Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-72.228.21.119-20131007215642/@comment-218.186.253.116-20131013125110

Play as a jack of all trades, with sneak, destruction, one handed etc

Have combat skills in all three paths (not going to say this for crafting, because you WILL want smithing, alchemy and enchanting to create OP gear)

E.g. Use a mage in light armor who has quiet casting from illusion. Sneak into a group, then blast them with a firestorm!. Finish off the rest with incinerate and a sword! Turn invisible when you are dying! Put poison on your bound bow. Use alteration to mass paralyse, summon 2 dremora lords,  then smash the enemy to pulp with a warhammer along with your daedric cronies. Many skills, many possibilities (although you won't be very good at anything)

Seriously, pure builds are damn boring and very easy to play. They also don't offer much variety. A pure mage is about destruction spam (a robes of master destruction, amulet, ring and circlet or peerless destruction and you're set), casting mage armor and summoning the odd dremora lord or two (the master conjuration spells SUCK). A pure warrior is just a brute in enchanted daedric armor. A pure thief does not exist (Armsman and overdraw are compulsory). Just sayin...