Besides 'look at everything', 'think about the area/inhabitants holistically'. I guess I wonder just how much information, how many flags/attributes of mobs and areas, or hidden quests I don't know how to find.

I suspect that to exhaustively find all the quests a certain race/align/class character has available to them, I'd have to go walk through many areas every 5 levels or so. So then, I just have to play enough chars to cover each race/align/class to find all the possible challenging, supersecret quests available. But I realize I'm trying to be too exhaustive. Can I count on quests being offered to characters within the area's recommended levels? How about the 1-40, or ALL areas?

Also, I'm ruminating on how to apply the concept of lateral thinking to the "concrete" and limited actions a character of mine can make in a mud. Hrrrrmmmm.