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You're already the Grand Champion of the Arena, Champion of Cyrodiil, Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, Master of the Fighters Guild, Gray Fox , and Archmage of the Mages Guild. Played for long enough, every game eventually gets to this point.

However, you don't have to start over from scratch just to get back where you started (or ended, as the case may be). Even if you are in between quests and not a fan of roleplaying, there's a number of creative challenges you can give yourself for fun.

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[edit] 100% Completion

Max out all stats! Become Master in all skills! Finish all quests! This article lists all the completable statistics in the game. Make sure you've got them all!


[edit] Annoy The Annoying Arcane Scholars

Find various ways to annoy the scholars at the Arcane University. This includes but is not limited to:

  • Wearing necromancer robes.
  • Pickpocketing their stuff.
  • Throwing things at them while they are giving a lecture.
  • Switch around books in the Mystic Archives and replace scientific books with other irrelevant ones. (For instance, take out every single book and replace them all with many copies of "The Lusty Argonian Maid")
  • Completely trash their quarters, or even the Mystic Archives, by throwing items around or using area effect spells.
  • Constantly get in the scholars' way, especially while they are talking with another person.
  • Constantly interrupt their conversations with other people.
  • Reverse-pickpocket draining enchanted items into their inventory, with names like AAA to make sure they'll wear them.

[edit] Avoid Arrows

Set the difficulty slider all the way to the hardest setting. Then get 100% Reflect Damage, 100% Resist Poison, and either 100% Resist Magic or 100 pt Spell Absorption. You are now immune to all attacks... except arrows. Since the difficulty is all the way to the right, you can only take a few arrow hits before you die. This can provide an interesting challenge for some characters.

[edit] Ayleid Wells

There are 35 Ayleid Wells in Cyrodiil. Time yourself on how long it takes you to activate each one of them. Level up your speed a bit and try again. See how fast you can accomplish this task.

[edit] Become a True Master of Combat

It's easy to reach 100 in combat skills such as Blade, Blunt, Marksman and Hand to Hand. But do you really know how to fight with them? To truly test your combat skills, set the combat difficulty slider all the way to the right, and enter the Imperial City Arena holding nothing but an unenchanted iron or steel weapon of your choice (bare hands and no fortification enchantments if you choose Hand-to-hand), a quiver full of arrows, and your fighting raiment. Do not use poisons or spells, other than to heal yourself. See exactly how proficient you are with the weapon of your choice in close combat.

[edit] Build Your Own Daedra Army

Using the permanent bound item glitch and the ability to reverse-pickpocket you can create a small horde of your very own Dremora. To do this gather every sort of follower available to you (Mage apprentice, Murderer, Adoring Fan, etc etc) then equip them with a full set of permanent bound items and wait for them to equip them. Once you have done this you can then summon a Dremora or Dremora Lord to finish of the collection of your own personal daedric guard!

[edit] Coming for you

In the game, people walk around. . . like actual people—and you can take advantage of that.

First find a person, then wait about twenty four hours, or until they are gone. After they are gone, run around looking for them. You can reverse-pickpocket them bound armor to make them stand out. For an extreme challenge, reverse-pickpocket bound armor enchanted with chameleon, then try to find them!

[edit] Construction

Constructing can be fun. All you need are the right materials. Even though walls can be made from just about anything in the game, here are a few classic ideas to get started with.

[edit] Bricks

Ever notice how the south end of the wall around Benirus Manor in Anvil is incomplete? Well, there are "stone bricks" to be found in the game. For example, the Ayleid ruin Vilverin contains nine stone bricks, all of which are located in the first zone, at the bottom of the second of the three stairwells in that zone. Or, you can steal two from the Anvil Warehouse. Bricks can be duped through the Duplicate Items Glitch. Try creating a few hundred bricks, then stacking them to complete this wall, or to create your own ruin. After creating your own ruin, cast an area effect spell at the middle and watch it fly in all directions!

[edit] Paintbrushes

If you drop a paintbrush, it floats in the air in front of you, and doesn't fall to the ground. Get a paintbrush (it's a junk item found in random crates and barrels.) Then use the Duplicate Items Glitch to make a bunch of them. Find a high place that you want to reach (The outer walls of Bruma are a good beginner goal, for hardcore goals try the top of the White Gold Tower) and drop a paintbrush in front of you, then jump on top of it. Drop another paintbrush while you are standing on the first, and jump on top of that one. Continue this until you reach your goal. Once you get higher up and don't want to risk having to start over again, it's a good idea to save after every few jumps. You can also try to make bridges across water or chasms this way. To test it for strength, have an NPC follow you across.

This appears to have been fixed in the Playstation 3 Game of the Year Edition.1

[edit] Create your own Harbor

After you get the White Stallion Lodge, you may notice a small boat moored in the river near the lodge. There is also an empty harbor there. Make this look like a real harbor by dropping an assortment of materials, clothes, food and objects on the empty harbor. Also drop an oar inside the boat to make it look more realistic!


[edit] Dive Rock Fun!

Note: You should save your game before trying many of these.

