Not wanting to start the Main Quest, I reloaded my current character and avoided Riverwood and the Jarl of Whiterun altogether and went exploring and seeking my fortune. I have never seen a dragon aside from the opening sequence and after reading many threads here, I'm kinda glad. Unlike the OB gates, you can't just walk away from them and 'put them off' until you're in the mood to deal with them. Cliffracers were bad enough. I can't imagine dealing with dragon after dragon after dragon....

I was wondering if anyone else is playing in a dragon-free world like I am. Maybe I'm a puss...

Edit: wrong forum

Not this time around, but probably next....

I am too, avoided the main quest on this character completely and it's the best playthrough I've had so far. 70 hours in and not a single dragon touching down and eating all of my NPCs. It feels more like a sandbox game like this, nobody knows I'm Dragonborn and it feels good. I truly wish there was a way to be rid of them for good in the main game because as an OCD player who wants to preserve his NPCs it gets really annoying having to avoid major cities and towns at high levels because every time you do an ancient dragon lands and kills nearly everyone in a village.

Come on folks, if you're not a soldier or a guard run from a damned dragon. Every time I see Khajiit caravaners flying across my screen as a dragon tosses them about, I have to reload and avoid that town? No dragons, loving every second of it.

I did for a while, until the Civil War questline forced me to advance it.

I was expecting a "Ah yes, Dragons. We have long dismissed such claims."

Anyway... It depends what kinda char I'm playing. I put the MQ off if want no dragons, thats all. Do I mind em? Nope. They make things exciting. Nowhere near the drudgery of closing Oblivion Gates, or the length of time it took.

After accidentally deleting my first character, who happened to be a dragon slaying Dunmer Spellsword, I started a Khajiit theif/assassin.

Completely avoiding the MQ, already beat the DB and TG quests, and loving not having everyone praise me for being dragonborn.

Oh, and not having to battle dragons is awesome. I doubt my character could even take out one, unless it is asleep and I can sneak attack it

I think only the Imperial one forces it

They both do. The Jarl won't answer Ulfric's challenge if you don't help him out first...

I have unintentionally avoided them. I've got about 115 hours on my first and only character so far, and I've killed 6 dragons. I saw another one flying once, but it never landed, so I couldn't kill it. I've been doing everything but the main quest, and like I said earlier, my Skyrim has been remarkably dragon free so far.

On my first playthough, I ran through the MQ as quick as I could just to see what it was, then I restarted and never did it again. I hate having random dead NPCs because of random dragon attacks =(

But dragons make the game so much fun.

I love fast traveling to a town to sell my enchanted weapons to the blacksmith just to find he is closed for the day.
Then using the rest option to pass time until store opening.
And finally getting to the right time of day to find that both an ancient dragon and blood dragon are attacking the town and the blacksmith is too busy running around like a pansy.
And then once those dragons are finally dead, the blacksmith is too busy standing in front of their corpses for the rest of the day.

I've actually been constructing a Dovahkiin-in-denial character in my head and will be doing this in the near future.

Funny that they made such a big deal about the dragons and yet there's multiple threads on the forums about people not wanting to trigger them because they're just annoying

Dragons dont bug me. One lands, I kill it get a soul.

Better shouts! Hoorah!

The Elder council will never listen to the Dovahkiin's warnings until Alduin and his pals are on their doorstep eatting the world... I see what you did there

Similar to in OB Martin is the "Emperor in denial"

OT i hate the main quest in skyrim when i say i just i mean i love everything better haha

At which point of the Main Quest do Dragons start burning town folks? I've just completed The Way of The Voice, am I too far in?
Does anyone know the condition that determines if an NPC can/cannot die? I'm starting to notice how some NPCs can die while some can't.

One time at Temple of Kynareth after Danica Pure-Spring accused me of unintentionally stealing one of her Book, I just blacked out. Next thing I know, her dead body was lying in the middle of the Temple and Whiterun Guards started pouring in. Obviously, I had to defend myself so I killed all of them until Commander Caius came in and about 6 times that I knocked him down the ground, but he kept getting up like he was my own Follower? How am I suppose to know which NPC can/can't be killed?



How do you avoid them?



Oh god this would be so awful.

Yes.

Invisible flag. No way to tell before hand really.

After getting the Dragonstone for the Yarl of Whiterun's mage, don't go and defend the tower from a dragon.

If you avoid triggering dragons in your game, you still end up facing one during a certain major faction's questline. It's a scary one, too.
-Loth

mmh...whining about dragons in a game based on dragons....

I can't speak for others, but I was not informed there would be this many Dragons and they would randomly kill Vendors who frequently buy items from me on a daily basis.

If you could get the shouts w/o the dragons, I'd give it a go. The things just come in too damned handy, though, and a couple of quests pretty much require them, I know there've been a few places I could only reach with the Speedy Gonzoles shout.

After the Oblivion gates, the dragons are a breath of fresh air. In oblivion I just couldn't walk past a gate and not go inside and close it. They were ruining the landscape.
I don't mind the dragons at all. Sure I also try to save everyone and it is a bit hard when some unarmed dude goes all "fall to me dragon", but if you don't use fast travel at all they are MUCH more rare. On my 'no fast travel" run I didn't even get a dragon attack a city, and I'm about 60 hours in...

With a little help from the console maybe it can be avoided... "setstage"

it seems to me that the only towns that dragons attack are the one's that dont require entering a gate and loading...i've never seen a dragon in whiterun but every time i walk into winterhold i get attacked by 1

I welcome dragons, i see flying $ waiting to be cashed