Yep this happened to me early when I didn't have much carrying capacity. Best one tho was when I had finished a "go kill a giant" for Jarl Skald in Dawnstar. Went in, collected the bounty, and asked for more work. Yep, "Go Kill Me a Giant" all over again. Bleah... Went outside and got stealth blasted by a Ancient Dragon. Survived, but took a good 25 minutes of bow work to take him down, didn't have dragon rend yet, and aside from landing on a house once, didn't come down till the crash land. Took the bones and scales and dumped them the fire in Skalds long house. Crochety old fart told me not to leave my garbage everywhere ! Cracked me up the way he said it, bones are still burning there, hopefully giving his house a nice stench....

I see him wandering around from time to time. I didn't see any dragons in walled cities in my first two playthroughs. On my third I've had two in whiterun, and one in winterhold

I had just exited a mine where I had done some mining, on my way out I just dropped the pick-axe I was using on the ground as I didn't need it anymore, one of the miners who was standing by complained," Hey, you can't just drop stuff like that anywhere, someone could get hurt! Here, take this back." And he picked it up and gave it back to me. You didn't actually see him pick it up, it just disappeared from where I dropped it and re-appeared in my inventory.

True they are pretty realistic, if you drop something expensive they pocket it, if it's junk they give it back.
Guards get angry if you drop weapons.

Do the Companion's quest line.
That is all.

thats if they hate you

This just happened to me as well.

I have unistalled Skyrim and reinstalled it again so I when I start a new game, I start at 1 with saves. Thing is, game seems to respond better. This is when I noticed these differences. I swear I dropped things infront of guards and they never said anything before. Same as dropping things infront of people. I did it again and someone asked if they can have it. Never happend before. It also doesn't freeze as much when I go into the menu screen and It's actually doable now to scroll in the Perk Tree. I am not so frustrated as I use to be. I thought maybe a new patch came out . Thing is how long this will last, not so sure.

This reminds me of when I was transporting some dragon bones by hand to the nearest shop and Nazeem claimed I was "throwing my trash anywhere I please." The last words he ever uttered...

LMAO!!

Oh that has happened to me numerous times! When I am just shy of the maximum carry weight but I want to carry another thing back to town, I use the grab feature so I can move at normal speed and not drop anything. However, this results in NPCs grabbing it from me and saying I dropped it and once Nivenor and Bolli fought over an ebony war axe I was carrying. I didn't really stay to see who won, but probably Bolli since he is immortal (I think?)

I am pretty sure that is a bug, hope it gets fixed.

I'm like 5 quests into the main story on a level 54 with 118hr 30min. I probly get that amount and usually more. Main reason i'm not going to do the main quest till, forever from now? I don't like the idea of an increasing amount of dragons. Expecially since everybody who actually has done the main questline says nearly every single time they fast travel, there's a dragon.

How far into the main questline are you?

I finished the main quest line, and there are dragons in every town 85% of the time now... it's quite annoying actually.

I watched some Stormcloaks massacare an Imperial patrol then went over and looted the Imperials. Finding myself encumbered I dropped some of the weapons I'd just looted only for one of the Stormcloaks to tell me off because someone might get hurt.

Get so many dragons attacking me and have no trouble getting them to land. Seen them picking up and dropping guards but only in Helgen so far.

Killed all the witnesses to a crime and my bounty went away.

I had that too.

I've dropped items in Whiterun and had a guard reprimand me for littering.

do the companions quests. . . other then that ive never randomly come across them either

I got a warning from a guard one day outside of Whiterun. He thought I was littering. Have you also ever heard the Guards tell you to sell your junk at bits and pieces? Maybe it's related.

I HAVENT HAD THEM BE LIKE AW I BEN LIKE HEY DONT TROW UR [censored] IN MY CRIB BWAH

Yesterday I dropped a piece of body armor and helmet near the well in Whiterun. Not 10 seconds later, an NPC comes running up to me and asked something like, "Do you still need the armor and helmet you dropped or can I have it."

I told him he can have it - I was at the Warmaiden's place at the time. So, he runs back toward the well and stops about halfway there, turns and looks back in my direction. And he just stood there, regardless of where I moved. Finally, I entered my home to put some things in my chest, and when I left the house about 5 minutes later, he was gone and so was the armor/helmet.

Strange.

A guard once walked up to me and returned an item I'd dropped, saying he should jail me for leaving dangerous things around like litter. I chose the options that basically mouthed off to him in response, and he fined me.

The scripting does trigger, but it's not just because you dropped something. It's probably something more like M'aiq in Oblivion, you could drop calipers around where he stops, and he'll search specifically for any calipers he can find at various breaks in his running about Cyrodiil. There's probably a lot of items that will get noticed and prompt some kind of response, and some that are especially keyed to generate a response with some people.

I've had items returned to me, I've had others mention how disgraceful I was in carelessly discarding equipment, and I've had a couple people ask if they could keep what I'd dropped.


NPCs will comment on things regarding your current disposition/condition. If you're weighed down with a lot of crap that you've accumulated in your travels, people will suggest going to the nearest general store to sell off some of it. If you run around with a magelight spell active over your head, people will "ooh" and "ahh" at the display. Once, a guy said "Pretty colors..." in a weird, dreamy kind of voice.

The exact opposite for me. I had just exited the DB sanctuary and tried to fast-travel away because I heard a dragon and I didn't have any potions, but it was too close. A frost dragon made a pass at me and landed right in front of me, only to immediately die. As I confusedly absorb its soul, an elder dragon lands behind me and torches me. This is about the third or fourth time I've been attacked by 2 dragons at the same time.

I see him so often we're on first name basis. "Hi Bob, lost your head? ".

I was in Whiterun smithing and just to get it out my inventory I dropped an iron dagger and sward, out of the blue a guard comes up and charges me with littering!!!! Naturally I slit his throat as soon as I could but I fount it really interesting that, that would be included in-game. It's a nice touch.

Another interesting thing, I just got a fire thrall. Entering an Inn with her gets all kind of comments, like, "watch out where you going with that," etc.