Some of you remember a few months ago, I created a character named Aela, who was a female bosmer. At the start of the playthrough, I told you all that I was not going to enter a major city the entire game (and avoid small towns as much as possible), and it was a success! Very fun! Every night I found a new place to set up camp, with the portable campsite mod, and really made up my own quests throughout the playthrough. This was also a dead is dead playthrough on default difficulty. I really recommend to you all to try a playthrough like this, it may not be for everybody, but I certainly enjoyed it.

Sadly, yesterday, Aela fell victim to a troll she encountered in an Ayelid Ruin.

Who knows though, she might have a young and upcoming daughter

Thanks for reading! And yeah, try this out, it's very fun!

Wow... I've actually got a character who does this, and in much the same way.

His name is Vorlin, and he's a Bosmer archer. I used TU Starting Options and gave him a random wilderness start (he started high in the Jeralls, uncomfortably close to Dive Rock). He spent a while skulking around the forests around Cheydinhal, but it was a bit too constrained for his tastes. He started hiking west, and eventually came out onto the plains east of the Imperial City. He could see forest to his south and to his west, on the other side of Lake Rumare, and not being a big fan of southern climes, he decided to head west. He's been in the Great Forest ever since, currently camping along the lower part of the River Ethe west of Skingrad.

I tried a few camping mods and really liked the Phinix portable tent, but I struggled a bit with fitting a large tent that's pitched by casting a spell into his roleplay. After mulling it over for a few months (while I played other characters), I decided he'd stolen it from a particularly powerful and vengeful mage, which fits in nicely with his refusal to enter cities, where he's afraid he might run into the mage, and be at a disadvantage on unfamiliar ground. As long as he stays in the wilderness, he feels safe. Mostly.

I like http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/8104 and for campsite I use http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/5684.

I did this a few times in Morrowind and once in Skyrim and they were incredibly fun games. I've always meant to try it in Oblivion too but never got around to it. I will, someday.

Someday should be today!

My Wild Elf character fits this description, too. She's a feral Bosmer, enters no cities, and rarely makes contact with others. She hunts, and raids ruins and caves for most of whatever she needs. She trades only with one innkeeper (the Drunken Dragon is the only building she has ever entered), and with the handful of merchants who are outdoors (Shady Sam and the Kvatch encampment.)

Yeah, I did this once with a pretty much vanilla setup, no portable campsites or anything. So I had to find all the camps in the game. Eventually I moved into a relatively safe cave. My character didn't totally stay out of cities, it was just extremely rare that he would go in for some supplies, usually to Cheydinhal, never to the IC. Never ran the main quest or any of the guilds. Did a lot of dungeon diving and hunting. Sadly I lost that character the one time I had to reinstall Oblivion. I tried to recreate him, but the experience just wasn't the same the second time around.