A boring day at work so I let my thoughts drift...

Moving and wandering in outerworld should be made generally more exciting.
Outerworld monsters are great, but mostly those are just prey for some
exp-parties. I\'d love to see some kind of randomness in the game.

Please bring to game some kind of rare encounters, e.g. mobs with short
quests, decent random eq/money-monsters somewhere in the wilderness (that
would not show on map), etc..

Here\'s some more detailed, more-or-less good, quick thoughts and ideas that
crossed my mind. Something like this even might have already been suggested in
the past:

-- Bandits that would ambush a single player or a party --

- Size and toughness of the robber(s) should be relative to passing
players\'level and party size
* Lonely muggers would avoid big parties. Well, maybe some stupid
cromagnon robbers could think they can easily defeat a 9-man party
anytime, anywhere

- Bandits would appear in random, but logical locations
* Larger bandit-groups could do fast strike & run -hits even on bigger
roads
* Smaller robbers would prefer places with less eye-witnesses

- Players would have choices to try to get out of the trouble:
* Kindly hand out their money in hope to save their lives
* Try to fight and possibly get killed & get their money looted from
their
cold dead corpses
* Some other kind of interaction with the NPCs? Player could try to trick
the
robbers and flee or evil players could try to join the bandits to kill
& loot
the next unlucky passer-by
* Hell, bringing the leader of the bandits before justice could be somekind
of quest/reputation -thing for knights, too.

- Bandits would disappear from site after the encounter so that the players
couldn\'t just come back with a bigger force
* Maybe somebody could try to track the bandits back to their hideout to
kill
all the bandits and collect their loot
* Loot in the hideout could contain money and even some random but
known equipment (i.e. purple glove, spider sabre, etc. or something
even better)


-- Some kind of NPCs with short quests --

Like these:

A circus clown has a question for you
- Solve a riddle to get a potion or scroll or something

A hunter with a broken leg
- \"I was tracking a deer when a deadly drake ambushed me. I had to run
for my life and now it\'s been hunting me! Please save my life and help me to
get to BatCity?\"

Arrogant gentleman standing on your way
- \"Ouch! You stepped on my toe! Apologize or I\'ll challenge you to a
duel!\"

Strange badger in the lightning and rain
- \"Bring me a mushroom and I\'ll give you 10000 gold!\"

...You get the idea. That\'s it, comment or flame away and sorry for the long
post.

// Mrkz

Actually, there is one encounter like this that I know of. There\'s sometimes a
messenger with a broken leg near BatCity, and he asks you to deliver a letter
to a bar or some such.

I rather enjoyed that little quest when I did it, so I second Markuz\' ideas.
More random stuff like that would be fun.