I did this tons to earn a bunch of money in vanilla Skyrim and then bought a bunch of stuff to exploit the enchanting and made a necklace that increased health by Minus 1 million 4 hundred thousand 1 hundred and 23 and then made some gauntlets that increased unarmed damage by insane amounts and then I just ran around with a necklace and gauntlets nothing else and absolutely destroyed everything
I've actually done this for a mage character. I cut wood to pay for magic training lessons and spell tomes, learning magic the honest way. I ended up at 90 to all magic schools. My dragonborn was basically a well trained student of the College of Winterhold with "years" of diligent lessons and hard work.
@@misfortunate116Well, you can basically level up your skills by paying npc trainers. I loved wandering skyrim from towns to towns to find the right mentor for the skills I wanted to grow, paying them with septims from woodcuting. I ended up in the college in Winterhold after a while, where the teachers can level up your skills to the most advanced level, which a local mage or healer can't do. Usually you level up magic by using it in combat or wathever, but I decided to only pay for the lessons, to mimic a student learning magic by studying hard. Since my character was from humble origins, I decided that my job to pay the lessons was woodcuting. That was a lot of fun and truly rewarding.
@@TOBY-jy7bzYes you do, but selling wood to merchants instead of special npcs (innkeepers and lumberjacks) level up your speech. It's the same thing when you are buying stuff, like food or spell tomes.
I'd absolutely love a campaign like this! I'm gonna have to make a note of that for a future casual campaign. Currently we're doing a homebrew mideval "rise to power" "raga to riches" campaign. I want my players to end as the richest, poorest, strongest, or weakest and be know for their own deeds and as a group. Wanna become a king after you've defeated the bbeg? Well then, you're adventure isn't iver! Choose your royal path: tyrant, benevolent, pacifist, warlord, etc. And embark. Control your kingdom and make choices that may affect your kingdom My plan is for this to be a forever campaign that changes with time and integrates different ideas and other campaigns, as long as it matches the vibe and fits within my systems and the world rules
One of the ideas I have is a Kobold who wants to actually live to be 120 years old and start a sort of adventurer tavern. His reason for traveling is to better his brewing and cooking skills. His main method of making coin with the party? Helping out the local tavern and filling the party's belly. He might dabble as a ranger or rogue but he knows what his end goal is: to retire with his own business and live a long life and raise many a kobold baby to be happy and safe
Reminds me of my hunter character. All he does is hunt animals, sells the pelts or crafts crafts armor. Also on survival, he also is an avid fisherman. He spends a lot of time around Whiterun. Sometimes he has to defend himself, but actively avoids combat if he can. He has a house just outside of whiterun and lends a hand to the farms when he can for extra coin. It’s really fullfilling to me for some reason. When he finally wanted to venture out and build his own home, he traveled to Falkreath, it was a dangerous journey, but he evebtually made it, and took a job from the Jarl. He wasn’t a fan of mercenary work, but took the job with prospect of owning land of his own. He snuck is way to a mine in the region and stealthily took out the bandits. He returned to the Jarl and was finally able to own Land of his own.
I absolutely love these calmer RP stories. You have a good character and a clear goal. There’s so much more to Skyrim than archery and dragons and you have found a lovely niche. Keep up the good work!
@@thf1933Maybe modders should add some mods for that: - Stormcloaks raid the village. - Legion troops turn up to demand supplies with veiled threats. - Thalmor agents seize a neighbor. - A living god wearing the bones of a dragon turns up, steals a bucket and gets in a fight with a chicken which escalates into him and his axecrazy housecarl slaughtering the whole village in semi-self defense as all your mild mannered neighbors go into a frothing berserker rage to protect said chicken... Just another beautiful day in Skyrim!
@@antiochus87ya I think we'd all appreciate it if you got off the TH-cam comments ...and went and worked on the next elder scrolls 😊. This is exactly the kind of thing id love to see. Hundreds or thousands of random encounters. Bandits, politics, drama...yes please
If you're going to go to riften you should get At Your Own Pace Thieves Guild so that Brynjolf wont ask if you've never done a hard days work for all that coin youre carrying
Imagine if this is what the dragon born actually did 😂. Warns the jarl finds out hes dragon born and says "im not fighting dragons for a living lmao 🤣".
Honestly it's what many heroes of the ancient world (often generals and even some heads of state) actually did in between in between their tours of duty
I did something similar for my great pub-crawl of Skyrim. My character would visit a new tavern every night, and make his travelling (read: drinking) money by working at the mills along the way.
Glad other people do this stuff. I have a character who only hunts. Elk, deer, goats, foxes, wolves, even a couple of mammoths. I worked up enough money to buy one of the hearthfire homes.
These vids of yours got me inspired to try these types of playthroughs on my own game. With the help of mods adding jobs, favors and a ton of random encounters, it's amazing how much more immersive it is to just playing as an ordinary citizen or plain adventurer making a living and working towards a nice goal instead of becoming a living demi-god.
