Of all the things you can do, you do this. Of all the things I can watch, I watch this.

Skyrim players in 2011 vs Skyrim players in 2024 be like:

I've actually done this for a mage character. I cut wood to pay for magic training lessons and spell tomes, learning magic the honest way. I ended up at 90 to all magic schools. My dragonborn was basically a well trained student of the College of Winterhold with "years" of diligent lessons and hard work.

It ain’t much, but it’s honest work

*Spots a dead man* “oh no..”(immediately starts searching his pockets). Such a Skyrim player thing to do 😂

I hate to admit this is how I used to play skyrim when I was 7 and scared of fighting

I love these types of videos!The peacefulness and no dragons or enemies around.

I can see him chopping wood with Wuuthraad by episode 8

Now I'm wondering if my D&D group would play a game in which everyone is just an honest tradesperson.

lost his eye due to "lumberjacking days" nah he's used to be an adventurer

I absolutely love these calmer RP stories. You have a good character and a clear goal. There’s so much more to Skyrim than archery and dragons and you have found a lovely niche. Keep up the good work!

If you're going to go to riften you should get At Your Own Pace Thieves Guild so that Brynjolf wont ask if you've never done a hard days work for all that coin youre carrying

This is strangely inspirational. It almost makes me want to get my own life together and do something with it.

Reminds me of my hunter character. All he does is hunt animals, sells the pelts or crafts crafts armor. Also on survival, he also is an avid fisherman. He spends a lot of time around Whiterun. Sometimes he has to defend himself, but actively avoids combat if he can. He has a house just outside of whiterun and lends a hand to the farms when he can for extra coin. It’s really fullfilling to me for some reason. When he finally wanted to venture out and build his own home, he traveled to Falkreath, it was a dangerous journey, but he evebtually made it, and took a job from the Jarl. He wasn’t a fan of mercenary work, but took the job with prospect of owning land of his own. He snuck is way to a mine in the region and stealthily took out the bandits. He returned to the Jarl and was finally able to own Land of his own.

Imagine if this is what the dragon born actually did 😂. Warns the jarl finds out hes dragon born and says "im not fighting dragons for a living lmao 🤣".

Honestly Douglas could probably use the Woodsman’s Friend axe given the name. Oh and maybe a mod for turning trees into piles of wood.

Thanks for the slice of peace, chill skyrim run, no OP character, no obscene challenge run. Just a dude trying to make the best he can with the skills he has.

I did something similar for my great pub-crawl of Skyrim. My character would visit a new tavern every night, and make his travelling (read: drinking) money by working at the mills along the way.

These vids of yours got me inspired to try these types of playthroughs on my own game. With the help of mods adding jobs, favors and a ton of random encounters, it's amazing how much more immersive it is to just playing as an ordinary citizen or plain adventurer making a living and working towards a nice goal instead of becoming a living demi-god.

Honestly....who in their right mind would place a tent near a LOUD waterfall.

Ah, yes! The Saga of the Wandering Woodcutter must continue!

This man is playing Skyrim like it's Runescape

I see youve been drawn to the allure of virtual timber.

More please. This is so much more interesting than any of the challenges I’ve seen. Just a man and his axe trying to make his way in the world.

If you wanna die drink when he says humble! Love your vids man! More please.

Glad other people do this stuff. I have a character who only hunts. Elk, deer, goats, foxes, wolves, even a couple of mammoths. I worked up enough money to buy one of the hearthfire homes.

Mmmm, edible mushrooms he says. As he picks Mora Tapinellas, one of the three ingredients to make the most efficient damage health and paralysis poison.

This is how I played Skyrim when I was 8 and my parents constantly teased me for it lol

“The tree split just wrong and took his eye out” Me picturing a tree doing the splits so hard he went blind

This has to be the most relaxing Skyrim gameplay I’ve ever seen. I love this.

Just like the fisherman video, this is just so easy to turn on and chill with. Love the game ambience and always have, but now I get to enjoy it with little to no conflict! Just the daily life of this average man living in skyrim lol! Honestly super fun to watch.

As a roleplayer of many games who genuinely loved immersion. Your channel and these videos I beg you, please do more of. It is so fun seeing people live out their lives.

I've done this kind of playthrough at least twice in the many years. I enjoy it quite a bit. Very relaxing.

Ahh, playing video games through you my friend. And now, apparently, making an honest living as a woodcutter through you too. Thank you for the peaceful and consistent content my friend, continue the great work! You are appreciated, beyond just your content, and your channel provides more than you know for so many.

