I'm trying to keep my characters to no more than five, and they currently are:

1 - Warrior: Heavy armor, Two-handed, Archery.

2 - Spellsword: Heavy armor, One-handed+Shield, Conjuration. (Vampire)

3 - Pure mage: Alteration, Destruction and Restoration, No armor, only robes.

4 - Thief/Assassin.

5 - ?

All I know is that the fifth one should be a male Redguard (werewolf).

what I have been doing in my RPs lately is not have any specific skill build in mind, and just see how they naturally progress during my RP.

It has resulted in some very entertaining characters

Check the Skyrim Blog.

Eh, I don't have patience for that place. They don't go straight to the point, it has to go all flowery about the roleplay aspect before getting there.

Live as a beast if you're going with the beast form, live off the land both in Redguard form and beast form. Only visit towns to sell off what ever you have amassed in your travels. Ask local inn owners for the local gossip and see if you can help ( secretly ) and if you feel up to it, complete any bandit related gossip quests as a werewolf. Be a " noble werewolf " and help the locals.

OR you could do the same thing by day as a Redguard, help out, and by night you turn and loose control only to wake the next day not knowing what you did nor where you went while a werewolf. I'm doing this right now but tracking the moons, once a month I'll turn with the full moon and I'll simply hunt and stalk. Only to wake the following day lost and confused having to venture my way back home.

Skills....One-handed, archery, light armor ( mostly furs,leathers etc... ), sneak and maybe alchemy for hunting poisons. Along with crafting skills like smithing, enchanting if you want

They literally write entire novels about their character before they tell you how to actually play as them.

I personally love to play as a Crusader. Heavy Armor, One-Handed, Restoration and Destruction.

Or a Scout: Sneak, Light Armor, Archery and Alchemy. No Melee Weapons except Daggers.