You better stock up on magicka potions

I'm surprised that this is a foreign concept to some. Most of my characters have only used a spell when it was the only way to progress a quest (like in Zero Visibility and that one Daedric Prince quest from Oblivion).

I always use Restoration magic so that's probably not going to happen.

I'm going to be attempting this. If I tell my girlfriend I'm going to try this, she'll hit me if I try to cheat. Non magic using Archer on the way. Can't wait for the 11th of November.

*Edit: Should this include enchanted armors and weapons?

I don't like using magic much too, but the magic I've seen in the demo really amazed me and maybe I'll use it now.

OP, have fun experimenting with the non-magic player. Doing things like that is fun, makes various play styles interesting.

The same goes for all of the "pure" mages and stealth characters, enjoy.

I am hoping alchemy is really good and useful, as I want my shaman-in-training to use alchemy as her governing skill, with other skills selected to support it.

I think a shaman type should learn alchemy, including herbology.

She should also study various magics and especially elemental skills, such as, fire, frost and storm spells.

For myself, there is just too much goodness in Skyrim magic to not use most of it.

Those new magical traps sound...well, awesome.

I can hardly wait to observe Sibyl calling down lightning on some unlucky target.

I can imagine that the associated visual will be spectacular.

Or, to watch her light a fire to cook her first hand caught salmon.

Again, OP, enjoy your choosen playstyle and best of luck to you.

Or you could just hold it in your hand with a fire spell active

Will make my first playthrough with a Nord pure warrior
but I will use dragon shouts however.

I always do - my char is just going to make a living as an alchemist first, and the problem solved

I was actually planning on doing this.

I tried it on Oblivion a couple months ago, but ended up using Life Detect :batman:

At endgame, I'm a battlemage.

More like an insult to anyone who essentially neglects half the games content and lore so they can make believe they have muscles.

Im not bagging the warrior class, I play them myself (occasionally)
I just cant fathom what is attracting you to the TES universe that would make you completely ignore over half the premise of the fantasy. I mean wtf do you think dragons are if not magical fantasy? I just dont get it.

i hope you realize, that means NO magic gear, either, if you really wanna stick to a magic-hating warrior.

so you're just gonna have to settle for non-artifact, unenchanted weaponry and armor.

good luck. :ermm:

wait, isnt thu'um a form of magic, too?

so... how can you roleplay a magic-hating warrior and still be the dovahkiin? :confused:

I, too, have chosen not to use magic, resorting to excelling in alchemy enough to make healing potions to keep me alive. But I have no hatred of magic users. I believe magic is not inherently good nor evil. It is like a tool. A tool has capability for good or evil, but on it's own, it has no ability to do neither. Only when a person wields the tool will it then be used for good or evil, and at that point, the person wielding it is responsible for its actions.

Sounds pretty hard. I wont do it but I do restrict what magic I can use on some of my characters. For example one of mine could only use on touch spells in OB, but since there is no longer on touch spells idk what im going to do.

My fist char is a retired militia man, he has no skills with magic what so ever, how ever his daughter (2nd char) wants to join the colledge of winterhold.

That's a good question to all pure warriors...
Bethesda tend to screw them over every game - in Oblivion and Morrowind a pure warrior was stuck with no means to open locks or heal himself (locking is thief skill and alchemy a mage one, no matter how you look at them, I guess one can stick to buying potions, but no luck with the locks) And now there seam to be no option to play non magical character at all...

I used to always play without magic. I never touched for the longest time, until I realized it made me powerful.

Straight warrior types are the easiest characters to play.

But he disapproves and forbids her to go! To rebel against her closed minded and overprotective father, she studies magic in secret from him. Later on she meets a young wizard she falls in love with. Of course the father also dissaproves and swears the wizard cast a spell on his daughter, leading to him killing her fiance!! His daughter, fraught with tears and anger runs away, vowing never to speak to her father again! Years down the road she finally manages to get accepted into the winterhold college, where she takes on her first job. Her father, not hearing from her once in the years she had left him at last receives a letter, informing him about her accomplishments, and her upcoming successes in her field. The father after reading the now tear soaked and soggy letter leaves his home for winterhold. He is proud of his daughter after all. Upon his arrival he learns his daughter is out on a mission to the top of the throat of the world. He then pursues, climbing the endless steps towards his last remaining goal in life, to tell his daughter how proud he is after all.

At the top of the stairs he see his daughter and a dragon swoop down!! *Fight scene where father saves daughters life from dragon, at the exchange of his own* *daughter becomes the most badass dragonborne to ever walk the Nirn and defeats Alduin.*

The end.

But I'm a mage :whistling:

I've never played as a mage, and did plenty of run throughs where I didn't use the firebolt and healing spell you get in OB (I don't think I've ever had other spells, apart from the occasional scroll), so for me it's the opposite - what with the fancy pants dual weilding, I'm going to try out being a mage.

I did use magical potions and enchanted items though, so I suppose I was never playing as a straight-up no magic character.

For many reasons, I ended up choosing a Rogue. Pickpocketing and Lockpicking are great skills to ensure you can open treasures, disarm traps and attain goods. Sneak and Security ensure you can evade detection, get sneak attacks/assassinations. Sure your ability in battle isn't as direct as a Warrior or as powerful, but engaging enemies at range when you can before you bring out the short blades and rely on evasion and dodging should be doable as well.

I won't have any magical ability, but most magical services (outside of the ability to carry magic with you where you go) are for sale (enchantments, potions, etc.)

Lol, yes...just set to simmer...hand-caught and hand-cooked.

Anybody need a http://images.uesp.net/c/c4/Fishystick.jpg?

The only magic i will use my first playthrough is Restoration, and i have a reason. (Some Nords are known for great knowledge of Restoration, and his mother grew up in a family of them, and taught my character Hulgar).

Yeah something like that.