While Lydia and I were walking up to High Hrothgar, I encountered a frost troll and holy stuff are they difficult. I left Lydia behind to die while I ran for my life. I just realized she has my stuff.
forget.
EDIT: false alarm, she teleported back to me somehow. i didn't know people had this technology in skyrim.
I found the Frost Troll on the way back down, since I improvised my way up. It chased me down to a Polar Bear, which caused me to run off the trail. I saw the bear and the troll fighting, but when I tried to look forward, this tree blocked my view. I moved a little, shear cliff RIGHT at my horses feet, he was partially off it. "Okay, just slowly back aw- FUUUCK" Forgot how terrible horses are, they can't back up AT ALL. They make U turns, and he jumped off to our deaths. By the way, the only way followers can die is if you hit them. Otherwise, they just crouch down and regain health slowly.
I don't know, realistically smacking a horse with a sword makes more sense than running into the dangerous wilds unlearned in the way of the blade.
Real swordsmen would train on dummies and such, as they do in game, but since the player cannot gain experience from them a horse is a good dummy substitute. Same goes for bows and other combat stuff.
Though I wouldn't feel right grinding to 100 like this, but maybe to 25 or at the most 50. I also wouldn't train sneak like that.
Didn't even work in terms of Archery. I gained two levels in like 30 minutes, 76. Is there and legitimate way to quickly train this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSDfxde8fSg
I used to say "I don't give a forget" like you, then I realized saying that is contradictory.