Skip the Main Quest Options

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I found two mods that allow you to skip the game's main quest. Both seem to use a bath file(s) that you run from the console, using console commands to complete the quests.

I tried out this one, which seems to go into more detail in by using the setstage command rather than just completequest for every quest. It also gives you all the dragon shouts you are taught by going through the main quest.

It has 4 batch files you run in order, each doing part of the main quest. That gives you the option of simply skipping over parts of it, and doing the others if you want.

I did find one bug with it. The creator suggested using it with an alternate start mod. I tried it with mine, and in the end I found that I was invisible when in first person! I could not see my hands or weapons I equipped. I could still hit things with my invisible weapons though. I could also see the effects of spells I equipped hovering in mid air, and they still worked too. I tried all the fixes for this bug I could find, but none worked.

So I went back and started a new game the normal way, and went through all of Helgen and down to Riverwood. Then I ran the batch files, and everything worked fine. I was visible in first person.

Today I went and tinkered a bit with the first batch file, and added in a couple more setstage commands to the starting quest. I tried it out, and afterward I could see my hands in first person! So that worked.

I changed the block of the first quest to this:

setstage mq101 0
setstage mq101 30
setstage mq101 50
setstage mq101 60
setstage mq101 65
setstage mq101 100
setstage mq101 150
setstage mq101 160
setstage mq101 180
setstage mq101 202
setstage mq101 240
setstage mq101 900

So if you want to have the main quest done, but are tired of doing it, this looks like it will take care of that for you. I have not tried playing very far after this. So I am not positive how it all works out. I guess I will find out.

It does add the attunement sphere and runed lexicon into your inventory so you can get into Blackreach and get the elder scroll if you want to. They are not marked as quest items however, so you can put them in a storage container for later, which is nice.

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I don't like companions in general in Elder Scrolls games. They always run right in front of me when I am shooting an arrow or a fireball, and insure that I shoot the in the back. Or the do the exact opposite, and turn me into a pincushion. Finally, they can never keep up with me when I am out exploring, because I love to jump onto things, and off of things, and get into all those out of the way places that are hard to reach.

In the isometric style games like Baldur's Gate, or Pillars of Eternity, or Kotor, I love companions. Because the way those games are built, companions don't have all these issues.