How to play Skyrim WITHOUT DRAGONS!

[masternoxx1]

How to play Skyrim WITHOUT DRAGONS! by masternoxx.

Figure out do you want to finish the Golden Claw / Riverwood Trader quest and if that is important to you...

Option 1 - When Baagruf takes you over to Farengar to speak, simply exit the conversation / push B button. Next time you talk to him it will say "You have something the Jarl wanted to talk about?" and then you can control if you want to start it. Note Jarl Baalgruf Will Just stand in Farengar's office for rest of game. You cannot finish Golden Claw this way.

Option 2 - Get Golden Claw AND Bleak Falls Barrow (dragonstone) Quest. Do the whole thing get the word but DON'T TAKE THE DRAGONSTONE off the Draugr Boss at the end by the word wall. At first I was concerned will the body disappear in 30 days (deleting Dragonstone forever) but no I tested it, what happens is there is a new coffin with a new boss, will bust out when you get close to the used word wall, and he does have the dragonstone, again.
Farengar will also always say "Why are you still here" over and over again this way...
After you have absorbed the Word Wall only THEN you can return the Golden Claw to Riverwood Trader. (Or maybe it's after you kill the Draugr Boss?)

There you go! There no more annoying Dragons attacking you all the time!

But you've left it open for later =]

So you can do option one and then two. There seem to be a few other ways but not as good as either of these. I'd just thought I'd post this after testing where is the absolute last place before you can avoid dragons appearing. =]

Few other things noticed about Bleak Falls Barrow during this:
Draugr ambushes dont trigger the 2nd time through (except for boss!) making them awesome for rapid skill ups.
It seems that enemies respawn after 10 days maybe. Chests it takes a lot longer. (before cleared status!).
Tried to enter from the backdoor, not labeled (exit), it was blocked with switched stone wall down, I guess that reset too?

[Senor Cinco]

The Dragons trigger when you go to meet Irileth at the Watchtower. If I have the Dragonstone, then I just don't give it to him. If I give it to him, I try to avoid the Watchtower, as back-up-plan-last-option.

[Quevik]

You can just ignore bleak falls entirely and they never appear. After exiting helgen, i did the thieve's guild and the mages college before starting bleak falls as i wanted no dragons for a bit.

Also, just so you're aware, the dragon attacks are paused during the kynesgrove phase of the main quest. You can actually progress the quest up to the point where you get all three words of unrelenting force and then pause the dragon attacks by not following her to kynesgrove.

You may have 1-2 attacks between whiterun and the horn, but you get all of unrelenting force this way.

[Rez Elwin]

You can complete the quest for the claw and the stone. Once you return the stone they have a guard come in and report the Western Watchtower was attacked, but if you don't follow them up and talk to Baalgruf the Quest won't start and the Dragon won't appear. That quest is Dragon Rising, and it triggers the dragons spawns. There are 2 you can still fight but neither gives you a soul.

The Skeletal Dragon as part of the College and Durnehviir as Part of Dawnguard are always there. The Twin Dragons of the Forgotten Vale should spawn but they don't because they give souls and you can't absorb souls yet.

That's the latest you can progress in the MQ without dragons Spawning. You can't finish the civil war if you do this though.

[SpeedFreak1972]

Also Dagonborn won't start, however you can get to the island.

[MF]

I decided to NOT be dragonboy this time around too. Started the game in Solitude instead of Helgen. I'm level 28 and they're still waiting for me to talk to them in the throne room at White Run lmao. I drop by now and then to trade with the wizard guy, but I pointedly ignore the rest of them.

Yes - those skies are quiet and peaceful. It really changes the game. I'm enjoying it.

[Ihateeverybody]

I actually like the Dragon Battles. I don't even mind absorbing souls. I just Loathe the Shout mechanic. The chanting word walls. Pretty much anything about the main quest after (I forget which one) shouts DOVAKIN (I also hate being called dragonborn, dovakin or being late for dinner (that one's for you dad, even though you died almost 40 years ago).

[masternoxx1]

DRAGON BOYYYYY

If I recall Balgruuf you can't get close to him without Irileth topic / quest forced starting and then you get blocked on the main road to Rorikstead just outside Whiterun, with another forced start in radius quest. So either it's block off part of the map or never talk to Balgruuf again if you turn in the Dragonstone.
But I forget kind of maybe there is a line of text from Baalguf...
or maybe you can cancel key out of it.
I gonna try that later =]

[masternoxx1]

According to the TES Wiki it is when the first dragon (Mulanmir or something?) dies that is the point other dragons start (randomly) appearing on the overworld.

[masternoxx1]

Originalmente postado por Señor Cinco:

The Dragons trigger when you go to meet Irileth at the Watchtower. If I have the Dragonstone, then I just don't give it to him. If I give it to him, I try to avoid the Watchtower, as back-up-plan-last-option.

There's an option not to give it to him? LOL? What does he say? Or do you just cancel button out?
Suppose I could look it up maybe

[masternoxx1]

Even if you don't fight eventually the first dragon (MIRMULNIR) will be killed by guards and Irileth
Oh but wait there is that part when you have to go up to the tower to start the Dragon sequence...
So that is the last chance to avoid probably...

[masternoxx1]

You could do stuff like unessential Irileth and shoot guards in the back and make them lose the dragon fight LOL and then you could have that dragon flying around forever LOL?

[dvdbillen]

Originalmente postado por masternoxx1:

How to play Skyrim WITHOUT DRAGONS!

I use a mod called Skyrim Unbound Reborn (Alternate Start): https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/27962

You can just turn-off dragons. (You can also leave dragons, but only at walls).

[alexander_dougherty]

Originalmente postado por masternoxx1:

Originalmente postado por Señor Cinco:

The Dragons trigger when you go to meet Irileth at the Watchtower. If I have the Dragonstone, then I just don't give it to him. If I give it to him, I try to avoid the Watchtower, as back-up-plan-last-option.

There's an option not to give it to him? LOL? What does he say? Or do you just cancel button out?
Suppose I could look it up maybe

Just don't talk to him.

[XanE]

I did the Golden Claw quest, killed the Draugr Overlord but did not take the Dragonstone.

I got into Whiterun ok saying I needed to talk to the Jarl, and I can access the Alchemy Lab and Arcane Enchanter in Dragonsreach but have to avoid tallking to Irileth.

Bleak Falls Barrow has not started.

No dragons this time round, great fun.

The Dragonstone is a bane in survival mode, an undroppable 25 unit deadweight, the main reason I didn't take it.

[xaocfera]

A much bigger problem in this game is a group of 3 vampires suddenly appearing from invisibility near you. They will not kill an experienced player but will infect him with vampirism. And in this game there is a disgusting "bug" that can ruin your whole game. Namely, even if you managed to recover from vampirism, you still look like a vampire, and have vulnerabilities to fire like a vampire.