Skyrim's Most Wanted

Easy Smithing Level Up 100

Buy iron ingots or smelt down iron ore

Make leather straps from hunted animal hides

Create iron daggers in bunches

Sell daggers for some cash

Watch your smithing skill climb dramatically

Skyrim: Extreme Collecting or Breaking and Entering?

When playing Skyrim, do you find yourself performing a B & E in about every house, castle, or longhouse that you come across? If so, you may be suffering from a case of a unique disease associated with the Elder Scrolls series of role playing games scientifically referred to as fiveus fingerus discountius. Commonly, this disease is called "Sorry Sucka, your things are my things."

The disease attacks the part of the brain that controls moral reasoning and ethical business practices. At this time, no cure has been found. Common symptoms include, but are not limited to: frequently running out of lockpicks, sneaking around 90% of the time, easily become over-encumbered, having trouble finding fences to sell your stolen loot, having too many septims in your pocket, totally forgetting to play the main quest, taking every item in a house, regardless of value, succumbing to other immoral behaviors, and a blurred sense of property rights.

If you have any of the aforementioned symptoms, seek help immediately. A doctor in the sewers in Riften is able to help you confront this disease and enable it further.

Best Stealth Race

In my opinion, the best race to build a stealth character is the Bosmer. (Wood Elf) Here are three reasons why:

1. Bosmer's have a realatively high starting sneak skill. Not as high as Khajiits, but high enough.
2. Bosmer's archery skill starts at level 25. Sneaking bonus long range shots are a powerful ally to a stealth character.
3. Stealth shots combined with the Bosmer's high alchemy skill will allow for the player to create powerful poisons to apply to arrows and drastically increase sneak shot damage.

Easy 100 Sneak Level

Perhaps the easiest skill to level is sneak. Sneak is leveled by actively sneaking near a NPC without being noticed. There are many different places throughout Skyrim that allows for easy sneaking. Common places are in the dark corners of rooms or in open town squares behind objects at night. Sneaking is easy, because it is a skill that you can set, go doing something else and come back to a much higher sneak level. I raised my sneak skill from level 25 to 100 in about 3 hours by doing the following:

• At the beginning of the game, after escaping Helgen, I followed the path towards Riverwood. When you are nearing the river, you will come across a set of three Standing Stones. You can chose one stone to activate and it will grant you some reward. Choose the Thief Stone, which grants the player the ability to learn Stealth skills 20% faster.

• Instead of heading down the path to Riverwood, head West along the river bank and you will find a Hunting Camp. This is not marked on the map as a location, but it is there. I used a sneak bow attack to kill the hunter outside his camp. By doing this, I activated some bandits from across the river on the other side of the bank. They appeared as red dots on my radar. 

• I realized that the bandits were not aware of my prescence on the other side of the river. Therefore, I activated sneak.

• My sneak skill immediately began to rise, so I just set my controller down and proceeded to surf the web. I checked in about 10 minutes and found that my sneak skill was already at level 40. I continued to surf the web, ate lunch, vacuumed, paid bills, etc.

• About four hours later, my sneak skill was at level 100.

• DISCLAIMER: By doing this, I caused my level to increase disproportionate to my other skills.  Meaning, my level was much higher than any of my combat, magic, or armor skills. I had to level up the other skills in order to match my level to become more proficient at combat, in order to successfully defeat some enemies or complete certain quests. Also, I was able to use the perks I gained from leveling up on sneak related perks, but not on many other skill perks. This really focuses your game play style towards the thieves guild or thievery in general. 

• You can perform this type of skill increase in many places. It works best to find relatively stationary enemies that are just on the edge of your radar.  

Welcome to the Adventure of a Lifetime

Bethesda Game Studios newest gaming giant, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, is an vast, immerse, and revolutionary multi-platform role-playing game giving hard core and casual gamers alike access to their inner hero/villain as they so chose. The fifth installment of the Elder Scrolls series brings hours of cutting edge graphics and game play to the gamers' fingertips. Bethesda left no stone unturned (literally) when designing Skyrim and, as a huge fan, I applaud Bethesda's efforts to make the most realistic fantasy RPG on the market. The gaming world will no longer be the same. 

The purpose of this blog is to be a place of all things Skyrim, where fans of Skyrim can come and share in the glory of Skyrim's grandness. Everything from hints and tricks to general observations will be available to those that wish to get the most out of Skyrim. 

Skyrim really is a gamer's utopia. I guarantee hours of your life will evaporate without you even realizing it.

The world of Skyrim awaits.....