Not my OC though it would have been had I not found this one when I was scouring for source images. But hey, using someone else’s is totally on theme here 🤷♂️
Focusing on stealth, pickpocket, and speech this time around.
Edit: Dayum. Arcadia don’t fuck around. Pickpocketed her shop key, came back and robbed the place, made a bunch of potions, and sold them back to her. No bounty (so I didn’t get caught) but she sent an assassin after me the first time and now the Dark Brotherhood.
I did sword (mace) and board this last playthrough and had a blast. Molag bal and spellbreaker, face tank everything.
There’s nothing more satisfying then charging fuckers with your shield.
But power attacks with a two-handed hammer are a close second.
Oh, yeah, it’s inevitable. I usually do a battle mage or occasionally a warrior earlier in the game and never touch the speech, lockpick, or pickpocket skills at all. For lockpicking, I just do the quest to get the skeleton key and never return it.
But yeah, this is just to do something different before I’m a level 50+ stealth archer rolling up in Riverwood to start the main quest.
Honestly I don’t get the point of LockPick and speech skills. All the benefits of upping your lock skill can just be mitigated by being good at the lock game and you can have literally infinite picks in your pocket. Speech on the other hand just gets you more money faster? That’s about as useful as Lydia’s attitude.
Speech has some handy perks. You can bribe guards to ignore crimes, sell any kind of item to any merchant, increase the amount of gold specific merchants have on hand, sell stolen goods to specific merchants and pass speech checks more easily.
