Nice work! I honestly never thought of trying to kill Lord Seth before. That's good that you can get the sword, otherwise why mention it? Reminds me of Chekhov's gun. I suppose if you just wanted the sword and not the XP, you could just keep training monsters to Seth until they take him out. Hmm...
I actually used this technique myself in one game to kill one of the plague victims, I didn't block him in though. Just lured a wolf to him then watched it chase him around and eventually take him out. Better than my first way of doing it (throwing poison vials at the person)...that was expensive since I threw at least one super poison. I lured about 8-10 various orcs to the Dwarven Village to see what would happen, to my surprise the dwarves were tough little buggers, one Dwarven female took out three herself just punching them to death. Quite entertaining to see. Then I resurrected them all, left the scene, then came back to watch it all over again. I want to train a whole bunch of trolls, snakes, and wolves into the Market to see what happens
(saving first of course)
Something I noticed which might just be coincidence, but it seems like in the sort of scripted battle scenes between soldiers and orcs, the orcs make better drops if you let the soldiers kill them. Be careful though, if a soldier dies and drops something, surrounding soldiers may consider it stealing if you pick it up.
This doesn't seem to get mentioned very often...spoiler?
A very nice short sword can be "rolled up" in Stormfist, in Janus's room (in a chest). Just walk up to the chest and take it right in front of him, he doesn't seem to mind a bit.
I used a technique similar to yours when trying to get good stats on George's leather armor at a low level. If you're trying to be "good" and don't want to steal it outright, you can make sure George is watching you closely, try to take it, he will then offer to sell it to you, already identified. Usually costs a little more than 500 gold. Kinda nice to buy a five charm slot item with decent stats for around 500 gold