@@daydreemurr8227 Check out: Skyrim Jobs mod Jobs of Skyrim Missives Notice Board Extended Encounters The first two are separate mods that add things like poaching, assassin contracts and even tavern work plus way more Missives and Notice Board give you witcher 3 style boards in the hold capitals and smaller villages that give you a variety of contracts, you'll also get adventurer/mercenary npcs who can pick up contracts on their own and you can talk to them to help them on the job Extended Encounters adds way more random encounters and immersive scenarios like more wandering traders, mercenaries and even guards attacking bandit camps
@@daydreemurr8227 These were all the mods I used when I had the Xbox. Also check out one of the Live Another Life mods that let you start somewhere else in the world skipping Helgen.
Thanks for the slice of peace, chill skyrim run, no OP character, no obscene challenge run. Just a dude trying to make the best he can with the skills he has.
Mmmm, edible mushrooms he says. As he picks Mora Tapinellas, one of the three ingredients to make the most efficient damage health and paralysis poison.
As a roleplayer of many games who genuinely loved immersion. Your channel and these videos I beg you, please do more of. It is so fun seeing people live out their lives.
I’m actually doing an alchemy build right now. Basically a farmer and gatherer just farming and foraging to make and sell potions. I’m actually enjoying it as I’ve never done an alchemy build before.
I now his struggels, i am a Skooma dealer for five years now. Good profits, if there would not be this damn dragons attacking me all the time while i am on my smuggling trips.
Just like the fisherman video, this is just so easy to turn on and chill with. Love the game ambience and always have, but now I get to enjoy it with little to no conflict! Just the daily life of this average man living in skyrim lol! Honestly super fun to watch.
I did something like this just playing as a hunter, selling pelts and meats to the vendors before upgrading my equipment and towards the end venturing more and more into the hostile lands. Mods made it amazing, def a fun way to play.
I hope they work on the "Honest work" mechanic for the next game, at the start of my runs I like role-playing just as an average person and that-s hard in Skyrim :( .
I think Douglas should still have the Sundas off You know, to go out and fish, or maybe even do a hunting trip for some meat. Not for coin, but for the meat to eat, and Leather to use as clothing. Would not be to far fetched to at least have a fishing trip once a week, to have him unwind from his bleak day to day life. Still in character, it could be his hobby. Just do it only on Sundas. Or every second sundas, depending on your timescale adjustment. Also: Try out the "Faiths of Skyrim" mod. It has so many deitys to chose as your god. Zenithar would be a really good fit for trade and work based RP characters. The mod could really perk up your RP storys since there is literally a god for any type of character
I've seen one of the clearest skies on earth. Death Valley in the valley itself during the off season. No tourists meant no light sources of any kind, perfectly clear skies with no dust nor weather. I looked up at the night sky at 0300 (3am) while resting on my motorcycle, and was struck utterly speechless. The darkest and clearest sky in the US, and one of the darkest and clearest skies in the world. The majesty was truly indescribable. The game doesn't even compare.
Love the role-play series. Glad you started life as a woodcutter. You’ve inspired me to try and doing a lot of these types of play through on my own game. I’ve been a subscriber of yours for three years and you always find new role-play ideas for me to try out. Thank you for the video.
@@JacobyWakeby no problem. You provide me with a lot of play through ideas and different ways to see the game. Definitely keep going with your life as a series. I would love to see you return, or start a new version of life as a Lord. There is a new mod that allows you to become the. Jirl of Ivarstead.
Ever consider life as a giant for a potential future series or stand alone episode? I’ve seen some neat mods that would be great for role playing as a giant in Skyrim.
This is so relaxing to watch. One of my favorite things about Skyrim and the Fallout games is just getting immersed in the world and spending hours doing things that don’t progress the story at all and only matter to me
I really wish there were more fantasy life sim/RPG games out there were you just play as like a merchant, tradesmen or whatever in a comfy fantasy world.
See, if you were playing like a true Nord, you'd kill the first elf you find, and steal his land, house and woman. You'd have your own lumber empire before noon, even if it meant you couldn't get archery lessons anymore.
Ahh, playing video games through you my friend. And now, apparently, making an honest living as a woodcutter through you too. Thank you for the peaceful and consistent content my friend, continue the great work! You are appreciated, beyond just your content, and your channel provides more than you know for so many.
Been playing Skyrim since it released over a decade ago, beat the game countless times, still haven't found or killed these dragons people tell me about, but my Wyvern kill count is close to Genocide limits, my Monster Hunter character would be proud.
