Yeah I have to say that I enjoy the mage tactic of running through and melting faces. It's pretty rare that I run into something that actually gives me a challenge, and I've got a decent stock of potions to handle them. The only time my character has died was when I was messing around fighting guards. I came close on the first dragon you have to fight in Whiterun, but that was only because I decided to go toe-to-toe with him and see what happened. I literally stood in his breath taking damage while killing him at the end, and just barely took him down.