Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, The Cheats (PC)

The unicorn offers tranquility. It's also unseasonably warm. If you have a uniorn, go to
any city with a stable and stable the unicorn. Lock the unicorn inside while you are
outside. Draw your weapon and the unicorn will get mad. A guard will go inside the stable
and start attacking the unicorn. Close the gate in after the guard while remaining
outside. The unicorn will kill the guard and you can loot the body. 

Each guard has a key to his respective city. You can then fast travel to a different city
and you can do it again. Some of the stables have a way for the unicorn to get out, so
beware. If the unicorn gets one attack in, it will probably kill you. The only way to kill
unicorns is with daedric, magic, or silver weapons.

Go to the arena in the Imperial city and watch the blue team archer shoot arrows. Half the
time you can go in there, the arrows the archers shoots will be there and you can simply
take them without being labelled a thief. Naturally, you may want to save before
attempting this.

First, goto the Imperial City Talos Plaza District. Then, open your map (the one that
shows the names of all the buildings in your current location), and find Dorian's house.
Go inside his house and bribe him all the money you can, then make him upset by making
disposition going down by playing the disposition mini game, and repeat the bribing
process. Once you've bribed him a good amount of money, such as 1000 Gold, kill him as
fast as you can.

A good way to kill him without allowing him to run away is to push him in the other room
and stand in the doorway while attacking him. After he's dead, goto his body and keep
clicking on his gold. DO NOT select "Take All" as it will ruin the glitch, just keep
clicking his gold. You'll get the amount of gold he has on his body every time you click
it, and he will never run out of it.

There is a way for you to get your sneak skill to rise very quickly in the game. When you
have the option to join the theives guild by meeting Armand at the Imperial Water Front
garden around 11 pm, accept his task. He will offer you the option to buy lockpicks. Don't
buy any. Go into sneak mode and go behind him. Not only will you get the lockpicks from
him for free, you can also repeatedly pickpocket him to build up your sneak skill and all
he'll say is to go ahead, he doesn't need it anyway.

Press ~ during game play to display the console window:

Effect - Code

Add 100 lockpicks - player.additem 0000000a "100" 

Add 100 skeleton keys - player.additem 0000000b "100" 

Add 100 repair hammers - player.additem 0000000c "100" 

Add 100 gold - player.additem 0000000f "100" 

All map locations shown - togglemapmarkers 

Change your gender - sexchange 

Change your birthsign - showbirthsignmenu 

Change your class - showclassmenu 

Complete all quest stages- caqs 

Spawn indicated item - additem <[item number] 

Get indicated spell - addspell [spell number] 

Give all spells to player - psb 

God mode, if nothing is targeted - tgm 

Force a level up - advlevel 

Force skill level up - advskill [skill] 

Free camera movement - tfc 

List console commands - help 

Kill selected NPC target; suicide if nothing is targeted - kill

Moves to current quest target - movetoquesttarget 

Quit game immediately - qqq 

Set player level - player.setlevel [1-255] 

Set all quest stages - completeallqueststages 

Set hair color - hairtint [red] [green] [blue] 

Spawn indicated item - player.additem [item code] 1 

Save game - savegame [filename] 

Set fog start and end depths - setfog [start] [end] 

Show sign selection screen - showbirthsignmenu 

Show class selection screen - showclassmenu 

Show quest log - showquestlog 

Show current quest log - showquestlog 0 

Show completed quest log - showquestlog 1 

Show current quest targets - showquesttargets 

Show name/race/appearance selection screen - showracemenu 

Teleport - player.coc [destination name] 

Teleport3 - coc [destination name] 

Toggle full help - tfh 

Toggle grass - tg 

Toggle NPC conversation subtitles - showsubtitle 

Toggle AI - tai 

Toggle combat AI - tcai 

Toggle no clipping - tcl 

Toggle AI detection - tdetect 

Toggle debug display - tdt 

Toggle land - tll 

Toggle leaves - tlv 

Toggle menus - tm 

Toggle fog of war - togglefogofwar 

Toggle sky - ts 

Toggle trees - tt 

Toggle wireframe - twf 

Toggle water - tws 

Unlock selected locked door or container - unlock

Window with the full game scene graph - ssg

You can raise most other skills without trouble, except perhaps, for Mercantile. Go to the
tents in Kvatch. Equip any weapon and get on horseback.  Once this is done, talk to the
Orc woman with corn rows and sell the weapon to her. Your weapon will not be sold but you
will get 200 gold every time you attempt this. It raises the mercantile skill while you
make money. Win-win.

The gates generate a random plane of oblivion along with a random sigil stone. Go through
the tower all the way to the top, till you reach the sigil stone. Simply save the game
before the stone spawns and you can re-randomize the stone by re-loading the game, if it's
not to your liking.

In the early stages of the main quest, go on horse to the female Orc waiting ouside
Kvatch. Try and sell her your equipped weapon and it will say "Cannot Unequip this
weapon." However, you will be given the gold as if you sold it. You can constantly do this
for unlimited gold.

Save your game by a door. Auto lockpick the door until it opens. Right before the door
opens, hit [Escape] and load the save game. The game will load with you inside the door
with all the lockpicks you had before lockpicking and any items from that save.

There is a setting in the INI file: bAllowScreenShot=0

change it to: bAllowScreenShot=1

Also, two related items for the screenshots:

iScreenShotIndex=0

SScreenShotBaseName=Oblivion

There are two INI files, one in the game folder called "Oblivion_default.ini", this is the
one it uses to generate the real one:

My Documents\My Games\Oblivion\Oblivion.ini

Edit the first one if you want to default to having screenshots on by default for all
users. The settings it uses at runtime are the ones from My Documents folder.

After you edited the INI file, you can press PRTSCN button and Oblivion will write a BMP
file to your game folder.

Having trouble with strong monsters or opponents? Work a bit on your Alchemy skill and
learn to concoct potions to "Damage Health". Combine such potions with your most potent
weapon and hit your enemy a few times, then run off and cackle like a maniac while your
quarry dies within minutes. (Repeat as necessary).

This requires your acrobatics to be fairly high (always jump when travelling to increase
it), since you need to jump to a spot that's normally out of reach. The blind spot is not
immune to ranged weapons or spells, but for the most part, you can take down enemy
combatants with your ranged weapons or spells without a loss.

Naturally, save your game before you attempt this.

As soon as the fight starts, run to the left. There is a gray stone pillar, next to the
gate. Just jump on and up onto it, as high as you can. Often your opponent is there
attacking you so the force of the attack may actually push you onto the short pillar.

If you do it right, you can stay perched up there, safely out of reach of most melee
fighters. You can proceed to destroy your opponents with arrows or other ranged attacks at
your disposal.