Roleplay in oblivion, elder scrolls

I've been replaying this game and actually treating it like a true role playing game for the first time ever. Thought I'd share the rules that have made it the most fun so far and hope for community suggestions.

I talk to NPC's out loud with my real voice, introduce myself, shoot the shit or say whatever is relevant. I'm a dark elf so I call people s'wit when they deserve it, and let race factor into how I ttreat others, at least insofar as I like dark elves better, things with lizards and kats are a little rocky.

Rarely use the map, or only in town or whatever makes sense. This is big, just try it if you never have. It plays like morrowind all of a sudden, its way more immersive because you need to keep track of your surroundings. What landmark do I head east at to get back to the road? Getting lost all of a sudden can become a reality. I mostly like the extra immersion though

Pay attention to fatigue, don't just swing and swing. Roleplay battle better in general, imagine that mace crushing through the shell of a mud crab, its salty juices splattering on your face, the horribly crabby odor! I love how much better the game gets just by thinking about things as if they were real. Like if you're looking at a tree in game, yes the graphics are old and it can reduce immersion but wait, imagine what you might see if that tree were in real life. All of a sudden its covered in lichen and moss, gnats and flies buzz happily around some rotting vegetation, a squirrel rustles the branches above.

I never change the difficulty. Keep it right at the middle, I used to just scroll to easy when I felt the game was unreasonably hard. But I'm now learning that there was just levels of strategy I wasn't aware of, alchemy is huge for one thing. Especially in a troll cave, I'll be wandering the cave praying I find just one more wisp stalk so I can make a poison. Then I finally do and "you find nothing of use" which in roleplay language means "the wisp stocks are full of maggots and/or slugs and unusable."

Anybody else do this? Got any suggestions? My character should have more of a backstory but he's just a dark elf immigrant who got unjustly jailed in the imperial city based on his race, and then his path changed forever when he met uriel septim. (I love uriels character, following astrology/divination, its interesting at least)

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