I think I'm going to try something totally new for me. A hand to hand fighter of some kind. Kind of a Dark Monk.

Lets see.
Hand to Hand
Block
Heavy Armor
Conjuration
Restoration
Mysticism
Athletics
Armorer

Out of curiousity, why Armorer?

Donno about him, but I generally take armorer on most of my characters, because it's in general a very useful skill. Field repairs are a big part of oblivion's longer quests and dungeons, and you can't do them effectively without armorer at least at 25. (Later in the game I have my favored armor type regularly breaking from 100% to 0% after a single fight. Granted, I fight some very nasty things and have very poor taste in what could be considered armor.)

The quicker you get to 50, the quicker you can start using enchanted armor and weapons with confidence, aswell. I play a modded game, so my access to heavily damaged artifacts may be disporportionately high, but even in vanilla, having those early game magic weapons and armors is a big help.

It has some nice late game perks, too. Once you get it to 75, everything you use is pretty much 25% more effective, and 100 lets you never worry about hammers again.

I'm going to be involved in hand to hand combat constantly. I'm going to be taking a LOT of armor damage.

Fair enough.

Just as a status update, the Argonian alchemical archer I've got going right now is doing excellent. Provided I remember to use the 50+ potions I have in my inventory he is doing substantially better than excellent, but even then he's just so amazing at sneaking and then critting with an arrow to the back that it works out alright.

Although the Imperial City water supply must be poisoned by now, because I go to great lengths to make sure all the corpses I make have 7 arrows in a star pattern in the back and get dumped into the waterfront surrounding the city. Surely someone would have noticed by now.

Also, thieves guild quest note: I find it interesting that the count and countess of cheydinhal went right to bed, walking past the limp and dead corpse of their bodyguard who was naked with said star pattern in his back, lying on the bench in front of their door. Not so much as a nod towards him.

Whatever, I took pretty much everything out of her room to punish her for being ignorant.

The fact is, the Count deserves far worse.
Did you see his torture chamber?
Its for Argonians.

Yes, it's called a medal.

Aside from that, Armorer is one of few skills that boosts your Endurance, so it'll also be good for your overall HP stats.

I don't even have a response for that. I mean I'm an Argonian so I should have something to say but I can't stop laughing.

Anyway, I'm going to have to work on some kind of mod that makes the Count and Countess killable via Dark Brotherhood (or hiring them or something) and then you can buy the castle. Then I can have the torture chamber and torture Dark Elves because they all look like the skin was just stretched randomly over their face way too tight.

Hey DFM and Rok, why do Kahjiit lick their butts?

(Also plays an argonian most of the time)

Its a shame I got the X360 version so I can't get in on any of these mods, some of them sound awesome.