Apparently, there's this rare random event that can happen in QfG3? In the wilderness (or maybe just the savanna), you can meet a rhinoceros, which charges you and you have to move out of its way immediately or get fatally trampled.

However, I played this game for a long time in the 1990s and never saw it. I am now playing it Ashlancer's patch (though his readme said nothing about any changes to the rhinoceros) and am wondering about this scene. Has anyone ever seen it? Can anyone tell me anything more about it (such as is there a way to make it more likely to occur)?

I've seen it a few times. It's a random event, kind of like chatting with the piggy at night. If you really want to see it, just keep walking around the savannah. If you encounter an enemy, just restore, and repeat until you see him.

I have a new question: is there a way to survive the encounter with the rhino?

I finally found it. (It is a rare random event.) However, no matter how much I tried to move out of the way, I always got crushed and killed. Is this a bug? Are you supposed to be able to survive the encounter?

I usually use SCUMMVM, and there you can just walk out of the rhino's way, you don't even need to run. If you're emulating on DOSBox, it might be a cycle issue. Alternately, you can cast Calm and the rhino will stop trying to kill you for long enough for you to leave. If you don't have points in Magic, try lowering game speed or system cycles and running off-screen.

I'm not sure this is a cycles issue. I was able to get the edge of the screen but I got killed anyway even thought the rhino never touched me on screen. I was playing a wizard. Maybe the only way to deal with that as a wizard is to cast calm. This is a rare event and I have no save so it's hard to test.