This is why i keep mentioning doing the thief storyline first. You end up being able to just empty houses of their goods and boost your money at the beginning. It also gives you the hookup when there is a bounty on your head. You get a contact where you can pay 1/2 the bail and someone makes the crime go away.

Then when you get the reward for attaining the highest level of the Thieves Guild.

Well, we will just say that crime thing isn't so much an issue anymore.

Nice. I'll have to try that one. I'm a couple quests into the Mage guild series, and I've done in the Fighters guild, but I haven't made any progress on Thief guild.

There's a quest where you have to retrieve an axe in a fort, but the fort has a closed gate which it said is opened elsewhere. Where? I looked all around that little island and didn't see anything.

Need money, go to Rockmilk cave...often!!

Their is a switch nearby the door.

Damn, I looked all over, but I guess I wasn't paying close enough attention.

I just bought a house, and one of those reading furniture sets. Is there any way to put books on a shelf? I tried clicking on the shelf, dropping it by the shelf, but it just goes on the floor. Is this possible, or do you just have to sit there with empty bookshelves?

I forget the button, but I think it it something like holding LB (button above LT) and then you can control the item instead of just dropping it. It is a little better that way, but not great.

I could be wrong on the button to hold (while it is selected in the menu I recall) but you can probably figure it out.

yeah just grab the item and place it...

or use one of the telekinesis spells and do it remotely... i was about 50/50 between those two... some of the places you had to use the spell to place...

i put war hammers or axes in symmetry on the fireplaces...

weapons and armor on all the bookcases and tables...

i went and stole the cuirass of each town's guards and put it in the houses...

put stuff everywhere...

I was wondering what that grab button was. I didn't realize you grab stuff from the menu. I don't have any telekinesis spells. I barely have any spells at all. I'm pretty far up in the thief's guild, and I want to finish that section of the game first. I find it fun robbing people's houses, and it's now pathetically easy to pick locks, even though I'm only about level 38 in that skill.

It seems so annoying to build up your magic skills, and it's especially tough for me, since I really never use magic except to build up magic skills. The only time I really needed magic was cleaning out a vampire nest, and I finally figured out you could only harm a ghost with magic. Luckily I had a fire spell to hit him with.

I also think I need to buy a cabinet soon because I lug around so much stuff, like potions, that I don't want to sell, but it's getting ridiculous and starting to weigh me down so that I have trouble robbing armor and weapons without becoming overencumbered.

Any house you buy should have at least one chest in it. You can put a ton of stuff in one before it fills up. I think they all have one even before you buy furniture sets. Or you can just throw everything on the floor. It'll stay there. I have a nice big weapon pile on my floor so I can choose what I feel like using.

Which mission is it that has infinite lockpick?

The Nocturnal Daedric quest, but you gotta be level 10. You should be able to find info from Alves Uvenim at the Leyawin Mages Guild.

The easiest way to get this quest is to

you don't really need a strategy guide...

there is an entire Wiki devoted to this game...

with very detailed maps of everything...

even the mathematical formulas used to determine weapon damage with related skill numbers, like strength and blade for instance, and overall level of player... and crap like that is TOO in depth...

the Oblivion Wiki... i use the hell out of it... way more info than even a strategy guide... and it's searchable...

Link to Oblivion Wiki...

I am now the Guildmaster of the Thieve's Guild. Can I use that room as if it's my own house? Meaning can I store stuff in the chests, cases, etc. and will it stay there? I would hate to store a bunch of stuff and have it disappear.

I got suspended from the Mage's Guild, but I don't know how to get reinstated. I went to the Arcane University, but the doors are locked to get to the person I need to talk to. Is there anywhere else I can find him, or am I just doing something wrong?

I got suspended from them once. Go to any "branch" Mage's Guild and talk with them. If I remember correct, in order to reinstated, you had to do some shitty errand for someone - picking some specific plants for a mage, I think.

They said I have to talk with a certain person at the Mage's Guild. When I click the quest the arrow is red behind those gates, and the doors in the University to get to the other side are locked, key access only. I can't even get them to give me the fetch quest.

Damn it, now I want to play this game again.

The person may travel in and out of the University. Try waiting a few hours and see where he/she goes.

I broke in.

i posted a link to the Oblivion Wiki... i mean try it out it's very useful... you won't find a better source of info... it even covers cheats...

everything is covered there in painstaking detail...

you talk to Raminus Polus... Link... who does stay in the first tower at arcane most of the time...

all i did was search on 'suspended from mages guild'...

here's the link...

Link...

look at the hours he is available in that link above... he will be in that first room then... not behind the doors...

Quick question. Newbie here. Can I use Battlehorn Castle to store my stuff? Also, can I just drop it in a room or do I have to drop it in a chest?