Previous Thread
Previous
Expand All
Collapse All
Ignore Author
Reply
Why Solomon has purple hair.
Genneron
(Ok...nothing to do with Gnomes...it just sounded good.)
Did you ever wonder why you could be "alive....and you could be "dead"...but you could never be anything other than that...like..."in between"?
Solomon
PS The original post was put in the wrong area and I forgot to cross-post. So here it is again. ;)
Vote for DragonRealms as the #1 MUD every day!
http://www.topmudsites.com/cgi-bin/topmuds/rankem.cgi?id=drealms
Did you ever wonder why you could be "alive....and you could be "dead"...but you could never be anything other than that...like..."in between"?
Solomon
PS The original post was put in the wrong area and I forgot to cross-post. So here it is again. ;)
Vote for DragonRealms as the #1 MUD every day!
http://www.topmudsites.com/cgi-bin/topmuds/rankem.cgi?id=drealms
Um...wow, undead? To be undead...that opens up so many complex avenues. And so many questions...
Could an empath heal an undead person, or would they have to get their healing some other way?
Would it be concealable, or would you practically scream to the world what you are?
What about death? Would resurrection be possible, or would it require an entirely different method? What about favors?
What limitations would be placed on the undead? What benefits would be gained...? Perhaps different stat modifiers balanced by restrictions like aversions to certain objects and energies? It'd be something else if you could become undead and find yourself unable to use fire, or life magic, or some spells...or could you, but in a dark way?
This is a really wild idea, and I'm very excited. I don't know that any of my characters (current and upcoming) would take the option, but it'd be SO cool to have it.
______Nita's eyes filled with tears as she wondered how darkness could be so bright. Lightbringer He was, and star of the morning; and like the morning star, He needed the darkness, and shone brighter in it, and made it blessed...
-High Wizardry
Could an empath heal an undead person, or would they have to get their healing some other way?
Would it be concealable, or would you practically scream to the world what you are?
What about death? Would resurrection be possible, or would it require an entirely different method? What about favors?
What limitations would be placed on the undead? What benefits would be gained...? Perhaps different stat modifiers balanced by restrictions like aversions to certain objects and energies? It'd be something else if you could become undead and find yourself unable to use fire, or life magic, or some spells...or could you, but in a dark way?
This is a really wild idea, and I'm very excited. I don't know that any of my characters (current and upcoming) would take the option, but it'd be SO cool to have it.
______Nita's eyes filled with tears as she wondered how darkness could be so bright. Lightbringer He was, and star of the morning; and like the morning star, He needed the darkness, and shone brighter in it, and made it blessed...
-High Wizardry
>>What about death? Would resurrection be possible, or would it require an entirely different method? What about favors?<<
The closest things I know of to undead PCs (Lady P and the Y'Shai) displayed an annoying tendancy to walk the starry road whenever someone 'killed' them. Something about giving up their souls.
Larcus' Player
The closest things I know of to undead PCs (Lady P and the Y'Shai) displayed an annoying tendancy to walk the starry road whenever someone 'killed' them. Something about giving up their souls.
Larcus' Player
<<in other words....Undead.>>
Uh....you said that, not me.
Solomon
Vote for DragonRealms as the #1 MUD every day!
http://www.topmudsites.com/cgi-bin/topmuds/rankem.cgi?id=drealms
Uh....you said that, not me.
Solomon
Vote for DragonRealms as the #1 MUD every day!
http://www.topmudsites.com/cgi-bin/topmuds/rankem.cgi?id=drealms
>>in other words....Undead.
Not necessarily. There's also Mostly Dead. And, as we all know, if you're Mostly Dead, you're also Party Alive.
Hmmm... maybe one of the new Guilds will be 'Miracle Man,' and a Barbarian title could be 'Brute Squad'!
Rummaging for a video,
- S., et al.
Not necessarily. There's also Mostly Dead. And, as we all know, if you're Mostly Dead, you're also Party Alive.
Hmmm... maybe one of the new Guilds will be 'Miracle Man,' and a Barbarian title could be 'Brute Squad'!
Rummaging for a video,
- S., et al.
| And then Trogdor smote the Kerreck, and all was laid to burnination. |
I highly doubt Solomon is referring to undead player characters.
More likely he's referring to going unconscious, much the way you do in a challenge, before actually becoming 'dead'. If left unconscious for long enough, you'd die. Of course, creatures and players could continue to attack you when unconscious till they cut off your head or something ;)
In other words, adding another level of deadness. At final stages, perhaps you'd be required to be ressurected or risk losing two+ favors rather than a single one. Or maybe not even be able to rejuved all the way, you'd lose skill no matter what.
The death system needs an overhaul. My guess is that's what he's referring to.
- Master Cleric of Harawep
More likely he's referring to going unconscious, much the way you do in a challenge, before actually becoming 'dead'. If left unconscious for long enough, you'd die. Of course, creatures and players could continue to attack you when unconscious till they cut off your head or something ;)
In other words, adding another level of deadness. At final stages, perhaps you'd be required to be ressurected or risk losing two+ favors rather than a single one. Or maybe not even be able to rejuved all the way, you'd lose skill no matter what.
