Annoy The Annoying Arcane Scholars
Find various ways to annoy the scholars at the Arcane University. This includes but is not limited to:
Wearing necromancer robes. Pickpocketing their stuff. Throwing things at them while they are giving a lecture. Switch around books in the Mystic Archives and replace scientific books with other irrelevant ones. (For instance, take out every single book and replace them all with many copies of "The Lusty Argonian Maid") Completely trash their quarters, or even the Mystic Archives, by throwing around or using area effect spells. Constantly get in the scholars' way, especially while they are talking with another person. Constantly interrupt their conversations with other people.
Avoid Arrows!
Set the difficulty slider all the way to the hardest setting. Then get over 100% Reflect Damage and either Resist Magic or Spell Absorbtion. You are now immune to all attacks... except arrows. Since the difficulty is all the way to the right, you can only take a few arrow hits before you die. This can provide an interesting challenge for some characters.
To get 101% Reflect Damage, you will need:
1 Ring of the Iron Fist (gives 33%) 1 Necklace of Swords or Amulet of Axes (both give 33%) 1 Escutcheon of Chorrol (gives 35% when aquired at level 25+) To get 110% Resist Magic, you will need the following:
1 Mundane Ring (gives 50%) 3 enchanted with Resist Magic Transcendant Sigil Stones (each gives 20%) To get 104% Spell Absorbtion, you will need the following:
1 Sorcerer's Ring (gives 25 pts) 1 Greaves of Purity, Magebane Greaves or Mankar Camoran's Robe (all give 20 pts) 1 Helmet of the Mage (gives 14 pts) 3 enchanted with Spell Absorbtion Transcendant Sigil Stones (each gives 15 pts)
Ayleid Wells
There are 35 Ayleid Wells in Cyrodiil. Time yourself on how long it takes you to activate each one of them. Level up your speed a bit and try again. See how fast you can accomplish this task.
Become a True Master of Weapons
It's easy to reach skill 100 in Swords/Blunt/Combat etc. But do you really know how to fight with them? To truly test your skills with your weapons, set the combat difficulty slider all the way to the right, and enter the Imperial City Arena holding nothing but an unenchanted iron or steel weapon of your choice, a quiver full of arrows, and your fighting raiment. Do not use poisons or spells, other than to heal yourself. See exactly how proficient you are with the weapon of your choice in close combat.
Chapel climber
Get high Acrobatics, Restoration, and Athletics skills. Try to climb to the top of all the chapels in the major cities. Beginners can try Bruma or Anvil. Experts with maxed out stats can try Imperial City Temple District or Cheydinhal. Use spells to boost your Acrobatics skills for harder jumps.
Collecting
Oblivion is full of things to collect - cheese, wine, strawberries, bones, Skooma, etc.
For example, you can fit at least 600 bottles of wine and 50 cheeses in the secret room below Benirus Manor in Anvil.
WARNING: Very large collections can cause game lag and crashes due to an overload of to be rendered.
Armor
Go to every city and acquire, by one means or another, that city's city watch cuirass and shield. Make an entire collection. Display them all in one room for maximum effect, or have the corresponding armor placed in that city's house you bought. Here is a page with details on how to acquire each cuirass and shield.
Artifacts
Collect all of the game's unique artifacts as soon as you can. Find all of the Daedric Artifacts, legendary , and other truly unique things. A complete list of all of the artifacts can be found here.
Books
Find every book available in Cyrodiil and bring it to your home, making an entire library! Check here to make sure you get every book in the game!
Parchment
Parchment weighs absolutely nothing! It could be fun to individually drop hundreds of pieces of parchment in random places around Cyrodiil!
Skulls
Whenever you see a skull on the ground or anywhere pick it up, eventually you will have tons, then you can either put them all in a collection or you can make a scavenger hunt for someone else to search Cyrodiil and collect the skulls.
Others
There are limitless things you can collect. Ingredients, gems, arrows, staves, clothes, keys, and many others. Check on this page if you want to find the various types of you might want to collect.
Coming for you
In Oblivion, people walk around, like... actual people, and you can take advantage of that.
First, find a person, then wait about twenty four hours, or until they are gone.After they are gone, run around looking for them. You can reverse-pickpocket them bound armor, to make them stand out, or, for an extreme challenge, reverse-pickpocket bound armor, enchanted with chameleon, then try to find them!
Construction
Constructing can be fun. All you need are the right materials. Even though walls can be made from just about anything in the game, here are a few classic ideas to get started with.
Bricks
Ever notice how the south end of the wall around Benirus Manor in Anvil is incomplete? Well, there are "stone bricks" to be found in the game. For example, the Ayleid ruin Vilverin contains nine stone bricks, all of which are located in the first zone, at the bottom of the second of the three stairwells in that zone. Or, you can steal two from the Anvil Warehouse. Bricks can be duped through the Duplicate Glitch. Try creating a few hundred bricks, then stacking them to complete this wall, or to create your own ruin.
Paintbrushes
If you drop a paintbrush, it floats in the air in front of you, and doesn't fall to the ground. Get a paintbrush (it's a junk item found in random crates and barrels.) Then use the Duplicate Glitch to make a bunch of them. Find a high place that you want to reach (The outer walls of Bruma are a good beginner goal, for hardcore goals try the top of the White Gold Tower) and drop a paintbrush in front of you, then jump on top of it. Drop another paintbrush while you are standing on the first, and jump on top of that one. Continue this until you reach your goal. Once you get higher up and don't want to risk having to start over again, it's a good idea to save after every few jumps. You can also try to make bridges across water or chasms this way. To test it for strength, have an NPC follow you across.
