searching for a mod to skip the intro

[Rockets]

I want to play, but by the time I wheeled into town as a prisoner I am about done.

[Snowhusky5]

there's a bunch of mods like that. If you want to spice up the start of your playthrough, check out Live Another Life. You can start as a basic guild member, a vampire, a traveller, etc.

[Uncle64]

There are some mods that do what you ask for.
Live another life is one of them.

Do you have any issues in the start of the game?

[Robas]

Make a save right before character creation and load that one up everytime you want to make a new character. After creating your character, just walk out of the town gate ignoring the dragon opening

[Rush Knight]

Originally posted by Super Rob64:

Make a save right before character creation and load that one up everytime you want to make a new character.

This, or let the intro finish playing. I don't know about subsequent playthroughs, but as I recall Skyrim creates a manual save on the first run, just before Hadvar starts reading his list.

[Clinnger]

As mentioned by Snowhusky5:

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/9557/?

is probably what you're looking for.

[newrentor]

Alternate Start-Live Another Life is the way to go (see above for link). You go straight to a char creation screen; once done, you wake up in a jail cell with a statue of Mara. By activating the statue, you get nearly a dozen choices. You can also start as a landowner, farmer, wake up in a capsized ship, escape from the jail cell you're in... and so on. (see Snowhusky5's 1st post).
If you find your way to Helgen, you'll see the aftermath from the original start.

[Sanctuary]

Skyrim Unbound
Alternate start - live another life
Pick one. Both are good, but in my opinion, second one is more immersive. And the first one has more options to choose.

[Shallex]

Why would you want to skip the storyline?

[Master Assassin D]

Live Another Life is porbably the best one i could suggest i use it all the time as after creating more then 3 different characters that intro was becoming tedious and far too long

[Rockets]

Originally posted by Super Rob64:

Make a save right before character creation and load that one up everytime you want to make a new character. After creating your character, just walk out of the town gate ignoring the dragon opening

That is a thing you can do? Thought they shot you.

[Rush Knight]

Originally posted by Baja:

Originally posted by Super Rob64:

Make a save right before character creation and load that one up everytime you want to make a new character. After creating your character, just walk out of the town gate ignoring the dragon opening

That is a thing you can do? Thought they shot you.

As far as I know the movement controls don't even unlock until after Alduin attacks, and the town is inescapable by that time. But you can make a save right before entering the character creator.

[IRGAftermath]

As everyone else said, Live Another Life is a great mod.

[wepfhwepfhp]

Originally posted by Rush Knight:

Originally posted by Super Rob64:

Make a save right before character creation and load that one up everytime you want to make a new character.

This, or let the intro finish playing. I don't know about subsequent playthroughs, but as I recall Skyrim creates a manual save on the first run, just before Hadvar starts reading his list.

Yes, you're correct. The game autosaves once everyone's out of the cart. Whenever I start a new game I click "New" and just walk away and do something else. And when the character creation screen starts, that's when I actually start playing

[Sora]

Originally posted by Shallex:

Why would you want to skip the storyline?

There's no skipping the story line. At least for Alternate Start, you choose where you want to start and how (necromancer, homeowner, new guy @ faction). The mod leads you back to Helgen and the Imperial/Stormcloak survivor who take you to Riverwood. You just skip the intro sequence with being carted off to Helgen with Ulfric and your head being saved thanks to a dragon attack.

[gnewna]

Originally posted by Acesky:

Originally posted by Shallex:

Why would you want to skip the storyline?

There's no skipping the story line. At least for Alternate Start, you choose where you want to start and how (necromancer, homeowner, new guy @ faction). The mod leads you back to Helgen and the Imperial/Stormcloak survivor who take you to Riverwood. You just skip the intro sequence with being carted off to Helgen with Ulfric and your head being saved thanks to a dragon attack.

Even in vanilla you can totally skip the main quest, just don't go to Bleak Falls Barrow/collect the Dragonstone/take it to Farengar (you could, I suppose, take it to Farengar and then avoid the area with the dragon fight but that would probably be tricky and potentially gum up the game, it's best not to abandon/postpone the MQ at points when an NPC is out of their usual location waiting for you - e.g. when Delphine's gone to Kynesgrove).

In ASLAL, you can ignore Helgen as long as you like, once you approach the area it triggers Alduin flying away and that prompts you to investigate the rubble. If you never go near Helgen, the MQ doesn't happen. (And even if you happen into the area, it just puts you at the point of 'go and warn the people of Riverwood' which you can pretty safely ignore.)

If you want to be able to actually properly skip the MQ and still have dragons/do the Civil War, by the way, Skyrim Unbound is the way to go. With Skyrim Unbound, you skip everything up to Mirmulnir - when you absorb your first dragon soul, you hear the Greybeards' summoning you to High Hrothgar and The Way Of The Voice initiates. If you don't want the MQ triggered, you can simply set the MCM so that you either don't have dragons at all, or you have dragons but don't absorb their souls. You can, as I understand it, still play through the Civil War without having to sort out Balgruuf's dragon concerns, though I've not tried it myself as I like the Civil War even less than the MQ.

Oh, and ASLAL also has an option of doing the actual vanilla start - this is useful if you want to use it to safely install all your mods at the very start of the playthrough (with the exception of any mods like Helgen Reborn which specify they MUST be installed after escaping the cave under Helgen) but still want your character to go through Helgen.