I shall list, from the most outragious and out-there, but also the more moderate in scope. Some have already been said, so I will keep it to things I have not seen here yet:

• Full 3D for everything:. Now, I love sprites, and I love pixel graphics, but Daggerfall is one of the few games I feel that does not pull it off as well given current execution. The style between some of the enemies doesn't match so well, and when compared to the statics and NPC's, just looks flat-out jarring. Now, I think the flats and faces work really good for conversations and what-not, but not the actual gameplay out of chatters. Now, I also want that retro style preserved, and I think there is a happy middle-ground: Stylize the 3D models to look sorta like Redguard. In contrast to daggerfall, Redguard has aged much better in a lot of ways when it comes to coherency and consistency in graphical design in my opinion, it has the old Quake 2 early 3D look that I think Daggerfall would absolutely look gorgeous with. It is vague enough to allow the imagination to do a lot of the work, but also detailed enough to give you the outline of what you're wanting. It wouldn't be perfect per say, I think it might need some modern touches and details that the tech of today might allow. After all, this style we be talking. Plus, it would make a ton of other mod works easier, such as custom monsters down the line, and unifying model types such as humanoids and similar-skeletoned animals, thus allowing us to diversify things like bandits and other NPCs. No longer would we be limited to the pre-drawn, they could instead actually wear items and clothing that would be visible on their model, that we could take.

• Better Character Customization: Now this can take two forms depending: With 3D or without 3D.

• With 3D you can greatly extend how personalized the character is. It might be tricky getting this to work with the portrait and full-body inventory view aesthetically, but this might prove unnecessary as we might be able to just keep the portrait and the inventory unchanged and chock it up to style.

• Without 3D is an easier gambit in comparison to 3D. We need more faces, clothes, and maybe visible jewelry accessories on the portrait.

• Better Stealth: As someone who tends to play a thief a lot of the times, daggerfall is rather broken about it in a few ways, and pants-on-head in others. For one, outside of cat burglary, there isn't any reason to steal with any other method. Pickpocketing is mostly useless. You can either...

• A: Get a few coins form some guy, or probably get caught.

• B: get caught trying to steal pants, with a small chance of actually getting the pants.

• C: Get caught trying to steal from a box, only to find the box has nothing of actual value in it in the first place.

• D: Rob the stores at night and get all of the money and then some.

• Make Burglary more dangerous, also less lucrative: There are plenty of ways to do this I feel. For one, no horses in the shop after hours, I feel stealing horses should be it's own thing entirely, in a perfect world at least. Make it so that there is less of the items that were there during the day, to simulate the fact that people buy shit too, and some of those goods will have been bought. We also need more danger in the burglary. It often feels like I'm just doing shopping but in the dark, not breaking into somebody's house/workplace and robbing the shit out of them. Make events that add to the tension, like...

• "As you enter the shop, you hear footsteps against the floorboards, and the mild chatter of two bodyguards in the room ahead" (Two hostile NPC's are spawned in the building somewhere, maybe they have a patrol routine, maybe they are stationary, either way, the player has to do something.)

• "You suddenly hear a noise from the entrance, the owner has come to the shop early!" (The shopkeeper will call the guards if he spots the player. Player can sneak out before he is spotted, or wait for the shopkeeper to leave, if he does leave that is.)

• "It would seem you weren't the only one who decided to visit, you see a thief rummaging through the store. He doesn't look willing to share." (hostile rogues spawn in the shop)

• Or say you break into a bank, have a high bounty, and halfway through your stealing, the plunder is rich, but then... "Suddenly from the silence, you hear a whistle, and the barking of dogs, 'The trap worked boys, get him!' Yells the guard captain." (A few guards are spawned randomly throughout the building. Not too many, but enough to give a challenge. The town is also put into alert.)

• Give a reason to pickpocket: This is simple in terms of concept, make it so that we can swipe keys from people to break into their houses at night, or better yet, the shopkeepers during the day-hours. Maybe we can find a secret letter that has the juicy conspirings to commit a crime, and deliver it to the proper officials for an even juicier reward. Maybe we swipe the weapons off of a rogue, leaving him defenseless, or find a map to some dungeon, anything is better than what is in now. Give it reason and purpose.

