"pet fetch" -- and every pet would do that. I remember having a pet wolf carrying 4K hides.
"pet guard" and point to an object. Then when anyone touched that object (such as a door), you could kill him without getting a murder count
enticement, used to lure guards out of guard zone
spending all summer to skill-up a dragon to be 7xGM
Spending seven months getting skill up to grandmaster tamer
Hearing someone bragging that she'd killed an ettin with a butcher knife
You repair the object without weakening
Items in a house couldn't be locked down. They had to be on the floor so as not to decay.
Remember before colored ores? Some people smelted their Christmas coal to make black armor.
Remember before colored ores? The NPC smiths sold armor pieces, and you had to go around to all of them to get a plate suit all of the same color
Remember when monsters couldn't walk around objects on the ground, and people left bags of flour on the dungeon floors to trap monsters?
Remember when people placed houses on the island in the middle of the bottom level of Despise?
Remember when people placed ships in the dungeon rivers?
Remember when we were being told that the new "T2A" lands would have areas for placing houses?
Remember when wafflehats could permanently stop the spawn of nightmares in The Lost Lands by stabling one in Papua?
Remember when Runesabre complained that two thirds of all the animals were in the stables, and that's why the forests had no animals any more?
Remember when tamed/named animals were persistent, that is, you could tame an animal, name it, release it, and find it again weeks later?
Remember the per-pet-ual motion machine? You could tame seven animals and chain them together following each other around a small house, and they would continue doing that indefinitely.
Remember when slimes would reproduce when you hit one?
Remember "a jwilson"
Remember when pet white wyrms would loot their kills?
Remember when pet drakes could kill people, and a tamer could have any number of dragons or drakes in or out of the stables?
Remember "a wrist watch"
Remember stealing Santa's clothes right off of him?
Remember finding more and more Santa and his reindeer tableaus every day until towns were invaded by those?
Remember when all the PKs went from halberd to mage to archer to quarterstaff?
Remember people being followed by 11 NPC escorts at the same time?
Remember hiring Ocllo cashuals? Or training "resist" in that room in Wind?
Remember when NPCs listened and talked? No, really, they did.
Remember when you could trade items with NPCs?
Remember before elves and gargoyles?
Remember Crossroads of Britannia?