This appears to have been fixed in the Playstation 3 Game of the Year Edition.1
Create your own Harbor!
After you get the White Stallion Lodge, you may notice a small boat moored in the river near the lodge. There is also an empty harbor there. Make this look like a real harbor by dropping an assortment of materials, clothes, food and objects on the empty harbor. Also drop an oar inside the boat to make it look more realistic!
Dive Rock Fun!
(No Adoring Fans, summoned creatures or other people were hurt in the making of this section...honest!) Note: You should save your game before trying many of these.
Get an entire city garrison behind you, run to Dive Rock, get your bow out, making sure you can paralyze them using poisons of paralysis, jump off Dive Rock and try to hit as many off as you can. Even better, get a massive scale spell and blast them all off. Kill people and drag them to dive rock! It's a hard thing to do, because you will have to get them all up there, but once up, you can use arrows or things like that to push the bodies off, and see them hopelessly fall into nothing. Go to the Arcane University and create a shock spell with area effect and extremely high damage and take the Adoring Fan to Dive Rock. Then blow him away! Take the Adoring Fan to Dive Rock and tell him to "Beat it kid, I don't need a fan." when you're at the edge. He will run right off the side of the cliff. Push summoned creatures from Dive Rock. It's really fun seeing a Daedroth fall! This also serves as a fun way to level up your Conjuration. Just summon something and push it off Dive Rock. Rinse and repeat. Get a horse, and turn on God mode. (This is especially fun if you have a mod such as Slof's Horses, that makes your horse unkillable.) Ride it up to the top of Dive Rock (or a tall mountain, such as the mountains along the northern edge of the world map), then jump or gallop off of the mountainside. The results of a long fall down the mountainside are simply spectacular! Also you can put the horse (usually with low health, Shadowmere can survive it)on the edge of Dive Rock and then walk into it to push it off the edge of the rock. the horse will hopefully not survive the small fall and continue to fall all the way down the hill, knocking into the nearby rocks on the way down in a clumsy roly-poly action, with spectacular rag doll effects. For more fun, why not try to find its body? Of course you don't want to do any of this without saving. Unless you hate your horse. Take Shadowmere to the top of Dive Rock and climb off of her. Then watch as her and The Horror Of Dive Rock battle it out! Sometimes Shadowmere will buck the Matron off the cliff and sometimes the Matron will knock Shadowmere unconscious and push her down the hill! If you are an expert of Blade/Blunt, you can use the mastery perk to knock people backwards off the mountain. The Camonna Tong thugs at Walker Camp do nicely. Punch one to make him follow you, then let him chase you up the mountain. When you knock him off it gives an effect like a cheesy action movie. Just take a leap of faith! It's almost addicting to kill yourself over...and over...and over again! Try to get your agility high enough to make it to the lake to the left.
Make sure you have a Paralysis effect (staff, spell, or poison) available and take a follower up to Dive Rock. Make your follower stand as close to the edge as possible and tell them to stay. Use Paralysis on your follower. In most cases, the person will fall backwards; if not, then try again! Get some paralysis potions (like 120 secs paralysis on self) then put it on God mode. Jump off Dive Rock, open your inventory and drink the potion. Voila! Perfect Rag doll!
Deer Hunting
Go into the wilderness with nothing but an iron bow and some arrows. See how many deer you can kill without spells, only archery.
Drowning NPCs
Quite simple. In Cheydinhal, complete the Mages Guild recommendation. Now, go up to a particularly annoying (non-Argonian) character, hit them and run towards the guild well (where you find Vidkun). Cast a Water Breathing spell, go inside and get out of their way. They will attempt to attack you, then realize they are drowning, try to swim through the ceiling and fall unconscious. When they wake up, they will 'sneeze', shoot backwards and float up again. Remember to save before, as the NPC could be very important. Guards work very nicely if you're not worried about a bounty.
Escaping From Cities
Basically, all you have to do is enter a city (Bravil and Anvil are good places to start), climb up the buildings until you are on the roof, then jump onto the city's outer wall, and then jump over it. You can also use paintbrushes to accomplish this. This will take a bit of practice as well as a high Acrobatics skill (You may have to be a master of Acrobatics, as well have to fortify Acrobatics to pull it off). When you have done this, there will be a partly developed world, some without a floor (but you can still run on it). Then, when you are bored, all you have to do is fast travel back to the city. I find that Bruma will work if you first jump on one of the beggar's houses, then keep going until you get to log cabins, continue to go along until the wall goes straight. There should be a log cabin with a chimney really close to the ramparts. Hop on and hop out.
The Arcane University is also relatively easy to escape--if you have full access to its interior in the first place. On the "main campus" accessible by Mage Guild members, there is a large circle of columns capped with a stone ring, standing between the Archmage's tower and the main university buildings. From the walkway around the tower, leap onto the stone ring atop the columns. From there, jump onto the roof of the university buildings. From there, you can jump over the wall.
There is a practical advantage to walking around the undeveloped game world you leap into. While everything is virtually featureless, you won't meet any obstacles or enemies. However, you can still discover places, such as caves, dungeons and villages. You can't see or explore them, but you will be alerted to their discovery and they will appear on your world map. If you are really bored, you could try to explore the entire game world this way. For more practical purposes, it is a safe way to explore the immediate area around a city.
