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.
I just do vanilla leveling. Yeah, you have to think about it a little, but you can't get locked at shit stats anywhere near as easily as in Oblivion. And once you're at the end game and can pay for trainers, leveling is really not that big of a deal.
For storage, there's an empty (well, mostly) house in Balmora that has a dead body in it that can hold an infinite amount of shit. I always use that house (the body) for storage until I've joined the Telvanni and grown my own house, which also conveniently has a dead body that can hold infinite amounts of stuff.