Love the role-play series. Glad you started life as a woodcutter. You’ve inspired me to try and doing a lot of these types of play through on my own game. I’ve been a subscriber of yours for three years and you always find new role-play ideas for me to try out. Thank you for the video.

Please do more of this. It's so relaxing

life as a mill worker seems like a good miniseries.

01:40 I was actually expecting you to say “now his goal is not just to simply earn money, but to have his revenge, as he hates trees ever since” xD

Every one of my alternate start Skyrim playthrough starts with this or being a blacksmith apprentice.

To mix it up also be a farmer collecting cabbages and potatoes

The bedrolls right outside of town are for beginning characters. The beds in the Inns are for tourists, you're a resident. 😉

Do more indeed. Douglases hard work must be rewarded

Somehow you made the most boring Skyrim task entertaining xD I would love to see more of this character.

I did a similar chilled character. He was a hunter/fisherman nomad. He never crafted, always bought what he needed by selling the pelts and fish he gathered. He avoided combat with anything that wasn't an animal or fish, if he got attacked he would attempt to avoid/runaway first and ONLY defend himself if they left him no choice. A bow, some arrows, and a fishing pole are all the weapons and tools he used. Moved from hold to hold every 5 in games days and only went into town when his inventory was almost full to sell his goods. He had to sleep every night and eat 3 meals a day. I used the free creation club content for the tents, backpack, and survival mode but thats all. No mods, it was actually really relaxing and fun to not worry about all the quests the game shoves down your throat and just enjoying the simplicity of the game

So glad KZfaq decided to randomly show me this video. With a game like Skyrim I feel like I've seen so many different challenge videos, or heavily modded playthroughs, or speedruns or what have you but this is completely new and refreshing. At first glance I didn't expect it to be entertaining at all but I'm glad I gave it a shot. Looking forward to seeing more

I look forward to every single video and character you do. I laugh out loud at your humour and I have learned how to do some things with my characters from watching your videos. Please keep on doing what you're doing, I love them.

I went from watching an actual bushcraft/survivalist video to this and it's hilarious how similar it is.

I love this! Thank you for this amazing series!

sometimes you feel like you would live in skyrim vs the real world 😂

I did something like this just playing as a hunter, selling pelts and meats to the vendors before upgrading my equipment and towards the end venturing more and more into the hostile lands. Mods made it amazing, def a fun way to play.

Was born to save the world and slay alduin the world eater, but chose being a wood cutter that's a man of conviction right there

I've seen one of the clearest skies on earth. Death Valley in the valley itself during the off season. No tourists meant no light sources of any kind, perfectly clear skies with no dust nor weather. I looked up at the night sky at 0300 (3am) while resting on my motorcycle, and was struck utterly speechless. The darkest and clearest sky in the US, and one of the darkest and clearest skies in the world. The majesty was truly indescribable. The game doesn't even compare.

this is my first time watching one of your videos and it's giving me massive nostalgia from 2011-2013 let's plays. people just talking and making things up as they go without much editing... something like og yogscast

Ever consider life as a giant for a potential future series or stand alone episode? I’ve seen some neat mods that would be great for role playing as a giant in Skyrim.

I just wanna say that I would watch any video you make! Even if you redid some older videos, did a regular playthrough, a playthrough the way you wanted, or life as well…whatever! You’re videos are entertaining off your personality not what you do in the videos! Thank you for what you do and always trying to improve your content, i truly appreciate it.

I love all your videos, so cozy and immersive

what's strange is i was here today cutting wood for a few hours, stumbled here,

Seeing this for the first time. I love this kind of humble-born vid!

Please do more of this. I definitely want to watch it.

I actually have quite a few playthroughs where I start off like this, I start off wandering skyrim, looking for work in lumber Mills and mines, fishing and hunting as side hustles. Just exploring and living in the world, eventually I'll take missions to deliver things, which will be my first introduction to combat, I'll learn how to defend myself decently on the road while doing stuff. Then eventually I'll move into mercenary work. And then pick up the more major quest lines from there. Instead of making a backstory for my character, I actively play and role play the backstory of my character before he becomes adequate enough to save the day, and rise to the prophecy. 😅 Ultimately though, videos like this and the playthroughs I'm describing always make me wish that Skyrim had a more hardcore survival mode right off the get-go. Like I wish that was standard practice for bethesda, because when you actually get a really nice mod list or something like fallout 4 survival, where a few mods can just make a world of difference, you start to see the amazing potential to fully get immersed in living day by day in the worlds that Bethesda creates. It even got one of my friends to fully enjoy the building of fallout 4, I recommended him two mods as well as the survival mode, and he finally enjoyed building bases and expanding. Survival mode with a few rebalances got someone that hated building to like it. So to me that stands as a testament to the power of survival modes being a gateway to fully appreciate a game, it can be just what you need to translate something that you don't enjoy, to something you do enjoy.