Eternal Sleep
A fun way to disable NPC's is to enchant 3 zero-weight with constant Damage Fatigue and reverse pickpocket them onto NPC's. Mage's Hoods, Wrist Irons, and Bound Shields are perfect , seeing as how they don't alter the target's appearance drastically as Bound Armor (besides the shield) would, and few NPC's have equipped in the hand/wrist and head slots (the shield doesn't matter because it only shows when the wielder is fighting and the Bound Shield will be equipped because of its better quality). If you want to knock out guards and citizens with one or more of those slots filled, you may need bound gloves and helmets, because otherwise they will simply keep on their City Watch armor).
The target's Fatigue will drain away, and if you punch them when they have none left, they will be knocked unconscious (Chameleon armor or the Gray Cowl should be worn if you don't want a bounty). Their Fatigue doesn't regenerate, so they will stay asleep as long as you want them to. A simple Restore Fatigue spell will revive them and they can go back to their normal lives, all the while sporting a trendy hood and wrist irons.
This can be used as a punishment! If you're roleplaying as a god, and one particular person blasphemes, or doesn't believe in you, use this method to keep them trapped for all eternity, suspended in this state. It is a fate far worse then death.
Or this could be used as revenge! If you are the Gray Fox you could put Hieronymus Lex in some sort of a serious coma just from a punch!
Put a whole city to sleep or deal with Essential NPC's in a way that will stay! You could lead outdoor enemies to the Imperial City Waterfront District and collect sleeping people and monsters on one of the ships or in the lake! Try making a large pile of dead bodies. Be creative!
Eternal Spell Effect
This is easy and fun to do! First equip an item with a shock, frost, or fire damage effect or cast a self spell. Then, while you are burning, turn on god mode with tgm and watch yourself look like you are being burned/electrocuted/freezing to death! In first-person your hands have the effect on them (very nice on Very High detail) so you can enchant your weapon to make it look like you're freezing or burning people when you hit them! Very nice for people using the Elemental God style of roleplaying!
Exploration Challenge
If you're really bored and just can't get enough dungeon crawling, start from Anvil and explore every dungeon on the map. You don't have to wipe out every single one, that gets old after a while. Even if you don't finish, you'll be able to warp instantly to anywhere from Anvil to wherever you stopped with hardly any time spent wandering around staring at the compass and glancing up at the screen wondering where all the roads went.
You could also "hike" across Cyrodiil, choosing one place to start and walking from one city to another using the roads. It's a chance to enjoy the scenery and have some fun fighting enemies that appear en route. You may also find many ingredients and loot on the way, and this can be sold as you arrive at each new city along the way.
Extreme Acrobatics
For this little time waster, you should optimally have at least Journeyman Restoration skill, 100 Intelligence & Willpower, and AT LEAST 75 Acrobatics skill.
Make a spell that fortifies Acrobatics 100 pts for as long as possible, and same for Athletics and/or speed (if you can move faster you can jump further). This is why I recommend high values, although it can be done with very low skills, just not as effectively. Wear the Boots of Springheel Jak if you have them. The effect of Acrobatics maxes at skill level 255, so with the spell and boots, you can bring it up to 250, enough to get almost anywhere. When trying to get up to high spots, if you time your jump correctly when going up stairs you can get a lot more height than usual. Go to any city and jump either to the highest point possible (like roofs of houses or city walls) or find the most scenic high location and take a screenshot, simply because it looks good. It can be very difficult to jump onto the Chapels' steeples from the ground, but it is fun to try. A lot of what makes this fun is the trial and error, plotting the best acrobatic, aerial path to your destination. You will discover that this is more fun in some cities than others - Bravil is fun, Chorrol isn't. Find a whole bunch of Drain Fatigue (not potions)like rat meat or whatever and eat lots like 20 or so at one after another while staying in the inventory. Once you are done eating all of them go back to the game and you will have had such a hard fatigue drop the game will think you are getting hugely damaged and launch you up(usually) this can be great if you want to get away from guards and up onto buildings, well out of harm's way. Have some fun while you're up there. Buildings are a great way to slaughter a whole town without being harmed. Once the guards come after you, simply whip spells or shoot arrows at them until the entire town is lying dead.
Fighting Yourself
This is for computer users only. Open up the console, select yourself, and type in "createfullactorcopy" minus quotation marks. Attack yourself. Who will win? No one knows. Save before doing this as if you kill yourself, you will be expelled from all the guilds you are in.
Flaming, Half-Naked Idiot
Only do this if you don't mind losing all your Intelligence, and if you don't mind dying! First, get lots of Skooma (duplicate it, if necessary); then remove all your equipment, except anything that increases your speed or jump height (i.e., boosts to Strength, Speed, Athletics, or Acrobatics). The last thing is a cursed hood, preferably one enchanted to cause fire damage to the wearer (you can create one at an Altar of Enchanting). Got everything? Now the fun bit! Go to Dive Rock and then drink as much skooma as you can, put on the hood, and run off the Dive Rock. Your character becomes a flaming, half-naked idiot.
Fun with arrows
Try shooting an arrow straight up into the air to make it land on you.
Try shooting a lot into the air and set your health to 1 using PC console commands. Attempt to dodge them.
If you are really quick, try catching an arrow shot at you.
