Canine Advantage (Only works if Black Isle decides to let Dogmeat [assuming we have him again {Good assumption, since he's been in all the other games}] have outfits).

(Obviously you would need dogmeat to get this. Possibly a encounter where the door only opens if you have dogmeat).
You see a sick dog walk up to you and dogmeat (dogmeat would be required to get this), and it whimpers a bit, then falls over dead. On the dog is a tracking device on a collar, and you follow it. As you follow it, you come across a ruined base. Dogmeat suddenly acts a bit wierd, runs around in circles, then sits in a small depression in front of the main door of the base. A wierd light seems to play over dogmeat, and then the door opens. you start to look around the base and it seems to be some kind of training ground, however, everything is small, almost for children or animals. As you continue to explore the base, you are ambushed by several packs of feral dogs. After dispatching them, you continue through the base, where you see diagrams on the walls of some of the broken and worn down training rooms showing what looks to be pictures of dogs running through them. After getting dogmeat to go through these (might be fun to see dogmeat jump through, say, a flaming hoop or something), you get to a small room with a large shipping container in the middle. Upon opening it, you see inside is a prototype version of the Canine Power Armor [Mark I]. Obviously dogmeat would get some stat upgrades from this, probably more damage (from metal spikes in the helmet), more speed, ect.
(I really like this idea [I even put it in the General Ideas section], so I made it into a special encounter. Plus it would just look so friggen cool.)

That's all I can think of for now. I hope you like this!

I would like to see a group of 10 kid in mini power armor roaming around chasing and killing Ceasors legion.
You can come up and a. take their guns and tell them that even though their parents abandoned them they still have to be safe. you can then take them as followers
b. Take everything and walk away leaving them there


Later you might see them captured be Ceasors Legion if you picked b. then you can either 1.save them by buying them or just set them free
2.leave them

shooting cripples in the face with a shotgun is bad you should know that :cryvaultboy:

Bunch of RAIDERS.. Raid a Caravan..

Makes sense.. since they are RAIDERS!

A church of Atom (Children of atom) Missionary, He'll send bibles of atom to your doorstep

I'd probably laugh, drop the gun, and just beat the living [censored] out of him bare knuckles. It's the Wasteland after all.

well said , you forget to spit in his face when your about to close the door behind you

Maybe a special encounter is if you see the ghostly figure of the Vault Dweller walking off in the distance.

If they have Mirelurks, which they probably won't, I want to see a random encounter with a talking mirelurk merchant who buys and sells things at base price. And complains about dryness.

There are mirelurks, they were in the E3 Premiere Video.

Yup. Though I guess they won't be a common sight with most, if not all, bodies of water on what's most likely to become the eastern part of the map.
That said...

I want Pariah Dog. Just for the hilarious posts afterwards, like "my game bugged out my guns always fail and are super repaired!"

A swarm of Mantises come out of nowhere and surround you, clawing at you until you die.

Friggin big foot or the jersey devil some were like bigfoot in the woods or the J. devil

HOT_TUB TIME MACHINE just randomly out in the waste u see an empty hot tub and inside you find 3 dead bodies wereing pre-war clothes

AWESOME make it happen obsidian.

Lol so a reference to Morrowind with the Merchant Mudcrab. That be epic!

Yeah, I think it'd be funny to see posts from people who hadn't played Morrowind like, 'Is this a glitch? Why the heck is a Mirelurk selling me stuff?'
And it'd be fun if it had an herb or something from Elder Scrolls. Or an artifact.

Okay. Wow. I'd just like to say this now, this post is, I believe, intended by the author to be for special encounters/random encounters. Not random [censored]. Now, I am not the author of this post, but I am asking everyone to please think about actual random/special encounters you'd like to see in Fallout: New Vegas, and not just throw out random [censored] about some Jersy devil or people from the moon. This is for actual stuff we want in game, not for idiots to babble on about their latest psychotic episode. Thank you.


On topic:

So High We'll Reach the Moon

[This would happen randomly if you are using more than 3 chemicals at once and/or addicted to three chemicals at once and you use all 3 [or however many you are addicted to]]
You take the chemicals (let's say your character is addicted to mentats, jet, and physco, and you take all 3 at once). The screen goes blurry, then fades out to black. When you open your eyes you are on a rock in space! You look around wildly for any sign of how you got there, but see none. Suddenly, however, you see a line of radroaches running somewhere (if you follow the line you'd just see a small pit where they keep spawning from). You might try to attack the radroaches, but you will do no damage to them. As you follow them, you see some sort of structure ahead of you, with an odd light to it. When you finally get close enough, you see that they are all walking into a giant furnace and are being fried to death. Of course, with no alternative, you walk in, and are immediatly consumed by flames. Your health starts to rapidly go down, but before you die you are unconscious. When you open your eyes, you are lying on the floor, with people staring at you.

I'd like to see a 1950's era English police box that's larger on the inside than on the outside...
Maybe even make it player housing

Poor Max - You find something off the ledge of a hill, There is a dead dog and a crashed car nearby, Nearby the wrecked car you find Old cans and a Sawed-off Shotgun with five shells scattered.

a robot in the middle of town selling cigarettes cigarets when go up to buy some you feed your caps in the robot then robots said don't you know cigrettes are bad for you then runs off

Come on you have used my idea..

Posted 21 February 2010 - 04:14 AM

A cigarette Machine Robot that calls out "who wants Cigarettes?, get your Cigarettes!" If you try to buy a pack from it, it will just take your money and say "don't you know Cigarettes are bad for you." If you try to harm it mobsters with big guns come to stop you. This enounter is best when you are at a low level and not able to kill the mobsters. They give you one chance to just walk way. Charisma will not help you talk your way out of this with cigarettes.

Idea 5.

Thread: http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1077616-special-random-encounters/page__hl__Machine%20Robot http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1077616-special-random-encounters/page__view__findpost__p__15686349

Or "What's this dog following me that takes like 14 hits from a mini nuke WTH?"

I'd still like to see a mad wizard in the waste, blowing up barrels of goo, and knows all about your quest. Some men call him... http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj125/Gizmojunk/todd.jpg?

More muggers and maybe an adoring fan or two.

A bunch of people endlessly debating which of the saviours was the best.
#1. The vaultdweller.
#2. The Chosen one.
#3. The Lone wanderer.
Untill a regulator comes along and finally puts an end to their pointless argument.