  • Get an entire city garrison behind you, run to Dive Rock, get your bow out, making sure you can paralyze them using poisons of paralysis, jump off Dive Rock and try to hit as many off as you can. Even better, get a massive scale spell and blast them all off.
  • Kill people and drag them to Dive Rock! It's a hard thing to do, because you will have to get them all up there, but once up, you can use arrows or things like that to push the bodies off, and see them hopelessly fall into nothing.
  • Take the Adoring Fan to Dive Rock and tell him to "Beat it kid, I don't need a fan." when you're at the edge. He will run right off the side of the cliff.
  • Push summoned creatures from Dive Rock. It's really fun seeing a Daedroth fall! This also serves as a fun way to level up your Conjuration. Just summon something and push it off Dive Rock. Rinse and repeat.
  • Get a horse, and turn on God mode. (This is especially fun if you have a mod such as Slof's Horses, that makes your horse unkillable.) Ride it up to the top of Dive Rock (or a tall mountain, such as the mountains along the northern edge of the world map), then jump or gallop off of the mountainside. The results of a long fall down the mountainside are simply spectacular!
  • You can put the horse (usually with low health) on the edge of Dive Rock and then walk into it to push it off the edge of the rock. The horse will hopefully not survive the small fall and continue to fall all the way down the hill, knocking into the nearby rocks on the way down in a clumsy roly-poly action for a nice Havok physics demonstration. Trying later to find its body will entertain for days.
  • Take Shadowmere to the top of Dive Rock and climb off of her. Then watch as her and The Horror Of Dive Rock battle it out! Sometimes Shadowmere will buck the Matron off the cliff and sometimes the Matron will knock Shadowmere unconscious and push her down the hill!
  • If you are an expert of Blade/Blunt, you can use the mastery perk to knock people backwards off the mountain. The Camonna Tong thugs at Walker Camp do nicely. Punch one to make him follow you, then let him chase you up the mountain. When you knock him off it gives an effect like a cheesy action movie.
  • Just take a leap of faith! It's almost addicting to kill yourself over...and over...and over again! Try to get your acrobatics high enough to make it into the lake to the left.
  • Make sure you have a Paralysis effect (staff, spell, or poison) available and take a follower up to Dive Rock. Make your follower stand as close to the edge as possible and tell them to stay. Use Paralysis on your follower. In most cases, the person will fall backwards; if not, then try again!

[edit] Deer Hunting

Go into the wilderness with nothing but an iron bow and some arrows. See how many deer you can kill without spells, only archery.

For a little more difficulty, go into the wilderness with NO weapons. Chase down deer and kill them with nothing more than your fists.

[edit] Drowning NPCs

Quite simple. In Cheydinhal, complete the Mages Guild recommendation. Now, go up to a particularly annoying (non-Argonian) character, hit them and run towards the guild well (where you find Vidkun). Cast a Water Breathing spell, go inside and get out of their way. They will attempt to attack you, then realize they are drowning, try to swim through the ceiling and fall unconscious. When they wake up, they will 'sneeze', shoot backwards and float up again. Remember to save before, as the NPC could be very important. Guards work very nicely if you're not worried about a bounty.

[edit] Dungeon Dash

This can be done alone or with friends. Take turns with several people. Each person loads the same basically equipment-less character file, and each time they get ten minutes to collect equipment before fast-traveling to a pre-determined dungeon (it helps if it already has a map marker on it, so that you may fast travel). Compete to see who can kill every monster the fastest, or perhaps who can find a particular item the fastest. If a player dies, he or she loses and the next person begins their turn. Time yourself, and see whose techniques pay off.

[edit] Escaping From Cities

Basically, all you have to do is enter a city (Bravil and Anvil are good places to start), climb up the buildings until you are on the roof, then jump onto the city's outer wall, and then jump over it. You can also use paintbrushes to accomplish this. This will take a bit of practice as well as a high Acrobatics skill (you may have to be a master of Acrobatics, and may still need to fortify Acrobatics to pull it off). When you have done this, there will be a partly developed world, some without a floor texture, some which you can still walk on. Then, when you are bored, just fast travel back to the city.

The Arcane University is also relatively easy to escape if you have full access to its interior in the first place. On the "main campus" accessible by Mage Guild members, there is a large circle of columns capped with a stone ring, standing between the Archmage's tower and the main University buildings. From the walkway around the tower, leap onto the stone ring atop the columns. From there, jump onto the roof of the University buildings. From there, you can jump over the wall.

There is a practical advantage to walking around the undeveloped game world you leap into. While everything is virtually featureless, you won't meet any obstacles or enemies. However, you can still discover places, such as caves, dungeons and villages. You can't see or explore them, but you will be alerted to their discovery and they will appear on your world map. If you are really bored, you could try to explore the entire game world this way. For more practical purposes, it is a safe way to explore the immediate area around a city.

[edit] Eternal Sleep

A fun way to disable NPC's is to enchant 3 zero-weight items with constant Damage Fatigue and reverse pickpocket them onto NPC's. Mage's Hoods, Wrist Irons, and Bound Shields are perfect items, seeing as how they don't alter the target's appearance drastically as Bound Armor (besides the shield) would, and few NPC's have items equipped in the hand/wrist and head slots (the shield doesn't matter because it only shows when the wielder is fighting and the Bound Shield will be equipped because of its better quality). If you want to knock out guards and citizens with one or more of those slots filled, you may need bound gloves and helmets, because otherwise they will simply keep on their City Watch armor.

The target's Fatigue will drain away, and if you punch them when they have none left, they will be knocked unconscious (Chameleon armor or the Gray Cowl should be worn if you don't want a bounty). Their Fatigue doesn't regenerate, so they will stay asleep as long as you want them to. A simple Restore Fatigue spell will revive them and they can go back to their normal lives, all the while sporting a trendy hood and wrist irons.

This can be used as a punishment! If you're roleplaying as a god, and one particular person blasphemes, or doesn't believe in you, use this method to keep them trapped for all eternity, suspended in this state. It is a fate far worse then death. This is a fun way to get revenge against NPCs such as Hieronymus Lex.

Put a whole city to sleep or deal with Essential NPCs in a way that will stay! You could lead outdoor enemies to the Imperial City Waterfront District and collect sleeping people and monsters on one of the ships or in the lake! Try making a large pile of dead bodies. Be creative!

[edit] Eternal Spell Effect

This is easy and fun to do! First equip an item with a shock, frost, or fire damage effect or cast a self spell. Then, while you are burning, turn on god mode with tgm and watch yourself look like you are being burned/electrocuted/frozen to death! In first-person your hands have the effect on them (very nice on Very High detail) so you can enchant your weapon to make it look like you're freezing or burning people when you hit them! Very nice for people using the Elemental God style of roleplaying!

[edit] Exploration Challenge

If you're really bored and just can't get enough dungeon crawling, start from Anvil and explore every dungeon on the map. You don't have to wipe out every single one, that gets old after a while. Even if you don't finish, you'll be able to warp instantly to anywhere from Anvil to wherever you stopped with hardly any time spent wandering around staring at the compass and glancing up at the screen wondering where all the roads went.