There's quite a beautiful message that comes with this sort of video. Skyrim doesn't have the best story, or the best combat, it's not the most well-crafted game by a long shot and after you play for a long time it can get a bit repetitive. Once you're the Dragonborn, the Head of the Thieves' Guild, the Archmage of Winterhold, Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, Master Vampire/ultimate vampire hunter of the Dawnguard, bearer of all daedric artifacts, slayer of Alduin and the superior to Miraak... it can feel a bit void, empty, pointless. But then you see someone who decided to not play as any of those things, he's just a one-eyed woodcutter with a dream, and with a few mods and a funny video idea he's out here doing this sort of chill yet unexpected run that explores such an absolutely minuscule fraction of this game, making it the center piece of your gameplay and making a character whose whole purpose is that. And it works, thousands of people are watching this because this resonates with us even though we likely never played the game this way and never will. That's the magic of Skyrim, it's the opposite of "less is more," it has so much stuff that would feel pointless to 90% of players but just adds that little bit of flavor to the whole world, to incentivize roleplaying. Sorry for the rambling, I was about to write even more than I already did but I caught myself in the middle of it and stopped before this turned into a massive essay no one sane would ever willingly read. I was just getting kinda cynical with Skyrim after all these years, I've played many games that I still believe are much better than this, and while I became quite critical of the game, I could never bring myself to actually dislike it, nor could I ever put into words why I still actually loved it so much aside from things like nostalgia, bringing me to kinda deny my love Skyrim without really knowing why. This video helped me rediscover my reason to like this game, and for that I thank you. It's also really relaxing to watch you play this way, it brings me a strange kind of joy in watching the simplicity of your character's humble life, kinda like for the couple minutes I'm watching this man cut and sell wood to get his windmill everything is right in the world.
So glad TH-cam decided to randomly show me this video. With a game like Skyrim I feel like I've seen so many different challenge videos, or heavily modded playthroughs, or speedruns or what have you but this is completely new and refreshing. At first glance I didn't expect it to be entertaining at all but I'm glad I gave it a shot. Looking forward to seeing more
Legend and rumor has it on the day Douglas Blackthorn lost his eye he took it well and did not make a sound. What I’m trying to say is Douglas Blackthorn is one tough son of a bitch.
this is my first time watching one of your videos and it's giving me massive nostalgia from 2011-2013 let's plays. people just talking and making things up as they go without much editing... something like og yogscast
I just wished it didn’t stop every 3 strikes and went on forever like the stone and clay. Then I could chop wood while I go make a sandwich or something
I actually have quite a few playthroughs where I start off like this, I start off wandering skyrim, looking for work in lumber Mills and mines, fishing and hunting as side hustles. Just exploring and living in the world, eventually I'll take missions to deliver things, which will be my first introduction to combat, I'll learn how to defend myself decently on the road while doing stuff. Then eventually I'll move into mercenary work. And then pick up the more major quest lines from there. Instead of making a backstory for my character, I actively play and role play the backstory of my character before he becomes adequate enough to save the day, and rise to the prophecy. 😅 Ultimately though, videos like this and the playthroughs I'm describing always make me wish that Skyrim had a more hardcore survival mode right off the get-go. Like I wish that was standard practice for bethesda, because when you actually get a really nice mod list or something like fallout 4 survival, where a few mods can just make a world of difference, you start to see the amazing potential to fully get immersed in living day by day in the worlds that Bethesda creates. It even got one of my friends to fully enjoy the building of fallout 4, I recommended him two mods as well as the survival mode, and he finally enjoyed building bases and expanding. Survival mode with a few rebalances got someone that hated building to like it. So to me that stands as a testament to the power of survival modes being a gateway to fully appreciate a game, it can be just what you need to translate something that you don't enjoy, to something you do enjoy.
I look forward to every single video and character you do. I laugh out loud at your humour and I have learned how to do some things with my characters from watching your videos. Please keep on doing what you're doing, I love them.
I just wanna say that I would watch any video you make! Even if you redid some older videos, did a regular playthrough, a playthrough the way you wanted, or life as well…whatever! You’re videos are entertaining off your personality not what you do in the videos! Thank you for what you do and always trying to improve your content, i truly appreciate it.
Another promising series has began! Taking a brief break after completing Life as a Miner, before I start watching the Life as a Lord series. Your series were fun and interesting, and it has been my constant source of entertainment for the past few weeks. So far I've finished Alchemist, Healer, Normal Life, Vigilant and Miner. Left Fisherman halfway cause I can't get over Darkheetus' death and Merchant still in the holds. Thank you very much for the fun, wonderful videos! Looking forward for more series to come!
I did a similar chilled character. He was a hunter/fisherman nomad. He never crafted, always bought what he needed by selling the pelts and fish he gathered. He avoided combat with anything that wasn't an animal or fish, if he got attacked he would attempt to avoid/runaway first and ONLY defend himself if they left him no choice. A bow, some arrows, and a fishing pole are all the weapons and tools he used. Moved from hold to hold every 5 in games days and only went into town when his inventory was almost full to sell his goods. He had to sleep every night and eat 3 meals a day. I used the free creation club content for the tents, backpack, and survival mode but thats all. No mods, it was actually really relaxing and fun to not worry about all the quests the game shoves down your throat and just enjoying the simplicity of the game
I do enjoy watching these slower, chill, rp videos. It's nice to filter them in giving me a choice if I want adventure or something to sit down and get lost in Skyrim and the RP.
@Jackob Wakeby i might be wrong but i think you can refil the empty winebottles with river water and boil them. You wouldnt necessarily have to make a waterskin if so.
I used to watch your videos back when you made the first Life as a Beggar series. I love your commentary and always wondered what you were going to roleplay as is the next series. Something I thought was funny was if you played as a riekling. I have no clue how you would set it up but I always thought that if you did a series like that, it would be amazing and I wouldn't be able to look away from the screen.
