[veave]

One of my playthroughs of Oblivion I did at level 1 without levelling. It made everything much easier (oh, and Umbra's sword). Unfortunately it also meant that you there was much less monster diversity since some monsters only appeared at higher levels. https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Under_Leveling

Still something interesting to try.

[kqr]

I actually preferred that because the low-level creatures seemed more appropriate for most of the Cyrodiilic environments. I'd imagine the imperial presence would quickly drive out most of the tough beasts in most areas of the countryside and the less special dungeons.

I guess lore-wise Cyrodiil was supposed to be larger and then tough creatures would make more sense, but in-game, most of it felt like the back yard of the imperial city.

[account42]

It's not just the beasts that are out of place - common bandits wearing glass armor at high player levels is pretty ridiculous.