

On the other hand there’s also Random Alternate Start, which true to it’s name will plop you down in one of over 300 randomly selected starting locations along with a small kit of supplies.

While it can be a bit buggy getting you to Helgen to start the main quest, it does a great job of setting you up for a new adventure with a bit of ready made backstory.

There were plenty more options to go back and start again with as well, like ones to place you in the starting role for any of the guilds, or a shipwreck victim. Speaking with the statue will yield several options on where your character can begin their story. This mod sets you up in a little cabin where you make all the character choices before leaving you to the mercy of your small, inescapable room with a bed, skeleton, desk, and a Statue of Mara. Fortunately the Steam Workshop has a few modders that have taken the skip Helgen request to a bit of an extreme, completely new starting stories and locations!įirst up is a mod known as Alternate Start – Live Another Life. With Hearthfire now out for the PC as well I thought it would be the time to go back and playthrough again, and found myself exactly in that predicament. After you’ve done it a few times though, it looses some luster, and you’ve probably found yourself wanting to just skip to whatever adventure you have planned for that character. Are you sick of riding on the cart to Helgen at the start of Skyrim? Sure it’s a great story setting, and Bethesda was even kind enough to not kill off celebrity voice actor Michael Hogan aka Colonel Saul Tigh like they did with Patrick Stewart in the first five minutes of Oblivion.