The death system needs an overhaul. My guess is that's what he's referring to.
- Master Cleric of Harawep
>I was actually thinking more a ghostly phase thing between death and life... a sort of trial to return to life (somethind I'd considered for the MUD I briefly worked on).
This actually happened in the past due to an event. You couldn't be ressurected, and when you died you became a 'ghost'. Only Clerics could see you I think, and you had to be Spirit Healed before you could become whole again. Then you could dig your grave and all that.
I wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't too far off.
- Master Cleric of Harawep
This actually happened in the past due to an event. You couldn't be ressurected, and when you died you became a 'ghost'. Only Clerics could see you I think, and you had to be Spirit Healed before you could become whole again. Then you could dig your grave and all that.
I wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't too far off.
- Master Cleric of Harawep
What about that event we had a while back where everyone that died turned into a spirit that could float around, and who's voice could not be heard by anyone except clerics? The cleric had to wave incense at the voice they heard in order to then "see" the spirit and interact with it, or something like that. I don't remember the details. I'm betting on a more involved death system that includes some sort of spirit stage inbetween "alive" and "corpse."
Lathaliu's Player
Lathaliu's Player
I know! I know! They're making lockout more of an IG thing. Instead of going to some solitary OOC room, your person becomes a vegetable (i.e. coma) and gets put into some kind of viewing room. Other characters can visit your not-quite-dead corpse and look at it and snicker or whatnot, but they cannot interact or mess with it. It would be like looking through a window into a stasis facility <g>.
Okay, maybe not.
-Spiritshadow
Okay, maybe not.
-Spiritshadow
Has anyone else really let the idea, that Solomon is in charge with creative control, sink in? And if you have, does this terrify you as much as it does me? And I think Solomon should definitly stay away from DR when he's on cold medication.
Malign, would love to get involved as a AGM if he knew Jack Crud about computer programming. Would make his race dreams come to life! :envisions enslaved gnomes as his rambling thoughts fade:
<<Did you ever wonder why you could be "alive....and you could be "dead"...but you could never be anything other than that...like..."in between"?>>
Solomon
I think I was inbetween during th gorbish war that raged on several days. THen again I was up a long time and getting delusional... Does that count?
Soim of the Locksmith Union
AKA: Shadow Judge
Solomon
I think I was inbetween during th gorbish war that raged on several days. THen again I was up a long time and getting delusional... Does that count?
Soim of the Locksmith Union
AKA: Shadow Judge
<<Not necessarily. There's also Mostly Dead. And, as we all know, if you're Mostly Dead, you're also Party Alive.
Hmmm... maybe one of the new Guilds will be 'Miracle Man,' and a Barbarian title could be 'Brute Squad'>>
And if you are all the way dead the only thing to do is go thru their pockets and search for loose change. HEYYY we get to steal coins off deaders.
The player of Timargnon/Peperic
"In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks." - Calvin and Hobbes
Hmmm... maybe one of the new Guilds will be 'Miracle Man,' and a Barbarian title could be 'Brute Squad'>>
And if you are all the way dead the only thing to do is go thru their pockets and search for loose change. HEYYY we get to steal coins off deaders.
The player of Timargnon/Peperic
"In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks." - Calvin and Hobbes
>And if you are all the way dead the only thing to do is go thru their pockets and search for loose change. HEYYY we get to steal coins off deaders.
"... but that's not what he said. He distinctly said "to blave", which we all know means to bluff!"
Maybe it's a new ability for Commoners or Bards...
~Beholder
"... but that's not what he said. He distinctly said "to blave", which we all know means to bluff!"
Maybe it's a new ability for Commoners or Bards...
~Beholder
Anyone wonder...
Why it's called "DragonRealms", when...
Something is missing?
Solomon
Vote for DragonRealms as the #1 MUD every day!
http://www.topmudsites.com/cgi-bin/topmuds/rankem.cgi?id=drealms
Why it's called "DragonRealms", when...
Something is missing?
Solomon
Vote for DragonRealms as the #1 MUD every day!
http://www.topmudsites.com/cgi-bin/topmuds/rankem.cgi?id=drealms
>Anyone wonder...
Why it's called "DragonRealms", when...
Something is missing?
Erm... could it be because Lanival was referred to as the "Dragon" and he was the one that formed the 5 provinces? ::hums innocently::
So... Lanival's coming back with the Guardians?
Player of Linras Cauldrath - who knows a surprising amount of DR history for absolutely hating history class in grade school, and, well, now
Why it's called "DragonRealms", when...
Something is missing?
Erm... could it be because Lanival was referred to as the "Dragon" and he was the one that formed the 5 provinces? ::hums innocently::
So... Lanival's coming back with the Guardians?
Player of Linras Cauldrath - who knows a surprising amount of DR history for absolutely hating history class in grade school, and, well, now
