In Skyrim, bethesda specifically tried to eliminate this.. And they have. Just keep playing and you will be able to do everything you thought you could have done early on.

Only when you reach level 60ish will you be in trouble of perks ending. Anything non-perk specific can be seen to by simply playing the game, you don't need to restart if you didn't pick up the tutorial dungeons flowers.

Wow, you seem to be my lost twin brother. I had the exact same problem with oblivion. In skyrim not that much, it's just a complete different experience.

This is why I stick with archtypes, the more appropriate for the lore the better. Skyrim is obviously a tale about a Nord warrior who learns to shout, you shouldn't complicate things. Save that for after you explore the game the first time. Have a main, and then save alts for experimenting.

I'm playing a mutt to. Mines a Breton mutt though. She started out as a Mage but slowly began dabbling in it all. She only uses bound weapons at this point, Bow/Sword, but wears heavy armour. Well, it's been anything from Arch-Mage robes to heavy armour.

I'll use her to finish out the main quest and what few others I've done. Notably the Mages College. That's really about it other than miscellaneous ones.

My next one will be a Khajiit/Dark Elf thief/assassin type. Something I have never done before. I've avoided Riften as much as possible with this in mind.

It's good not being alone, you know... i think, the one of the only reasons people talk to other people is to tell them their problems, show o,f or realize they're not alone; people are really selfish really I think i will stop playing for a few days or a week maybe and ill watch that video and use every bit of advice every one of you have given so far and so forth.

I have 5 characters.

1st character who is [censored] hard and has no backstory

2nd paladin- heavy armor, restoration, block, 1 handed sword
Played as a warrior of truth, joined the imperials to restore order to skyrim. He never sneaks around or uses cheap tactics such as archery to take the advantage of his opponents and always accepts a yield.

3rd assassin- light armor dual wield daggers, sneak, lockpicking. He always sneaks around and will wait absurd amounts of time to achieve his goal. If he feels at any point that killing you would serve him you will end you without hesitation. He will also send his follower into a death battle just to take whatever he wants and run.

4th Mage- destruction, illusion, conjuration, alchemy. She seeks only knowledge and cares not for the war in Skyrim. Spending most of her days exploring caves for hidden bits of knowledge while improving her spells so that when the time comes she can ascend beyond being a mere mortal.

5th Mystic Archer- Enchanting, Alchemy, Smithing, Archery, illusion, and a tiny bit of conjuration for summon familiar and cheap soul trap. She cares only for the thrill of the hunter. While being an orc doesn't allow her to sneak around she will stalk her prey till she finds the greatest chance to snipe them. Only interacts with people for jobs and selling goods she spends most of her time in the wilderness hunting animals.

While rerollitis can svck if you add some lore to your characters it makes them so much more interesting at least to me. The next one will be a drunken warrior who always has mead on him and fights with 2 handers, and probably a school of magic I haven't decided yet.

Play them all with their own little backstory and mentality

Yeah, about the same.

When I'm a mage, I want to be a warrior, when I'm a warrior, I want to be an archer. But I made a level 25 warrior and got bored because I leveled 100 Smithing. So I made my favorite race, Wood Elf and became a stealthy archer, and just stick with it man. If you just stick to it the character will grow on you.

The nerd in me loves when people say "roll" new character. It always brings me back to my D&D days.

I dont get posts like the OP...

the removal of major skills/attributes negates the need to start over.. thats the whole point of removing them. whats stopping you from changing your skills mid character? If its a case of perk points just dont spend them.

The nature of afflictions such as restartitis that exist within your own mind is that only you can remedy them, and you will most likely fail. My own affliction is the dead is dead curse; whenever my character dies I just can't get into that character anymore. I feel like they died back there and now it's just a ghost I'm playing or something. So I reroll. Again and again and again.

So yeah, I feel your pain I just have a variation of your condition.

Not every 5 hours I don't

You have a mental problem. :hubbahubba:

Haha, i know that problem, dude. It's just that i do find a character i stick with eventually. And then if i get another bright idea i just make another save file.

