Too many deities walking around in skyrim apparently. It really does destroy the immersion when an NPC who takes a fatal amount of damage just goes to their knees and gets back up. Unfortunately, Lydia is not one of those essential NPCs. Most of these NPCs are essential during certain missions, or after certain events in the game. Or, make the semi-essential status something that can be toggled in an options menu. Essential NPCs in Skyrim cannot die, no matter how hard you try. 0 Combat: Spellsword Marriageable: No Essential: No Location: Solitude. The solution that Woden mentioned of having semi-essential status where only the PC could kill an 'essential' character coupled with a Morrowind style message upon such killing so the player would be notified of the consequences of his or her actions and could reload a prior save should make everyone happy. However, the playable child races are different from the races that NPC children. Granted Skyrim's essential tag is not as bad as that because the essential NPC will notice the attack and respond, but the fact that I cannot do more than knock an essential down does break immersion. I put the game away and have not touched it since. Guess what? He did not even notice I was blasting him with fire and he turned to me and asked if I needed anything. So, I crept up behind the archmage dude and blasted him with my best spell. Really did not like the attitude of some of the mages in the guild and I wanted to do blood magic and run off with the bloodmage. I tried playing Dragon Age Origins while waiting for Skyrim.

If I cannot kill someone, it really breaks immersion and TES's trademark freeplay roleplay suffers.

TES games are supposed to be 'do what you want' games. There are plenty of games where that is the purpose, like Shooters.įor immersion.

No essential npcs skyrim