You could also "hike" across Cyrodiil, choosing one place to start and walking from one city to another using the roads. It's a chance to enjoy the scenery and have some fun fighting enemies that appear en route. Try finding all the beautiful waterfalls around Cyrodiil. You may also find many ingredients and loot on the way, and this can be sold as you arrive at each new city along the way.

[edit] Extreme Acrobatics

For this little time waster, you should optimally have at least Journeyman Restoration skill, 100 Intelligence & Willpower, and AT LEAST 75 Acrobatics skill.

  1. Make a spell that fortifies Acrobatics 100 pts for as long as possible, and same for Athletics and/or speed (if you can move faster you can jump further). Wear the Boots of Springheel Jak if you have them. The effect of Acrobatics maxes at skill level 255, so with the spell and boots, you can bring it up to 250, enough to get almost anywhere.
  2. When trying to get up to high spots, if you time your jump correctly when going up stairs you can get a lot more height than usual.
  3. Go to any city and jump either to the highest point possible (like roofs of houses or city walls) or find the most scenic high location and take a screenshot, simply because it looks good. It can be very difficult to jump onto the Chapels' steeples from the ground, but it is fun to try.
  4. A lot of what makes this fun is the trial and error, plotting the best acrobatic, aerial path to your destination. You will discover that this is more fun in some cities than others - Bravil is fun, Chorrol isn't.
  5. Try jumping up to a rather high place in any of the cities and try to find a lone person wandering the streets. Once you have picked your target, you can jump down and kill him!

[edit] Fighting Yourself

This is for computer users only. Open up the console, select yourself, and type in "createfullactorcopy" minus quotation marks. Attack yourself. Who will win? No one knows. Save before doing this as if you kill yourself, you will be expelled from all the guilds you are in.

You can do this on the consoles with a glitch with the Skull of Corruption.

[edit] Find Ways to Help this Wiki!

Trudging through dungeons over and over again doesnt have to become a pointless affair. Find things on this wiki that need improving/completing then play the game to find the answers. For example, many of the dungeons need in-game verification of the details listed on their respective page. Doing this is fairly simple and can be completed by anyone regardless of which version of the game you have or how much you know about wiki editing!

[edit] Flaming, Half-Naked Idiot

Only do this if you don't mind losing all your Intelligence, and if you don't mind dying! First, get lots of Skooma (duplicate it, if necessary); then remove all your equipment, except anything that increases your speed or jump height (i.e., boosts to Strength, Speed, Athletics, or Acrobatics). The last thing is a cursed hood, preferably one enchanted to cause fire damage to the wearer (you can create one at an Altar of Enchanting). Got everything? Now the fun bit! Go to Dive Rock and then drink as much skooma as you can, put on the hood, and run off the Dive Rock. Your character becomes a flaming, half-naked idiot.

[edit] Fun with Area Effect spells

Kill a whole load of NPCs and pile their bodies up somewhere high like Dive Rock or Cloud Ruler Temple. Then cast a fire or lightning spell with area effect to see them fly in every direction.

[edit] Fun with arrows

Try shooting an arrow straight up into the air to make it land on you.

Try shooting a lot into the air and set your health to 1 using PC console commands. Attempt to dodge them.

If you are really quick, try catching an arrow shot at you.

A much more challenging task is shooting an arrow out of the air with an arrow of your own. It's possible.

[edit] Fun with Arrows of Withering

Get a good bow with a lot of uses and a bunch of Arrows of Withering (damage all attributes 2 points). Crank the difficulty up, and shoot something until it moves ridiculously slow, and, if you want, until it doesn't move at all. Shoot something about 30 times and it should move very slow if at all. Amusing, and sometimes useful.

Arrows of Withering appear randomly in loot once you reach level 6. Places with large numbers of respawning archers include Rockmilk Cave and Sundercliff Watch (if you have the Unearthing Mehrunes Razor plugin). The duplication glitch can be used to get even more.

[edit] Fun with Chameleon

Grab either a suit or Spell that will give you 100% Chameleon (Invisible will NOT work) and run around in a town, punching random people in the face. They will all run away and hover around the nearest guard.

[edit] Fun with Everscamps

Having Everscamps may seem annoying, but they can be extremely funny. Lure them into traps and hazards and watch them die. Using traps that have already been set off (e.g. rolling logs) and casting area affect spells to move them can also be a fun way of killing your little friends.

Everscamps are daedra, so many NPCs (such as the monks at the Temple of the Ancestor Moths) attack them on sight. This is particularly funny if you are invisible, as your scamps don't have a chance. Sometimes the NPCs attacking the scamps hit each other, making for some interesting battles.

Because they always come back to life immediately, these are good for hand-to-hand practice, especially for people who don't want to level up their conjuration as well. If you have exploited the paintbrush glitch, you can get them to follow you across a bridge of paintbrushes, then punch them off when they are at the highest point. This is very entertaining.

[edit] Gray Fox vs. Hieronymus Lex

After completing the Thieves Guild quest-line, you will know that Hieronymus Lex goes to Anvil and claims maybe he will be lucky and meet the Gray Fox again, and with the Gray Cowl of Nocturnal you can do just that.

  1. Go up to Hieronymus Lex inside Anvil castle and put on the Gray Cowl of Nocturnal (or go up to him with it on).
  2. Hieronymus Lex is astounded that you just ran up to him and will do a Gray Fox arrest dialog.
  3. Punch him in the face and run off. Now the Gray Fox has truly won!
  4. Optional:If you are feeling like a true winner, you could make him follow you around punching every guard in Anvil! Then you get them all to follow you to the next town, and so forth.

[edit] Guard Target Practice

This is often quite fun, if you have the Health and Willpower for it. Talos plaza, Bravil, or another area with a large number of guards and high buildings works best. You will need: a paralyze spell, a decent acrobatics skill, the Boots of Springheel Jak and/or fortify acrobatics/speed enchantments or spells for high jumping. Simply gain a high bounty, and paralyze all the guards once they switch to use their bows. Steal their swords, and proceed to the roofs of the buildings. Enjoy jumping around under pressure, and see how long you can dodge their arrows. For a bigger challenge, drink skooma, go naked, or damage your speed whilst on the roofs.

