Here's my challenge for you all, start a new character, a khajiit, the skills you'll be focusing on are smithing, alchemy, enchanting and speech, archery is an essential, so, here are the other rules:

no deliberate questing, the only questline I'm going to allow is the thieves guild and the falkeath house quest, because you can't really pass up those enchantments on their gear, and a later rule. Stumbling into quests is allowed when purely accidental.

you have to use the most current update, power leveling your smithing and speech to 100 or the ohgma infinium glitches are not allowed.

you can have a follower, turn your trader into a trade caravan, however as you can't quest deliberately, the followers you can have will be few and far between.

You have to build your own home, and it should have the alchemy and enchanting area and the basemant fully decked out.

Optional rules:

you can get married, however you may only marry argonian NPCs as a role-play as to why you're not in elsweyr [according to lore, khajiits and argonians hate one another, so the thought of cross species relations is out of the picture]

Hard mode: no dungeon delving, you can only hunt animals in the wild and mine ore from the overworld, in the case a previous rule contradicts this rule, follow that rule briefly.

sounds like fun

so avoid the MQ all together?

yeah, which means no dragon bone/scale weapons or armour for sale due to the inability to get the resources without the main quest