Reddit reviews Embossed Leather Blue Stone 120 Page Unlined Journal with Clasp (Brown)

Now write them in something like this or this.

Yeah, I remember playing the first time. For some reason, I'd completely forgotten that it was a curated gaming experience. I wandered off the track before I even got to the first set of standing stones, ran into bandits, ran away from bandits, fell in the river, got chased by a dragon, all before getting to the first town. It was glorious. I recommend drinking too much when you get to the first big city, if you really want a mind-fuck. :-) Lots of fun.

FWIW, the biggest thing you'll be tempted to look up is alchemy recipies. Let me assure you that the completely common flowers and mushrooms you come across are capable of making quite useful potions as well as very valuable potions. Feel free to experiment with the dozens of mountain flowers and mushrooms you'll pick up before you even meet someone who isn't trying to kill you. :-) The way alchemy works is this: You can mix 2 or three ingredients together. Each ingredient has four magical properties. If you mix two that have the same property, that potion will have that property. If you mix wheat and blisterwort, they both have healing (note: not a spoiler ;-), so you get a healing potion. If you mix a third thing, and it shares a property with wheat or with blisterwort, then the potion will have healing and that third property. So you can always make a healing potion and also see if a new ingredient matches something wheat or blisterwort does. So other than actually eating the stuff without mixing it, that's how you're supposed to discover new things without ever making a potion that doesn't work.

Ask anyone here, and they'll tell you they played it a bunch of times, with different styles and personalities and races and goals. Even if you're disappointed you fucked up your character to no end, you can replay it as someone entirely different. There are people on youtube who have played it for 8000 hours still finding fun and innovative challenges without any mods at all. (My favorite is "Major Slack." Once you kill your first dragon, it's safe to watch the first video of each of his playlists to see his challenges for pure mage, pure warrior, pure archer, pure thief, etc etc etc. Lots of fun ideas.)

As for mods, simple graphical improvements (SMIM, Realistic Overhaul, Night Skies, extra road signs, road lanterns, better world map, etc) won't change the experience but will make it better. You can also add entirely new areas (Forgotten City) or entirely new characters (Lucien, Inigo) to spice it up. But try a game with none of that until you feel like you're missing something, before you bother starting to add stuff.

Also, there are some things where you simply can't experience the entire thing on the first play through. For example, as you already know, there are storm cloaks and imperials. Well, you can't be both, so if you want to see how it goes, you need to do that at least twice. And there are several more things like that. Save them, or kill them? Join them, or fight them?

But looking up the answers? Bah! Don't spoil the glory for yourself.

But do keep notes. :-) One thing I'll say is that some character will ask you to go fetch for him his X that got stolen and taken to Y. And your quest journal will say "Return his X." And you'll have no idea wtf you're supposed to do. So when you get a quest like that, jot a note in your diary.

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I'd get:

One of these:
https://www.amazon.com/Dragons-Play-Multipocket-Dice-Green/dp/B07DJ18RRB/

Or this which is less fancy but comes with dice:
https://www.amazon.com/Smartdealspro-Colors-Dungeons-Dragons-Pouches/dp/B01ABST9S4/

Maybe this:
https://www.amazon.com/Embossed-Leather-Stone-Unlined-Journal/dp/B006T92BTO/

Or this:
https://www.amazon.com/Leather-Refillable-Notebook-Handmade-Journals-Sketchbook/dp/B077B7KDY7/

This kinda cool:
https://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Hardback-Binder-Organizer-Planner/dp/B06XGQZY2D/

A copy of the Player's Handbook would be nice too but she may already have that.

Spell Cards are also super cool, but class dependent so find out what she's playing first:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=D%26D+spell+cards&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

I think for me it would have be either the hunchback of notre dame because ive never seen it, and my brother and younger cousin keep talking about how good a villain it has, and making fun of me for not seeing it.

Or this journal, which i really like :) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006T92BTO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_jlZ.Bb496JG8T