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Khadgar42: I'm sorry, no offense intended, being pants on head retarded doesn't mean the same thing as mentally challenged people in my book.
But anyway you don't need any deep thought strategy of wised grumpy gamers to enjoy Oblivion. Especially while creating your character. You must be able to indentify with you character in the way you need. Thats all...
There are people playing as a Breton Fighter who got fed up with casting magic spells and picked up an axe to chop people's heads off, play the game you want to play.
Yeah, I guess. I can't wait for elder scrolls online.
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Khadgar42: Orc, in case of doubt always pick an orc.

My Orc Chef - Archmage was overpowered, and being a Mage is the least common class for orcs.
Your Orc may have been weak, but I bet his jaegerschnitzel was the the bomb.
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Khadgar42: There are people playing as a Breton Fighter who got fed up with casting magic spells and picked up an axe to chop people's heads off, play the game you want to play.
Maybe, that's why I gave up playing Oblivion. I always liked playing the Breton as a Fighter. Was that race meant to be a spell caster?
Post edited August 26, 2013 by jjsimp
it's Elder scrolls, you can make a fighter out of anything
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XYCat: it's Elder scrolls, you can make a fighter out of anything
what about a bunny rabbit?
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XYCat: it's Elder scrolls, you can make a fighter out of anything
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tinyE: what about a bunny rabbit?
Just keep it away from Licurg.
Pick whatever one you like the look of and roleplay them. The Elder Scrolls are pretty forgiving with your character creation choices, so have fun with it.
Redguard with blades is great. Honestly though TES is designed where everyone can be anything, the racial bonuses just give you a slight edge up front when all you're doing is fighting rats anyway.

Reguard's adrenaline rush is great in all three modern games though.
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XYCat: it's Elder scrolls, you can make a fighter out of anything
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tinyE: what about a bunny rabbit?
same thing as kitty cat or lizzy lizard
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jjsimp: Maybe, that's why I gave up playing Oblivion. I always liked playing the Breton as a Fighter. Was that race meant to be a spell caster?
I've actually been a big fan of Breton fighters in the TES games. They're a bit tougher to start out, but that's overcome easily enough once you start gaining skills and stats, and their innate magic resistance gives some much-needed protection against magic-using opponents (and makes it much easier to max out magic resistance with just a few items). I personally think the class the Bretons are best suited for is a spellsword, combining martial skills for offense with restoration, alteration, and mysticism for defense.
Too much nit-picking.

Your race doesn't matter except if you want an early advantage in certain classes. If you don't care for that extra advantage (more levels) then go the opposite way. Figure out what attributes belong to Block, Sword, Axe, Blunt, Repair, probably heavy armor, then throw your stats into everything outside of those. If you want early bonuses, then throw stats INTO the attributes modifying those abilities. If it comes down to several races, base it on the starting bonuses (Nords have resistance to Frost magics for example, most elves have bonuses towards magic, Kahjiit start with a couple of alteration spells, Argonion breath in water and have a couple others, so forth). After that don't worry and have fun.
Mod in a Dremora and play as it.
Why? Cause it ain't mainstream! :P
Orc, by far.

Of course I have my oblivion game modded to have COBL/Cobl races/hairs/eyes/rebalanced, which adds a ability to the orc called green heart, which regenerates HP very slowly on your character.