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You're already Grand Champion of the Arena, Champion of Cyrodiil, Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, Master of the Fighters Guild, the 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). Or even if you're not and just between quests, and are not into roleplaying, there's a number of creative challenges you can give yourself for fun.

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Please feel free to contribute new ideas to this page. After you have done everything in the game try one of these ideas or make up your own. With patience and the will to keep playing this game you will have something to do until a sequel comes out.

[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.
  • 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.

[edit] Avoid Arrows!

Set the difficulty slider all the way to the hardest setting. Then get over 100% Reflect Damage and Reflect Spell. You are now immune to all physical and magical 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.

To get 101% Reflect Damage, you will need:

To get 110% reflect spell and be invulnerable to magic, you will need the following:

[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 Weapons

It's easy to reach skill 100 in Swords/Blunt/Combat etc. But do you really know how to fight with them? To truly test your skills with your weapons, 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, 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] Chapel climber

[edit] Collecting

Oblivion is full of things to collect - cheese, wine, strawberries, skulls, bones, etc.

For example, you can fit at least 600 bottles of wine and 50 cheeses in the secret room below Benirus Manor in Anvil.

WARNING: Very large collections can cause game lag and crashes due to an overload of items to be rendered.

[edit] Armor

Go to every city and aquire, by one means or another, that city's city watch cuirass and shield. Make an entire collection. Display them all in one room for maximum effect, or have the corresponding armor placed in that city's house you bought. Here is a page with details on how to acquire each cuirass and shield.

[edit] Artifacts

Collect all of the game's unique artifacts as soon as you can. Find all of the Daedric Artifacts, legendary items, and other truly unique things. A complete list of all of the artifacts can be found here.

[edit] Books

Find every book available in Cyrodiil and bring it to your home, making an entire library! Check here to make sure you get every book in the game!

[edit] Skulls

Whenever you see a skull on the ground or anywhere pick it up, eventually you will have tons, then you can either put them all in a collection or you can make a scavenger hunt for someone else to search Cyrodiil and collect the skulls.

[edit] Others

There are limitless things you can collect. Ingredients, gems, arrows, staves, clothes, keys, and many others. Check on this page if you want to find the various types of items you might want to collect.

[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.

[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] Cyrodiil's Most Wanted

Be sure to save before having this kind of fun. You know how when you commit a crime, the guards will come after you and you would always want to resist arrest and run for your life?

Basically, all you do for this is commit loads and loads of crimes, resist arrest and head for the hills. Eventually your bounty will be so high that every law-enforcement figure will stop you, so what do you do? Resist arrest again and murder everyone who comes after you. Soon enough you will have absurdly high infamy and be a very notorious villain. Do this as the Gray Fox for even more fun.

[edit] Dive Rock Fun!

(No Adoring Fans, summoned creatures or other people were hurt in the making of this section...honest!)
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!
  • 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!
  • 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] 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 your not worried about a bounty.

[edit] Drunkard

Kill a random NPC in the wilderness/town, then gather up a load of bottles of mead, beer, wine, and other alcoholic substances and drop them around the dead NPC to make it look as if the NPC has been drinking a little too much! You can also do the same thing with skooma if you like! For an extra drunk effect, take his pants and drop them next to the body.

[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, as well have items to fortify Acrobatics to pull it off). When you have done this, there will be a partly developed world, some without a floor (but you can still run on it). Then, when you are bored, all you have to do is fast travel back to the city. I find that Bruma will work if you first jump on one of the beggar's houses, then keep going until you get to log cabins, continue to go along until the wall goes straight. There should be a log cabin with a chimney really close to the ramparts. Hop on and hop out.

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.

Put a whole city to sleep or deal with Essential NPC's 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] 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. 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). This is why I recommend high values, although it can be done with very low skills, just not as effectively. 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. Find a whole bunch of Drain Fatigue items(not potions)like rat meat or whatever and eat lots like 20 or so at one after another while staying in the inventory. Once you are done eating all of them go back to the game and you will have had such a hard fatigue drop the game will think you are getting hugely damaged and launch you up(usually) this can be great if you want to get away from guards and up onto buildings, well out of harm's way.
  6. Have some fun while you're up there. Buildings are a great way to slaughter a whole town without being harmed. Once the guards come after you, simply whip spells or shoot arrows at them until the entire town is lying dead.

[edit] Find ALL of the Nirnroots

You only need 100 Nirnroot to fully complete the Seeking Your Roots quest. There's over 3 times that many out there to be found. This is another way to get a lot of fast travel-targets on your map. Also after you have collected 100 Nirnroot and given them to Sinderion, he will buy them from you for 250 gold pieces for each set of ten!

[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 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.

[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 start to walk in a circle around the nearest guard.

[edit] Gray Fox vs. Heironymus 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!

[edit] Guilds vs Guards

Mages Guild Note: Only works if you are a member of the Mages Guild. And save before doing this. In the Imperial City, attack a single guard. Then run around the districts until you can 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.

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.

You can do this in any town and almost any NPC will help you! This is because citizens and guards are in different factions. If a guard attacks you then eventually citizens will help out.

[edit] Hit 'n' Run

If you have a high Speed and/or Acrobatics skill, you can try one of my favorite games: hit 'n' run. Simply switch to hand to hand, and run up to a guard and punch him 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, its simply personal to him. Keep your distance though, or he'll attempt to arrest you and you'll be forced to face the law.

