While I do like Skyrim and TES in general, saying that it isn't harsh is a bit silly. I mean as a game might be easy, yeah. But if just a regular person(even if they knew about jumping) would be thrust into a world full of dragons, trolls and so on, they wouldn't survive all that long unless they were like... super people.

I would suggest some place that's relatively modern and "safe," yet has a battle element to it. Lets our characters to get used to the situation instead of getting immediately killed.

I don't know any universes like that though. And this is an RP, there isn't much need for "realism."