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Morrowind is all about cheesing the system. It's one of the few games that allow you to go full singularity.

How it works: You make a potion of intelligence. Drink it. Now you're more intelligent and would you look at that, the potency of said potion depends on your intelligence. So you make another one that boosts it even higher. Rinse and repeat until you have astronomical intelligence and then you brew a potion of strength that will last essentially forever and allows you to one punch a god.

Or you can make a potion of paralysis, drink it, and be stuck for years.

It's hilarious and I love it.

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Other stats also allow you to break physics over your knee:

Titanic strength will, yes, allow you to kill any enemy in a single attack. It will also, however, deplete your weapon's entire durability bar to do so.

Incredible, mind bending speed will allow you to break the speed force (most problematically on stairs or inclines), moving so fast that you blast through the world geometry and into the void beyond. (Playing on console with an analog controller that gave you more control over your movement speed was a godsend, here)

You can actually overflow the signed integers they used for stats and end up with negative intelligence doing that.

Don't ask me how I know.

100% one of the first things I'd do was make some shoes that had a permanent flight enchant... then use them extensively. Also learn the mark, recall, and the various intervention spells. Too much to carry? Mark, intervention, sell, recall, carry on.

The absolute first thing to do is get a resist magicka spell, and the boots of blinding speed!

For a new player the absolute first thing to do is walk north from the starting city -> investigate the falling wizard -> read the scroll because What Could Possibly Go Wrong -> Jump

And then reload the save or start a new game.

RIP Tarhiel. I'm sure his colovian fur helm kept many new players both warm and stylish in their early runs.

100 Jump for a second or two is my favorite (+ Slowfall ofc)

It was this way in oblivion to an extent too. I remember modding a frenzy spell to be on touch, for the quickest duration, but so I could maximize the AOE range. So I ended up with a spell that would cause massive riots and kill off basically all the NPCs in a give town. So I would just go town to town, decimating everyone who lived there, until basically all the quests are gone and the game becomes unplayable

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