Restartitis is a common affliction with these games, my friend. You are not alone.

Its not that at all really. I know that i can level anything whenever. But when im walking around i think when i walk past NPC's they wont think He's an archer! He's a mage! Hes a deathnight! If i start combining things and not following a pattern or a roleplay i feel like i have failed the voice in my head I have major OCD in real life so this may be a trigger.

I've been like that on quite a few games because I've thought to myself. "Do I really want to do that?" "But does that make sense?" "If only I could do that, or this."
What I think you need to do is to try to ignore that voice and keep pushing on with that -one- character, because after a while. You might find you'll grow attached to it, and these constant restarts should eventually stop!

This. Other than race and what you look like... There is no reason to start over. Like someone said earlier, you develop a character over time, not make one from the start. So this whole thread, imo, I don't sympathize with or understand at all.

What you describe, OP, is exactly what happened to me with Oblivion, and why I never got into it at all....kept thinking I could make a better character and never got around to actually playing. Skyrim is awesome!! Good luck!

But they wont T'vash the silent, They just wont!

Have you considered rolling one warrior, one mage, one thief/assassin and just alternating between the three characters as much as you want?

You want the perfect character when you start? LOL Your magic, weapons, skills all svck in the beginning, you haven't even tapped your characters potential. You get the chance to build them up later in the game. You aren't badass right out of the gate; no one is.

I was frustrated with my weapons, but the only way I'm gonna get em to what I want is if I learn enchanting, smithing, etc. So I started beefing those up and I'm slowly getting better weapons suited for my race.

LOL I feel your pain. This time though I decided to just play through it and hope for the best (there is always the difficulty slider if things get too bad). My current character is all over the place but so far i'm having a blast! I'm still on the default difficluty and I haven't moved it.

Actually, I tend to have the same exact problem in most RPGs, and Morrowind, Oblivion, and Mass Effect have all been examples of where I've tended to do the same thing. Even in non-RPGs I'll tend to get about a dozen hours in and then think of how I'd have liked the narrative of the game created by my playing the game to have been slightly different. (Even Red Dead Redemption, for example - where I started over after 10 hours because I wanted to have taken my time a bit more in some of the starting areas, etc.)

For me, it's really very little to do with "Oh no! I have the wrong stats!" so much as I'll suddenly have a different concept for the character I want to play. Also, I thank the stars for having the PC version of Skyrim so that I can just use the "showracemenu" command if I decide that I want my character's nose to be half an inch lower on his face, etc (this is what drove me insane with Mass Effect, for example.)

Also, there's something to be said for that initial feeling of starting a new game knowing nothing, when everything is fresh and new - and trying to reclaim that feeling by going back again.

This time out, I'm determined to just push through. I've created a Khajit thief, who also likes to dabble in a number of things - and I'm still trying to work out my close-combat strategies (sword and shielf, or leave the off-hand free for spells; do I try some conjuring magic, or just go with two swords at a time?) for when my primary weapon, the bow and arrow, doesn't kill something at a distance. I think it really just comes down to a matter of willpower.

I've said it with many games before - but this time out, I'm setting myself as a goal that I'm going to see this character through to the end, no matter what reservations I may have.

I am *exactly* the same.

Humanity cannot cope with too much choice!!

I agree completely, i usually have this problem bad, but i do always find a charcter i stick with. In oblivion it was a mad high elf. However on my 4th character build in skyrim i went for the typical male nord stormcloak warrior no magic whatsoever. Wish i did it to begin with. As im very happy with my character, somehow my dark elf who was jack of all trades master of nothing who joined every guild i saw bored me roleplay wise. And then some high elf mage i made was just owning everything from long range and eh that annoyed me too. But the challenge of my warrior in close combat is endearing for me and fits into the lore brilliantly as a stormcloak, also its worth doing more quest before you restart as many of the high ranked quests are ingenius in my opinion and make you connect with your character even better.