I used to love doing this starting a new character. Spend about a day or two RPing as a woodcutter in Riverwood to get enough funds to buy some adventuring equipment before setting out. Something so peaceful about a small logging village and being able to make gold with hard work.
One thing i love about these kinds of videos is that no matter what you do your character is *still* the dragonborn. And the implication that you could be the chosen hero and just never learn about your destiny because you spent your life chopping wood is funny in a cosmic sense
I'd love to see more of this character! These calmer series' are so enjoyable and peaceful, love them :D Maybe some of his backstory is coming in a future episode?
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Of all the things you can do, you do this.
Of all the things I can watch, I watch this.
Fr
This goes so hard fr fr
I’m gonna need an employment survey after this
At least it ain't furry smut 🤷
I was thinking this as I clicked on the video
My unemployed depressed ass gets great joy out of watching stuff like this 😂
I hate to admit this is how I used to play skyrim when I was 7 and scared of fighting
Dude I still play skyrim like this sometimes
I did this tons to earn a bunch of money in vanilla Skyrim and then bought a bunch of stuff to exploit the enchanting and made a necklace that increased health by Minus 1 million 4 hundred thousand 1 hundred and 23 and then made some gauntlets that increased unarmed damage by insane amounts and then I just ran around with a necklace and gauntlets nothing else and absolutely destroyed everything
Ok, I'm feeling old af now
Nothing wrong with that. Try not to be so insecure.
Perfectly valid way to play. Games are made to be enjoyed, so you're playing right as long as you're enjoying the game :D
It ain’t much, but it’s honest work
Rest in peace for the farmer from that meme
I've actually done this for a mage character. I cut wood to pay for magic training lessons and spell tomes, learning magic the honest way. I ended up at 90 to all magic schools. My dragonborn was basically a well trained student of the College of Winterhold with "years" of diligent lessons and hard work.
How?
A mage with hands so calloused, no-one would believe they were a mage.
@@misfortunate116Well, you can basically level up your skills by paying npc trainers. I loved wandering skyrim from towns to towns to find the right mentor for the skills I wanted to grow, paying them with septims from woodcuting. I ended up in the college in Winterhold after a while, where the teachers can level up your skills to the most advanced level, which a local mage or healer can't do. Usually you level up magic by using it in combat or wathever, but I decided to only pay for the lessons, to mimic a student learning magic by studying hard. Since my character was from humble origins, I decided that my job to pay the lessons was woodcuting. That was a lot of fun and truly rewarding.
@@arraelle7453 but don't you need to actually level up for every 5 lessons? You would still need to level the normal way
@@TOBY-jy7bzYes you do, but selling wood to merchants instead of special npcs (innkeepers and lumberjacks) level up your speech. It's the same thing when you are buying stuff, like food or spell tomes.
I love these types of videos!The peacefulness and no dragons or enemies around.
Same!!!!
so wholesome and chill
if you never go to Bleak Falls Barrow, there aren't any Dragons 😌
@@poolhall9632 yup
Should have been in survival for eating and sleeping
“Skyrim is in danger. Somehow, the dragons returned”.
Dragonborn who’s been in hiding for ten years:
Makes sense, a lot of heroes do not want to take on the role, they just wanna be like everyone else.
*Spots a dead man* “oh no..”(immediately starts searching his pockets). Such a Skyrim player thing to do 😂
'Oh no, anyway' - Jeremy Clarkson 😂
'Oh no, anyway'- Jeremy Clarkson 😂
_Everyone_ in Skyrim does it.
I see youve been drawn to the allure of virtual timber.
Now I'm wondering if my D&D group would play a game in which everyone is just an honest tradesperson.
I tried it, apparently being a bartender wasn't good enough. My players wanted to be mass terrorists.
@@Paleolithic_footageD&D really brings out a lot of suppressed desires in people
I'd absolutely love a campaign like this! I'm gonna have to make a note of that for a future casual campaign. Currently we're doing a homebrew mideval "rise to power" "raga to riches" campaign. I want my players to end as the richest, poorest, strongest, or weakest and be know for their own deeds and as a group. Wanna become a king after you've defeated the bbeg? Well then, you're adventure isn't iver! Choose your royal path: tyrant, benevolent, pacifist, warlord, etc. And embark. Control your kingdom and make choices that may affect your kingdom
My plan is for this to be a forever campaign that changes with time and integrates different ideas and other campaigns, as long as it matches the vibe and fits within my systems and the world rules
One of the ideas I have is a Kobold who wants to actually live to be 120 years old and start a sort of adventurer tavern. His reason for traveling is to better his brewing and cooking skills. His main method of making coin with the party? Helping out the local tavern and filling the party's belly. He might dabble as a ranger or rogue but he knows what his end goal is: to retire with his own business and live a long life and raise many a kobold baby to be happy and safe
@@WinterRose-el6nnThat's ambitious as fuck. Best of scheduling luck!
