>cthonikix: "[...] I do not fast-travel at all, and try using the map as little as possible."

Yeah that's fun. Personally I turn the compass off and use the map when I get lost to plot a course, and if i put a marker down and get Truly Lost I have a reason to use clairvoyance lol.

>cthonikix: "[...] I played a character focused on magicka, and even though it was always my plan to go to the Winterhold College, I only actually made my way there once an NPC mentioned it to me."
Funnily enough thats almost the opposite of what I had my character do. I'm playing with survival mode on, and I did not think this character would have any skill braving the cold, so I had her look for way longer than is reasonable for an alternative. Every bartender from the winking skeever to the bee and barb heard the road weary question "Do you know where I could study magic?" before I finally went. The trek back from the college is kind of a nightmare dealing with the cold but its worth it.

>missmonkeymode: "When I was playing through fallout new vegas [...]"
New vegas is a good one. I tried playing as a Completely Normal Person in it once (guns, survival, and i think speech were tagged. Early bird trait). The goal? Be aggressively normal. Medicine for important things only, no chems, use food for most of the healing. light armor or clothes only, guns only a Very Normal Person would use (pistols mostly), and try to follow a nebulous and unenforceable concept known to us as "The Law". So no crimes (theft, assault, reckless endangerment, so on and so forth) and no bounty hunting and the like. Walking on the sidewalks and only crossing at intersections, looking both ways before crossing, that kind of shit. Also had a weird hangup about radioactive foods and just wouldn't touch em. Their name was Sod and I still wonder what's wrong with them sometimes.