I just started a hardcoe roleplay... no music, no crosshair, realistic carry amount.. and DEAD IS DEAD. Any fellow DID players here? What are your experiences? I love having to consider each action, the game is so much more immersive when you dont just wantonly run around like an idiot. Im hunting goblins for the moment, with the difficulty slider about 50/50... though Im thinking of increasing it... I love having frantic battles where I dont know If I'll make it out alive... thats when DID playstyle really shines. I'm thinking of starting the main quest, KOTN, and shivering isles... to really get all the invading armies into my game and RP a common threat linking them all together... Playing DiD with the world being at war... AWESOME. Right now just hunting goblins.. its easy... but its like the deep breath before the plunge.

Yup yup! Lots of DiD players around here. There's a thread on second page dedicated to them. I don't play that way myself but I admire those who do. I've given it a go a couple of times but it's too nerve wracking for me

All my characters are DiD. I limit my Strength and Endurance....among other attributes, so as not to be overpowered. I also play with 3 to 4 out of 7 majors used, the rest unused. This forces your character to specialize hard. If they try to be a jack of all trades, they usually die in a couple of levels. I have a level 22 knight, a level 4 assassin, and a level 19 (max level for this character) altmer apprentice. Good luck! After countless characters, I find that this playstyle, coupled with roleplay, is the sweet spot for me, in all Bethesda games.

There are a bunch of threads around here somewhere.

Playing Dead is Dead is too hardcoe for me but i'm intrigued by it after reading that other thread mentioned. I guess I get too attached and plan things out I wanna do with that PC for me to accept his death. My PC's only retire, never die.

However, I wanted to try the second most hardcoe mode (as far as I have been able to research) which was to use the Permanent Penalties option on kuertee's mod "Alternatives to death and reload". This means your PC is slowly dying bit by bit after each death since the mod 'remembers' the deaths.

It turned out that I couldn't handle that either.

But by luck I have found my sweet spot at least for the moment. I use kuertee's mod with settings so I lose money and/or items worth 1000g for each death. This is pretty darn hardcoe in my book because I cannot grow attached to anything I pick up. Found a super awesome sword? Probably gone in a few deaths time