So, Skyrim's out 11/11/11

[Treesh]

However, fighting the ice troll AND a dragon took the poor girl out

Oh. I misread that... Yeah, I've had surprises with dragons too.

On the positive... Doing the dragon bounty quest, the dragon decided to attack a camp of giants. I decided to switch tactic to mainly healing, and avoid the dragon. When it landed, the giants pwnd it. Then, I just had to get brave enough to get the soul, loot it, and go collect the bounty.

On the negative... I was walking out of town in Winterhold, when a dragon attacked. Then a sabre cat ran into the melee, which we dispatched. Then, a blood dragon, added in. So, I focused on the dragon, dispatched it. Then slogged out the bigger battle with the blood dragon. And, the only reason we survived this was that they both were frost breathers.

My char just married Aela the Huntress, and for our honeymoon, we took down a camp of 2 giants, and 3 mammoths. I aggroed them, and then ran around healing, while she shot them with her leet bow skills.

Fantastic honeymoon. =)

And after finally doing the next bit on the main quest, my loner sniper is actually going to get healing hands. When she's got a companion forced on her, it could come in handy. Nytha swears by it when she's dragging Lydia around.

Awesome about the giants and the dragon. I had one dragon circling around, but I realized it was flaming at something else and not me so I started to chase it. Well, it turns out that it was fighting wolves and chasing them while they were chasing it so it looked like a crazy dragon. The wolves were dispatched and a second dragon came in while the first was still swooping around because now it was chasing a bear that was chasing after the dragon. The two dragons ended up just flying off so I killed the idiot bear. Etheramwen's dragons always end up doing weird things. She hasn't killed a non-quest dragon yet because of weird glitchy things. She did kill herself two mammoths at the same time. Next she's going to take on giants.

There was one dragon that she was going to shoot and it seemed to be behaving - until it flew into a keep that was occupied by a gang of bandits. They stopped shooting at the dragon to shoot at her. By the time I had them all cleared up, the dragon had flown off. Maybe the dragons have heard rumors and are just scared of her bow now.