First time playing Daggerfall

[KeighnMcDeath]

Ok, not getting paid for rat killing might be a feature. Tried again, again no payment. Weird decision, but ok.

The payment is the pleasure seeing those rodents die horribly.

KILL THEM ALL!!

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Also, is there a better way to grind for a low level character than doing Fighter's Guild quests? I haven't done much exploring so far.

The easiest grinding method in Daggerfall is to accept the two Mages Guild quest-types that only require you to guard an item in the Mages Guild from enemies who will appear while you wait. Kill the enemies, load all their equipment into your horse-cart, sell everything, repeat as needed, and you have enough funds for training your skills and other uses, as well as propelling your Mages Guild reputation upward.

 

[Wayward Son]

how do I merchant?!

you click on a merchant's shelves which brings up in the inventory, you select an item, click on buy, right? For some reason it doesn't work for me. I can't even buy a stack of arrows.

Also, is there a better way to grind for a low level character than doing Fighter's Guild quests? I haven't done much exploring so far.

You double click on it so it moves over to your side then click buy. Low level grinding can be done by knocking out half a dozen small graveyards or by doing as you’re doing with doing your guilds’ quests. Most of your rewards come in the form of loot, get a cart early on to let you load up your loot without having to leave and come back. Then you sell the loot and can use the gold to advance skills if you didn’t get enough from the dungeons. It can be kinda slow but the game is more of a career simulator than other TES games. You’re playing through several years of your character’s life progression. Stop and enjoy the world.

 

[Hagashager]

how do I merchant?!

you click on a merchant's shelves which brings up in the inventory, you select an item, click on buy, right? For some reason it doesn't work for me. I can't even buy a stack of arrows.

Also, is there a better way to grind for a low level character than doing Fighter's Guild quests? I haven't done much exploring so far.

Unless you're playing with an overworld mod, you wont be exploring like you would in later TES games. The overworld is completely flat in vanilla DF and has shallow hills and valleys in DFU (without terrain mods). There is absolutely zero reason to travel in-real-time to any location.