I can see him chopping wood with Wuuthraad by episode 8
lol
@@JacobyWakebyTo be honest, even a coin per piece of wood is overpriced.
one day we shall chop elves with Wuuthraad amen brother
@@fredfry5100 Said like an agent of big wood! That's exactly why the bears unionized!
@@antiochus87 🤨🤨🤨
Reminds me of my hunter character. All he does is hunt animals, sells the pelts or crafts crafts armor. Also on survival, he also is an avid fisherman. He spends a lot of time around Whiterun. Sometimes he has to defend himself, but actively avoids combat if he can. He has a house just outside of whiterun and lends a hand to the farms when he can for extra coin. It’s really fullfilling to me for some reason. When he finally wanted to venture out and build his own home, he traveled to Falkreath, it was a dangerous journey, but he evebtually made it, and took a job from the Jarl. He wasn’t a fan of mercenary work, but took the job with prospect of owning land of his own. He snuck is way to a mine in the region and stealthily took out the bandits. He returned to the Jarl and was finally able to own Land of his own.
Very cool character, have a played a similar character before :)
feel like i spent most of my time picking flowers and turning them into potions
This is strangely inspirational. It almost makes me want to get my own life together and do something with it.
Almost.
Try the trades buddy!
start with a chair
Start will putting your cell phone away.
Skyrim players in 2011 vs Skyrim players in 2024 be like:
2011: I'm going to be a stealth archer dragon-born demi god and save the world!
2024: I'm going to be a lumberjack
2011: I took an arrow to the knee!
2024: Tell me about it…
took a tree to me eye ;c
I started this game in 2022.
@@Dusdextroretirement is real
I absolutely love these calmer RP stories. You have a good character and a clear goal. There’s so much more to Skyrim than archery and dragons and you have found a lovely niche. Keep up the good work!
But it needs danger for peaceful things were valuable. Thats how it works I guess.
The yang to the yin ☯️@@thf1933
@@thf1933Maybe modders should add some mods for that:
- Stormcloaks raid the village.
- Legion troops turn up to demand supplies with veiled threats.
- Thalmor agents seize a neighbor.
- A living god wearing the bones of a dragon turns up, steals a bucket and gets in a fight with a chicken which escalates into him and his axecrazy housecarl slaughtering the whole village in semi-self defense as all your mild mannered neighbors go into a frothing berserker rage to protect said chicken...
Just another beautiful day in Skyrim!
@@antiochus87ya I think we'd all appreciate it if you got off the TH-cam comments ...and went and worked on the next elder scrolls 😊. This is exactly the kind of thing id love to see. Hundreds or thousands of random encounters. Bandits, politics, drama...yes please
@@jakecollin5499 Thanks, I would willingly do that if I had half a chance!
lost his eye due to "lumberjacking days" nah he's used to be an adventurer
But then he took an arrow to his knee
@@slimytoad0803 he's not married. the arrow was in his eyeball.
Hey those splinters are no joke
@@TheVampireAzriel reference to a voiceline from the npc guards in skyrim
@@slimytoad0803 I know "took an arrow to the knee" is an idiom meaning someone (usually a man) got married. :)
If you're going to go to riften you should get At Your Own Pace Thieves Guild so that Brynjolf wont ask if you've never done a hard days work for all that coin youre carrying
Will check this out
@@JacobyWakebyMod list where?
@@darklordmathias9405 in the description, where it belongs
@@darklordmathias9405description, I wouldn't recommend you use a lot of mods down there though, most of them are pretty outdated.
@@darklordmathias9405in the description
Imagine if this is what the dragon born actually did 😂. Warns the jarl finds out hes dragon born and says "im not fighting dragons for a living lmao 🤣".
Honestly it's what many heroes of the ancient world (often generals and even some heads of state) actually did in between in between their tours of duty
Honestly Douglas could probably use the Woodsman’s Friend axe given the name. Oh and maybe a mod for turning trees into piles of wood.
Terraria mode
I did something similar for my great pub-crawl of Skyrim. My character would visit a new tavern every night, and make his travelling (read: drinking) money by working at the mills along the way.
Glad other people do this stuff. I have a character who only hunts. Elk, deer, goats, foxes, wolves, even a couple of mammoths. I worked up enough money to buy one of the hearthfire homes.
These vids of yours got me inspired to try these types of playthroughs on my own game. With the help of mods adding jobs, favors and a ton of random encounters, it's amazing how much more immersive it is to just playing as an ordinary citizen or plain adventurer making a living and working towards a nice goal instead of becoming a living demi-god.
What mods did you use (if your on Xbox)? I have tried to do playthroughs like this before but it never felt right
Yeah, I'd be interested in that, too! I'd love to try that out - so tired of the obligatory adventuring
@@daydreemurr8227 Check out:
Skyrim Jobs mod
Jobs of Skyrim
Missives
Notice Board
Extended Encounters
The first two are separate mods that add things like poaching, assassin contracts and even tavern work plus way more
Missives and Notice Board give you witcher 3 style boards in the hold capitals and smaller villages that give you a variety of contracts, you'll also get adventurer/mercenary npcs who can pick up contracts on their own and you can talk to them to help them on the job
Extended Encounters adds way more random encounters and immersive scenarios like more wandering traders, mercenaries and even guards attacking bandit camps
@@daydreemurr8227 These were all the mods I used when I had the Xbox. Also check out one of the Live Another Life mods that let you start somewhere else in the world skipping Helgen.
