I had this idea, that in the pub/bar/whatever of each major city there'd be
patrons who'd require various helps.
They'd give minimissions like 'kill this monster who attacked me', 'save my
daughter from dogboy tony', 'escort my cart to hills nearby' etc. They could
be completely random minithings, for which rewards would be +faction
standings, +money, +similar eq etc. that can be attained from chests now or
anything not too big.
The hardness of the mission would scale according to the player agreeing to
help.
The missions would be mainly for soloing I think. I thought that they'd be
great 'something-else-than-grind-solo-exp' for a change.
Anyways, they wouldn't need to be anything overly complicated, just something
else to do to get exp/reward and whatnot.

Rowen agrees with this fully!!!