find a male housecarl.

Shadowmere is a pain in the ass though, getting in the way of my arrows and this is now obligatory.

Shadowmere: "I used to be useful, then I took an arrow to the knee.".

corpsesarefun wrote:After reading many lydia horror stories I stuck with using zombies as meat shields, they seem to be smarter...

As a Conjuration Warrior who recently discovered that Bound Sword does in fact not scale so well that it can become a staple weapon (it starts to get outstripped around Glass-level, as does bound bow), I should probably start using my strangely high conjuration skill (even my destrojuration mage isn't even close) to my advantage, but I don't want to slip back to sniping people whilst my atronaches/zombies take the hurt. The only reason I still use the bound bow is because of the sneak bonus to damage and because I don't have to recharge its soul trap every few hits.

Restoration and sword, I like it because it reminds me of my prayer pally from Diablo 2.

I carry my light and heavy armor though, I use my light armor to sneak and snipe people while I use my heavy to bring in the restowhacking.

Bound weapons get progressively worse?

That sucks :( I love my bound sword.

halonachos wrote:Restoration and sword, I like it because it reminds me of my prayer pally from Diablo 2.

I carry my light and heavy armor though, I use my light armor to sneak and snipe people while I use my heavy to bring in the restowhacking.

I just have my heavy armour with Shrouded Boots in my inv for sneaking. Once you're admitted to the DB, the shrouded boots suddenly make the Sneak perk that makes you completely silent somewhat unnecessary.

corpsesarefun wrote:Bound weapons get progressively worse?

That sucks :( I love my bound sword.

They do level (using whichever skill pertains to your current weapon, unsure whether Conjuration skill has any impact at all), but not to the point where they surpass all mundane weaponry. Daedric weapons still leave bound weapons in the dirt, with Glass weapons and better being the start of when Bound Weapons are no longer as awesome as they were in early life.

halonachos wrote:Once she's dead, she's dead. However I managed to find a male housecarl.

Shadowmere is a pain in the ass though, getting in the way of my arrows and this is now obligatory.

Shadowmere: "I used to be useful, then I took an arrow to the knee.".

Except Shadowmere is invincible, except against falling off a clif.

But what about bound weapons ability to banish or turn any conjured foe and soulcap on strike?

The soul trap is why I keep using the bound bow and haven't got a daedric one yet; that and the fact I don't have to scout around for arrows.

Necros wrote:I found a stray dog out in the snow yesterday, but I blew him away with a fireball from a distance, thinking he was a wolf :( After the fact I was wondering if I could have made him my pet, but it was too late then. I think I'd rather have a pooch follow me around than "Hi, I died again" Lydia.

Was this outside of Falkreath? I think there is a quest to find a stray dog out of that town -- turns out to lead into the Clavicus Vile quest. Also, you can buy a dog outside of Markarth. He's called Vigilance but, if you want him to live, that name would be better applied to you.