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When or if you had that moment. Attempting to do something and realizing theres a MUCH easier way,getting destroyed by a creature you thought you could take,getting killed by a mudcrab,all times of embarrasment welcome. If needed use spoiler tags.

Trying to take on two mammoths at level 4.

I was [&@%!] myself happy when I found M'aiq, Sadly I at first thought "BANDIT" and shot him. I reloaded

In the tutorial I was mistaken and attacked my ally through the whole thing.

fighting falmer at level five is harder than I expected, but hey I have managed to kill two by the last sliver of my health

Tried to burn some Draugr by shooting a fire spell into an oil puddle. Didn't think that I was in the puddle too... Luckily my character was a Dunmer, but he still almost died.

Not being able to tell the difference between my allies and enemies in the tutorial

Found a dragon fighting a giant as I was runnning down a mountain towards Winterhold. Deciding the dragon was the biggest threat, I helped the giant kill it and it went down fairly easily. Then the giant turns around and one hits me with his mace before I can get a spell off.

Realising exactly where the start of the seven thousand steps to the Throat of the World are, after running around the whole thing.

I ran off exploring right after the tutorial, and the first three dungeons I attempted to raid I was killed by a Falmer, a pair of Ice Trolls, and the third time by some kind of sabre tooth cat before I could even get in the door.

When I was on a quest where I had to find a client in a dungeon, going inside, clearing the whole dungeon and dying three times to a Draugr Overlord or something, and be like "where the hell is this guy" - later finding out he was just inside the dungeon to the left - about 10 sec from the door from which I entered.

SilentPsycho wrote:Realising exactly where the start of the seven thousand steps to the Throat of the World are, after running around the whole thing.

I had the exact same problem. It was quite embarrassing. I ran around it 2-3 times before I realised.

Tried climbing the Throat of the World without using the seven thousand steps (I couldn't find them).

Failed miserably.


Walked over to a river, and let the current carry me......

Right over the edge of a 70ft tall waterfall with rocks at the bottom.


I played the game for 3 hours before I realized that I had a healing spell. That could've helped in many situations.

I changed the difficulty from adept to expert only to get my A$$ handed to me by some Draugr. Needless to say I went back to adept.

Took me about an hour and a half to realize you can fast travel...

Tried killing a Mammoth around lvl 3 or 4, didn't realize how strong they were or how fast. After it got more than 1 of it's friends ((had about 3-4 chasing me at once)) I had to reload as I couldn't get away fast enough

Didn't realize how strong mudcrabs are in Skyrim, almost died to them, 4 at once.

Shadowscale wrote:Not being able to tell the difference between my allies and enemies in the tutorial :oops:

I did the same. Wildly swinging at every moving thing wasn't a good idea. :P

In the tutorial I was mistaken and attacked my ally through the whole thing.

Not the whole thing, but almost. I eventually gave up trying to tell the difference between him and the enemies in the dark and just let him handle all the combat. Man I felt like a n00b, hah.

_yodah_ wrote:I played the game for 3 hours before I realized that I had a healing spell. That could've helped in many situations.

I did that, five hours in after a difficult boss fight and using up all my potions that's when I decided to check my spell menu. D'oh!

I went to go chat with some giants, no seriously I thought they were nice...one runs up to me, hits me with his hammer, I fly about 50000000000 feet into the air. I also tried to take a mammoth out by smacking it in the face at level 3 before thinking to myself "Hey, why not just sit up on that rock 5 feet away and shoot it with arrows?".

So, I was walking around when suddenly a wild Mammoth appeared I thought he was going to be a piece of cake... Until he hit me and killed me

Chaos the N'wah wrote:Happening upon a frost Troll far too early and getting punched off a mountain by said troll...

Oh gawd, this. Try using rivers to get away from trolls/sabre cats.

Burning to death AFTER killing the Dragon.

Killing a frost dragon, then getting killed by a sabre cat.

Chaos the N'wah wrote:Happening upon a frost Troll far too early and getting punched off a mountain by said troll...

Same thing happen to me. I got off my horse, the troll hit me once, my body rag dolled down the mountain lol.

deciding to run from riverwood to windhelm, not realizing that you could do cart travel. i wanted to see if morrowind was visible from dunmeth pass. i mentally prepare myself, knowing there will probably be alot of things that will destroy me along the way. im crossing a bridge, two mudcrabs attack me. i fight them, but they kill me.

last autosave, end of tutorial. lawl.

btw, you can see dark clouds coming from morrowind.

Okay I have had a hard time on this game, but I am proud to say I have never been killed by a mudcrab.