Exactly
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That said, I do have fond memories of folks holding in-game events that revolved around giving stuff to NPCs in a newbie zone and holding a treasure-hunt or just having newbies get nice surprises when they loot a stat item from a bat...
Of course, the potential for griefing is high enough that it's probably best to leave this 'feature' out of p1999.