UO has many fond memories for me. So much emergent silly gameplay, so many unintended consequences. Also taught me after playing WoW later that a more controlle

UO has many fond memories for me. So much emergent silly gameplay, so many unintended consequences. Also taught me after playing WoW later that a more controlled and restricted mechanically game can be much more fun while still giving enough freedom for interesting emergent gameplay, it's a fine balance. One of my favorites (going by memory) was master thieves taunting people into dueling. A thieve had a random chance to steal something from your pack but it flagged them, if dueling though already flagged. If you cast a spell your weapon automatically gets put in your pack while casting, so they would attempt to steal your nice weapon while casting leaving you with no weapon, they could also steal your reagent bag leaving you no ability to cast spells, at this point they could probable kill you easily or just run off with a nice weapon. Leaving the entrance of town was many times a gauntlet of thieves with houses right outside the guard zone. They would run out steal something from you and run back in and lock the door.