Snacks the sober sea lion
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Your first character in any Elder Scrolls game probably isn't going to be very good, and the games up until Skyrim are pretty unforgiving. So don't feel like you have to commit to a character, there's nothing wrong with making new ones. Not sure if there's a way to skip the emperor escort section though. If you can change your race before exiting the sewer in addition to all your other traits you could leave a save there and not overwrite it, but I don't remember.
You should probably just use one-handed weapons and a shield or two-handed weapons (pick male Redguard if you're going to play with melee weapons), and I don't know much about birth signs or Oblivion character building in general, but the Warrior has decent bonuses with no downside. Or you could try someone fast and starting with Destruction magic, probably a male Altmer or Breton. Should be easily able to back up and throw fireballs all day until you figure out what you're doing. Don't pick Atronarch sign or else your magicka won't regenerate, nor Apprentice, because then magic users will wreck you.
Oblivion is a bitch when it comes to telling you what's going on, and then suddenly the enemies are way tougher than you because you didn't level up perfectly efficiently. You can actually try not leveling up (don't sleep) for quite a while, because that way your skills (but not your base attributes like Intelligence, Strength, etc) will increase, but enemies won't become stronger. You can still just use the Wait command when no enemies are around to instantly restore all your health, magic, and stamina, and it won't force you to level up.
And you shouldn't immediately start with the storyline. Kvatch and the first Oblivion gate can be a bit too much.
You should probably just use one-handed weapons and a shield or two-handed weapons (pick male Redguard if you're going to play with melee weapons), and I don't know much about birth signs or Oblivion character building in general, but the Warrior has decent bonuses with no downside. Or you could try someone fast and starting with Destruction magic, probably a male Altmer or Breton. Should be easily able to back up and throw fireballs all day until you figure out what you're doing. Don't pick Atronarch sign or else your magicka won't regenerate, nor Apprentice, because then magic users will wreck you.
Oblivion is a bitch when it comes to telling you what's going on, and then suddenly the enemies are way tougher than you because you didn't level up perfectly efficiently. You can actually try not leveling up (don't sleep) for quite a while, because that way your skills (but not your base attributes like Intelligence, Strength, etc) will increase, but enemies won't become stronger. You can still just use the Wait command when no enemies are around to instantly restore all your health, magic, and stamina, and it won't force you to level up.
And you shouldn't immediately start with the storyline. Kvatch and the first Oblivion gate can be a bit too much.
