At max difficulty, there's always the risk that a seemingly harmless enemy can kill you in one hit without you being able to fight back, which is always annoying as heck. Cave Rats, how I loathe thee.

I am currently planning a DiD character of my own, since reloading as often as I usually do kind of seems to cheapen the gameplay, but I doubt I'll be playing at max difficulty this time around. Perhaps I'll do what I did back in the day and increase the difficulty level for each level gained or something along those lines.

...Dagoth Ur will be a tough nut to crack though. Not because of the boss himself, but because I am using Darknut's Greater Dwemer Ruins, which has an almost ridiculous amount of instant death traps. :ninja:

The problem with Dead is Dead:

I think, if I were playing a Dead is Dead character, I'd play far too conservatively, and ruin some of the fun. I like fights that are challenging, but if I were going to play Dead is Dead, I'd just spend my time making myself as uber-prepared as possible for any fight, and then, pretty soon, no fight would be challenging.

Knowing I can just load a save from 5 or 10 minutes ago means I don't have to worry about taking some risks, then when I beat an enemy which was a risk and a hard challenge, it's more fun.

That's true, the MO is not to get there in the first place. But it's a graveyard. We spend our entire lives trying to stay out of it. But, when the time comes...we have a place to go.

And like Gunny says in the explanation, "It's not for everyone". Personally, I'm hooked. I can't play any other way.

Would it be alright if I wrote sort of a Journal type thing, writing it in character and with the date that I decide to write it and such?

If so, I'm going to do that.

Please do, I would love to read that.