Starting a new play and man do I love this game. I could talk about Morrowind for hours so lets do.
Question: There's a million little game breaking exploits so what limitations do you impose on yourself to keep the game fair? When are you cheating?
For me the uh compounding magic is cheating, like fortifying before making potions. Permanent buffs like soul trapping myself are cheating. spamming wait/rest (like for creeper) is cheating.
I really love the overworld. That's what it is. It's an entire foreign culture but like an original culture. The lore, the pantheon, the style. Game of Thrones is British derivative. Dune is the middle east. Morrowind feels unique.
Morrowind made a lot of genuinely unique world building decisions, it's a great example of how to build a genuinely different world and environments, as opposed to just copy-pasting other fantasy worlds or real world history into a world of your own creation.
If only Elder Scrolls didn't just have boring ass orcs elves (and even) humans like every other fantasy world, at least they put kind of a unique spin on those races.
Morrowind is special because it doesn't centralize the standard fantasy races. To the extent that there is a protagonist race it'd be the Dunmer who- yeah they're not the first dark elves but they're only superficially "dark elves". They're tribal and orthodox and xenophobic...they're Dunmer.
Love that "Dunmer" doesn't translate to "dark skinned elves", it translates to "kind of a bunch of dicks elves"
They do have some weird out there ones like Khajit being not just the cat anthros but also cats and tigers and elf looking dudes all depending on the phase of the moon when they were born. Or the apes that wear capes and insist elves smell better.