@@azrani2023 Xbox or PC?
Thanks for the slice of peace, chill skyrim run, no OP character, no obscene challenge run. Just a dude trying to make the best he can with the skills he has.
Mmmm, edible mushrooms he says. As he picks Mora Tapinellas, one of the three ingredients to make the most efficient damage health and paralysis poison.
Ah, yes! The Saga of the Wandering Woodcutter must continue!
As a roleplayer of many games who genuinely loved immersion. Your channel and these videos I beg you, please do more of. It is so fun seeing people live out their lives.
More please. This is so much more interesting than any of the challenges I’ve seen. Just a man and his axe trying to make his way in the world.
This is how I played Skyrim when I was 8 and my parents constantly teased me for it lol
Yeah I remember telling a teacher the same thing, teased me too haha
I’m actually doing an alchemy build right now. Basically a farmer and gatherer just farming and foraging to make and sell potions. I’m actually enjoying it as I’ve never done an alchemy build before.
01:40 I was actually expecting you to say “now his goal is not just to simply earn money, but to have his revenge, as he hates trees ever since” xD
I now his struggels, i am a Skooma dealer for five years now. Good profits, if there would not be this damn dragons attacking me all the time while i am on my smuggling trips.
Just like the fisherman video, this is just so easy to turn on and chill with. Love the game ambience and always have, but now I get to enjoy it with little to no conflict! Just the daily life of this average man living in skyrim lol! Honestly super fun to watch.
Honestly....who in their right mind would place a tent near a LOUD waterfall.
I need that green noise to sleep
i have a massive tinnitus... i'd do it just to not hear it😂
@@Bryan-v6ssomeone say my name?
Someone in A Quiet Place.
I did something like this just playing as a hunter, selling pelts and meats to the vendors before upgrading my equipment and towards the end venturing more and more into the hostile lands. Mods made it amazing, def a fun way to play.
I hope they work on the "Honest work" mechanic for the next game, at the start of my runs I like role-playing just as an average person and that-s hard in Skyrim :( .
If you wanna die drink when he says humble! Love your vids man! More please.
I think Douglas should still have the Sundas off
You know, to go out and fish, or maybe even do a hunting trip for some meat. Not for coin, but for the meat to eat, and Leather to use as clothing.
Would not be to far fetched to at least have a fishing trip once a week, to have him unwind from his bleak day to day life.
Still in character, it could be his hobby. Just do it only on Sundas. Or every second sundas, depending on your timescale adjustment.
Also: Try out the "Faiths of Skyrim" mod. It has so many deitys to chose as your god.
Zenithar would be a really good fit for trade and work based RP characters.
The mod could really perk up your RP storys since there is literally a god for any type of character
This has to be the most relaxing Skyrim gameplay I’ve ever seen. I love this.
life as a mill worker seems like a good miniseries.
This man is playing Skyrim like it's Runescape
99 woodcutting
Do more indeed. Douglases hard work must be rewarded
I've seen one of the clearest skies on earth. Death Valley in the valley itself during the off season.
No tourists meant no light sources of any kind, perfectly clear skies with no dust nor weather.
I looked up at the night sky at 0300 (3am) while resting on my motorcycle, and was struck utterly speechless.
The darkest and clearest sky in the US, and one of the darkest and clearest skies in the world.
The majesty was truly indescribable. The game doesn't even compare.
That's awesome. Funnily enough one of my dreams is to go on a motorcycle trip across the US, would be cool to ride through The Mojave desert.
Love the role-play series. Glad you started life as a woodcutter. You’ve inspired me to try and doing a lot of these types of play through on my own game. I’ve been a subscriber of yours for three years and you always find new role-play ideas for me to try out. Thank you for the video.
Thanks for sticking around!
@@JacobyWakeby no problem. You provide me with a lot of play through ideas and different ways to see the game. Definitely keep going with your life as a series. I would love to see you return, or start a new version of life as a Lord. There is a new mod that allows you to become the. Jirl of Ivarstead.
Ever consider life as a giant for a potential future series or stand alone episode? I’ve seen some neat mods that would be great for role playing as a giant in Skyrim.
I would LOVE to see a run like this!
Please no giant seggs mods
Somehow you made the most boring Skyrim task entertaining xD I would love to see more of this character.
The bedrolls right outside of town are for beginning characters. The beds in the Inns are for tourists, you're a resident. 😉
This is so relaxing to watch. One of my favorite things about Skyrim and the Fallout games is just getting immersed in the world and spending hours doing things that don’t progress the story at all and only matter to me
I really wish there were more fantasy life sim/RPG games out there were you just play as like a merchant, tradesmen or whatever in a comfy fantasy world.
