With Chuck Norris on my side I will survive....

Sure I can survive in Skyrim, I just stay in town like the rest of the non heroes.

The thing is, if I got dumped into Skyrim the game would have to be heavily modded as a result, given how an educated person from our world with access to stuff like soul gems would probably end up most akin to the Dwemer. Also it seems to me mixing up some gunpowder wouldn't take too long, just hit up a few of the alchemists, it'd take some tinkering to get the ratios right since I don't remember those from the top of my head, but that shouldn't be too hard.

True....But one thing has bothered me since release. Has anyone taken a good look at the maces on the loading screens and in game. They are supposed to be BLUNT Weapons. They look more like a bunch of sharpened blades stuck to the top of a stick, not a realistic blunt object with spikes usually.

As long as I can bring my beloved compound bow I made in wood shop years ago, and my trusty KABAR, I'm set. I'm a decent shot with a bow, I'm at least vaguely competent with a blade (not good, mind you, but I could defend my self if worse came to worse.).

I've also been around guns my entire life, and I'm a decent gunsmith, so as long as I could access some decent quality steel and the ingredients of black powder (charcoal, salt peter, and sulfur), I could rule all of Skyrim with my superior technology.

And if all else fails, I'm a damn good musician. Beware, fellow bards.

Everyone complaining about this and that. Lets return to the main topic, shall we?

If suddenly I awoke in the back of a carriage, and knew NOTHING about my surroundings, my first reaction would be that I have finally arrived in the world I was supposed to be born in the first place. After realizing that I don't really have a previous identity in that world, I would have to make something up as to where I came from or how I came to be in that predicament. What do I look like to them, and how will they perceive me in their world?

After realizing that my head is about to be chopped off, I would probably forget everything I just tried to figure out for myself, and crap my pants. A foul stench would be hell for the companions in my carriage, especially the one with his mouth bound, whoever he is.

Then, after seeing a massive friggin dragon land on a tower just as my head is about to be REMOVED from my neck, I'd probably throw up. Upon getting up from my perch on the carving block and being directed to RUN with my hands tied, I'd probably end up falling on my face, trying to crawl out of the way. That guy who mentioned the mead sounds like a GREAT guy to be following...I could use several by this point.

Ah, good, I'm inside some room with a dead guy. I'll grab his clothes and see if I can find something to wipe the rest of whatever I left in my pants away. Okay, I have to use a 19 pound iron sword in one hand...sure, I can hold a bowling ball in my hand, but I've never thought about trying to swing it violently toward people I don't know in an attempt to KILL them. This is going GREAT so far....

And, yes, I would honestly - truly - with every regard to everything holy LOVE to try it.

Well, knights often duelled in heavy armor and men-at-arms were bedyguards in heavy armor and they both were elite soldiers. The armor gives them an edge since if you are trained in using it the positives outweight the negatives. A set of steel plate armor in the middle ages had a weight of about 60-70 lbs IIRC allowing one trained in it to move reasonably well.. Any sword used against plate armor would be useless, curved or not. Axes would work better, but still not very effective.
Blunted weapons would do best, but with the padding underneat + the unlikelyness of getting a good, direct hit in the chest the only parts you can realisticly hurt is the arms, legs and head unless you are a very well-trained warrior.
In short:
Without plate armor: Surrvival chance = less than 40%. With = maybe 80-90% against humans and somewhat lower against beasts such as bears or sabrecats.

But, seeing as none of us realisticly have any weapon or armor training we would stand a chance.

I agree You should be killed in one hit with a sword, and enemies should be killed in a hit too >.>

I am up for it and will be trying it soon I guess I would be nord since I am used to cold climates ranging from 10 to -20 degrees in the winter where I live. I actually hunt with a bow (not compound, but I guess still better quality than in skyrim) My house is heated by fireplace and wood furnace and every year at the end of summer I have to go out and cut and collect wood for the winter plus I have worked abit at the local mills. So if I was dropped in skyrim and it was near riverwood that is where i would probaby be most of the time hunting and working at the woodmill. As for combat well I have yet had to fire my bows in self defense so aiming and firing while something was trying to kill me is an untested thing. As for melee well probably go mace or swing that wood cutters ax to simulate simplistic untrained combat.

Koleman, hats off to you for this!

At 46 years old, I might - MIGHT - try jumping on to that roof simply because the alternative is definite death. And I'd end up sticking with Hadvar because in my fear I'd stick to whoever has taken me under their wing. I'd also run backwards and let him do all the fighting by himself. Sneaking by the bear - run if it failed right to the exit. Rinse repeat as I follow Hadvar to Riverwood. Laugh in Alvor's face about traveling to Whiterun and take any job I could find in Riverun; barring that, local beggar/madwoman.

If I did that I'd end up in a city like I am now and not leave it.

I most likely become one of the blacksmiths apprentice (took a week of it during camp) and pick up archery to a greater degree than what I do now. Owh, and I would never leave town, skilled trades suit me fine. By the way, do I have to buy a amulet to get an application in skyrim?

