If you are currently playing more than one character in Skyrim, I owe you an apology. Since I have been on this forum I have secretly scoffed the idea of having more than one character at a time as just a waste of time.
I could not have been more wrong. Herein lies the apology. : )
Last night I made a new character and was going to keep two. One was level 20 or so and one was brand new. Well, long story short, the level 20 character was saved over and I was stuck with just one new character. (there is a point to this rant, I promise).
Well faced with having to start from scratch for the 6th time it dawned on me that if I had multiple characters created now, they would all be relatively even and I could try all the playstyles at once!
So I did just that. I now have four characters, all different races and "jobs" and I am exploring different angles of the game with each of them.
So, in my own reluctance to try and understand why anyone would want more than one character, I have limited my Skyrim experience. I truly feel now that I can get the whole picture of what Skyrim has to offer.
One character dies, ok, load another one and try something different!
If you haven't tried it, I implore you, try it. Just be sure you turn autosave off and manually save (and pay attention to what file you are saving!)
So thank you, multiple character pioneers, you have a new recruit.