With Skyrim months away and relatively little information about it this is the thread for you to express your hopes and dreams for the game but in a more creative way. For this thread throw your assumptions and presumptions aside and just express what you want your first character and thus first playthrough to be like. Dont understand? Here ill give you an example...

Well Gunther the male nord warrior will be proficient in spears, medium armor and destruction. He moves his bedroll and tent from area to area hunting the local game before harsh weather or lack of prey forces him into town. While in town he will visit the local smith and buy himself a shiny new skinning knife and some shears before returning to the local tavern and spending the night drinking and dancing with the colorful patrons. When he awakes, after all every adventurer needs their sleep unless they want their endurance and attributes damaged, he prepares the skins from the local grizzly bears and fashions himself a new pair of fur pants, boots and cloak. Dressed for the cold weather outside he heads over to the local river and fishes himself up some salmon for lunch and dinner. On his return into town he spots a group of mountaineers fighting a swarm of grotesque hobgoblins. Readying his fire spell he raises hellish flames from the ground which consume his foes and leaves only their smoldering remains. The mountaineers are most gracious and present him with the oppurtunity to join them for the night at their camp. At the camp Gunther gathers wood and readies a fire to cook the salmon and passes the time until bed sharpening his sword and tending to his wounds.

See not so hard basically this is just a story that incorporates game elements i want to see, such as

-More skills being brought back, Spears, Medium Armor etc
- Movable campsites
- In depth crafting system, (perhaps a skill of its own)
- Weather conditions altering characters abilities and threatening well being( can be prevented through preparation)
- Better respawn conditions
- Living towns, inebriation and culture ( such as dancing, drinking, music)
- Primary needs
-Fishing
-Faction fights as seen in MMM
- Powerful and progressive magic system as seen in Dragons Age Origins ie spells actually look and feel differently based on skill level and effects
-Random encounters
-Factions that are not clearly defined but still exist, why must i be in a guild for a group of people to like me?
- Cooking
-real time menus and an interactive smithing, repairing/ healing mechanism

Yes i know some of these are already included and most are impossible/unlikely but its my dream so dont bring logic into it.

I shall jump on my heavily enchanted mammoth as a khajiit Mage, and I shall fly across Skyrim slaughtering my foes with giant unicorn-horn arrows tipped with extra-strength poison of kill.

I'm usually some warrior class on my first playthrough. I'm going to explore and see what's possible to take part in inside the cities/towns/villages. hopefully we'll see mor info on social aspects from E3.

-Like the poster, I too hope to see more interaction between the main character and NPCs, other than talking to them/receiving quests, like dancing, giving gifts to their children, etc.

I think I'll do the MQ on my first playthrough.

I'm gonna be an Orc werebear (assuming werebears are in) and call him Grog-Nak he's gonna be a chaotic evil character who roams the forests and kills anything he encounters.