If you really think you're good at marksmanship, then try shooting another arrow in midair (not jumping and shooting, I mean shooting another arrow shot at you from an enemy. It's possible!)
Fun with Arrows of Withering
Get a good bow with a lot of uses and a bunch of Arrows of Withering (damage all attributes 2 points). Crank the difficulty up, and shoot something until it moves ridiculously slow, and, if you want, until it doesn't move at all. Shoot something about 30 times and it should move very slow if at all. Amusing, and sometimes useful.
Arrows of Withering appear randomly in loot once you reach level 6. Places with large numbers of respawning archers include Rockmilk Cave and Sundercliff Watch (if you have the Unearthing Mehrunes Razor plugin). The duplication glitch can be used to get even more.
Fun with Chameleon
Grab either a suit or Spell that will give you 100% Chameleon (Invisible will NOT work) and run around in a town, punching random people in the face. They will all run away, and start to walk in a circle around the nearest guard.
Go into any store and throw things around. The way people look at you is priceless.
Fun with Everscamps
Having Everscamps may seem annoying, but they can be extremely funny. Lure them into traps and hazards and watch them die. Using traps that have already been set off (e.g. rolling logs) and casting area affect spells to move them can also be a fun way of killing your little friends.
Everscamps are daedra, so many NPCs (such as the monks at the Temple of the Ancestor Moths) attack them on sight. This is particularly funny if you are invisible, as your scamps don't have a chance. Sometimes the NPCs attacking the scamps hit each other, making for some interesting battles.
Fun With The PC Version
With PC, console commands can be used like mad. Why not...
...Pickpocket everyone's keys and make their homes unpickable? At night there might be a bunch of people looking for beds.
...Remove everyone's clothes? If you've got no evil mods on it should be okay. You'd think that the guards would do something about mostly-naked people walking.
...Commit Genocide? Kill the Orcs, Kajjit, and Argonians!
It's endless.
Glarthir Mini-Game
This is a bit of a time waster. If you haven't already completed the Paranoia quest, then go to Skingrad and look for Glarthir. Well, actually he'll be looking for you. So run from him! Glarthir will follow you about everywhere in Skingrad, including people's houses so be careful!
Gray Fox vs. Heironymus Lex
After completing the Thieves Guild quest-line, you will know that Hieronymus Lex goes to Anvil and claims maybe he will be lucky and meet the Gray Fox again, and with the Gray Cowl of Nocturnal you can do just that.
Go up to Hieronymus Lex inside Anvil castle and put on the Gray Cowl of Nocturnal (or go up to him with it on). Hieronymus Lex is astounded that you just ran up to him and will do a Gray Fox arrest dialog. Punch him in the face and run off. Now the Gray Fox has truly won! Optional:If you are feeling like a true winner, you could make him follow you around punching every guard in Anvil! Then you get them all to follow you to the next town, and so forth.
Guard Target Practice
This is often quite fun, if you have the health and willpower for it. I find its best in the Talos plaza, Bravil, or another area with a large number of guards and high buildings. You will need: a paralyse spell of some description, a decent acrobatics skill, the boots of springheel jack and/or fortify acrobatics/speed enchantments or spells. Simply gain a high bounty, and paralyse all the guards after they give up trying to stab you and use their bows. Steal their swords, and proceed to the roofs of the buildings. Enjoy jumping around under pressure, and see how long you can dodge their arrows. For a bigger challenge, drink schooma, go naked, or damage your speed whilst on the roofs.
Guilds vs Guards
Mages Guild Note: Only works if you are a member of the Mages Guild. And save before doing this. In the Imperial City, attack a single guard. Then run around the districts until you can get the attention of as many guards as possible. Then with the guards still chasing you, go into the Arcane University. Once past the gates, the battlemages will join in attacking you. Then, with any luck, the university mages will come to your defense and will attack the guards and battlemages. This is a real treat to watch if you are high level. Also, you can loot dead mages for nice daggers.
Fighters Guild Note: Also save before doing this. It is harder to do than the Mage's Guild one, but very similar. You must be a member of the Fighters guild. First, attract as many guards as possible. Then, go to a nearby Fighter's Guild. The members there will attack you on sight (since they always side with the law). Let them do so, then yield to them (they always accept if you are a member). By attacking you, though, they gain an assault bounty, thus making the guards attack them; however, since there are always essential NPC's in the Fighter's Guilds, the fight will go on until the guards all die, although more seem to respawn throughout the fight. Sometimes, guards will accidentally hit another guard, giving himself a bounty, and thereby having the other guards attack him, as guards will always attack the NPC that most recently acquired a bounty. Battles could last all day, but you will get very good loot from the guards and the dead Fighter's Guild members.
The Arena way. Simply attack a guard, or some other petty crime and resist arrest when you are confronted, run to the Arena Bloodworks, and watch the carnage. Since there are a few essentials down there, the Arena will come out victorious, but the guards will keep coming. You could easily be killed so Invisibility or Chameleon is recommended.
You can do this in any town and almost any NPC will help you! This is because citizens and guards are in different factions. If a guard attacks you then eventually citizens will help out.
Headless Horseman
If you're bored of your character's head, then you can get rid of it (or any other body part). All you have to do is create an Invisibility on touch spell, use it on a horse, get on, get off and now you are totally invisible...except everyone can see you. Play around with equipping and unequipping to get certain body parts invisible—you can be headless or just a pair of hands and feet.
