How to play in Skyrim "Peacefully", you tell me..

# Rules of what you can't do

• You can't use any kind of Magic spells.
  
• You can't use any Magic scrolls.
  
• You can't use any melee weapons (no bows!)

# Some tips about what you could do

• You can use companions to kill your enemies. (No, you are not allowed to use any healing spells)
  
• You could use poisons with pickpocketing, you could put the poisons in your enemies pocket and that would slowly kill them, perhaps?!
  
• You can use Sneak\Stealth perks to escape combat.

Do you think you would be able to play? Kill a dragon?

use a bow. you never said anything about bows

Bow is a melee weapon? If not, then I shall say it now. No bows!

No, bows are not melee weapons. Unless you run out of arrows and just beat people to death with them. Then its a melee weapon.

On topic - a pacifist RP sounds kind of dull to me personally. Unless there was a way to get a job somewhere in Skyrim as a chef. That would be fun for a while. As long as I had enough leeks to make my world famous deer stew.

You can use poisons to kill your enemies, that isn't pacifist. And you can command any hired thug or what so ever to kill your enemies.
But you may be right, I think we need Illusion or Conjuration in here to make things more exciting.

I'm thinking of playing as a pacifist, and illusion spells are necessary to survival. Not necessarily to harm, but to hide from, or calm enemies. I'd try not to sneak around like a coward and just walk around with nature maaaaaan.

The only way it could possibly work is with a maxed out illusion and a maxed out pickpocket. But even then you can't pickpocket an enemy in a dungeon that sees you. Right off the bat I'm thinking of the Draugr Overlord in Bleakfalls Barrow. He has to be killed in order to get the Dragonstone. Otherwise you can't start the MQ. There's a lot of quest endings that are similar to that. Many quests depend specifically on a boss getting killed.

You could cruise around Skyrim and through a fair amount of dungeons but some things/people are going to have to be killed. But you did say you could use a follower to kill people so...

That means Conjuration works. 100 in Conjuration and Illusion and yeah, it could be done. But killing people via super-close proxy isn't exactly peaceful. As leader of Germany, Adolf Hitler never directly killed a single person. But I don't think that makes him peaceful.

1. Power level Alchemy and Enchanting.
2. Go to Riften. Hire Marcurio to clear the ratway to obtain Glove of pugilist.
3. Use Alchemy-Enchanting loop to create super powerful potion of fortify enchanting.
4. Disenchant Glove of Pugilist and create a new enchanted item after drinking the potion.
5. Poke everything to death.

On a more serious note, absolutely no magic is impossible in Skyrim. you would at least need Illusion for rally or restoration for backup.

TG questline is almost there.

I can foresee that killing Salohknir will take at least 1 hour on Easy. Not that he's strong, but Delphine can't shoot flying dragons for jack.

No healing? No problem. Delphine is immortal

You just have to think whether wasting one hour to kill a dragon to comply with this "harder than a hard-core" is worth it. Especially the electricity bills

peaefulness is near impossible. skyrim is about killing. killing dragons. killing chickens. getting killed for killing a chicken. killing gods. killing small animals. killing everyone in a town and getting away with it. taking arrows to the knee. killing people for food. killing people because they killed other people. you cant even finish the first quest without fighting, since you usually wont have healing spells, and no fancy illusion magic

Getting NPCs to do your killing for you doesn't sound very peaceful.

No, how do you expect to kill a dragon? pickpocket it and put poison on him? I doubt the ai is smart enough to get them to kill it for you. If you were playing a pacifist RP, 1. that doesnt mean no killing at all, simply you PREFER not to kill, 2. you couldnt expect to play as a dragonborn in the MQ as it involves, killing things for a war which a pacifist wouldnt be interested in. But feel free to go with not killing anything and see how you get on.

You didn't say anything about arrows

I'm actually working on a sort of peaceful build, the main thought is to basically play myself (hey, which end of the sword do I poke with?!). I will use bows and even daggers in self defence, though, and always have followers to kill everything that wants to kill me. I won't do MQ or any faction quests, and I'll probably run a lot.

Can't really rely on shouts either with those long cooldowns.

This isn't a peaceful way to play. This is a method to frustrate the player.

playing peaceful in an action game?

doesnt sound like it will work to me, atleast not without frustration the crap out anyone attempting

FTFY.

Its only an action game if you play it as such. This is fairly easy to do, if you don't mind not being 'normal'. There are plenty of passtimes in the 'world'. Chopping wood, smithing, fishing, gathering and making alchemy products, picking crops for farmers, collecting books, exploring nature, doing none-combat quests, ect. And if push comes to shove, make your wife/husband choice an adventurer - they will do any fighting for you. The game is designed to cater to any sort of player. I certainly plan to make a peasant character - though I will eventually cave and have them become Dragonborn.


And all this is without mods.

To say 'But its an action gaem! You is supposed to hit thinsg1' is a pretty shallow take on all the work put into Skyrim.

I don't understand what is so unpeaceful about spell such as healing hand and heal others. I suppose you could stock your follower with healing potions.

True^^ I don't entirely agree with the challenge myself as far as something i'd want to do, my own post was more about the "Skyrim =/= Hack'n'SlashOnry' mentality. Playing as a Healer who has renounced violence could be very interesting when paired with the right companions.

I see what you did there ......

yeah! we can stab people with arrows XD
compulsory arrow to the knee joke:
i used to make stupid "Arrow to the Knee" jokes. then i took an arrow to the knee...

So you are asking followers to kill for you. It's like holding the weapon yourself. If someone attacks you have the right to defend yourself. Playing in a more peaceful way is to use a lot of invisibility to avoid all kind of animals and human beings not too aggressive like giants, bandits, marauders. The most aggressives are necromancers, conjurers, etc. Even Draugr sometime try to escape when you fight them. Only their bosses are to be killed...
Anyway it's a game where the hero has to kill before achieving his mission..

Firstly, I doubt that this gaming style would be very entertaining, but this is up to you, of course.

Secondly, I don't understand why healing spells and illusion buff spells are forbidden, while you're absolutely allowed to tell your follower to kill something.

And finally: do you realize that you'll be blocked out of various areas that are blocked with the more solid types of spider webs? You can't tell your follower to cut them down, you are not allowed to use magic or a weapon to remove them, so... gg.