It's one of my favorite games of all time. But choose a wrong setup and you're screwed. Don't get anything before heading out you're dead. Attack a peasant, dead. Go in that cave, dead. Get winded before doing anything, dead and frustrated.

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Brew a bunch of Fortify Intelligence potions, drink them, brew some more, repeat. Later make Fortify Strength potion, gives 1000+ strength for over an hour, one hit kill everyone.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

If I recall correctly you meet a guy who did that with agility (or was it acrobatics?) just after leaving Seyda Neen. It didn't end well for him.

(Also, I haven't played that damn game in probably over two decades; how the fuck do I still remember that town's name..? How the fuck do I still remember Fargoth..!?)

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Scroll of Icarian Flight. It boosted acrobatics. AFAIK, there's no way to make a spell or potion boosting a skill, just the 10 attributes. So the few jumping scrolls are all that you can get.

Also, a note about unexpected consequences. Boosting your strength to ridiculous proportions can cause your weapons to basically explode after one hit.

[–] Sombyr@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago

Is it even possible to forget Fargoth?

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

At that point, you might as well just use console commands to set your strength to 1000.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

Not the same thing. Abusing rules (or code bugs) is "cheating legally". You can also make a spell that does Soul Trap to self + fortify attribute and said attribute will be permanently fortified.