[edit] Guilds vs Guards

[edit] Mages Guild.

Note: Only works if you are a member of the Mages Guild. Save before doing this. In the Imperial City, attack a single guard, then run around the districts until you get the attention of as many guards as possible. Then with the guards still chasing you, go into the Arcane University. Once past the gates, the battlemages will join in attacking you. Then, with any luck, the university mages will come to your defense and will attack the guards and battlemages. This is a real treat to watch if you are high level. Also, you can loot dead mages for nice daggers. Having an invisibility spell or potion will help you survive.

[edit] Fighters Guild.

Note: Also save before doing this. It is harder to do than the Mage's Guild one, but very similar. You must be a member of the Fighters guild.

First, attract as many guards as possible. Then, go to a nearby Fighter's Guild. The members there will attack you on sight (since they always side with the law). Let them do so, then yield to them (they always accept if you are a member). By attacking you, though, they gain an assault bounty, thus making the guards attack them; however, since there are always essential NPC's in the Fighter's Guilds, the fight will go on until the guards all die, although more seem to respawn throughout the fight. Sometimes, guards will accidentally hit another guard, giving himself a bounty, and thereby having the other guards attack him, as guards will always attack the NPC that most recently acquired a bounty. Battles could last all day, but you will get very good loot from the guards and the dead Fighter's Guild members.

The Arena way. Simply attack a guard, or some other petty crime and resist arrest when you are confronted, run to the Arena Bloodworks, and watch the carnage. Since there are a few essentials down there, the Arena will come out victorious, but the guards will keep coming. You could easily be killed so Invisibility or Chameleon is recommended.

This is possible with NPCs in cities as well. If you are "friends" with an NPC, ie. any that have a high, or maximum disposition to you, then many will fight for you against the guards.

[edit] Headless Horseman

If you're bored of your character's head, then you can get rid of it (or any other body part). Just create an Invisibility on touch spell and use it on a horse. Mounting and then dismounting the horse causes you to become totally invisible — except everyone can see/detect you. Equipping items causes the appropriate body part to become visible. Play around with this to get certain body parts invisible — you can be headless or just a pair of hands and feet.

[edit] Hide 'n' Seek

Drop all of your items off of a high point (or fling them with a telekinesis spell), such as dive rock, and then go on a scavenger hunt to find them.

[edit] Hit 'n' Run

If you have a high Speed and/or Acrobatics skill, you can try a "hit 'n' run". Switch to hand to hand and punch a Guard once. He will get outraged and run at you, and if you're fast enough he will chase you around the town until he gets lazy and goes back to his post. No other guards should help him out as it's simply personal to him. Getting caught means facing a fine or night in jail.

[edit] Hobo Hunter

If you’re the Silent Assassin type, try and kill beggars in towns without getting caught. It's hard to do if you’re a Thieves Guild member but if you have the Gray Cowl you shouldn’t get in trouble with your guild. It’s fun trying to sneak up on those poor vagrants. Figure out their whereabouts and choose when to strike. It’s almost like a Dark Brotherhood Quest, and it’s a lot harder than it sounds. Plus, there are a lot of beggars around Cyrodiil so it’s likely to entertain anyone who enjoyed the Dark Brotherhood quests. Use this list for help. (Bodies can be dumped in water and alike until disappearance)

Just be aware that doing this during Speechcraft Training quest can have dire consequences (that is, if you care).

[edit] Human Hunter

  • Spawn a few or more characters ( ex: Adoring Fan, beggars, NPCs) that run away when attacked.
  • Create a spell with Minimum damage and high radius.
  • Then cast the spell and try to hunt down all of them like animals.
  • You can even put them in large forts or caves then lock the exit doors and give them a running start.

[edit] Junk Boat in Anvil

We all find useless stuff such as tongs and calipers. Well, the small rowing boat in Anvil is a fun way of giving these items a use.

  • Break into houses, steal everything that isn't nailed down and pile them up in the row boat. Slowly, the boat will be filled.
  • Add lit torches on the bottom or top of your pile so the water has floating lights reflecting on it through the bottom of the boat. Or collect only one type of item for a unique junk pile.
  • Another idea is to kill people on the Anvil waterfront and drag them to the boat. Save before lifting people from the shore into the boat, they may fall in.

[edit] Knock Yourself Out

First, enchant a piece of clothing with damage fatigue. Then, make two damage fatigue on self spells one being "Damage Fatigue 5 points. for 7-12 seconds," the other being "Damage Fatigue 3 pts. for 3-4 seconds." Put the shirt on and jump around until you get your fatigue down all the way. You will notice that your fatigue does not go up while running, because of the shirt. Cast the longer damage fatigue and immediately switch to the short one and cast it. You will fall like a rag doll and get back up again!

Alternatively, simply create a spell with Self Paralysis for 3 seconds. You cast the spell, then slowly kneel over onto your face. It is fun to stand on a ledge or something bordering water and then to cast this, and watch yourself tumbling off.

[edit] The Lost and Noble Art of Corpse Arranging

A fairly simple one: Kill an NPC, then put their corpse in an amusing position. Summitmist Manor is a good place to start, as the bodies can be pushed over the edges of the balconies, shoved into the fireplaces, or stuffed underneath a bench. You could even hide the corpses, or painstakingly drag them onto a bed, and make it look like they are sleeping! If dragging a body onto a bed, it is best to put the legs onto it first, and then carefully drag the arms up. Double beds work better. If you can, kill someone while they are sitting down, as their corpse will remain sitting (You can also sit on top of the corpse).

[edit] Make Yourself Some Powerful Followers

Get yourself a few followers, such as the Mage Apprentices, Dark Brotherhood Murderers, or whoever you want. Before getting them to follow you, though, reverse-pickpocket as much Bound armor and weapons that you can if/when they're asleep. It's sometimes surprising how strong they can get by doing this, and you can cause all sorts of mayhem with them. Just make sure you heal them sooner or later, as they're not entirely invulnerable and it's easy to forget to do so.

