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During invasions it would be cool if there were occasional area-wide messages describing what the invaders were doing to the countryside and passing peasants, laborers, farmers, merchants, etc. Looting, killing, property damage, peasants screaming for help, that sort of thing. Yeah, they might be missed in the scroll in mob-heavy rooms, but I think it would enhance the illusion of a populated gameworld and dismiss some of the notions that the world only exists when our PCs are around.
Thayet
@thayelf // http://thayette.tumblr.com
"But you must know that if corruption is powerful enough, it's not corruption at all — it's law. Unspoken, unwritten, but law." — Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs
To add to Thayet's idea, I wish there was some way to indicate just how devastating past wars have been. Imagine if certain shops had closed for a while due to loss of staff or new graveyards popped up due to the thousands of people that actually died during the Lyras war. It's impossible to try to get it through some people's heads about how dangerous necromancy can be when they [rightfully] point out that "we" all survived it just fine.
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My spathas at hand,
From the ashes I rise,
With resolve in my heart,
And fire in my eyes.
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My spathas at hand,
From the ashes I rise,
With resolve in my heart,
And fire in my eyes.
Ooo, yes.
Atmospherics during invasions is but one thing that could be added to make things feel "bigger." It would have been neat if we'd seen, say, prices spiking in response to food shortages and that sort of thing. New graveyards, abandoned and burned out villages, wandering vagabond or half-starved NPCs that maybe respond to questions, town criers wandering around talking about famines and plagues as a result of conflicts or speaking of skirmishes taking place behind the scenes while the Elpalzi raid villages elsewhere...
It'd take more dev time for those other things, but it would go a long way toward making the world feel less static and unchanging. I mean, a good third of the population died due to Lyras, but in what way is that really a reality for our characters at present? How would we know that if we didn't read it on the boards?
Thayet
@thayelf // http://thayette.tumblr.com
"But you must know that if corruption is powerful enough, it's not corruption at all — it's law. Unspoken, unwritten, but law." — Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs
Atmospherics during invasions is but one thing that could be added to make things feel "bigger." It would have been neat if we'd seen, say, prices spiking in response to food shortages and that sort of thing. New graveyards, abandoned and burned out villages, wandering vagabond or half-starved NPCs that maybe respond to questions, town criers wandering around talking about famines and plagues as a result of conflicts or speaking of skirmishes taking place behind the scenes while the Elpalzi raid villages elsewhere...
It'd take more dev time for those other things, but it would go a long way toward making the world feel less static and unchanging. I mean, a good third of the population died due to Lyras, but in what way is that really a reality for our characters at present? How would we know that if we didn't read it on the boards?
Thayet
@thayelf // http://thayette.tumblr.com
"But you must know that if corruption is powerful enough, it's not corruption at all — it's law. Unspoken, unwritten, but law." — Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs
I swear I remember seeing these kinds of things in some of the old wars. Although I would love some room descs getting changed in the wake of Lyras.
"If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself." ~ Martin Heidegger
"If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself." ~ Martin Heidegger
