Thanks a bunch! Will give it a go this week!

That doesn't sound like a game one would put +100 hours into, please don't tell me you have played it because of the story.

Exploration..its all about the exploration!

Defintely not my hardest but this was my longest for sure.  Mods sure make the game more fun.

(Sorry about the low framerate, was back when I had SLI'd 250's, now a 660 Ti)

This was an impossible one for me, I just had too little health (cause 600 is too little apparently for him).

lure it to plain lands then fight it

frost trolls are a one hit kill when u hit level 40 :P

This one actually wasn't hard, more funny with the giant helping me.

Those dragon mods look good, the dragons were the most underwhelming part of Skyrim for me; they are stupid, rather weak and way too frequent. I think I killed over fifty of them in as many gaming hours; that takes the whole "magic away, seems like they spawn like flies rather than ancient and powerful beasts.

The best one was the first out of the eight or so dragon attacks on riverwood (yeah, they god it bad, most of the population was killed by dragons...). I killed the dragon and some guards helped me, then I left for Whiterun to stash stome stuff (mostly the dragonbone that weighs about sixty thousand tons per piece) and fast travelled back to Riverwood again. The dragon's skeleton in the middle of the road thrashed around a bit as the scene loaded after fast travel and it actually jumped on top of a guard and killed him. Another guard then sprints towards me and shouts while indicating the fresh corpse; "Do you know anything about this!?" Laughter ensued. You're welcome, you cunts...

Similar things also happened in Dawnstar, Dawnstar and Riverwood seems to be the two towns where I encountered the most dragons, I don't think I'm lying if I say that at least fifteen of those fifty dragons were killed around those parts.

They were made even harder cause I self nerfed myself.

Restricted myself to Dwarven armor with no enchants and ignored all the uber gear/spells the mod gave you.

Also to fit the theme of a paladin I didn't level anything that wouldn't fit that archtype, hence no archery.

True RPG's should be hard imo. Archery is ridiculous in Skyrim, even though it was pretty useless in Oblivion, Morrowind and Daggerfall, I have no idea why they failed to balance it so badly; it's almost as if Bethesda have no concept of middle ground.
In vanilla Gothic 3, it's almost the other way around; melee is unstopable due to attack interrupts and archery was mostly rather ineffective without the very best bow, skills and headshots.

All the TES allows for some insanely overpowered characters, sometimes even without the player going for it. I remember my Oblivion character with 105% damage reflection and 80% spell absorb/resist, that made for some real challenges... And Morrowind was ridiculous with the Enchant mechanics; wear all clothes, rings, armor and gear with strength mod of 1-47 (equip till you hit 46) and then add all damage effects to a single weapon = one hit practically every mob in the game in one big "swoosh".

Bethesda are ambitious and talented, no doubt, otherwise I would never spend hundreds of hours on their games, but they really, really don't know how to properly balance a game. But that's why we game on the PC, let the modders take care of it!