[edit] Max Out Your Time In Jail

Go to any city and start slaying everyone in sight. Since murders count for 1040 gold (assault and murder), see how much of a bounty you can stack up. This can be tons of fun but make sure you save first, because you might kill NPCs that you want, as everyone starts to come after you. Try and get the highest bounty possible before being killed yourself.

[edit] Pickpocketing the Guards!

This is nearly impossible, but if you're bored try to pickpocket the guards!

Also, try reverse pickpocketing all the guards in the Imperial City Poisoned Apples! You will often find dead guards on the floor and dropping dead as soon as you enter the city. Keep doing this until all the guards are dead. You don't get a bounty unless you're caught pickpocketing. This method is best used if you have full chameleon. If you don't have access to full chameleon, just replace any food in the watchtowers with the poisoned apples. Remember, guards are constantly moving and you're unlikely to give them all apples on your first trip through the Imperial City. So if you see a living guard, just check. After you have killed the guards, move on to the citizens.

Note that this is easier if you have a low overall level, but a high sneak skill.

[edit] Pig Jumping

Find a boar and see how many times you can jump over it without being hit. Set a record and try to break it! If you want to use the same boar again, mark the area on your map, cast a paralysis spell on it and leave it be. Chances are, it will be in the same spot.

[edit] Petting Zoo

Wander around outside until you come across some deer. Catch up to one and cast a Command Creature spell on it (like Dominating Touch). Get it to follow you home (continuing to cast the spell to keep it following you). Once you're back at the city where you reside, get Bambi to follow you into the stables outside of town. Once in the stables, close the gates, and jump over them. The deer will be trapped in there with the horses (unless you bought them all). Then go out and find more deer and follow the same procedure. Eventually you'll have a wild petting zoo with deer flitting all around the barnyard. This can work with other animals too, but animals that are considered hostile will invoke attacks by others.

Note: You'll need to save often because enemies on the way home will kill poor Bambi with one strike.

[edit] Raiding Party

Note: This is only possible on the PC.

Summon a high-level creature, then summon another. Before the first high-level creature dies, go into console mode and resurrect it, it will come back to life permanently. Do this a few times until you have a raiding party. If you want, make a huge army, now cast Invisibility(or better yet 100% Chameleon.) and watch your raiding party kill the town. Maybe you are the defender, and you must stop them before they kill everything. Maybe you are the leader (use Command Creature/Humanoid spells if necessary.) and you can lead them to destroy the town.

Note: it is a lot easier to simply summon your creature and use CreateFullActorCopy (in the console, PC only as well) many many times, instead of doing it the long way.

[edit] Riot

After reaching 100 Illusion, make a spell that does Frenzy level 25 for 45 seconds within 100 radius and Rally 100 points for 45 seconds in 100 radius, Cast it (Save first), and watch entire towns and its citizens battle to the death! It's great fun when you're bored. (It takes up quite a bit of Magicka, so a fortify spell or a strong custom Magicka potion is needed) Have fun!

  • Leave some weapons lying around for people to fight with.
  • Cast a spell of invisibility on yourself if you can, that way you are not at risk.
  • Another fun thing to do, if you can, is use the above riot spell after using Chameleon 1% on target in 100 radius. It creates a nice effect.

[edit] Rising Crime

Go into any city, and start using the console to give everyone in sight a high bounty, then watch as the guards start attacking, are attacked back, and even accidentally attack each other, prompting infighting.

Tricks to make it more interesting:

  • Use it on two guards standing near each other. They'll both attempt to "arrest" the other, while more guards run in to arrest both. Keep placing bounties, as more guards appear, and the bodies quickly pile up
  • Place it on a powerful or essential character.

[edit] Russian Roulette

This is easier if you have people that follow you but you can do it on random civilians as well. As the owner of Bravil Archery shop says, "A perfect arrow flies straight and true, but that's impossible, and I have no perfect arrows". If you were to shoot 30 arrows in the air at the same angle and strength, they would land in different places.

Go to Bravil or any other place with a long wooden bridge and ask your followers to stand in front of you on different points of the bridge (use the Wait command).

Aim as high up as you can and shoot 30 arrows. If you want, you can change the angle and strength a bit to give it more variety or change the amount of arrows shot. Make 5 of the arrows have a 5 ft 100 point fire damage enchantment just so it only needs to land near someone to hurt them.

Now stand there and wait. Anyone that survives are losers and need to be shot in the head. Anyone that died are the winners but they're dead so they can't claim their prize.

If you have no followers, you can try this on guards that are standing at their post as they never move.

[edit] Search the Riverbeds

Use Night-Eye and Water Breathing, and swim along the bottoms of lakes and rivers, to find many confirmed secrets and treasures.

For spending extended time living like a fish, you can use Fin Gleam on its own, or use a Night-Eye spell coupled with a Water Breathing effect (e.g., from being an Argonian or from the Jewel of the Rumare) to see and breathe underwater for as long as you wish. For details on how to acquire these items, see the appropriate pages.

[edit] Skooma Blast

Drink as many bottles of skooma as you can, about ten maybe, and drain away your fatigue, then watch as your character flips through the air, the ragdoll physics taking over.

[edit] Skydiving

Note: This only works on PC Open up the console and type in tcl. You are now floating. Go up as high in the air as you can and then type it again!

Using the weakness to magic spell powering-up glitch (without certain patches) can allow extreme fortification of acrobatics and speed and lets you jump extreme distances and heights. Try it on Dive Rock, too!


[edit] Sports

[edit] Baseball

Seek a bandit encampment with an archer and kill all the bandits except the archer. Then grab a big bowl so you are carrying it in front of you. Now catch as many arrows as you can without being hit. (Note: when you are hit by an arrow on your body, the bowl falls automatically)

[edit] Basketball

Get a basket and a bunch of pearls or other round object and see how many you can throw into the basket in a row.

[edit] Bowling

Place potions on the ground. Then you start bowling with a round object! Pearls can be used, but they are quite small. Lettuce and many other things can probably be used as well, but the item that works better than most is a Sigil stone. It also provides a nice visual effect.

[edit] Boxing

Get a spell, staff, or any item letting you remove a guard's or anyone else's weapon. Then, after removing the weapon switch to hand to hand and fight them to the death! To make this easier enchant a set of clothes with an increase in hand to hand and with 10 hand to hand on everything except a sword and shield enchanted it ended up being +80 hand to hand which will let you battle many guards before you meet your demise... If you do that is.

