I'd be protecting the merchant! I wouldn't feel right about robbing him... I gave him/her my WORD! I just... :cold: I CAN'T BETRAY YOU TRAVELING MERCHANT! I WILL SUCCEED IN FULFILLING MY CONTRACT AND PROTECTING YOUR LIFE AND PRODUCTS! :whoops:
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Why? I really don't know.

I always have a hard time playing a bad guy... :shrug:




I was, until 5... 5 irked me lol. 3 was good. 4 was purty good, 5... was a comic book? and everything after 5 is complete rubbish. Disgusting. No offense if you like that. lol
It was fun. lol

It depends. Is he the only one that sells lockpicks or some spell that I need? Does he train? Is he crooked or does he give a good bargain? I'll just have to see what my character thinks of him and if she/he needs this traveling merchant.

the way they explain "radiant story" makes it seem like these things are possible. I would also like it if you merc'd for someone, and you do a good job, that person would remember that you were a good mercenary, and maybe tell his/her friends.

Then you could be in a tavern and some person you haven't seen before could come by and say "I hear you're a competent escort, how'd you like to earn some extra gold" or if you're known for preforming hits "I hear you know how to take care of certain things blah blah blah"

I will be a caped crusader with one goal in my vigilante mission. Rid the world of those dreaded merchants!

Todd DID NOT say that. That was the usual and unwelcome embellishment of game journalists. Read the article well. Thats NOT a Todd Howard quote.

hm, the article just doesnt have an end-quote. there is a start-quote at "Dealing", but it never closes.

I think this is just a misprint, i really think this is a Todd quote.

I can't remember if Todd said the words, but even if he didn't, it also doesn't even say "Traveling" merchant, these are just extrapolations off the "Merchant" and our embedded image of the recent "Traveling Merchants" in New Vegas. Still, it's a cool concept to consider, even on such a drawn-out level.

Personally, I'd be surprised if there wasn't some kind of traveling-merchants in game. It made New Vegas's world feel a lot more alive. Optimally, I'd love to see caravans that not only include merchants, but also random travelers, banding together for 'safety in numbers" kind of thing.

well it IMPLIES that there are traveling merchants. "Drop an axe in a forest" and a "Merchant chum might retrieve it for you". why else would a merchant be in the forest?

and something that even MORE so proves there's traveling merchants is
a merchant enlisting you to escort a caravan means transporting items.

If 20 mudcrabs are attacking at once, then clearly this is the work of Sheogorath. The thing to do then would be to bribe the mudcrabs with lettuce, yarn, and a lesser soul gem. Or else use Wabberjack on all 20 mudcrabs and see what happens :flamethrower: . Which come to thing of it, makes me ponder: will Wabberjack have a Dragon as one of the random end results?

I would protect them. Every time I try to play as a bad guy I end up feeling bad and playing as a good guy again. I'm not opposed to looting their dead corpse if I stumble upon it on my travels though. I'd like escort missions, it would give me an excuse to explore without using FT.

And to find a cape.

Oh, I will find a cape.

Perhaps killing two birds with one stone, taking a cape form a merchant!

I'd love to see this happen in-game, would give people a reason to walk to destinations instead of fast-travelling. Protecting merchants, or hoping to find one to rob, will prove to let players explore and make some coin on the side.



*walks into town*
*sees dog*
* :shifty: *
*casts Wabbajack on dog*
*flies out of town from the dragon-fire explosion action-hero style, going far enough to turn around and watch the dragon onslaught.*
*Optional: Equip http://images.whatport80.com/images/thumb/c/cf/Trollface.jpg/400px-Trollface.jpg/Masque of Clavicus Vile*
:flamethrower:

Depends on the rewards and how fast the caravan moves.

Best of both worlds. I will demand protection money.

I thought the same thing. I remember back in Fallout 3; with the traveling merchants. I would kill every one (a little different than robbing, but could end in the same situation) of them I would see so that I could take their stuff, and soon I wouldn't have any traveling merchants. And if I remember correctly, they never did re-spawn. :confused:

Exactly, you don't necessarily need to kill a merchant to rob a merchant...just take his stuff when the caravan camps for the night and then act all innocent-like when you sell it back to him. Though, it shouldn't be that easy. There should still be one or more NPCs on guard and stoking the fire so that you have to have sneak around and pick the locks on chests to get the loot. Depending on the merchant's disposition towards you, maybe you'll get different outcomes if you try and sell his items back to him. It would be cool if the AI was dynamic and intelligent enough to allow whoever was on guard to trap you, e.g. he catches you pilfering the night before but if you don't start to make off with your loot (leave the campsite), he doesn't raise an alarm but instead waits till the next morning and calls you out in front of the merchant. Then, you would have to decide whether to give back the stolen goods and be fired from your merc duties or whether to attack and kill the entire caravan, or just hightail it out of there with the loot. This in turn should affect future interactions with this merchant and his family members and any shops they own in towns.

For sake of roleplay there is must be possibility to guard an caravan as freelancer mercenary or Fighter Guild member, but also Thieves guild can give possibility of raid thous merchants caravans, seems thats great teamplate for Radiant Story system.