A strange problem with Oblivion

[Popadoo]

Ok, so I decided to play through Oblivion. I didn't like it much, but if you sidestep the guards that know whatever you do all the time or the not-so-great combat, it's ok. I heard about the Dark Brotherhood, the group you have to kill someone to get into. So I set off and killed the closest NPC.
[Whoever] is unconscious.
Huh, I was aware this happened to important characters that were needed in future side quests, what a coincidence that I chose to kill them first. Best kill another NPC...
[Whoever 2] is unconscious.
Now this is just silly.
This is not exaggerating, I spent around an hour trying to find someone who was not vital to future quest chains, and gave up eventually.
Maybe it's because the Oblivion world is under-populated, or there's too many quests, I don't know, but it fucked me over.
Anyone else notice this?

 

[khiliani]

not realy. go kill a begger, they dont have many quests assosiated with them

 

[Kpt._Rob]

No, I never had that problem. Oblivion always seemed like it was full of plenty of people whose only purposes in life is to eat a sword and cough up some change and maybe a house key (assuming I hadn't already broken into their house and stolen EVERYTHING).

 

[darth.pixie]

Or go kill a peasant. Or a mad man. No beggars if you want to join the thieves.

I have the Shivering Isles expansion and I usually kill the madman there.

 

[blankedboy]

I liked it better in Morrowind when it comes up with a message telling you that you have to reload a save file if you want to continue the main quest, but you don't have to. That was better than all this unconcious bullshit.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

Do the Arena. Killing the champion counts as a murder for some reason.
It's how I always did it. Has the added benefit of avoiding guard attention.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

I always went to Cheydinhal the south slightly to a little village. There's about 6 people there you can murder in their sleep quite easily without any guard attention.

 

[moretimethansense]

Do the Arena. Killing the champion counts as a murder for some reason.
It's how I always did it. Has the added benefit of avoiding guard attention.

I'm pretty sure it only counts as murder if you do his quest first.

 

[Blood Countess]

No, I never had that problem. Oblivion always seemed like it was full of plenty of people whose only purposes in life is to eat a sword and cough up some change and maybe a house key (assuming I hadn't already broken into their house and stolen EVERYTHING).

Yeah this post is right.I played a murdering fool(I loved killing my adoring fan but hell who doesn't* and there was plenty of people to murder and rob so think you just got bad bad luck in your choose who to kill

 

[DragonBorn96]

Aren't the beggars needed for the Speechcraft Mastery quest? Im sure they are....

 

[Stavros Dimou]

you can know who isn't important by the crown symbol that appears when you get close to them.

 

[madwarper]

When you go for the Anvil recommendation, let the rogue mage come close and, before she talks to you, toast her ass with a fireball.

Get the recommendation and get visited by the Brotherhood.