[edit] Dominoes

Gather some books and stand them vertically and towards each other. Then tap one at the start of your chain and watch them fall. Make more elaborate patterns as you get better at stacking them.

[edit] Golfing

You'll need something to hit with like a hoe or a shovel. You will also need a pearl and a basket. Put the basket on its side and try to hit the pearl in it with the hoe/shovel!

[edit] Go Skiing

All you need to do is find a steep slope and slide down it or walk down it as fast as you can without falling. Unequip your weapons so your fists are out, then put them away and pull them out again like your pushing with your "skiing poles". Try not to get hurt from falling for "bonus points". The slope at Dive Rock is good for this.

[edit] Horse Racing

If you have a horse, find one of the Black Horse Couriers and have a little Derby competition. Time yourself and try running them off of the road to improve time scores.

[edit] Hurdles

You can set up barriers, using any sort of item, then drain your Acrobatics and try to jump over the obstacles without knocking the barriers down or over. A great place to do this would be the long bridge leading to the Imperial City, or around the path that circles the Imperial City.

[edit] Javelin

Get a blade (any) and position it so the blade is facing forward. Then run and throw. Try to do it in an area so you can tell how far you've thrown it, then try and improve the distance! Try using the Wabbajack because it looks more like a spear than anything else in the game.

[edit] Lacrosse

Use the spell 'weak fireball' to let bounce an object (preferably a pumpkin or alike), so this is similar to soccer, but now the technique is a little harder.

[edit] Lone Baseball

Try taking a large round object, throw it into the air, and attempt to hit it with a club or similar weapon. This is kinda hard, but gets more fun with practice. Another way to do it is equip a good fireball spell and grab the object and try to cast the spell and let go of the object just before it hits, It will go very far. Also, you can shoot the watermelon into the fireplace of Rosethorn Hall for a teleporting watermelon. It will end up right where you got it from.

[edit] Marathon

Train up your athletics and speed, and then run the circuit of Cyrodiil towns, from Anvil, to Kvatch, to Skingrad, to Bravil, to Leyawiin, to Cheydinhal, to Bruma, to Chorrol, and finally to the Imperial City Green Emperor Way. No fast traveling! You must set foot inside every city and you have to stay on the main roads. Before you begin, make a note of the game's date and time, and then start. When you're done, note the time once again and compute the difference.

Or do a triathlon, with horse riding, running, and swimming.

[edit] Melon Tossing

With a Telekinesis spell, pick up a watermelon. Look almost straight up in the air and pull it close to you. Then, while running as fast as you can, toss it. (by tapping "pull" while holding "push") Try to catch it with the grab button or another telekinesis spell, or try hitting it with a hammer/club like in "Lone Baseball". This is especially fun in the city, where you can try to lob it over houses, archways, walls, and churches. (Skingrad's tall structures make it a good choice.) This can also be done with a pumpkin.

[edit] Polo

Get a Basket, some lettuce or a pumpkin, and a horse. All you need to do is to tip the basket over some distance away, best to be in an open field, move away a bit, drop the "ball", and get on the horse. Now try to get the ball in the basket by running it over.

[edit] Race M'aiq

If you think you're ready, you can try to race M'aiq The Liar. M'aiq is very fast, and you can raise your athletics skill by doing this.

[edit] Soccer

A simple game, just go to a town with a pumpkin, or maybe even an urn, and just drop it, try to kick it around, make a goal. A good way to make it go a bit faster is to roll backwards when your Acrobatics is at least 50. (hold block + jump in a direction).

[edit] Start Goblin Wars

Acquire 100% chameleon or an invisibility spell that doesn't cost too much Magicka and then locate the two goblin caves nearest to you. Sneak into one of the caves, and steal the totem staff, much like in the quest Goblin Trouble. Take the stolen staff to the second cave, and wait for a bit. If you wait near the cave entrance, you should see a troop of around ten goblins that are ready for war.

Also - dropping the staff in the middle of a well-populated town (like the Imperial City) causes guards and townspeople alike to riot.

Another thing to try would be getting all the totems and placing them in the Imperial City. Place one in each area for maximum effect.

Just keeping all the totems makes you an assassination target for the goblins. If you are unlucky you may have a whole army behind you in the middle of nowhere.

If you have bought Battlehorn Castle, you can bring the totem(s) to the castle and reenact the battle with the marauders, just with goblins.

[edit] Time freeze

This is best done in a busy part of town where there are heaps of people. The best place is in the quest The Defense of Bruma, when you have all the followers possible and all towns people and Daedra at the battle.

Make a spell with:

  • Paralyze 120 seconds in 100 radius
  • Invisibility 120 seconds in 100 radius
  • Burden 120 seconds in 100 radius

It's fun to watch everyone disappear.

[edit] Tower of Guards

This is most fun if you have a really powerful warhammer, preferably Daedric, and have a high blunt skill. Go into a Watch Barracks and kill all the guards in the area. Choose a guard to wait near until another guard comes up to the Barracks. Hopefully, before he tries to arrest you, he will go over to the dead guard you are waiting near and bend down to say, "The body's still warm; there could be a murderer on the loose." Little does he know there's one right behind him! Before he gets up to arrest you, whack him with a power attack using your warhammer. He will die on top of the guard you previously killed, and when another guard comes up to mourn his loss, kill him too. See how high you can make the tower go!

[edit] Treasure Hunt

You can create special items, such as enchanted items, and hide them around a dungeon, house, town, or even in the wilderness, for a friend to find. Hide them in selected places or containers and then take turns with another player to see who can find the items the fastest.