Nope just pick up a tool and start working hoping they will like your initiative and pay you. In fact historically that is how it most often worked.

The greatest difficulty would be to understand and speak the languages. Second difficulty would be to get a job. Smithing is not so easy, do you really think you would be allowed to forge important weapons or tools as a foreigner who worked in a bureau before? Ask Belethor in Whiterun, perhaps he needs another guy to clean the floors.

If you got a job and enough money and you wanted to live an adventurous life, you should try to learn fighting first. There are enough trainers in Skyrim, you know. A plate armour would give you the best protection, but would have to be tailored for you and would be very expensive. It's weight then were not so much a problem, soldiers of the modern times went and go to war with more weight on their bodies than medieval warriors in plate armour. If light armour would be your choice (it would be mine), don't be silly enough to use fur or leather, use the gambeson-like armour of the guards and a decent steel helmet. If you had to fight against foes in heavy armour you had to use a heavy weapon, best would be a halberd or a bill (non-existent in Skyrim, make one for you), second best a two-handed axe or war hammer. You cannot use swords so easily, above all not curved thrusting ones, against plate. If you used a sword, you had to stab with it against weak armour spots, not to thrust. In the 15th c. AD of our world, there was the rule that you needed two or three soldiers with heavy polearms to bring down a person in full plate armour. Don't overstate blunt effects of weapons against hardened and padded plate armour or helmets.

Against lighter armoured enemies my choice would be a spear combined with a shield and sword. You cannot use a short-shafted mace against foes with edged weapons without decent own armour. So bring the spear, the "queen of weapons" to the Tamriel dumbheads who don't use it any longer and win your fights with it. Train real sword fighting (has nothing to do with movies or some so called martial arts) together with the aggressive use of your shield.

Gameplay wise I play an adventurer who fights more or less naked, with sword and shield, on master. I very often get my guts ripped or punctured or get roasted/frosted. So it would be a very short game if I weren't allowed to reload.

If it were real then knowing my luck I'd have been that 1st bloke on the choppong block just before Aludin arrived to save the Dovahkiin

If I got past that I'd have to say I'd rely on stealth, I'm quite fast and quiet. I'm not very strong so melee combat would be a big no no. I've done archery a few times and I'm actually reasonably good at it

There is a glitch to escape helgan still bounded.

First off, thank you. I've never actually been commended on anything I've written on a forum...everyone just hit the like button.

Secondly, as far as walking down the hill and greeting those stones? Big rocks with holes in them and a carving on it...okay. What's so special about that? Then I touch one of them and this beam of light shines through the top of it. Okay....uh...

Not only did I just escape my head being cut off and some friggin DRAGON, but now there are some magical rocks that do weird things when I simply touch them. I think I need a jug of bourbon by this point. Onward to...where am I? Follow the dude in the blue suit. Bleak falls something, yeah yeah, I need a beer.

I'd be a town guard complaining about my ankle instead of my knee.

Honestly i would go insane if I found myself in skyrim even if after escaping the dragon and I made it to riverwood the simple fact that conversation is best had with a stone there, and people never remember anything you do and everyday is literally like that move grounds hog day i would kill myself.

Does that mean I can't join the Stormcloaks? Because you seriously have to paddle your ass through 50 yards of sub-zero tempurature water in order to get the Serpent's Eye Island to fight a wraith.

Its not that bad every new years here we all gather and jump into out frozen over lake and go for a swim though not 50 yards they only carve out maybe a good 10 yard diameter in the ice.

But.... If I spend the next 3 weeks running for my life from psychopathic everythings, then my stamina WILL increase. It's called physical fitness.

So Stamina is a valid choice.

I looked them up on wiki and most resemble flanged maces. Daedric and Glass are pretty ridiculous, though. I'd like to see a regular club in the game...

Assuming I'd escape from Helgen, I'd probably become an alchemist's apprentice. Fortify Smithing potions are out of the question, of course, but the rest is just herbalism and primitive medicine, and there's always demend for that in a land raided by dragons If not this, aforementioned local madwoman sounds feasible

LOL This. I can barely survive in Expert difficulty...

Step 1: Chop wood/Smith in Riverwood until I can afford a carriage ride
Step 2: Go to Solitude and hook up with Lisette

Heavy armour, if you base it on real life counterpart, isn't exactly THAT heavy. Anyone who've been through some form of military training (compulsory in some countries, like mine) would've carried stuff as heavy as or heavier. Actually, even a guy who haven't left his computer chair for a decade will be more than able to take the armour weight (sure, he'll get tired quicker). Also, wearing armour, even without training/being used to, won't suddenly turn the fellow into a giant immovable metal target - your movements will be slower and a little awkward but other than that, it'll be pretty much the same. There's also the weapons that can damage someone in full armour which other than the mace, you're pretty much immune to damage. I think that the biggest problem the average Joe would face regarding armour is finding one in the first place.

For me, I'll probably be dead in my first wolf encounter. In real life, wolves maul you, not the other way. You can go naked and fist wolves in Skyrim.