I had an great idea a while back. What if there were random campfires around the wasteland. It would kind of be like your camp in Dragon Age Origins, but it would be a one night only type deal. You would be able to see the fire from a distance, and when you come over you can be given missions or trade with people. They would leave you information about what town they're going to next and then they would all leave in the morning. I thought that would be kind of cool.

That sounds quite good IMO. Sort of like a small nomadic settlement that changes positions around the map every few days, like the merchants do but with more people I guess.

I'd like if there were campfires that act like they do in STALKER - when people move to the campfire and sit around it, it will light up and they will talk, eat, drink and play music. I like that.

Then if you go to a campfire, you can interact with it - first you light it, and then you can cook food over it to, I don't know, make it more nutritient? Lessens the rads/increase the HP regeneration? It would mostly be raw food from animals you've killed. And then there could be something to sit on beside it, so you can just sit there and collect your thought (I know that this isn't important for a game at all, but why sit in any chair at all? Sometimes you just treat your character like an actual human. And the chair would be for other wanderers, NPC's.) Maybe even a sleeping bag that you can sleep in by the fire? I also think that you should not heal 100% and all your crippled limbs in just 1 hour sleep. I think it should slowly heal over time as you sleep, and crippled limbs should only be fixed by an doctor or by you if you have high Medicine skill enough, and a Surgeon's bag.

Sweet idea man.
I like the idea of in the morning you can choose to travel with them too the next specified town / location, they can be extra guns to help you get somewhere you want to go, but obviously stop at that location.
Safety in numbers eh?

Sounds good, especially for hardcoe, as you could sleep there for the night and stuff.

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1086531-your-own-camp/ use it please, no need for two the same.