The Perils of Power Levelling

                       by Robbies Dog

It has become a habit of mine on commencing a new game,
particularly an RPG, to power level.  That is to initially gain
experience points as quickly as possible in order to increase
attribute scores.  I do this by racking up money and kills by any
means available.  There are practically no depths to which I won't
stoop to in order to beef up my character - as long as I think I
can get away with it.  I kill and rob the weak, steal from shops
and sell the goods back, drive harmless species into extinction,
nick anything that's not nailed down and generally behave in a
reckless manner in order to be perceived as a hero by the NPC
populace. Would you buy a used car from this man?  Or let him into
your house?  Just occasionally this backfires and yet again I wish
to share my pain in order that others may learn from my
experience.


While recently playing Morrowind I raided a family crypt and sold
the funerary items therein for a tidy sum - nice work if you can
get it.  However, it has been claimed that what goes around comes
around and indeed in this instance the universe did indeed fight
back.  Sometime later I was given a quest to recover one of the
already fenced items as part of the central quest.  An item that
is no longer in the possession of the bloke (now deceased) leaving
me well up a certain waterway without a particular implement.
Fortunately the guile and cunning born of desperation soon saw me
through and I learnt a trick that became useful at a later point
in the game.

A further quest saw yours truly seeking an item from a thoroughly
unpleasant individual who wouldn't give it up without a fight - so
I whacked him.  Unfortunately the said rotter sought his revenge
by falling through a seam between two texture polygons leaving
only his feet exposed and me unable to examine the corpse and thus
without a means of extracting the necessary item.

Which is where this little trick comes in:

PRESS ~ (tilde) to pull up a console window TYPE player-> additem
"item_name" and voila the item is now in your inventory

Obviously power such as this should be used with extreme caution
and I certainly don't advocate the use of cheats under normal
circumstances or indeed for anyone else.












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