I dont know if there was a thread like this before so...

Im the type of person who attacks the Emperor(Oblivion) or shoots your Father(Fallout3)
to see what the game will do. A good example is in New Vegas I ran into that lottery guy(cant remember his name)
and just followed him to see what he will to with if life after that he just got killed by a giant rad scorpion in my game lol.

Anyway in Skyrim I think I already found my first Test Subject Arvel The Swift(the guy in the spider web in the Demo)
Im curious to see what will happen if you dont kill him Will he get killed by the Draugr(probably), go to a town and attack a guard
or sell the Golden Claw and if he does sell it what will the buyer do go do the puzzle(probably not lol)

For me playing like this is one of the funnest and funniest ways of playing.
Im sure some of you play like this so what are your thoughts
and what do you think will happen with Arvels fate just for laughs?

yeah its great to do what-if's

"play test"

and yeah i might just follow him, wait until hes killed or something and then take the claw off his body

Arvel will probably just run until he gets owned.

That is so odd...I followed that guy too. He was killed by I believe jackals in mine.

Haha, that's an interesting way to try things out. I don't normally do it quite that way, but I kind of have my own version. FO3 was a great example: at the end of a gaming session I would usually head back to Megaton and try to kill everyone in town before I died. No stimpacks, not help, just to see if I was good enough, and to practice my skills. Then, of course, I would quit without saving. I don't know if I'll do anything like that in Skyrim, at least nothing specific like some of you have planned, but I'm sure the odd guard or npc will tick me off enough that I'll kill them, load back, and keep playing.

haha yeah I usually go on a killing spree when im about to close the game also it never really ended will especially in Oblivion lol.

I usually do what I feel like at the moment. I try to stay in the role of my character of course.

I dunno, might let him live to see what he does.

Me too. I don't consider the game a game from my character's perspective and therefore I won't explore the limits of the gameplay system. I just role-play.

In Oblivion I had a mudcrab after me so I tried to make it follow me into an Inn.... to bad it didn't work. I always liked dragiing cliff racers into town in Morrowind and having guards running about. Maybe in Skyrim I'll lure a dragon into town... getting one inside an Inn would be funny and probably would require a mod. haha. Wonder how far id have to run to get a giant spider into a city... hmmm.

I don't necessarily go after an uber-important character, but I'm a fan of trying to break the game in various ways. It's not that I'm looking for an excuse to go "Hey, this game is crap because you gave me a big sandbox and then let me poop in it!!"

I just really enjoy experimenting with the mechanics of a game. Sometimes it's a "What if I kill the Arch Mage?" type of question, and sometimes it's a "What sort of a spell can I make since I have 500,000 gold from my excessive looting and fencing?"

I'm sure that in this game I'll toy with manipulating the local economies through various acts of questionable morality, possibly going so far as to utterly devastate towns I don't like.

I also have a serial killer concept which will involve a lot of following and stalking my prey. (To both learn their routine and to possibly find a better place to eradicate them.)

I'm sure that some of these situations will have immediate repercussions that I don't like (such as a town chasing me and killing me with extreme predjudice)..so I'll probably end up doing a bit of a quit without saving.

It's not entirely the "test play" idea, where I have no intention of saving, because if I like the result, I'm saving for sure. But all of it'll be done on one playthrough, so I can keep my experimentation to one particular save. The rest will be more of a pure playthrough, possibly even going to dead is dead style after I've beaten the game a couple of times.