Hello,

I like this the TES series alot but i always had problems with my characters. In Skyrim, Master difficulty, i started a male Wood Elf Archer and dumped him after 10 hours and made a female. That one went to 19 untill i realised that i did not use the potential of the character creation enough. Started a new character, a mage. My mage quickly felt extremely boring, because i wanted to play without helmet and feel more immersed. Then i got confused and annoyed. Then a warrior, was reasonably fun but dull at the same time + casters kill me very fast. Okay and now imagine this, this all took me maybe 30-50 ingame hours. Ontop of that i deleted and restarted my Archer, Warrior and Mage 3 times now for dumb reasons

So what i'm looking at is a great game but i actually made up to 50 new restarts. I did the opening mission so many times its incredible. Anyways i am still trying in the hope to find the right character but right now i am hating my female warrior.. it just does not make sense to see a skinny girl with a big sword and heavy armor or something even tho i like 1h, block and 2h. I have a thing against playing male for some reason it never works out + i love the thought of gathering lots of combinations of clothes and items to roleplay... Strangely i remember Oblivion being way easier to me.

I'm just like you. I haven't even made it through the main questline yet, because I always seem to find something wrong with my character that warrants a restart. I thought I had finally made the perfect character and made it all the way to level 29, but the same thing that happened to you happened to me. It was a female warrior that used heavy armor and 1-handed. It just didn't seem realistic. I basically just made a clone of my female warrior except made it male this time.

I hope it works out this time. If not I don't really mind. Restarting in a game like Skyrim isn't boring to me. It gets me more playtime and enjoyment out of the content that a lot of people are already done with.

I think I've probably restarted about ten times already, but I haven't even hit lvl 10 with any character!

I suffered from restarter's syndrome for the first 90 hours or so, which really svcked. Settled on a Bosmer thief (archery) who is now level 35 and still lots of fun. Next playthrough will be an Imperial paladin.

I just scrapped a level 37 dunmer today because I thought it was boring. I also scrapped a Nord warrior and an Altmer Mage.

I always restart because I see another character wearing some cool gear I can't wear, and think, wow, I wish my character looked cool like that. Its not always the gear, it could be the spell casting, or something. I now have 3 characters I have save games for. Each is a pure archetype of Sneak/thief, warrior, spellcaster. Now keep in mind my spellcaster does use one handed weapons because after all, the mana runs out eventually. My warrior also has restoration magic because there are those times when you just got to run and heal and rejoin the fight. My thief does have perks in one handers and archery so he can fight with a blade when he needs to. Backstabbing is both effective and the tension that builds as I sneak up to my victims is exhilerating. I know, sounds creepy but... it's fun, lol.

I went through the same thing before I finally settled with a character I'm enjoying. I think I must've leveled 4-5 characters up all above 30, but eventually go back to the drawing board. I'm barely scratching the surface of all the content when it comes to content, but that's cool, I don't mind taking my time. I actually really enjoyed the process of creating new characters and doing all the early quests. But now I've got my light armored orc, that focuses soley on axe & shield and I can't stop playing him.