Hide n' Seek
Drop all of your equipment off of a high point (or fling them with a telekinesis spell), such as dive rock, and then go on a scavenger hunt to find them.
Hit 'n' Run
If you have a high Speed and/or Acrobatics skill, you can try one of my favorite games: hit 'n' run. Simply switch to hand to hand, and run up to a guard and punch him once. He will get outraged and run at you, and if you're fast enough he will chase you around the town until he gets lazy and goes back to his post. No other guards should help him out, its simply personal to him. Keep your distance though, or he'll attempt to arrest you and you'll be forced to face the law.
Hobo Hunter
If you’re the Silent Assassin type, try and kill beggars in towns without getting caught. It's hard to do if you’re a Thieves Guild member but if you have the Gray Cowl you shouldn’t get in trouble with your guild. It’s fun trying to sneak up on those poor vagrants. Figuring out their whereabouts and then choosing when to strike. It’s almost like a Dark Brotherhood Quest, and it’s a lot harder than it sounds. Plus, there are a lot of beggars around Cyrodiil so it’s likely to entertain anyone who enjoyed the Dark Brotherhood quests. Use this list for help. (Bodies can be dumped in water and alike until disappearance)
Just be aware that doing this during Speechcraft Training quest can have dire consequences for the latter (that is, if you care).
How To Lose Your Life In 10 Seconds
I think this title is a little self explanatory, think of a fun way to get yourself killed in 10 seconds (besides jumping off of a really tall cliff).
Examples: Tick off the guards/Jauffre, Make friends with a whole goblin tribe, fight Umbra with the difficulty slider all the way to the right, etc.
Human hunter
Spawn a few or more characters ( ex: Adoring Fan, beggars, NPC's that run away when attacked). Create a spell with Minimum damage and high radius. Then cast the spell and try to hunt down all of them like animals. You can even put them in large forts or caves then lock the exit doors and give them a running start.
Junk Boat in Anvil
We all find useless stuff such as tongs and calipers. Well, the small rowing boat in Anvil is a fun way of giving these a use.
Break into houses, steal everything that isn't nailed down and pile them up in the row boat. Slowly, the boat will be filled. Add lit torches on the bottom or top of your pile so the water has floating lights reflecting on it through the bottom of the boat. Or collect only one type of item for a unique junk pile. Another idea is to kill people on the Anvil waterfront and drag them to the boat. Save before lifting people from the shore into the boat, they may fall in.
Knock Yourself Out
First, enchant a piece of clothing with damage fatigue. Then, make two damage fatigue on self spells one being "Damage Fatigue 5 points. for 7-12 seconds," the other being "Damage Fatigue 3 pts. for 3-4 seconds." Put the shirt on and jump around until you get your fatigue down all the way. You will notice that your fatigue does not go up while running, because of the shirt. Cast the longer damage fatigue and immediately switch to the short one and cast it. You will fall like a rag doll and get back up again!
Alternatively, simply create a spell with Self Paralysis for 3 seconds. You cast the spell, then slowly kneel over onto your face. It is fun to stand on a ledge or something bordering water and then to cast this, and watch yourself tumbling off.
The Lost and Noble Art of Corpse Arranging
A fairly simple one, kill an NPC, then put their corpse in an amusing position. Summitmist Manor is a good place to start, as the bodies can be pushed over the edges of the balconies, shoved into the fireplaces, or stuffed underneath a bench. You could even hide the corpses, or painstakingly drag them onto a bed, and make it look like they are sleeping! If dragging a body onto a bed, it is best to put the legs onto it first, and then carefully drag the arms up. Double beds work better. If you can, kill someone while they are sitting down, as their corpse will remain sitting (You can also sit on top of the corpse).
Make Yourself Some Powerful Followers
Get yourself a few followers, such as the Mage Apprentices, Dark Brotherhood Murderers, or whoever you want. Before getting them to follow you, though, reverse-pickpocket as much Bound armor and weapons that you can if/when they're asleep. It's sometimes surprising how strong they can get by doing this, and you can cause all sorts of mayhem with them. Just make sure you heal them sooner or later, as they're not entirely invulnerable and it's easy to forget to do so.
Max Out Your Time In Jail
Go to any city and start slaying everyone in sight. Since murders count for 1040 gold,(assault and murder) see how much gold you will owe. This can be tons of fun but make sure you save first because you might kill NPCs that you want since everyone starts to come after you. Try and get the highest bounty possible before becoming bored or you are killed.
Pickpocketing the Guards!
This is nearly impossible, but if you're bored try to pickpocket the guards!
Also, try reverse pickpocketing all the guards in the Imperial City Poisoned Apples! You will often find dead guards on the floor and dropping dead as soon as you enter the city. Keep doing this until all the guards are dead. You don't get a bounty unless you're caught pickpocketing. This method is best used if you have full chameleon. If you don't have access to full chameleon, just replace any food in the watchtowers with the poisoned apples. Remember, guards are constantly moving and you're unlikely to give them all apples on your first trip through the Imperial City. So if you see a living guard, just check. After you have killed the guards, move on to the citizens.
Pig Jumping
A little game recently invented. Find a boar and see how many times you can jump over it without being hit. Set a record and try to break it!
