Been pretty heavily revisiting Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
Started over with a pure mage. (No battlemage, or custom class with mage mixed in....pure mage.) What an underrated class. Sometimes I feel like a mystic Terminator walking into some caves or Ayleid ruins, casting down ruin on hapless goblins, necromancers, rogue mages and bandits. Better yet, sometimes I feel like Emperor Palpatine as I cast lightning attacks at my foes, citing lines like: "Young fools, only now, at the end do you understand!" or, "You have paid the price for your lack of vision!" or "Powwwwwerrrrrrr! Unnnnliiimitteeedddddd ppooowwwweeerrrrrrrrrr!" or "Go for Papa Palpatine!" or, "What the hell's an Aluminum Falcon?!" (oops...sorry....got silly there, dinnit?)
Sometimes, to grind up levels and skills, I would do things like running around, setting my character's self on fire to grind up my destruction spell casting, and subsequently self-healing to grind up my restoration skillz.
I also like to give my made-spells and enchanted items funny names...
One of my characters has a bow and arrow that causes enemy humans to Frenzy, and start attacking each other if they are close enough....I called it: "Who Farted In the Chapel?"
For my mage, I have the same effect, but this time, as a spell that can affect up to level 25 human enemies in a 100 ft area of effect. I called the spell: "Hey! Who Smellteth, Dealteth!" (Making rogue mages and bandits fight each other never gets old...not to mention it slims down the odds a bit.
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I have a charm spell that can make folks in a 10ft AOE have 100 percent affinity towards me: name-- "Kumbaya, m'Lord! Kumbayaaaa!"
Oblivion is such a fun game to revisit, and once I've finished it, it's on to Skyrim again.