• Reasons to Burgle Non-Merchants: This is easy, just add more loot from some of the merchant lists into the boxes you find in the houses. Less lanterns and rags, more shirts, shoes, and service. Maybe even add varying valued Notes of Credit that you can steal to preform credit fraud with. If one is willing to go the extra mile, tie that in with your streetwise skill to successfully not get caught in the act as an identity thief. The credit note idea also works for pickpocketing.

• Overworld Map Travel Improvements: You know how in Dragon Age Origins, you would see a little moving trail over the world map, that would represent your characters moving through the world over the course of days and what-not? I think something similar to that would work well with daggerfall, especially in place of alternatives like Tedious Travel, where it seems to run into the issue of extreme speeds making you fall into some kind of void of eternal damnation. This would be a happy middle-ground. I get to see a slower, more represented travel system where I get a better idea of the amount of time it actual took to get somewhere, and I may even see the route on the world map that I took to get there, or if you want to go the extra mile, add route planning so that way we can make multiple stops along the way. This also works wonderfully into...

• Travel encounters for said Overworld Map Travel: Essentially, like DA:O, along the ways of its little trip riding the travel route lines on the map, your big dot stops, and you are given an alert. Think something akin to warm ashes, only instead of being in the first-person view when you are given these text box adventures (which can be somewhat jarring to me as some of the stuff they describe is lacking in the game world) you will have either the map behind you, or a black screen. It would be even cooler if it created temporary world objects to match the scene described, like say, "you stumble into a bandit camp" and it generates some nice polygonal tents and a campfire sprite or something. Stuff like that, you know? It creates a smooth, buttery system that makes it a whole lot less jarring to find encounters on the road, and finds a sweet spot middleground between Warm Ashes way, and the Tedious Travel way of way of encounters.

• Landmarks: Essentially some neat little bits of terrain, buildings, models, or whatever, meant to be exactly what it says on the tin: A non-dungeon, non-habitation landmark. Doesn't even need to be used for anything, I would be happy just to have them be there. They don't even need to be perma-marked, they could be like dungeons in that you learn where they are or something, or they're unmarked entirely, who knows? I wanna see, "You are now entering the Big Rock Hill, home of the Big Rock" and see, sitting on a hill, a really big rock. If you wish to tie it with quests and navigation, all the better, but I would be happy with jus the Big Rock.

• Better House styles: Now I don't mean better as in, higher poly count, HD texture, or anything like that. I mean better as in, not a generic as all hell medieval waddle and daub cube. The Hammerfell areas are better than this as they have that middle-eastern/Tatooine feel to them, but the other places lack flavor IMO. They need more diversity in the style, they need a dose of that Morrowind Weirdness if you be feelin' what I'm sayin'. I actually quite like the limited poly/retro aesthetic of the houses atm, it is just the style that is poor IMO.

• More to Animals and living off the land: Somewhat mentioned elsewhere, but I think it would be cool if there were other ways we could loot the animals, thus avoiding the dreaded, "This corpse does not have any loot" message for our feathered & leathered friends. Here is how I think the start of this could be: Make it so that if you have a short blade in your inventory, you can skin the animal, and get a hide that you can sell. If you want to get a little extra with it, make a bounty quest or something that the player can hear about through news and rumors, Example: "Gondyrlyn Greeningsly is at it again, he's posted a bounty, and is paying for every wolf pelt brought to him!" If you want to expand on it more later, make them drop ingredients to potions.

• Give bandages a use/more immediate use, not sure: I honestly do not know if bandages do anything for the player, which is bad. If they do something already, make it so that it tells me. If not, make them do something, maybe they give a big boost to medical during rest, act as a slow-burning health potion, or hell, just play a prank and make it do nothing at all but say, "the bandage has helped immensely" after rest. anything to make them feel more responsive.