[edit] Ulrich's Eternal Waking

On a game in which you are doing/have completed Cheydinhal Recommendation but have not yet gotten rid of Ulrich Leland, get a guard to chase you (by resisting arrest. I recommend the Gray Cowl of Nocturnal) and run past Ulrich, causing him to pursue you. Now, run to the Cheydinhal Mages Guild Well and climb in, causing the guards to follow you. Use any Water Breathing ability you can (like the Buoyancy spell you got from said quest, or any other means, racial, spell, or otherwise) and keep yourself healed and alive until you hear Ulrich and his friend begin taking damage. They will attempt to surface straight upwards, but to no avail, as there is a roof above them. Eventually, they will all drown, save Ulrich, who will simply fall unconscious. Now, drag him near poor old Vidkun's corpse, if he's not already there, and watch. He will continuously awaken, attempt to move, and fail, as he is tangled in Vidkun's corpse, and drown again, still out of breath and low on health. Viola, continuous, and not-so-risky revenge for the annoying quest, and abandoning you when the time came to defend Bruma.

[edit] Ultimate Character

If you’re not shy about using the console, cheat to bump all your skills and attributes all the way to 255. Get all the best Daedric weapons and armor via console, all spells (type psb into the console) and you will have the ultimate character. You can use player.setlevel to change your level, and others will change with you. Many fun and exciting opportunities open up, including:

  • Guards can be killed in a single power attack.
  • You have all spells you would ever want, including some extremely unbalanced ones.
  • You can jump extremely high. Leaping into the Arcane University is no problem, and you can even hide out on the walls of cities and pick off guards. In some cities, you can even reach the tops of chapels simply by jumping. Just try not to fall, because the damage you will take will be great.
  • Your sneak skill is so high, when you are in the shadows it is almost as good as 100% chameleon. Nobody stands a chance against your sneaking prowess.
  • You are nearly invincible because of your high health. Death is not a problem.
  • You can run so fast it isn't even funny. You will look rather comical when you run, but it is worth it. You can run more than twice as fast as horses, and you can fast travel from Leyawiin to Anvil in a few hours tops. Sometimes however, you fall into/through the graphics and get stuck. You usually must cheat to get back out.
  • Try cloning yourself with the player.createfullactorcopy console command. A battle of epic proportions (try doing this inside The Arena, to have an audience, as well as to limit the space...your clone can run very fast too!).
  • For the crazy ultimate massacre to compliment your ultimate character, toggle on God Mode tgm and create the ultimate spell (weakness to Magicka, all elements, damage health, AND drain health, putting all of the sliders at max.) Literally everything around you will die, and you will be invincible. God Mode is a necessity, because even if you change your magicka to the maximum through the console the spell will still cost too much. You can experiment with other spells too, such at Chameleon 100%, which is much easier than just enchanting items.
  • Toggle off collision (tcl) to fly around at will. Excellent when combined with the archery and spell massacres listed above. Float out of harm's way and wreak havoc from above! Because your speed and athletics are both 255, you can zoom around at blinding speeds and float far across the map in a few minutes. For fun, point straight up and keep going for a little while. Then stop and look down for a tremendous view. Very fun to do when right above the Imperial City!
  • To achieve invincibility without God Mode, after maxing out your Endurance, use the setlevel command and just put a lot of random numbers behind it. The max is (unconfirmed) 65535, but just put in 99999999 to make sure. You gain 25 health for every level, do the math! If you have the patience, you could box Mehrunes Dagon to death (or use the "kill" command on him. The Havoc engine really does not like it when he dies.)
  • If this Ultimate Character is not quite good enough for you, even with everything prior, there is a way to get much, much higher speed: Skooma. Dupe a lot of skooma and store most of it somewhere, such as your house. When you want to go out on a rampage, bring a portion of the narcotics with you. Drink 4 of them (the max). Your speed should boost extremely high. Then, after these are about half done, drink another 4 skooma vials! If you continue to drink enough skooma at the right time allotments, you can boost your speed far over 1000 if you are good enough, especially with possible speed boosters on armor, ect. Your character will be insanely fast. Try it.
  • By using the showspellmaking console command, you can make extremely epic spells. Because your character has a basically unlimited amount of spell capability (as his skills are beyond the maximum), you can add every effect to a single spell, or make hugely effective spells that would not otherwise be capable, such as paralyzing for two minutes, over a huge radius. There's also a catch: even though your skills may be maxed at 255, that does not mean you can't exceed them with multiple "fortification" spells. Try making six or seven of the same type of speed enhancing spell, and using all of them on yourself. Your max speed could top a thousand, two thousand, or more.
  • The final step: Personalize your Ultimate Character. Maybe he is the son of Mehrunes Dagon himself, come to bring on the apocalypse. Maybe his favorite weather is the Oblivion sky (use the weather codes to ensure this), or maybe he is simply a prodigal child with the abilities of the divine. Perhaps you only target Imperials, as they are your sworn enemies, and you wish to seek revenge upon them. Maybe your murderous intents are simply to supply yourself with mass quantities of onions and pumpkins, your favorite food.

(One downside to this character is the fact that it may add vampirism as well as the sun damage and the light blur to your character. Sometimes it is on and sometimes it isn’t, but it’s not very fun to fight with the sun blaring at you. There may be a way to reverse this; one way to avoid it is just to fight at night. Whatever the case, the ultimate character is also the ultimate cure for boredom.)

[edit] Undead vs. Guards

Do you want to see a huge battle between the guards of Skingrad and undead? Then Go to Nerastarel's House in Skingrad.

  • First get all the undead in the house to follow you.
  • Next go outside and bring the undead into an area with many guards.
  • Watch the carnage unfold, make sure to use healing spells to help one of the sides of the battle.

Note: Townspeople tend to get into the fight. And die. If you're scared of deaths, save first.

[edit] Unicorn Taming

If you have not yet completed Hircine's quest, journey to Harcane Grove and rescue the Unicorn from its guardians, taking care to make sure that it doesn't see you killing off said minotaurs. If it is calm and friendly (or you've cast a calming spell over it), you can ride it around Cyrodiil. Those who see you will stop and gaze in awe. However, the Unicorn frequently does not stay put, and will dash off back home in the blink of an eye. It also will attack almost anything and anyone, and even drawing your sword in its presence will anger it enough to attack you. This does, though, make for a fun challenge of taming the unicorn, and if it is killed (either in battle or by your own weapon in self-defense), you already have a nice present of Unicorn Horn for Hircine when the time comes for you to do his quest.


[edit] War!

