Whenever I start a new ES game, I typically have a role in mind and I stick to that role exclusively. If an archer, I go for Light Armor, a Barbarian, I'd use Heavy Armor, if a Mage character I exclusively use Magic and NO armor. The only thing that has ever stayed constant in all my characters since Oblivion, is that I always play as a morally good character, and I always play a male.

WELL, now I'm bending a bit. I'm still %100 moral with my characters, as well as male, but I'm trying some fun hybrids!

In Skyrim, my previous hybrid character was a Breton who exclusively used magic, but also Heavy Armor. Unfortunately, I "broke" that character's game as I got the "Persuade, Visit the College of Winterhoid" bug. Uncool.

Well earlier this week, I branched out a little more and chose an Argonian! I've NEVER played as an Argonian or Khajiit before, in any ES game! ALSO, I've never bothered to try out the Two-Handed weapons! So, my Argonian is a Light Armor wearing, Battle-Axe wielding, disease resistant fish! Lol, cool how they can breath underwater automatically! I've always wanted to explore the shipwrecks of Skyrim, although they probably svck by comparison to Morrowind (although, to be fair, Vvardenfell is an island). Personally, I think the Two-Handed weapon skill tree kinda blows. Not much on it, but oh well.

Things like this is what give the ES games SO much replay value! "Well, duh!", I can hear all of you thinking it and typing away, lol. I've never branched out and done anything "crazy" in my ES games, so it's new for me. That being said, I'm not using any Magic for my Argonian.

(Also, what's your opinion of Argonians in general? ... I hate being called "Lizard" )

I don't think in terms of "role" or "class" or "race" when I roleplay. I create an individual with a unique personality, as a novelist would. Everything that happens in my games is a result of my character's personality. I strive to make my characters as idiosyncratic and unpredictable as human beings in real life.

So all of my characters are hybrids.

That makes perfect sense. Although the joy of roleplaying is just that - playing any type of role one wants. If I accidentally steal a mug, or bread, I can reload!

Ditto, though I'd be lying if I said that I didn't at least put some thought into it.

My two favored characters are a Breton Battlemage (Melee+Magic) and a Khajiit Warlock (Magic+Subtlety/Stealth/Charisma/whatever). In terms of gameplay it was to explore two vastly different playstyles (with magic), which eventually lead to clashing personalities RP-wise. They're pretty much a foil to one another, https://33.media.tumblr.com/ee267b79377470c04c89daadef75c34f/tumblr_ng2xlyuTdz1slawspo1_1280.png (At first)

The Breton tends to be more rough-and-tumble, and while he has raw talent in magic he has trouble cultivating it--so he sticks to Restoration and Enchantments and a few basic spells from the schools of Destruction (frost) and Alteration. He's also friendlier and more approachable. He's the kind that would sit and listen attentively to someone else's problems then ask if there was any way for him to help. He just wants everyone around him to be content. He can also be a bit naive, though he eventually grows out of it. He's just a large tub of joy and righteous violence.

The Khajiit is less hands-on--focusing more on guile and Conjuration/Illusion if he has to. He also likes Lightning. Though it's more of an RP thing since Speechcraft barely exists in this game, he's also emotionally manipulative and tends to buy people's trust if all else fails. I was going for a ridiculously pomp character with a sociopathic edge to him. In a world filled with some angels, some devils, and a lot in-between, he's a squid. He has a really warped view on morality and eventually decides that it's everyone else that has a problem. That tends to happen when the Time God blesses you with a fragment of his soul and everyone props you up as the second coming of Talos. It...ah...ends very badly for the people of Skyrim.

Yea, this is pretty much what I do as well.