Lookup guides for fast leveling blacksmithing and enchanting. You can get both up to max pretty easily. After that, you can make your own gear which makes the game easier.

Also, certain companions you can pay to try you then access their inventory and take the gold back (unless they fixed this). But this only works on certain companions, not all can second as a pack mule.

Bethesda's Twitter feed has some fun stuff sometimes, they linked a guide to houses that was really nice

1. Save often (cause glitchy game is glitchy, and losing a few hours of game time isn't any fun).
2. Play your first play-through on Novice and get used to things, then crank up the difficulty if you so please.
3. Buy Breezehome and use it for storage, if nothing else. Because running around encumbered all the time just slows you down.
4. Level Smithing and improve all your gear.
5. Use walk-throughs so you don't waste time running around aimlessly for no reason. I use this site a lot: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Skyrim
6. If you have Dragonborn, don't go to Solstheim until your 20s or 30s, or prepare to get your butt handed to you.
7. Enchant your gear as soon as you can, and get Smithing up to at least 60 so you can improve enchanted gear. I buy a weapon with the Soul Trap enchant as soon as I can afford it, disenchant it to learn the enchantment, and put it on all my current melee weapons so I always have filled soul gems on hand.
8. I usually just store mats and batch-level smithing, alchemy and enchanting during times that I don't feel like questing.
9. The DLCs are totally worth it (in my opinion).
10. I made all my mistakes on my first character and basically learned what not to do.
11. Focus putting your major perks into stuff you're actually going to use. And make sure you get the Warrior Stone blessing if you haven't done so already (from the Guardian Stones on the way to Riverwood after you leave Helgen).

Play all the major questlines though. For a warrior, you really can't go wrong with the Companions even at low levels. Most the quests in Whiterun are pretty fun and get you off to a good start.

Skyrim is hands-down my favorite RPG of all times. Been playing since November 2011 and am still having fun with it. Until Elder Scrolls Online comes out next year, anyway. Enjoy! It's awesome!

If you want some easy items to help you out there is a glitch where a merchant chest is accessible above the map in Dawnstar. Look for Dawnstar chest on youtube. Its a little tricky getting in to it but easy to learn. Oh ya horses die. I chopped wood all day once to buy a horse and it got killed right outside of town by a frickin saber and they dont respawn :grumble: Untill you get shadowmere. Its challenging if you try being a vampire. Oh ya, once your pickpocket skill is ok you can pickpocket trainers so you can get trained for free. Pay them to train you once, then hide behind them and steal the money back. Save often when you do this cause they catch ya sometimes.

Is this the same glitch that makes you run Assassin's Creed like in Whiterun to get the chest hidden underground?

Best glitch has to be the free house.

love this game... i play it whenever i get a chance late at night...

i love that now you can make your skills legendary taking away the level cap.. that is so awesome...

cant wait for the MMO.

agree

The free house exploit is awesome! Save your game before trying it! Look it up on Youtube. I have all the houses in the holds and did not pay for them or paid to decorate them.

Play an Argonian.

Nothing beats playing a giant lizard man/woman. All the other races are just laughable and should be used as food for baby Argonians.

Even the Jarl reads the Lusty Argonian Maid books! Argonian > everything else. Plust Histskin and 50% disease resistance is nice.

I got Skyrim a few months ago, I've played 9 hours.. and I haven't accomplished much. I spend so much time roaming around and talking to EVERY npc that I forget where to go for quests! lol

I am a cheap *kitten* and waiting for Legendary to drop under $40 (and i have at least 4 games i gotta play first)
But I still drool over all videos and info for the game.