After completing the Dark Brotherhood, Arena, Mages Guild, Knights of the Nine, Frostcrag Spire, Battlehorn Castle, and the Shivering Isles expansion, recruit an army of the Dark Brotherhood Murderer, Mages Guild Apprentice, Ushnar's Skinned Hound, Adoring Fan, Knight of the Nine, Knight of the True Horn, and an elemental atronach. Head to the Imperial City and start a war against the guards. Use additional frenzy spells, summons and command humanoid spells to make it bigger, better and bloodier! If you want, stay invisible while the chaos continues or take part in the action! Save before trying this.

[edit] Another Form of War

Another really cool thing to do is to run around collecting up bandits, undead, and other monsters and then lead them to a town and watch the insanity ensue. It's always hilarious to watch the lone guard out the front at the beginning fire one arrow and then get completely overwhelmed. Leave your horse at a stable as otherwise you may end up leaving some of the creatures behind.

[edit] Watermelon Racing

This is stupid but extremely fun. Choose a large downhill slope and use the Duplicate Items Glitch to duplicate round items and send them down the hill.

[edit] Suggested Slope I

  • Fast travel to the stables outside of Skingrad. Head straight west and you should find a mine. Go straight north until you find the Shrine of Sanguine. From there, head straight west. You should end up just south of a camp. Echo Mine is directly west of that. Go to the door to Echo Mine and head SE. A path starts there that goes downhill and turns left before it gets to an Ayleid ruin. After it turns, there's a valley lined with rocks. At the end you'll find a tree.
  • Duplicate round items and send them down the hill.
  • See what items you can race down the hill - ingredients, gems, potions, etc. Try giving yourself an advantage by duplicating things like clothes along the hill to slow things down.
  • Most things tend to gather around the tree at the end, so it's easy to pick them up if you want to.
  • It is recommended you save beforehand.

[edit] Suggested Slope II

  • Go to Skingrad, then head SE to Bloodcrust Caverns. Head straight East from the icon on the compass. You should find a road that goes N-S. About in the middle, it comes to a high point, then goes down both ways. To the North, there is a 3-way intersection, and to the South, there is an Ayleid-looking structure (you can't enter it or anything, it just looks like an Ayleid well without the well) and the road turns left towards a lake and a bridge. There's also 4 sweet ramps (steps).
  • Duplicate pearls just south of the high part of the path. Half of them will go out of the world and the other half end up at the bottom of the lake.
  • This may only work with pearls because it isn't steep enough for other round objects.

[edit] Suggested Slope III

  • Go to Wind Cave and then head straight Northwest up into a narrow down-sloped valley. It's a hell of a climb, and at the top, there is a rock right before a very steep part. Duplicate items here.
  • CAUTION! Many things get going so fast that if you come up behind them they launch you down the hill. You can be killed by retorts, potions/poisons, ingredients, etc.
  • There's also a rock in the middle that sends stuff flying into the air.

[edit] Suggested Slope IV

There are 2 easy ways to get to this. The first way is to get to the top of Suggested Slope III then head straight North. The other way is to head to Broken Promises Cave and go straight Northwest into the valley. A little ways up, you will come to a fork in the valley. On the right path (looking uphill), there is a tree in the middle of the path. If you go up to the top of the left path, you'll find a group of 3 trees. Go all the way up on either side and duplicate items.

  • CAUTION! The right path can be fairly lethal too.


[edit] Suggested Slope V

Dive rock. See if any watermelons reach Aerins camp. Find the one which traveled furthest and consume it! Other delightful games include hitting one with an arrow knocking others off. Try to find the troublemaker!

[edit] Wayshrine Race

How quickly can you visit one example of every Wayshrine in Cyrodiil? This plays out much as the Ayleid Wells task above, but with the added complication that you need to plan an efficient route from the multiple examples of the same Deities' shrines.

  • Once you have completed this task in vanilla Oblivion, you will be granted the Greater Power Pilgrim's Grace
  • Once you have completed this task in Oblivion with the Knights of the Nine expansion, you will receive the Greater Power Pilgrim's Grace, and become a member of the Nine Divines Faction, at the rank Pilgrim. You will also have your Infamy reduced to zero and will receive a vision from Pelinal Whitestrake.
    • If you do have the Knights of the Nine expansion, you don't need to talk to The Prophet in Anvil before doing Pilgrimage, but the rewards will only be as in vanilla Oblivion (Verification of this please!).
    • If you do talk to The Prophet, he will give you a Wayshrines Map, although this is not a very efficient route.
  • Efficient routes are listed on the Wayshrines page.
  • If you have already completed the Pilgrimage, you can reset your wayshrine status by increasing your Infamy.
  • It may be found useful to use the wayshrines to bless your horse, as this may improve the horses' speed.

[edit] Where did Everyone Go?

  • 1st way: For this one, acquire many Mage's Hoods, one can be bought from at Rindir's staffs then just duplicate them or use the Mage's Hood code (00064FE1)and spawn as many as you like. Then enchant them with Chameleon spells and go around a city reverse-pickpocketing them onto NPCs, making them all partially invisible.
  • Second way: For you mages out there looking for a kick, make a very large range and reasonably medium duration Invisibility. Then go somewhere where people are talking, cast it and they will disappear yet still talk!
    • If you do use Invisibility then do not talk to the NPC as this will end the spell.
    • This will not work on NPCs who are performing actions (i.e. training in the Arena) as this will also end the spell

[edit] Why won't you die

"Why...won't...you...DIE!" is a common battle cry of NPCs. Make it true that you won't, ever! Use shield enchantments, reflect damage, resist normal weapons, absorb/reflect magic, all types of element resistance at 100%, etc. Then find a horde of enemies and let yourself be repeatedly hit. They will eventually lose all of their weapons to damage and, if you did use reflect damage, eventually kill themselves. Try this with enemy hordes such as guards in cities, daedra in Oblivion, or even an army of followers!

[edit] World's Nicest Person

If you're REALLY bored and have already done everything else on this page, try to get every single person's disposition to 100. This will take a very long time, but your speechcraft skill will soar and every person in Cyrodiil will be in love with you.

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