Surely not all bandits are murdering lunatics? I think it would be awesome for the immersion if when you are killed by bandits that they take you prisoner (like being arrested) instead of being killed. this could either happen all the time or a random chance upon death. They would bring you to the nearest bandit camp where you are locked up like in prison, you would lose all your items etc and have to find them once you break out.

This would also add a random quest element because this could apply to npcs too and they would be locked up, you could save them and they might give you some gold.

What's with all the prisoner/execution threads today?

This seems more like a slight annoyance than a really cool new feature that could be implemented so my answer is no.

Aren't there random events like Red Dead Redemption? Because this sounds like it would fit into that realm to me, so it may or may not be something that's already in. Probably not that exactly, but you never know.

More annoying than losing all your progress if you haven't saved lately? Besides, you aren't likely to lose to bandits all that often.

They wouldn't capture me. They're dead, or I'm dead. Capturing would be a pain in the [CENSORED].

Oh yeah that's true I guess. Maybe instead of you dying and ending up in there, they give you the option to surrender when you're about to die and then you end up as their prisoner.

Wouldn't it make more sense to wake up on the road where you were waylaid, near death, with all of your possessions gone. Why would they take you with them?

With that said, I'm not agreeing that this is a good idea, just wondering about the outcome of the situation.

Were it me, I'd just kill you and be done with it.

Ya that would work, maybe if you yield some types of enemies will take you prisoner instead of killing you, or just take your weapons and leave you. then you d have to follow them to their base to steal your stuff back while they sleep or ambush the one with your stuff and run away.

If it's to work, though, you'd have to give the leader all of your best gear (because you know that's what we do when we kill/capture anyone... still them of everything that may have value) and have to fight him to get it back. That would be cool.