just when i think i cant love this game anymore something really cool happens, I was on my way to see the grey beards for the first time and ran across several tough tests for my usually over-matched scout. First i ran into a bear on my way and immediately knew i was in trouble when two swipes from it left me with barely any health left, i managed to make my way to a little pond and hopped on a rock in the middle of the pond where the bear couldnt get to any pelted him with arrows until i killed it.

Then alittle further up i came across a sabertooth(or sabercat, not really sure) and once again i couldnt beat it 1 on 1 so i sprinted all the way back to the town( and couldnt of looked more like a coward) where i was able to get the townspeople to help kill the sabercat for me. As i got closer to the top of the mountain, i seen a wolf and was able to use my bosmer power to befreind the animal and jet passed it untouched.

My final test was a frost troll which so far has been the toughest creature in the game for me, it wasnt pretty but i was able to hop to higher ground safe from harm and once again used my archery to win the fight. I really like the way you can use your environment and different strategies to get by in the game, just a cool experience i wanted to share with my fellow skyrim players...if anyone has interesting similar stories i'd really like to read them.

Yea, it`s nice that there are many alternative ways to do things. There is no shame in running away if something tougher than you appears.

I was recently stuck on a bit of rock just by a meadow with a fast running river on the other side. In between me and the river was a bear that had seen me and wanted me, but couldn`t get me on the rock. It kept growling at me and all that. there was nowhere to go except past the bear and I knew it was faster than I could run. It was night so waited until dawn (about 6 hours) and the bear was still there.

But a wandering hunter appeared and the bear attacked him and started killing him. I watched for a moment wandering if I should help, but it didn`t look like the man was going to make it. So I made a rush for it and jumped onto the ground and ran as fast as I could for the river. Just at that point the Hunter died and the bear rushed for me.

Boy was that bear FAST! I just made it into the river and let it carry me away over the waterfalls! Phew!

Haha! thats cooler than my story, you waited it out and someone came along, without knowing it, that hunter saved your life. Thanks for replying, really liked that one.

Lol, I would just tone down the difficulty to Novice and have at em!

haha, the funs in the difficulty for me but i see where your coming from, at least i always dominate those mudcrabs!

When in trouble, run like fun!

The Frost Troll is a scripted encounter, and happens to everyone.

Sometimes a dragon encounter can be a blessing in that respect. I've let them clean out giant camps for me. XD

Yea. the fun`s in the difficulty for me too. I mean it makes for interesting encounters.



I tried doing that once. dragon wouldn`t play ball- I had to run away. Again.

At lower levels, that frost troll can really own you!!

I love hearing stories like these from other players

I was heading north-east from Falkreath (past that big lake) and came across two mages fighting each other (one fire and one ice). They looked far more powerful than I was at the time so I just crouched down by a rock and watched the show. After a while it was clear that the fire mage was getting owned so I chose to try and finish him off before turning my attention to the ice mage. I sprinted straight for the fire mage while power attacking him with my mace, I timed it just right striking the mage (maybe a critical) but the momentum of my sprinting attack carried me past him. I turned 180 to see him on his knees trying to recover and just at that moment a huge white ice-spear-thingy comes flying out from behind the trees to my left, pierces the fire mage and sends him flying into the lake on my right. The poor guy didn't stand a chance He floated away while the ice mage and I got aquainted.

I wish I had managed to record that somehow. It was awesome.

Btw, anyone know how I actually capture footage of my gaming in Skyrim?

I just can't stand how that guy says he runs into wolves every once and a while. Lying son of a [censored]!! If you read all 10 of the shrines animals won't attack you for a day.

I was cursing that damn guy the whole way up

Encounters like that frost troll encounter are why I always think that having a powerful scroll or a paralysis poison is a must.

I love how Beth will throw a level 10 enemy at you when you're level 4! It adds excitement to the game.

Better yet, have a dragon attacking you, run to an enemy town/camp/group of them, let them weaken the dragon and die in the process, then pick the dragon off and take the glory WIN WIN if you ask me

The other day I was in one of the caves with some necromancers. I used by throw voice shout, and two of them ran to my shout. I then shot one with an arrow, he saw me, and fired an ice shard at me. As he did the other necro stood in the way and got hit by it, and then bizarely they started attacking each other and forgot about me?!! (Is this a bug???!??) I just sat there and let them kill each other. Took a while though, they kept healing themselves... but eventually they were both weak so I decided to put them out of their misery

When I first met that frost troll on the way up the mountain the only way I could get past it was to put on my enchanted nike trainers and leave my companion to deal with it as I took off up the mountain. My companion lydia never killed it but she did manage to get past it and meet me at the doors of the grey beards. On the way down the mountain I used the same tactic but a week later I purposely went back up that mountain more powerful and wiser and showed that frost troll who ruled that mountain.

You sir are lucky you didn't have the same experience I did climbing that mountain. When I neared the peak I found a woman sitting in front of one of the little altar things, talked to her and immediately after the conversation was attacked by a dragon. Would have been a long run back to town for that one lol

the most common way is FRAPS

I use that Troll as a kind of measure for how powerful my character is becoming. My first time up there, at level 6, I had to have Lydia help me or I doubt I could have survived. The second time I could take it down on my own, with difficulty. The third time I could do it a little easier. I went up for the last time at level 39, and that Troll was a mere inconvenience by then. My 2-handed warrior could two-shot that svcker without breaking a sweat. That's a nice feeling of accomplishment I haven't had in an Elder Scrolls game since Morrowind.