It was more like old men going senile and pretending to be vampire hunters in their secret clubhouse. Hell, they formed a group of 'vampire hunters' despite the fact that none of them had ever seen a vampire, nor found evidence of one. Sounds a lot like children's games to me. Nice tapestries though.

Those were from their old club, they were the SAS, or society of aging seamsters.

If it makes a lick of difference, my chars were never stupid, just adrenaline junkies.

True. Morrowind did have a few badly designed situations where the PC felt a little gullible but Oblivion takes the cake. I mean, even if your whole intelligence was drained, you were an orc with half of your brain missing do to extensive drinking you'd still be able to figure out some of the most retarded traps. The traps were so retarded they were basically like "See that X mark? Go stand on it and you will not be crushed by the log pile directly above it." - Necromancer