Its obvious that you can't take every single perk in the game with one character, however, it seems as though you can max out every skill at 100. Is this true or am I missing something? I haven't really figured out how the leveling system works.

You can increase any skill you want, but the higher the skill, the slower it increases. And it is the perks that give the skills their real power. You see improvement, sure, but take Smithing for instance - you can max the skill to 100, but if you don't spend a lot of your perks on it you'll never be able to smith Glass or Elven or even Steel armor.

The perks are really where you decide what kind of character you want.

I have to be honest I'm still not impressed with even this change of leveling either. Its better than oblivion but not by much, you are still just way too limited in what you can do. You still kind of have to focus on just being one type of character, which for me is kind of lame, and really, you would think by know that Bethesda would put something in the game that allowed you to respec. I want to use one handed weapons, destruction magic, heavy armor, restoration, and smithing, and I know that its just not gonna happen and from spreading my perks out I'm going to become weak eventually, which really I'm not asking to have every perk in the game just a variety......I'm liking the game, but really your not free to be what you want, its false advertisemant.

Don't worry nataS Unchained there will be a mod to add more perks

......... I have the 360 version.....no mods for me Unless gamesas raises the level cap with expansions.

When do we stop leveling, and therefore stop getting perks added? That's my question. How many perks do we get to take for one character. I'd like to be a master of archery, one-handed, destruction, alchemy and sneak.

There's no real level cap. it just gets extremly difficult to up you skills once they are all high, and thus harder to level, at around 50

The guide says around level eighty.

Being free to do what you want does not mean that you can do everything possible. And just because you can't do everything, doesn't mean that you have to stick to only one. Right now, I'm a Destruction Mage, Assassin (bow and dagger), and a Smith.

Also, I heard (not entirely sure yet) that the first 50 levels gives you perks... Every Skill Tree has around 10 perks (havent actually counted, but I think I'm close) then you can master 5 different things, which sounds like plenty for one character. And you can do even more if you don't fill the whole tree, and instead only specifics (say you only do Fire in Destruction, and not Frost or Shock)

I LOVE the fact that we can't be a master at EVERYTHING. I'd just like to be able to master about 7 or 8 things. I couldn't care less about two-handed weapons, heavy armor, conjuration, speech, illusion, enchanting, or smithing. Many of the others, though, I'd really like to be 100%.