Petting Zoo
Wander around outside until you come across some deer. Catch up to one and cast a Command Creature spell on it (like Dominating Touch). Get it to follow you home (continuing to cast the spell to keep it following you). Once you're back at the city where you reside, get Bambi to follow you into the stables outside of town. Once in the stables, close the gates, and jump over them. The deer will be trapped in there with the horses (unless you bought them all). Then go out and find more deer and follow the same procedure. Eventually you'll have a wild petting zoo with deer flitting all around the barnyard. This can work with other animals too, but animals that are considered hostile will invoke attacks by others.
Note: You'll need to save often because enemies on the way home will kill poor Bambi with one strike.
Raiding Party
Note: This is only possible on the PC.
Summon a high-level creature, then summon another. Before the first high-level creature dies, go into console mode and resurrect it, it will come back to life permanently. Do this a few times until you have a raiding party. If you want, make a huge army, now cast Invisibility(or better yet 100% Chameleon.) and watch your raiding party kill the town. Maybe you are the defender, and you must stop them before they kill everything. Maybe you are the leader (use Command Creature/Humanoid spells if necessary.) and you can lead them to destroy the town.
Note: it is a lot easier to simply summon your creature and use CreateFullActorCopy (in the console, PC only as well) many many times, instead of doing it the long way.
Rampage
Make a ridiculous-looking character, and so much skooma with the duplication glitch that your character can only move while hyped up on skooma, and just kill everything in sight. A great idea for people who want to kill guards in about one hit is to lower gameplay settings.
Riot
After reaching 100 Illusion, make a spell that does Frenzy level 25 for 45 seconds within 100 radius and Rally 100 points for 45 seconds in 100 radius, Cast it (Save first), and watch entire towns and its citizens battle to the death! It's great fun when you're bored. (It takes up quite a bit on Magicka, so a fortify spell or a strong custom Magicka potion is needed) Have fun!
Leave some weapons lying around for people to fight with. Cast a spell of invisibility on yourself if you can, that way you are not at risk. Another fun thing to do, if you can, is use the above riot spell after using Chameleon 1% on target in 100 radius. It creates a nice effect.
Rising Crime
Basically, for this, go into any city, and start using the console to give everyone in sight a high bounty, then watch as the guards start attacking, are attacked back, and even accidentally attack each other, prompting infighting.
Tricks to make it more interesting:
Use it on two guards standing near each other. They'll both attempt to "arrest" the other, while more guards run in to arrest both. Keep placing bounties, as more guards appear, and the bodies quickly pile up Place it on a powerful or essential character.
Russian Roulette
This is easier if you have people that follow you but you can do it on random civilians as well. As the owner of Bravil Archery shop says, "A perfect arrow flies straight and true, but that's impossible, and I have no perfect arrows". If you were to shoot 30 arrows in the air at the same angle and strength, they would land in different places.
Go to Bravil or any other place with a long wooden bridge and task your followers to stand in front of you on different points of the bridge (use the Wait command).
Aim as high up as you can and shoot 30 arrows. If you want, you can change the angle and strength a bit to give it more variety or change the amount of arrows shot. Make 5 of the arrows have a 5 ft 100 point fire damage enchantment just so it only needs to land near someone to hurt them.
Now stand there and wait. Anyone that survives are losers and need to be shot in the head. Anyone that died are the winners but they're dead so they can't claim their prize.
If you have no followers, you can try this on guards that are standing at their post as they never move.
Search the Riverbeds
Use Night-Eye and Water Breathing, and swim along the bottoms of lakes and rivers, to find many confirmed secrets and treasures.
For spending extended time living like a fish, you can use Fin Gleam on its own, or use a Night-Eye spell coupled with a Water Breathing effect (e.g., from being an Argonian or from the Jewel of the Rumare) to see and breathe underwater for as long as you wish. For details on how to acquire these , see the appropriate pages.
Skydiving
THIS ONLY WORKS ON PC! Open up the console and type in tcl. You are now floating. Go up as high in the air as you can and then type it again!
Sports
Baseball
Seek a bandit encampment with an archer and kill all the bandits except the archer. Then grab a big bowl so you are carrying it in front of you. Now catch as many arrows as you can without being hit. (Note: when you are hit by an arrow on your body, the bowl falls automatically)
Basketball
Get a basket and a bunch of pearls or other round object and see how many you can throw into the basket in a row.
Bowling
Place potions on the ground. Then you start bowling with a round object! Pearls can be used, but they are quite small. Lettuce and many other things can probably be used as well, but the item that works better than most is a sigil stone. It also provides a nice visual effect.
Dominoes
Gather some books and stand them vertically and towards each other. Then tap one at the start of your chain and watch them fall. Make more elaborate patterns as you get better at stacking them.
Golfing
You'll need something to hit with like a hoe or a shovel. You will also need a pearl and a basket. Put the basket on its side and try to hit the pearl in it with the hoe/shovel!
Go Skiing
All you need to do is find a steep slope and slide down it or walk down it as fast as you can without falling. Unequip your weapons so your fists are out, then put them away and pull them out again like your pushing with your "skiing poles". Try not to get hurt from falling for "bonus points". The slope at Dive Rock is good for this.
Horse Racing
If you have a horse, find one of the Black Horse Couriers and have a little Derby competition. Time yourself and try running them off of the road to improve time scores.
Hurdles
You can set up barriers, using any sort of item, then use the drain Acrobatics skill and try to jump over the obstacles without knocking the barriers down/over. A great place to do this would be the long bridge near the Imperial City, or around the path around the Imperial City.
