I'm on my first playthrough of Skyrim right now and I'm thoroughly enjoying it, main quest and all.

That being said, I'm already thinking about my next character and I don't want him to be The Dragonborn or do the main quest. There is so much in Skyrim that you could have a character with a dozens upon dozens of hours and not even touch the main quest.

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2978 did it for Oblivion. You started right outside of Leyawiin with no main quest messages or anything. You were simply an adventurer come to Cyrodiil, free to do whatever you want and references by NPCs referring to you and the main quest were removed.

There could be options as well. A Storm Cloak or Imperial start version where you can either start in Windhelm or Solitude with a quest telling you to go speak to Ulfric or Tullius for your latest assignment.

Dragons could still fully be a part of the game and attack you randomly, guards and such just woudn't refer to you as Dragonborn. You could have an NPC that could teach you shouts if you really wanted them (Dragonrend, etc.)

I know it's not possible till the Creation Kit is out but I would thoroughly enjoy a mod like this for my second playthrough. I assume other people would too, the version for Oblivion had a large amount of downloads.

Thanks for the consideration!

Yeah I've asked for this aswell. It's needed for RP :]

It will be done, never fear. It was done for Morrowind and it was done for Oblivion and it will be done for Skyrim too. I would actually be surprised if someone doesn't already have plans to do it.

Someone already does...

Although from the look of things the Dragonborn part of the game is pretty deeply embedded. It would probably be more practical to just bypass the sequence at Helgen and disconnect any dialogue where it's mentioned you were there.

Definitely need this. Hopefully someone will work on it when the CS is out. I'd help but I'm a texture artist/modeler and amateur CS tinkerer... Can't script or any fancy stuff.

Kinda laying the ground work.

To justifty shouts etc, im making the character a Greybeard novice, so you actually start in High Hrothgar.

No main quest, BUT dragon unleashed at start would be great

Definitely want this as well
Free roaming dragons, no MQ option, and multiple pathway options...or just a no-body option

I think the main quest may be the best from all series.
And it`s involved the dragon shouts witch is important for the game.
If i ever replay this game i want the main quest be hire.

the mq would still be there, we may just get a mod that allows us not to have to do the mq for the dragon triggers to start up.

honestly i wish i could bypass the mq for now, let the dragons fly free, and just explore and kill

I chose to play a Nord and tackle the main quest, but playing a dark elf who is dragonborn - seems just not right.

Alternate main quests depending on race I say.

sounds good on paper anyway.

Its one of the things i need removed from the start is the MQ since its in the way for a Co-Op mod, just switching the shouts to be learned through a faction instead.

I'd like some sort of arrive by carriage feature, so you can choose which city you want to be dropped at. Maybe once you get there, you hear the rumors that Helgen was attacked, and a quest to go see if the rumors are true. Only after checking out the ruins do dragons start randomly appearing. That way you have the freedom to never encounter them, if it doesn't suit you. Once you kill the first dragon, the MQ will trigger, and you go to High Hrothgar and all that. It's not perfect, but I thought I'd throw the idea out there.