Yep that would be awesome! For now, with the right mods Skyrim is the best we have
Was born to save the world and slay alduin the world eater, but chose being a wood cutter that's a man of conviction right there
See, if you were playing like a true Nord, you'd kill the first elf you find, and steal his land, house and woman. You'd have your own lumber empire before noon, even if it meant you couldn't get archery lessons anymore.
Faendal will have it coming if he keeps up with his nonsense
Throwback to when AFK woodchopping was one of the popular ways to passively make money when the game first came out.
Ahh, playing video games through you my friend. And now, apparently, making an honest living as a woodcutter through you too. Thank you for the peaceful and consistent content my friend, continue the great work! You are appreciated, beyond just your content, and your channel provides more than you know for so many.
Facts 👌
Been playing Skyrim since it released over a decade ago, beat the game countless times, still haven't found or killed these dragons people tell me about, but my Wyvern kill count is close to Genocide limits, my Monster Hunter character would be proud.
There's quite a beautiful message that comes with this sort of video.
Skyrim doesn't have the best story, or the best combat, it's not the most well-crafted game by a long shot and after you play for a long time it can get a bit repetitive. Once you're the Dragonborn, the Head of the Thieves' Guild, the Archmage of Winterhold, Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, Master Vampire/ultimate vampire hunter of the Dawnguard, bearer of all daedric artifacts, slayer of Alduin and the superior to Miraak... it can feel a bit void, empty, pointless.
But then you see someone who decided to not play as any of those things, he's just a one-eyed woodcutter with a dream, and with a few mods and a funny video idea he's out here doing this sort of chill yet unexpected run that explores such an absolutely minuscule fraction of this game, making it the center piece of your gameplay and making a character whose whole purpose is that. And it works, thousands of people are watching this because this resonates with us even though we likely never played the game this way and never will. That's the magic of Skyrim, it's the opposite of "less is more," it has so much stuff that would feel pointless to 90% of players but just adds that little bit of flavor to the whole world, to incentivize roleplaying.
Sorry for the rambling, I was about to write even more than I already did but I caught myself in the middle of it and stopped before this turned into a massive essay no one sane would ever willingly read. I was just getting kinda cynical with Skyrim after all these years, I've played many games that I still believe are much better than this, and while I became quite critical of the game, I could never bring myself to actually dislike it, nor could I ever put into words why I still actually loved it so much aside from things like nostalgia, bringing me to kinda deny my love Skyrim without really knowing why. This video helped me rediscover my reason to like this game, and for that I thank you. It's also really relaxing to watch you play this way, it brings me a strange kind of joy in watching the simplicity of your character's humble life, kinda like for the couple minutes I'm watching this man cut and sell wood to get his windmill everything is right in the world.
So glad TH-cam decided to randomly show me this video. With a game like Skyrim I feel like I've seen so many different challenge videos, or heavily modded playthroughs, or speedruns or what have you but this is completely new and refreshing. At first glance I didn't expect it to be entertaining at all but I'm glad I gave it a shot. Looking forward to seeing more
This is now my new favorite thing I just started playing Skyrim for the first time , I love these cozy Skyrim videos
Thanks :)
Please do more of this. It's so relaxing
Will do!
I went from watching an actual bushcraft/survivalist video to this and it's hilarious how similar it is.
Legend and rumor has it on the day Douglas Blackthorn lost his eye he took it well and did not make a sound. What I’m trying to say is Douglas Blackthorn is one tough son of a bitch.
this is my first time watching one of your videos and it's giving me massive nostalgia from 2011-2013 let's plays. people just talking and making things up as they go without much editing... something like og yogscast
Haha yeah that's the kind of stuff I grew up watching
Videos like your help me get over my lonely life thank you ❤
To mix it up also be a farmer collecting cabbages and potatoes
Please do more of this. I definitely want to watch it.
I just wished it didn’t stop every 3 strikes and went on forever like the stone and clay. Then I could chop wood while I go make a sandwich or something
I love this! Thank you for this amazing series!
Thanks my man!
Most welcome! I just downloaded those mods, and cant wait to follow in your footsteps!@@JacobyWakeby
I actually have quite a few playthroughs where I start off like this, I start off wandering skyrim, looking for work in lumber Mills and mines, fishing and hunting as side hustles. Just exploring and living in the world, eventually I'll take missions to deliver things, which will be my first introduction to combat, I'll learn how to defend myself decently on the road while doing stuff. Then eventually I'll move into mercenary work. And then pick up the more major quest lines from there. Instead of making a backstory for my character, I actively play and role play the backstory of my character before he becomes adequate enough to save the day, and rise to the prophecy. 😅
Ultimately though, videos like this and the playthroughs I'm describing always make me wish that Skyrim had a more hardcore survival mode right off the get-go. Like I wish that was standard practice for bethesda, because when you actually get a really nice mod list or something like fallout 4 survival, where a few mods can just make a world of difference, you start to see the amazing potential to fully get immersed in living day by day in the worlds that Bethesda creates. It even got one of my friends to fully enjoy the building of fallout 4, I recommended him two mods as well as the survival mode, and he finally enjoyed building bases and expanding. Survival mode with a few rebalances got someone that hated building to like it. So to me that stands as a testament to the power of survival modes being a gateway to fully appreciate a game, it can be just what you need to translate something that you don't enjoy, to something you do enjoy.