Javelin
Get a blade (any) and position it so the blade is facing forward. Then run and throw. Try to do it in an area so you can tell how far you've thrown it, then try and improve the distance! Try using the Wabbajack because it looks more like a spear than anything else in the game.
Lacrosse
Use the spell 'weak fireball' to let bounce an object (preferably a pumpkin or alike), so this is similar to soccer, but now the technique is a little harder.(Which is nice)
Lone Baseball
Try taking a large round object, throw it into the air, and attempt to hit it with a club or similar weapon. This is kinda hard, but gets more fun with practice. Another way to do it is equip a good fireball spell and grab the object and try to cast the spell and let go of the object just before it hits, It will go very far. Also, you can shoot the watermelon into the fireplace of Rosethorn Hall for a teleporting watermelon. It will end up right where you got it from.
Marathon
Train up your athletics and speed, and then run the circuit of Cyrodiil towns, from Anvil, to Kvatch, to Skingrad, to Bravil, to Leyawiin, to Cheydinhal, to Bruma, to Chorrol, and finally to the Imperial City Green Emperor Way. No fast traveling! You must set foot inside every city and you have to stay on the main roads. Before you begin, make a note of the game's date and time, and then start. When you're done, note the time once again and compute the difference. This is your score. The faster you do it, the better.
Melon Tossing
With a Telekinesis spell, pick up a watermelon. Look almost straight up in the air and pull it close to you. Then, while running as fast as you can, toss it. (by tapping "pull" while holding "push") Try to catch it with the grab button or another telekinesis spell, or try hitting it with a hammer/club like in "Lone Baseball". This is especially fun in the city, where you can try to lob it over houses, archways, walls, and churches. (I prefer Skingrad for its bridges and tall houses.) This can also be done with a pumpkin.
Polo
Get a Basket, some lettuce or a pumpkin, and a horse. All you need to do is to tip the basket over some distance away, best to be in an open field, move away a bit, drop the "ball", and get on the horse. Now try to get the ball in the basket by running it over.
Soccer
A simple game, just go to a town with a pumpkin, or maybe even an urn, and just drop it, try to kick it around, make a goal. A good way to make it go a bit faster is to roll backwards when your Acrobatics is at least 50. (hold block + jump in a direction).
The Ground is Lava
You can't step on any grass or dirt, only buildings, tree branches, signs, etc. Try getting from Bravil to Leyawiin doing this!
Skeletons
This is really simple. Go through Oblivion and find the pieces needed to make your own complete skeleton. Good places to start looking for bones are Forts and Caves. Arrange it properly and place it somewhere fun.
Start Goblin Wars
Acquire 100% chameleon or an invisibility spell that doesn't cost too much Magicka and then locate the two goblin caves nearest to you. Sneak into one of the caves, and steal the totem staff, much like in the quest Goblin Trouble. Take the stolen staff to the second cave, and wait for a bit. If you wait near the cave entrance, you should see a troop of around ten goblins that are ready for war.
Also - dropping the staff in the middle of a well-populated town (like the Imperial City) causes guards and townspeople alike to riot.
Another thing to try would be getting all the totems and placing them in the Imperial City. Place one in each area for maximum effect.
Just keeping all the totems makes you an assassination target for the goblins. If you are unlucky you may have a whole army behind you in the middle of nowhere.
If you have bought Battlehorn Castle, you can bring the totem(s) to the castle and reenact the battle with the marauders, just with goblins.
Check out this article!
Stupid Things
Just do things that shouldn't be possible, such as keep all your inside a clam! No one will ever steal from it (just try to remember which clam is yours).
Time freeze
I love to do this in a busy part of town where there are heaps of people,the best place is in the quest, The Defense of Bruma when you have all the followers possible and all towns people and daedra at the battle make a spell with:
Paralyze 120 seconds in 100 radius Invisibility 120 seconds in 100 radius Burden 120 seconds in 100 radius It's fun to watch everyone disappear.
Trek
If you're an adventurer, and one of the higher levels, start in the Blackwood Rainforests east of Leyawiin. Walk/run along the water and through the trees, encountering a few enemies along the way as expected, and you will become an explorer.
UberHorse
Get Shadowmere, and take her to any shrine of the nine. Place Shadowmere DIRECTLY on top, and activate it. If done right, Shadowmere should now be able to run about a mile a minute. (This works with all horses, but horses seem to die easier from this. Shadowmere will be knocked unconscious for a little bit then be ready to run.) You can try:
Going to dive rock and get a run up and jump off the mountain. Be careful as you may take damage. Punch Shadowmere, or get it hurt, and try to catch up with it as it walks back to Fort Farragut. Or maybe even have a race with m'aiq the liar. Just make sure to let him catch up.
Undead vs. Guards
Do you want to see a huge battle between the guards of Skingrad and undead? Then Go to Nerastarel's House in Skingrad.
First get all the undead in the house to follow you. Next go outside and bring the undead into an area with many guards. Watch the carnage unfold, make sure to use healing spells to help one of the sides of the battle. Note: Townspeople tend to get into the fight. And die. If you're scared of deaths, save first.
War!
