May contain a minor spoiler.

I'm aware that one of the biggest objectives in skyrim is simply to not die horribly. Those that play on master find this to be an enjoyable challenge as do I, but while on one my characters I met that NPC "Old Orc" who stands happily in his spot waiting for a "Good Death". Said death is of course done by the players hands but it also gave me a new idea for an RP/competition that I wanted to try out and thought I'd share my ramblings with the rest of the interwebs.

Basically unlike the common rule of Not Dying Horribly the player creates an orc then the moment he/she leaves Helglen goes on a killing spree looking for his/her "good death". Every town, city, guard, NPC and most importantly those damn sacred chickens of theirs are to be slaughtered on site without thought. I mentioned the difficulty settings earlier as trying to find a Good Death on master can be achieved with relative ease. So at first I went with novice difficulty but then soon realized that everyone will be dead by teatime so I went up a notch to adept.

Starting at Riverwood I planned on going round the map anti-clockwise stopping at every town and city along the way, but I only got as far as Markarth before I was overwhelmed and got my Good Death. The rules I used were I couldn't sell/buy anything (as I had to kill the blacksmith on site) but I could hire hirelings and use whatever weapon/magic/armour combo I desired and lvl up perks.

So I give that idea to anyone wanting to try it out and see how far they can get before getting their "Good Death", although they can try it on any difficulty settings they please.

That actually sounds like a lot of fun. But depending on what route you take you could easily never meet your good death. At least not until you only have essential enemies left to deal with.

You know he respawns right? I found him twice in the same play through. Killed him the first time I saw him. The second time I walked right by him and muttered to myself, "Well, if you don't have to common courtesy to stay dead than you can now wait for your good death forever."

On topic, I'll give this a go on one of my play throughs, just not right now. Although, I'm likely to be killed immediately.

I'll have to try that. It's something I do on the GTA games when I'm in the mood for some relaxing violence. Start plugging cops/civilians and see how long it takes for the authorities to put me down.

Sounds like a hilarious story for a character. Dual-wielding doomgiving Orcish rampage.

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the only problem i see with this is the huge amount of essentials, if we could turn off all the essentials in sake of breaking the game just for a playthru like this, then by god ill meet my glorious death at the hands of the bear at the beginning im supposed to sneak by!

Sorry, that was me. I should've realized it was a spoiler.

A Good Death shouldn't mean going on a meaningless rampage. it should mean meeting your real match in battle and being defeated honorably, not getting swarmed by peasants and guards.

You want a good death? Go take on a cave bear at low level. Barehanded. Or a troll. Or a Giant.

Slaughtering peasants will only get you remembered as a violent beast. A real Good Death should have songs of heroism sung about it.

Should just kill him again....then cast dead thrall

my daedric battleaxe cuts the elderly like butter.

Man what are you talking about that's how I play all of my characters. those combat skills aren't going to level up themselves.