Im doing Morrowind but Im just a loot goblin who frees slaves. Shoulda named myself Lincolnborn...
I look forward to every single video and character you do. I laugh out loud at your humour and I have learned how to do some things with my characters from watching your videos. Please keep on doing what you're doing, I love them.
Thank you!
I love all your videos, so cozy and immersive
Seeing this for the first time. I love this kind of humble-born vid!
I just wanna say that I would watch any video you make! Even if you redid some older videos, did a regular playthrough, a playthrough the way you wanted, or life as well…whatever! You’re videos are entertaining off your personality not what you do in the videos! Thank you for what you do and always trying to improve your content, i truly appreciate it.
Thank you, much appreciated my guy!
I've done this kind of playthrough at least twice in the many years. I enjoy it quite a bit. Very relaxing.
If I remember correctly, innkeepers give you 5 septims per firewood. Don't forget to check that ^^
The idea of buying skyrim just to stay in rivewood roleplaying as a lumberjack is funny af
This makes want to install Skyrim again😂 but i wouldn't be able to stop myself from going off adventuring and ending up as a skooma addict in Riften
Good, life is an adventure
I did a 20 hour role play as a wandering hunter wood cutter guy. Only sold meat and pelts and chopped wood when I occasionally went to town.
I love these calmer playthrough videos. I know I would like to see these videos more.
Another promising series has began!
Taking a brief break after completing Life as a Miner, before I start watching the Life as a Lord series.
Your series were fun and interesting, and it has been my constant source of entertainment for the past few weeks.
So far I've finished Alchemist, Healer, Normal Life, Vigilant and Miner. Left Fisherman halfway cause I can't get over Darkheetus' death and Merchant still in the holds.
Thank you very much for the fun, wonderful videos! Looking forward for more series to come!
Thanks for watching all my series' haha
Every one of my alternate start Skyrim playthrough starts with this or being a blacksmith apprentice.
“The tree split just wrong and took his eye out”
Me picturing a tree doing the splits so hard he went blind
I found this relaxing and entertaining. A good twist on regular Skyrim gameplay. I hope you'll be able to keep it interesting as you get wealthier.
What no TES6 for 13 years does to a mf
Absolutely I would love more of this fine gentleman! What a fantastic mill property mod I'm excited to see how it looks next time.
I did a similar chilled character. He was a hunter/fisherman nomad. He never crafted, always bought what he needed by selling the pelts and fish he gathered. He avoided combat with anything that wasn't an animal or fish, if he got attacked he would attempt to avoid/runaway first and ONLY defend himself if they left him no choice. A bow, some arrows, and a fishing pole are all the weapons and tools he used. Moved from hold to hold every 5 in games days and only went into town when his inventory was almost full to sell his goods. He had to sleep every night and eat 3 meals a day. I used the free creation club content for the tents, backpack, and survival mode but thats all. No mods, it was actually really relaxing and fun to not worry about all the quests the game shoves down your throat and just enjoying the simplicity of the game
what's strange is i was here today cutting wood for a few hours, stumbled here,
This has been one of my core relaxation type playthroughs since about 2014 great to see other people doing it
Yeah did it back in 2012 on xbox 360, no mods
I absolutely would love to see more of this guy.
I do enjoy watching these slower, chill, rp videos. It's nice to filter them in giving me a choice if I want adventure or something to sit down and get lost in Skyrim and the RP.
Never stop making these videos man they’re calm and soothing and easily draws me in💪🏾
sometimes you feel like you would live in skyrim vs the real world 😂
@Jackob Wakeby i might be wrong but i think you can refil the empty winebottles with river water and boil them. You wouldnt necessarily have to make a waterskin if so.
I know you can fill them at inns, need to check if you can fill them up in the river
I would love to see more of these! I really like the slow-paced gameplay.
Damn, this is really heckin peaceful and calm and beautiful, I love this so much, it is so relaxing ^^
I love it, i hope there is a lot more. Thank you.
I used to watch your videos back when you made the first Life as a Beggar series. I love your commentary and always wondered what you were going to roleplay as is the next series. Something I thought was funny was if you played as a riekling. I have no clue how you would set it up but I always thought that if you did a series like that, it would be amazing and I wouldn't be able to look away from the screen.
I used to love doing this starting a new character. Spend about a day or two RPing as a woodcutter in Riverwood to get enough funds to buy some adventuring equipment before setting out. Something so peaceful about a small logging village and being able to make gold with hard work.
I like the series idea it’s cozy and calm
One thing i love about these kinds of videos is that no matter what you do your character is *still* the dragonborn. And the implication that you could be the chosen hero and just never learn about your destiny because you spent your life chopping wood is funny in a cosmic sense
I'd love to see more of this character! These calmer series' are so enjoyable and peaceful, love them :D Maybe some of his backstory is coming in a future episode?
companion hasnt died. Thats seemingly a first lol
I love watching these videos while I work, they are so chill and keep me calm and focused!!!