


What happens is that the entire opening sequence, including the assignment of the Main Quest is skipped and you'll find yourself as a default Nord male wherever your "SStartingCell" is. It's centrally located between Whiterun, Windhelm, and Riften - which is the area I prefer to explore first with a new character. You can get some decent, but not overpowering, starting gear if you take on the ghosts, although the boss will likely prove rather difficult.ģ. It's mostly abandoned, with just a few ghosts that have to be fought if you want at any of the loot, but you can leave immediately without engaging them if you want.Ģ. I used the "Abandoned Prison" for several reasons:ġ. You can substitute any cell you want, of course. The following line is for alternate start games.

Make the following change in "Skyrim.ini" under the section. If you do and this breaks your game, don't say you weren't warned. Do NOT alter the "Skyrim_default.ini" that is in your game installation folder. Mine is in "My Documents\My Games\Skyrim. I finally figured out how to do this from the console and thought I'd share it with you, along with a few "interesting" developments in this, my thirteenth playthrough.įirst of all, you need to find your "Skyrim.ini" file. One of them offers a number of alternate starts, and I've been wanting to play without the pressure of being the Dragonborn for a long time. Since I've frozen my Skyrim at version 1.14.something until Bethesda gets most of the major bugs sorted out, I'm rather restricted as to some of the mods I'd like to run.
