QUOTE(Pseron Wyrd @ Nov 2 2013, 06:34 PM)

I'd guess about 900 to 1000.
Many of these got no farther than the sewer exit. In fact I've made a few characters just to go through the tutorial dungeon and nothing more. What can I say, I like Oblivion's tutorial dungeon.
I love Oblivion's Tutorial dungeon too. When I figured out that you can save your game at the sewer exit, and start all of your new characters from that point, I did that for a while. Then I went back to going through the tutorial with all my characters, just because I like the dungeon. To me, it was a nice way to get to know a character. Like Acadian said, usually by the end I had a good feel for who they were and what they were like.