I've had Dawnguard since release played through completely once and partway through a couple times. This week I've had two random incounters that I haven't had before. The first is "the Traveler", the second is where a random person comes up and says" they have been attacked by vampires and do you have a cure disease potion".
I have went through a couple "new" ( to me) Dwemer ruins, I made a decision not to go into ruins unless a quest directed me to.
I just found out that when leaving Whiterun, going past the tower where you encounter your first dragon, there is a house foundation on the side of the road that has a chest under the floor.
That "Heal Other" works on hurt animals, too.
Thanks! I never knew about this.
There's also a really small chest(between some barrels) behind a house in Whiterun which I randomly found. Near Olava/Ysolda.
As many times as I have run the road East out of Whiterun, tonight I discovered for the first time an Iron Ore deposit not too far from the log with the Nirnroot near it. I guess I am usually too busy trying to rip butterfly wings off their owners to notice
I have now played Skyrim for 1371 hours (so says Steam) - restarted the game x numbers of times of course - and I do find better enchanted items than mine homemade ones. Because of mods installed sometimes I'm not sure if certain items belongs to vanilla skyrim or some mods. I have all addons installed and to top it, ENB (graphic modification) by Boris V.
Cheers,
KK