Random observation of the day... when you start breaking into houses, you also start provoking a lot more random encounters.
My party hadn't picked any locks in New City until level 8. By then I'd wondered why I never saw any rattkin, I had run into lots of them in my last game. But now after I've fought with rattkins in the houses, they start appearing. Also lots of Savant Guards. Just another random fact about this multi-faceted game; I think I love and hate it.