I like the series idea it’s cozy and calm

Videos like your help me get over my lonely life thank you ❤

im way more invested than i thought i'd be

This video is witchcraft istg- Ive watched this every night before bed for like a week and Ive only made it to 15:40 ish like I'm starting where I left off each time too it's insane its just so relaxing

I used to watch your videos back when you made the first Life as a Beggar series. I love your commentary and always wondered what you were going to roleplay as is the next series. Something I thought was funny was if you played as a riekling. I have no clue how you would set it up but I always thought that if you did a series like that, it would be amazing and I wouldn't be able to look away from the screen.

Another promising series has began! Taking a brief break after completing Life as a Miner, before I start watching the Life as a Lord series. Your series were fun and interesting, and it has been my constant source of entertainment for the past few weeks. So far I've finished Alchemist, Healer, Normal Life, Vigilant and Miner. Left Fisherman halfway cause I can't get over Darkheetus' death and Merchant still in the holds. Thank you very much for the fun, wonderful videos! Looking forward for more series to come!

Havent seen you in my feed for a while. I would love this as a series!!

Better than starfield still

It's been a long time since I watched one of these things, and I'll say your storytelling's improved a lot! I foresee binging these videos

Been playing Skyrim since it released over a decade ago, beat the game countless times, still haven't found or killed these dragons people tell me about, but my Wyvern kill count is close to Genocide limits, my Monster Hunter character would be proud.

I found this relaxing and entertaining. A good twist on regular Skyrim gameplay. I hope you'll be able to keep it interesting as you get wealthier.

I love these calmer playthrough videos. I know I would like to see these videos more.

Always wanted a game where you can do everything, you might be the hero and save the world. Or you just be a humble farmer or lumberjack.

I did a 20 hour role play as a wandering hunter wood cutter guy. Only sold meat and pelts and chopped wood when I occasionally went to town.

Honest gold for honest work

"Hard work, but honest work."

I love ur content thank you, also u should see if there’s a mod that makes your character carry logs in your hands like faendal after he cuts logs

I really wish there were more fantasy life sim/RPG games out there were you just play as like a merchant, tradesmen or whatever in a comfy fantasy world.

Absolutely I would love more of this fine gentleman! What a fantastic mill property mod I'm excited to see how it looks next time.

These life as adventures are surprisingly enjoyable, so much more to Skyrim than chasing dragons. More please!`

Happy to see someones helping out poor Sigurd!

I think Douglas should still have the Sundas off You know, to go out and fish, or maybe even do a hunting trip for some meat. Not for coin, but for the meat to eat, and Leather to use as clothing. Would not be to far fetched to at least have a fishing trip once a week, to have him unwind from his bleak day to day life. Still in character, it could be his hobby. Just do it only on Sundas. Or every second sundas, depending on your timescale adjustment. Also: Try out the "Faiths of Skyrim" mod. It has so many deitys to chose as your god. Zenithar would be a really good fit for trade and work based RP characters. The mod could really perk up your RP storys since there is literally a god for any type of character

dude, you are the "primitive technology" of skyrim videos and i love it

He doesn’t use his shout for battle, he uses it to clear away brush and shrubs so he can work

This was cool. I'd definitely watch more of this.

never did I expect to enjoy such a simple video. I was wrong. Good video for sure

This video is amazing! I would love to see more of it. I thought it would be a one off, it looks promising… This would make a great series! Keep it up!

Appreciate the effort you put in to make these videos mate. They’re great.

Just started my first survival play through a couple days ago after having the game for over a decade. There’s something so beautiful about just playing the game slowly and thoughtfully, using all mechanics possible, that has just been such a joy.

If anything about this appeals to you, play medieval dynasty, it’s so underrated

Take a shot every time he says 'humble'.

Damn, this is really heckin peaceful and calm and beautiful, I love this so much, it is so relaxing ^^

These “slice of life” style lets plays are so enjoyable

I would love to see more of these! I really like the slow-paced gameplay.

This has been one of my core relaxation type playthroughs since about 2014 great to see other people doing it

**Plants a crucifix over the grave** **Tamriel has no Christianity**

kill a city lumberjack, take his job before another npc moves in

I absolutely would love to see more of this guy.

I'd love to see more of this character! These calmer series' are so enjoyable and peaceful, love them :D Maybe some of his backstory is coming in a future episode?

this looks so fun! im definetly going to do this after i finish my current playthrough!