This is so true, I just had one such experience, the end of a quest in which i can't take my equipment with me, bar a sword.

Having to fight my way through guards to escape through and undergound cave, only to be immediately faced by an Ice Troll... Decided it was a fight I had no chance of winning, fled out of the cave, barely any health, and bang, a dragon decides to come swooping down, so there I am, on the edge of life, with a sword and some civilian clothing on, so I make a run for it, Dragon behind me every step, run into a group of spiders, have to avoid them, quickly descend down a cliff face, all the while the Dragons on my tail, see the salvation of a Wood Mill in the distance, by this point my stamina's nearly gone, my healths nearly gone.... Manage to make it to the Mill, and get inside...

By far the most intense and exhilerating experience on Skyrim yet.

loved every second of it

trolls where hell to I remember fire and regen^^

yea, agree...the worst things imo are mammoths and giants(even worse than some of the dragons)

I'm scared all the time. I keep looking up every time I see a shadow on the ground, in fear of those terrible dragons.

One night I was sneaking around out in the wild all alone, 2000 miles from the nearest watchtower, and I got that eye who told me someone was watching me...I looked around, and it was not a butterfly, a deer or, as I found out while looking up, a flying mudcrab

most definitely agree.oblivion (which was the first elder scrolls game that i really played).i found that i didn't feel a sense of unease as i do in skyrim (i had the difficulty set just above a 1/4 in oblivion).in this game though i started playing at adept level,and found things a lot tougher (am embarrassed to say that i turned the difficulty down to novice after a major [censored] kicking i have turned the difficulty back up (to apprentice) and will stick at it i especially love the music when you find a new place (dungeon e.t.c) it's really foreboding

I haven t played much but so far long range to melle appreoch have kept me relatively safe, relatively because so many time i had to gulps potions.
Anyway i don t try to stay far from anything as big or bigger than the size of a car....
Also i don t run headlong into any fight.

But wh do i do that first because i roleplay caring for my ass ... you don t enter headlong in a firefight with a.38 revolver when your ennemy wears ceramic/kevlar steel bullet jacket, military helmet, a M16 family LAR, grenades etc...
I use the same approach here leave and let live unless i jumped on or i devise a way to start the fight with some advantage. Iam playing expert when i know i am not one yet in combat.

But one day i know i will do a warrior only and thig will get nasty.