>you could visit places long before you were "meant" by mountain climbing with stairways constructed from objects out of your inventory (my favourite was using books and loaves of bread).
This was significantly more meaningful in Ultima Online - finding new and exciting ways to break into houses was probably the most popular pastime. One such method was to make fairly particular stacks of objects (IIRC it involved books, tables, and assorted food items) into stairs and walk up onto people's enclosed balconies. I heard that, in some cases, people even walked up over the roof and drop right on through.
This was significantly more meaningful in Ultima Online - finding new and exciting ways to break into houses was probably the most popular pastime. One such method was to make fairly particular stacks of objects (IIRC it involved books, tables, and assorted food items) into stairs and walk up onto people's enclosed balconies. I heard that, in some cases, people even walked up over the roof and drop right on through.