u/Bobicusx

I've played a decent bit of Morrowind in my life but never done the main story past meeting Caius. Just messed around with all the exploits, doing guild quests and grabbing the artifacts that I thought were cool. And made a crazy OP char on Nerevarine Prophecies tes3mp server. Overall I'm pretty amateur and have never seen 90% of what the game has to offer.

I'm planning on recording my first full playthrough as my first lets-play, not necessarily a challenge run since I'm not super knowledgeable, just guardrails to not be too easy and spoil the fun since I already know some of the ways to be turbo OP. These are my proposed rules:

• Rule 1: I can bend any rule if I feel like it, or if I feel I've "earned it" in a situation, or it would be more fun to play/watch.
• Mostly-vanilla openMW, maybe add some graphical or QoL mods
• Randomized start (race, appearance, major and minor skills, birthsign)
  • This will almost certainly make a horrible character, but the game's already not too difficult
• No wiki, guides, etc. Besides what little I know already, and the manual that came in the box (edit: my copy has the GOTY guide to rely on as a last resort or for game machanics before wiki), going blind.
• Use most skills at some point, to have a varied playstyle and not having too one-dimensional of a character.
• Considering a randomized starting location, leave the Census Office and warp to a random city. I don't know how impossible that could be at level 1, but it sounds fun and different, doing quests at lvl 1 that you normally would not, and having to trek to Balmora from wherever.
• No AFK skill grinding
• No "cheese" exploits within reason. No alchemy loops, soul trapping my own summons, etc.
• No creature merchants

Any thoughts? Maybe some kind of additional clause to random skills, such as one guaranteed offensive skill in major, or maybe that's unnecessary and you think I can do it with the worst possible build. Or any other rules you think fit into the ideas of fairness, but not a crazy challenge.

Maybe some specific fun goals or milestones that I should need to do?

I know there are mods that remove many of the beneficial exploits for difficulty, but I want to leave most of it in so I can decide case-by-case if it's fun.