I did some exploring outside of town as well, and ran a long way before I saw any mobs. The only ones I did see before getting booted were two tigers, or what looked like tigers from a distant. I was trying to make it to the camp to the West but they are patching now so i'm sure that's why I was booted. However, by looking at the map I can tell you it takes a good bit of running to cross it. I assume they will have mounts and such later on, hopefully. It is very laggy, but they said this patch should address it. I also found stuff to gather, like corn, but it doesn't show up anywhere in the inventory. So, if you are interested in playing and can stomach some of these bugs you might get your money's worth.
As for the stat rolling, that brings me way back to the old Bard's Tale days (and D&D but we didn't reroll for that). I spent about 30 minutes rerolling before settling on "decent" stats. As much as I wanted to keep hitting that button I wanted more to see the game. It's funny though to see the newer generation complain about how the stats are rolled. Some on the Steam forum can't grasp the 3d6 per stat and think the system is broken or lopsided towards one or two stats.
In my opinion, the game has potential if you have friends to play with, or are social enough to make friends in the game. It may be ok playing solo but from my limited experience so far it looks like it would be a great time with the same group of people.
My 2c anyway
