I saw a movie like that once... Murderous Snowmen, what will they think of next?

you really aren't catching on to what he's saying are you. He knows he'll still be the Dragonborn, he's talking about the thing's he'll be doing when he's not doing Dragonborny stuff.

To the OP
I'll probably try my hand at the new gameplay elements and start a woodcutting business or become an armour smith (if it's like i'm imagining it)

You can with mods.

I usually just do side quests or go and explore the wilderness when I'm not focused on the main quest. It depends on what type of character I'm playing though.

When I'm not doing the main quest, I'll probably just do what I usually do in the Elder Scrolls when I choose not to do the main quest. Side quests, guild quests, exploring dungeons, collecting rare items and using them to decorate my house, that sort of thing. Honestly, to me the main quest is but a small part of any Elder Scrolls game, a part that the game wouldn't feel complete without, but still only a small one, there's much more to any Elder Scrolls game than the main quest, and just as I don't join every guild with the same character, I've also made many characters in both Morrowind and Oblivion who never spoke to Caius or never delivered the Amulet of Kings to Jauffre.

Some things I plan to occupy my time with:

Necromancy for fun and profit
Rolling all kinds of fruit down hills
Dungeon diving
Amassing a huge collection of worthless junk (yarn, forks, any little thing)
Trying to kill every single npc
Stealing everything that's not nailed down
Crafting, farming, mining, cooking, whatever types of things they choose to include
Being a merchant- buy in one location and travel to another to supply the local shops with goods
Playing hide and seek with the city guards
Walking backwards from one side of the map to the other without falling off a cliff

"Acquisitioner of Proprietaries" - A Very Fancy Thief.

"Axeman" - See: Nord Berserker

"Theoretical Metaphysicist" - Average Career Length: 4 days (followed by forced retirement)

"Official Town Knife-Thrower" - Highly Popular... Until You Miss

"Town Crier" - HEAR YE! HEAR YE! THIS JOB PAYS FOR CRAP! FROGNEIM IS A DRUNKEN SOT WHO ABUSES HIS WIFE! MURDER OF TOWN CRIER IMMINENT! HEAR YE! HEAR YE!

"Pirate" - Y'arr... Here thar be Dragons!

"Village Armorer" - I would have sold that axe to the Orc for full price, but he tried to take half off...

You forgot to add

"Throwing the Adoring Fan down a 7000-step flight of stairs."

Make stuff, like with the Morrowind Crafting mod, eat, go to parties, have six, play music, read books, swim, hike, make potions.... which reminds me, I need to add a few more things to do in Pelagiad Expanded.

If I'm just screwing around, then I'll go kill all the NPCs and taunt the guards and then kill them.

Quests and the new professions and leveling up should keep me occupied

same here.....I always leave the last 1/3 of the main plot for after I've finished everything else (side quests, guilds, etc...)

Go deer hunting........with dragon shouts.

Witch hunter. Hunt down every Vampire and Werebeast I can find.

Kill just about every character in all the cities and towns and RLY screw up the game.... Then save, delete save and start a new game :biggrin:

Nah, i'll propably be toying around with the magic, dragon shouts and such, make myself godlike. Plus, there is gonna be a lot of side quests and dungeons, soi'll be busy for another 400+ hours XD

Raise an army of Nords and invade Cyrodil.

Well I would if it were possible, might involve a few mods.

Hopefully the game engine will allow for larger scale combat than previous TES games. Translating a PCs growing power and prestige in the game world by accumulating a group (or small army) of followers, and having something worthwhile to do with them like marauding up and down the coastline Viking style would be lots of fun.

Or maybe 'forge a kingdom by my own hand, and wear my crown on a troubled brow'.

My oblivion game is still going. It's at I think 150 hours. just today I raided 5 or so dungeons, became a vampire and bought and killed a horse on top of a fjord. Then i turned on god mode (tgm) and frapsed that guy falling.

I never got the knights of the nine quest done so I am doing that now. Couple weeks ago I got shivering isles done (yeah I took a few years off).

I never get bored of these games. If I do, I end up doing weird stuff like quicksaving and then going on rampages in . It's great.

its gonna take a couple of weeks to make a few playthroughs as different character types. by the time im done, mods will start coming out more frequently and basically just like oblivion i will spend more time modding the game than actually playing it. if the creation kit is as easy to use as the CS then ill be making lots of changes myself.

Forget the fruit, I'm gonna roll wine off mountains, much more of a reward if you find it, especially if there is a replacement for vintage 399.

I'll be roleplaying the character I created, of course.

Be a goodie two-shoes...
... in the form of a brutal crusader who fight anything that is evil. "Undead, vampires, were-creatures, necromancers, dragons and all things evil beware. I have arrived"

A bit of everything.
In the three or four years I've been playing Oblivion, I haven't finished the MQ (although the ending was spoiled for me a long time ago), and I intend to do the same for Skyrim - take it slowly, perhaps not even do much for a while, and then do it slowly. I like it that way. I don't want to be the hero too quickly.


This.

Challenging many NPCs to duels.

When I'm not main questin', I'll be guild questin'

When I'm not guild questin', I'll be side questin'

When I'm not side questin', I'll be radiant storyin'

When I'm not radiant storyin', I'll be doing random stuffs. Like going around and punching everyone in the face. Or starting riots with the frenzy spell. Or throwing people and things off of The Throat of the World with a nice "Fus, Ro, Dah!"

And, if I somehow run out of things to do after that, I'll pay Todd (or his test character) a visit in toddtest, assuming that there will be one in Skyrim.

I can spend hours and hours in these games without touching a quest. Collect things, like books, cool weapons and armor, magic items, gems. Decorate my home base, dungeon delve, explore, wander aimlessly, get into random fights, read books. Get into fights with guards or annoying NPCs, see how far I can take it, then reload...or not, depending on my character. Thief characters will break into peoples houses, mages will screw around with spells, fighters will, well... go kill something. If I'm playing with mods, I'll load a mod just to check it out, decide whether I like it or not. Just another day in the life of Tamriel's chosen one.

To the whole your born the Dragon Born thing. Sounds silly typing that. Anyway lets assume, or hope that they handle it like Morrowind's Nerevarine. You do not know that you are the Dragon Born when you start the game. Maybe Esbern realises so and thus takes you under his wing and sets you on your path. This way they allow a choice beforehand where you can just bugger off and do your own thing.

My own thing being collecting flowers. I'm such a girl. I always placed some nightshade on anybody that I would kill, also I would drag all bodies of a dungeon into the largest room and lay them all out with their weapons as a mark to the next adventurer that passed through.

Roleplaying. Hopefully there will be a hardcoe/survival mode too, which I probably wouldn't use on my first playthrough, where I tend to just blast through the MQ. Lots and lots of exploring is definitely on the cards - I like finding those little oddities out in the wilderness :happy:

[Edit]: I forgot! Reading all the books :read: