Things You Cannot Do

Although Morrowind is a freeform game and there are a lot of things you can do (including quite a few that you should not do), there are several things that you cannot do in the game as it was released.

• You cannot turn yourself into the god of Morrowind
• You cannot give the tools to Dagoth Ur and become his partner
• You cannot activate Akulakhan
• You cannot become Duke of Vvardenfell
• You cannot join more than one Great House (the bug in the release version is fixed)
• You cannot replace Dagoth Ur as the head of the Sixth House
• You cannot join the Sixth House
• You cannot join the Camonna Tong
• You cannot become an Ordinator
• You cannot see/talk to/kill Sotha Sil (having Tribunal installed changes this)
• You cannot see/talk to/kill Almalexia (having Tribunal installed changes this)
• You cannot see/kill any of the seven Daedra Princes (talking to them is a one-way conversation -- they talk to you)

This is not to say that you can't sit down with the Construction Set and build a plug-in that would allow you to accomplish these things. But they cannot be done in the game as it was released.

As for other things, go talk to M'Aiq the Liar (he's on a little island just east of Dagon Fel) to find out that:

• You can't become a lich (barring a plug-in)
• There are no dragons (barring a plug-in)
• There are no horses (barring a plug-in)
• There are no pack animals or wagons (barring a plug-in - Tribunal added a Pack Rat, though)
• You cannot pick up and move dead bodies (barring a plug-in that treats them as inventory items)
• There is no multiplayer option (game engine issue, a plug-in can't do it)
• There is no nudity (there are several plug-ins addressing this)
• There is no rope (I don't think this is a game engine thing, but I don't see how it could be done, even with a plug-in)

Many of these things were things that fans wanted, but were not included in the game. Several of them harken back to issues with Daggerfall. For example, rope was an item that appeared in the Daggerfall manual, but never appeared in the game, and several players spent months (real time) searching for dragons in Daggerfall (there was a dragon in Redguard, though, and you got to kill him). As for the nudity thing, that seems to have been one of the earliest things to be modded.