There was a TES pack on Valves Quakecon Steam Sales. The package includes Oblivion + all official DLC and TES III Morrowind + both DLC or in other words Oblivion GOTY deluxe + Morrowind GOTY. Two awesome games at 15 EUR.

I had only finished knight of the nines and was half through shivering islands way back when (because I wanted the golden saint armour maxed). Did not played any DLC for Morrowind. So since I find coaster version more and more annoying because I don't like cds/dvds. They brake and make ugly sounds when spinning up. boxes are sometimes nice but mostly they just clutter your place. Books look better in a shelf.

Anyhow said coaster version was also only in German. So I grabbed my 2nd copy, now in English and with all DLC, plus I did not had Morrwind since I got that borrowed by Merzmensch, send him his commission money for this sale and the original full price purchase of Oblivion.

Skyrim most likely will not run on that poor 3yo laptops gfx card... at least not that well that I see the need to pay $$$ to play it with sliders all to the left... sorry Bethesda. I still like you very much. Maybe a demo will change my mind and ruin my bank account >_<.

So yes I started playing Oblivion again. Because of Skyrim, wanting to finish shivering islands and because of deadendthrills. I follow the approach of not picking the skills you use most as mayor to control leveling (i.e. always get +5, max endurance first, don't do quest with leveld items I like). The game is vanilla though apart from the unofficial patches, for now.

So this is my character:

Sorane Nin, young, female, Breton, custom Mage
download (before exiting sewers)

.att..skill............. L2 L1 L0
[END] armorer........... -- -- 25
[STR] blunt............. -- -- 25
[STR] hand to hand...... -- -- 25
[END] heavy armor....... -- -- 25
[SPE] light armor....... -- -- 25
[AGI] marksman.......... -- -- 25
[AGI] sneak............. -- -- 25
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[SPE] athletics......... -- -- 05
[STR] blade............. -- -- 05
[END] block............. -- -- 05
[INT] alchemy........... -- -- 15
[WIL] alteration........ -- -- 15
[INT] conjuration....... -- -- 20
[WIL] destruction....... -- -- 10
[PER] illusion.......... -- -- 15
[INT] mysticism......... -- -- 20
[WIL] restoration....... -- -- 20
[SPE] acrobatics........ -- -- 05
[PER] mercantile........ -- -- 05
[AGI] security.......... -- -- 05
[PER] speechcraft....... -- -- 05

Oh and since I now have an extra copy of Oblivion + Shivering Island (beware securom).... who else wants to get hooked up with the series?