Preferred Way? : IV - Oblivion

» Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:42 am

Depends. If it's "ordinary" items I prefer to have them distributed via leveled lists so NPCs also use them. But if it's unique items I prefer if they are handplaced in the world or guarded/wielded by bosses.

This. ^^

» Wed Mar 09, 2011 10:11 am

I'm usually happy with anything that's not just a "here you go, freebies for all" option. It's simply not realistic for uber-items to be sitting out in the open in a city, along a road, in an unlocked chest. Townspeople or bandits or whoever would have taken it.

Merchants, quests, lost in the wilderness, in the leveled lists for NPCs/loot containers, it's all good and really does depend on the caliber of the item in question.

» Tue Mar 08, 2011 11:45 pm

Depends. If it's "ordinary" items I prefer to have them distributed via leveled lists so NPCs also use them. But if it's unique items I prefer if they are handplaced in the world or guarded/wielded by bosses.

Yeah... this is preferred by Hawk as well. I like that gleam he (me?) gets in his eye when he sees a powerful boss wielding a weapon he wants. The Lost Spires is where he got his first envy "tingle"! And THEN...