Advice on creating a new character?

How do you poison without weapons? Pickpocket it into enemies?

Reverse pickpocket in the enemy pocket (like what you did for the first mission for the Thieves Guild). You need the Poisoner perk in the pickpocket tree for it to work as a poison though.

Yeah, hence the difficulties with fighting anything but bandits. Coupled with alchemy perks, the poison is fairly effective. The lingering damage ones especially pack a real whallop. Slip frenzy potions into the boss, pop inviso, then wait out the battle. Whoever survives, dump a frostbite venom (just because they are always around), a straight damage health, and a lingering health damage, and then watch the bandit's health bar immediately drop down to half then just drain to zero over the next ten or fifteen seconds, all the while the bandit stands there saying "ow". Doesn't aggro, as long as you stay hidden. It's quite satisfying when it works. Just really hard to set it up.

Not with THAT attitude.

I kind of want to run something like "The Hapless Noble (third son from a barely noble family)"
From a small estate, that dwindled to nothing after his parents' death. What little was left in the coffers was left to the older sons, other than the family great sword, and a small coin purse. Too proud to wear anything but nice clothes and jewelry (he's no common soldier to wear armor!), he has the pride of a Noble, without the coin or prestige to back it up. Nevertheless, he will try to help what females he can, if he feels it will garner him respect.

Little to no dungeon diving. Not going to be sneaking around taking stuff from chests, unless for a very specific quest. alteration and resto only for magic. two handed and *maybe* a bit of archery (for hunting) for combat. no poisons or armor. Possibly armored boots or gauntlets in battle, but no helmets or breastplates. Only good aligned quests, not necessarily because he IS good, but because he wants to be seen as good. Stuff like that.... Oh, and eventually joining the Imperial cause, as I have not played that through, yet.

I was thinking Imperial at first, but Nord could work, and that additional +10 two handed would probably be enough to sway me.