I'm reading, not playing. Why? Coz the save files are incredibly gay; seems now i've completed with one char and got another a long way through db quests its become stupidly laggy, so every time I try playing I get pissed off at it.

really? Mine's not laggy. And I have nearly 600 saves. I'll take a screenie sometime if you wanna see. Can't you just delete your unneeded saves?

They're under C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\My Documents\My Games\Oblivion\Saves

you'd rather not play the game then turn grass off?

Anyway, I'm starting to get a bit burned out. I think I may take a bit of a break with SiN or something. What's sad is there's still SO much to do.

Yeah, I had that happen a few times too. In Daggerfall I used a 'regular' book (could get it in bookstores, find it, anything) to know the exact dates of all the Daedra princes' appearances so that I could summon them in the mages guild. If you summoned on a wrong date you'd piss them off and just get attacked by two bad-ass daedra. I thinkt the book was called 'The Invocation of Azura'.

It just felt really cool to come in the mages guild during a stormy and rainy night and start invoking the daedra princes...good stuff.

The entire lore of the TES is pretty good, but in the course of the years beth has been contradicting itself a bit which is never good. The Warp of the West (the outcome of the Dragon Break) is one of those work-around things.

I agree that the fence thing is way stupid. If you fence 10 items worth 200 gold to Ongar you're pretty much settled for the rest of the questline. Not really a challenge. But the thieves guild has some nice quests...not as nice as the DB, however.

And yes...the uber staff from the mages guild is truly uber. Only works on humanoids tho.

yea, I've still got a bit to go, I think. The DB quest was awesome... the statue at the end in it's 'evil' configuration is just amazing. I'm just sad it's all over with. Now I just get a paltry sum once a week.

Aren't the effects of all primary stats capped at 100 or 110 or something?

And can't help you on the skirt or the gloves man....maybe you could check the Construction Set just to have a look if they even exist in-game. Could spare you some trouble.