I owned the house with my last character but the quest never started. I waited around in the cemetery at all hours but nothing ever happened. I think for some people the quest worked perfectly fine but for a lot of people it would just never initiate.

AnneG -- I waited around the cemetery for a whole night, too, without anything happening. The next night I got bored and wandered over to the nearby market, and it turns out that was where the action was.

The second time through the game I had trouble with 2 quests in Markarth (The house of horrors and The Forsworn conspiracy). They just never started, although I had no trouble the first time I played the game.

Why do some items in chests have red letters? It hasn't affected my game but am just curious.

Red letters mean stolen item

Manx, I didn't know that for the longest timne...

You can take the stuff that is not in red

Manxman,are you sure it means stolen? I've seen red lettered items in other people's chests. some of my own stolen items are in black but say STOLEN at the top right hand.

Looney, you can take stuff if the E key says TAKE, or you can risk taking it if E says STEAL. I've taken red and black lettered items and it makes no difference. Any more opinions?

Yeah, same with me
You can take the red lettered stuff for your own use but you can only sell it to the fences of the Thieves Guild.

I've got a question on companions. Do they level along with you? I had the archer for the longest time, and now I can have a mage from Winterhold come along instead as a companion if I wish. Can you switch between them depending on what you need?

Yes, you can switch companions any time by telling them it is "time to part ways". They are always available later if you want them to join you again.

Yeppers, you can take the Red stuff that says steal, but you can't sell it and if you get caught with it, the gaurds take it, I believe. I'm a chicken...hate to get caught stealing.

Rowan, if you take red lettered items from other peoples chests then you have stolen them. The non red lettered items are free to take.

Stolen items in your inventory are not red lettered but as you say have the word stolen at the top right hand.

I steal things all the time and sell them to fences. If you are caught by the guards with stolen items they confiscate them and put them into a prisoners evidence chest in the dungeon. When you get out, you can re-enter the dungeon and stealthily loot the chest to get all your items back.

Ahhh manxman, I haven't found a fence yet so just don't bother stealing....not to mention I'm no good at it.

Hi Looney4labs, My character is an Orc Warrior with all the armour etc and level 56. My son suggested that I try the thieves guild quests. So I found a set of clothes (clothes, gloves, hat, ring, necklace, circlet) with 0 armour and no weight and then Enchanted them with Sneak, Pickpocket and Lockpicking (had perks that allow 2 enchantments per item). Now I am going wild sneaking around doing the Thieves Guild quests and pickpocketing. There is a fence at the Thieves Guild (Tonilla) who has 4000 gold for buying your stuff. Loads of fun considering I was using my Daedric Warhammer to get what I wanted before

All I can say is it's a good thing I have someone helping me. I keep getting stuck behind doors, and they run in and do the fighting for me. I sure hope they don't snitch on me!

I found a couple hot tubbing today! No, really!

Edit: I couldn't get Picasa to show it publicly, so I put it on my blog Skyrim hot tub

Unfortunately it won't show the link Anne!

I must admit I'm not very good at this game. I do fine again regular enemies, but boss fights, forget it. Although I enjoy the game I'm getting discouraged.

Is there any way of knowing the level of the bosses before you attempt them? I'm trying to recover the books for Winterhold from Fellglow Keep, and I just can't seem to kill the Caller. Does anyone know what a good level would be to fight her? I"m at 10, and have a helper from the College, but we still die.

JeanK, have you set the game difficulty to the lowest level? You can freely change the difficulty as many times as you like, so if you find a particular boss too hard, downgrade him.

Thanks, Looney, I'll do that! I have it set on what the game put me, which was, I think, one up from the lowest. Some of those bosses are pretty hard, while others I haven't had any problem with.

Once in a fight I accidently fired at my side kicks flame atronach and my sidekick started attacking me! I had to kill her, but then I reloaded the game to before that incident and kept her alive. What happens if one of them dies? Do people nag you about it?

I finished the main quest today. However, I am going to stay in Skyrim to explore all dungeons and caves that are not labelled as "cleared". I will probably also discover a few more areas that were missed before. I still want to find all 24 Barenzia stones. I have only 20 of the 24. I want to find all "shout" walls. I have 20 words but not all of them are complete with all 3 parts known. I haven't been married, and I haven't been labelled as master criminal yet. I guess I'm to good at getting away with my thieving and murderous deeds. I have also not completed all daedric quests. Don't even know which ones I'm missing. I guess I'll find out in my explorations.

Jean, there are 2 easier settings I think than the default. Son showed me that.

If you kill your side kick nothing happens though you will need a new one. I am the Queen of Saves though and when I kill one off, I just reload.

I had a fight where my Lydia attacked me too, but I think she was being charmed by a bad guy. I killed her and reloaded...took a differerant route the next time and was fine.

Rowan, Bravo!

Hi Jean and all. Sounds like you're having fun and I am too---still! I just wanted you to know that I too reload ALOT, not just when I accidentally kill a follower or friendly person, but anytime I've thought, "My God I have to go back and re-do that!"

Anyway, the last time I killed someone accidentally, I decided to try to resurrect them and it worked! Just do the ~ sign, type in resurrect then click the ~ again. Suddenly they will pop back up and man, when they do it makes me feel so relieved! lol!

Hugs and fun to all,
Tracy

Just got the game today and I've got trouble. The camera control is swimming badly and the WASD movement seems to be lagging. Does anyone have any advice about how to correct this? It's making me motion sick.
Thanks for the help!

Debra, I can't load my game right now, but I will load it in the morning and see if I can find any info. I know mine doesn't do that.

Is your game patched?

L4L, where do I get the latest 1.4 patch? I can't find it on the official site or The Patches Scrolls. I'm leery about using just any site.
Thanks for helping me with this. I appreciate it.
Edit:
I've got the Steam version and it's patched up to 1.4.12 (or 21 I've already forgotten)

When you're in the settings, is the icon chosen when the inside of it's filled in or just looks like an empty slightly tilted square? I've tried to find it in the manual but it doesn't say.
I'm trying to alter the settings to help with the super quick mouse problem and it says to turn off the XBox controller option. I don't know if by default it was on or off and since I've messed with the settings, I'm confused. Why can't things just say on or off lol.