[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. Figuring out their whereabouts and then choosing 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 before completing Speechcraft Training quest can have dire consequences for the latter (that is, if you care).

[edit] How To Lose Your Life In 10 Seconds

I think this title is a little self explanatory, think of a fun way to get yourself killed in 10 seconds (besides jumping off of a really tall cliff).

Examples: Tick off the guards/Jauffre, Make friends with a whole goblin tribe, fight Umbra with the difficulty slider all the way to the right, etc.

[edit] Human hunter

  • Spawn a few or more characters ( ex: Adoring Fan, beggars, NPC's 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] Jackass

  • Create an idiotic character (looks, dressing etc.) or recreate one of the series (Steve-O the Argonian?).
  • Do stunts like jumping off Dive Rock (with or without horse), or getting a complete city garrison chasing you.
  • Go into Oblivion, get to one of the outside walkways connecting two towers together, and jump!
  • Punch people and run.
  • Fetch a bow and use a duplicating glitch to fill an entire room with either rings, watermelons, or swords/axes. You should be standing in the middle of the room.
  • Get a follower and make him watch you do your stunts so you can act like someone doesn't believe you and he's right there to tell them you did.

[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 ragdoll 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 suprising 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] Pig Jumping

A little game recently invented. Find a boar and see how many times you can jump over it without being hit. Set a record and try to break it!


[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] Rampage

Make a ridiculous-looking character, and so much skooma with the duplication glitch that your character can only move while hyped up on skooma, and just kill everything in sight. A great idea for people who want to kill guards in about one hit is to lower gameplay settings.

[edit] Real Estate Agent

Buy all the houses and place characters like the Adoring Fan, Murderers, and Apprentices into each of them. Be sure to place them on wait.

[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 on 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

Basically, for this, 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 task 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] Sports

[edit] Baseball

Seek a bandit encampment with an archer and kill all the bandits except the archer. Then 'tap' a big bowl in your 'hands' so it floats right 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] 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 Shadowmere, 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 use the drain Acrobatics skill and try to jump over the obstacles without knocking the barriers down/over. A great place to do this would be the long bridge near the Imperial City, or around the path around 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!

[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.(Which is nice)

[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. This is your score. The faster you do it, the better.

[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. (I prefer Skingrad for its bridges and tall houses.) 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] 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 mauraders, just with goblins.

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[edit] The Shadow

The idea is to get a large bounty and sneak to avoid city guards for as long as possible. There are 2 ways you can do this.

  • Get a very high bounty (1000+ gold) so the guards will chase you on sight, then try to sneak around a city without them arresting you.
  • If you've completed The Ultimate Heist quest, wear the Gray Cowl of Nocturnal and do the same thing (this works better because if you ARE caught you can just take off the Cowl and not be arrested).

This is not a game you can particularly win, but you can time yourself and try to beat your best times.

[edit] The Predator

Eventually killing people mindlessly does get a little boring. Why not spice things up a little, and take some advice from everybody's favorite invisible-intergalactic-alien-big-game-hunter; the Predator?

Enchant a few pieces of armor to give yourself a mid-range Chameleon enchantment (because everyone knows the Predator isn't completely invisible), arm yourself with the most powerful Destruction spell you get your hands on (Frost damage bears the closest resemblance to a Predator cannon), and you're ready to go. Add to the mix a long range Detect Life enchantment, and no one will be able to hide.

If you wish, get another set of armor (not with chameleon) that has resist shock 100% and shock damage. wear this when you get out of water or when you get hit enough. make sure the armour is the same type as the cham set

From there, you can simply sit on top of houses (a high Acrobatics helps), blow people away and finish off the tougher ones up close and personal. Just keep in mind that only armed 'prey' are good sport to hunt...some examples are the Uderfrykte Matron, the count of Bravil, the countess of Leyawiin, Daedra etc.

Happy hunting.

[edit] Time freeze

I love to do this 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 deadra 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] Trek

If you're an adventurer, and one of the higher levels, start in the Blackwood Rainforests east of Leyawiin. Walk/run along the water and through the trees, encountering a few enemies along the way as expected, and you will become an explorer.

I started off in the rainforest and went north towards the Valus Mountains, even though the game wouldn't let me reach the top of the mountains as they were too steep, but you can still run along the side of them, and you will see brilliant, beautiful, amazing scenery. At one point I had got so far I could see the entire city of Cheydinhal. I went along past the city and made my journey to Imperial City, where I went(as I always go) to sell my valuable loot found along the way.

Along the way I found such places as Hero Hill, A Daedric Shrine, a couple of forts and a river among other things.

[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] 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 just do what I did one time, and 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. Then, 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, period. Try it.
  • 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 a 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] 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] 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 SSSE (yes, three S's). 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. I like watermelons. Pearls get stuck behind one of the rocks along the valley.
  • 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.
  • I recommend saving before trying this, as this will likely cause significant lag.

[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. I've been 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] 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] World's Nicest Person

If you're REALLY bored and have already done everything else on this page,try to get every single persons 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.

[edit] Your Boring house

If you look at your players house it looks like nobody lives there. Try and make it look like somebody actually lives there. You can try placing items in the house like a Battle axe on top of the fireplace, or making a evil lair in the basement. You could drop bones or other stuff on the floor. If you know how to use console commands you could resurrect the dead skeletons laying on the ground or you could spawn a Dark Guard to patrol and guard your new evil lair.

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