[yrthwyndandfyre]

I'm sure by now most people have discovered that you can boost your magical skill by creating an ineffective short-term spell that you can cast with a real effect over and over, and thus boost your magic skills more quickly.

I found a rather extreme version of that cheat. I created a Fortify Intelligence spell that wears off in the time it takes to cast it, and depletes my magica slower than my magica regenerates. Ergo, I can cast it continuously and forever, with no useful effect except boosting my Regenerative skill.

Good enough, but sitting there for hours with a finger on the 'C' key is a bore, so I went one step farther. I pinned down my 'C' key by wedging a retracted razor-knife sheath in between the 'C' and Spacebar keys and balancing it upright.

Yes, you get it. I can start my PC casting that spell, wedge the key, and go away. I can watch TV, have dinner, see a movie, sleep...whatever. The whole time, my Regeneration skill is building.

Like I said, Extreme Spoiler.