After completing the Dark Brotherhood, Arena, Mages Guild, Knights of the Nine, Frostcrag Spire, Battlehorn Castle, and the Shivering Isles expansion, recruit an army of the Dark Brotherhood Murderer, Mages Guild Apprentice, Ushnar's Skinned Hound, Adoring Fan, Knight of the Nine, Knight of the True Horn, and an elemental atronach. Head to the Imperial City and start a war against the guards. Use additional frenzy spells, summons and command humanoid spells to make it bigger, better and bloodier! If you want, stay invisible while the chaos continues or take part in the action! Save before trying this.
Another Form of War
Another really cool thing to do is to run around collecting up bandits, undead, and other monsters and then lead them to a town and watch the insanity ensue. It's always hilarious to watch the lone guard out the front at the beginning fire one arrow and then get completely overwhelmed. Leave your horse at a stable as otherwise you may end up leaving some of the creatures behind.
Watermelon Flood
For this stunt you need as many scrolls as you can get and one watermelon (500 is a good number of scrolls). Go to Cloud Ruler Temple and stand between the 2 little forts on the curving walkway. Make sure the big door is closed. Use the duplication glitch on the watermelon and watch all the watermelons rain down. When the watermelons completely cover up the door and the stairs, jump out and open the door from the other side and run for your life as the watermelon flood occurs!
Watermelon Racing
This is stupid but extremely fun. Choose a large downhill slope and use the Duplicate Glitch to duplicate round and send them down the hill.
Suggested Slope I
Fast travel to the stables outside of Skingrad. Head straight west and you should find a mine. Go straight north until you find the Shrine of Sanguine. From there, head straight west. You should end up just south of a camp. Echo Mine is directly west of that. Go to the door to Echo Mine and head SE. A path starts there that goes downhill and turns left before it gets to an Ayleid ruin. After it turns, there's a valley lined with rocks. At the end you'll find a tree. Duplicate round and send them down the hill. See what you can race down the hill - ingredients, gems, potions, etc. Try giving yourself an advantage by duplicating things like clothes along the hill to slow things down. Most things tend to gather around the tree at the end, so it's easy to pick them up if you want to. It is recommended you save beforehand.
Suggested Slope II
Go to Skingrad, then head SE to Bloodcrust Caverns. Head straight East from the icon on the compass. You should find a road that goes N-S. About in the middle, it comes to a high point, then goes down both ways. To the North, there is a 3-way intersection, and to the South, there is an Ayleid-looking structure (you can't enter it or anything, it just looks like an Ayleid well without the well) and the road turns left towards a lake and a bridge. There's also 4 sweet ramps (steps). Duplicate pearls just south of the high part of the path. Half of them will go out of the world and the other half end up at the bottom of the lake. This may only work with pearls because it isn't steep enough for other round objects.
Suggested Slope III
Go to Wind Cave and then head straight Northwest up into a narrow down-sloped valley. It's a hell of a climb, and at the top, there is a rock right before a very steep part. Duplicate here. CAUTION! Many things get going so fast that if you come up behind them they launch you down the hill. You can be killed by retorts, potions/poisons, ingredients, etc. There's also a rock in the middle that sends stuff flying into the air.
Suggested Slope IV
There are 2 easy ways to get to this. The first way is to get to the top of Suggested Slope III then head straight North. The other way is to head to Broken Promises Cave and go straight Northwest into the valley. A little ways up, you will come to a fork in the valley. On the right path (looking uphill), there is a tree in the middle of the path. If you go up to the top of the left path, you'll find a group of 3 trees. Go all the way up on either side and duplicate .
CAUTION! The right path can be fairly lethal too.
Suggested Slope V
Dive rock, 'nuff said. see if any reach Aerins camp. Find the one which traveled furthest and consume it! Other delightful games include hitting one with an arrow knocking others off. Try to find the troublemaker!
Watch A Battle Royale
If you have the Skull of Corruption and a 100% chameleon effect find an immortal character who is in a place heavily guarded by guards. I did this in the Arcane university. I casted my spell and watched as all the mages began converging on the single clone, as they get closer to each other they start spawning new creatures, conjuring all sorts of demons, then they start accidentally hitting each other with spells. You hear "I'm on your side" like 50 times every minute, then the unkillables start to gain bounties, which leads to even more fun, guards spawn everywhere, and all hell breaks loose, a great way to pass time ;).
Where did Everyone Go?
1st way: For this one, acquire many Mage's Hoods, one can be bought from at Rindir's staffs then just duplicate them or use the Mage's Hood code (00064FE1)and spawn as many as you like. Then enchant them with Chameleon spells and go around a city reverse-pickpocketing them onto NPCs, making them all partially invisible. Second way: For you mages out there looking for a kick, make a very large range and reasonably medium duration Invisibility. Then go somewhere where people are talking, cast it and they will disappear yet still talk! If you do use Invisibility then do not talk to the NPC as this will end the spell. This will not work on NPCs who are performing actions (i.e. training in the Arena) as this will also end the spell A way to get around this would be to make a replace the Invisibility with Chameleon.
World's Nicest Person
If you're REALLY bored and have already done everything else on this page, try to get every single persons disposition to 100. This will take a very long time, but your speechcraft skill will soar and every person in Cyrodiil will be in love with you.
Your Boring house
If you look at your players house it looks like nobody lives there. Try and make it look like somebody actually lives there. You can try placing in the house like a Battle axe on top of the fireplace, or making an evil lair in the basement. You could drop bones or other stuff on the floor. If you know how to use console commands you could resurrect the dead skeletons laying on the ground or you could spawn a Dark Guard to patrol and guard your new evil lair.