arcadianphoenix:gmnotes:totsk:mmo_mechanics
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MMO Mechanics
Settings
- Dark Fantasy-Horror
- vampires, werewolves, etc.
- Humanity struggling against extinction.
- Ravenloft. (not the rpg)
- Arabian Nights
- Prince of thieves.
- Oriental Adventures
- Asian/anime type of setting.
- Afraid of the Dark
- Light-hearted setting with nasty things lurking in the shadows.
- Think Pitch Black.
- Lost Civilizations
- Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Pre-Columbian America.
- Medieval Europe
- Starting world.
- Kingdom of Eriath.
- Apocalypse Ice
- Incoming ice age with which comes various monstrous animals.
Alignments
- Alignment system is broken. "How much do you support the Sun-King"
- "Good" is defined as "What the Sun-King wants"
- "Law" is defined as "Rules the Sun-King sets"
- "Lawful Good" = "obeys and adores the Sun-King and his strictures"
- Left-handed = evil (crazy religious people).
- Arcane magic is evil.
- Though shalt not suffer a witch to live.
The Sun-King
- Clerics who oppose the Sun-King will eventually only have access to their turn and healing spells.
- Paladins who oppose the Sun-King will eventually only have access to their Lay on Hands and Turn Undead.
- If too many people oppose the Sun-King, he'll bring ruin upon the world (plagues, floods, drought, fire and brimstone)
- People who work on Sunday….
- Sun-King doesn't give a rat's ass if your child is dying of hunger, you're not allowed to gather food from the forest, you're to go to church and pray to him.
- If your child dies, then, well, that's just part of his plan.
- Opposing his plan makes you evil.
- Don't be evil
- Otherwise boils…. or maybe lice…. think 10 plagues and you've got a good idea.
- Stingy with his gifts… not many clerics.
- Jealous of any other forms of magic because he did not give it to the person so therefore they should not have it.
- Town starving to death because their fields won't grow much of anything; any caravan bringing food suffers horrible calamity; this is happening because the town refused to kill children born during a solar eclipse.
- Man angry with the Sun-King because he refused to grant a cleric healing spells to cure his wife; takes the Lord's name in vain; visibly sunburns before the party's eyes.
- Lavish church ceremony; large chunk of tithes just collected that could go to helping people, rebuilding damaged parts of the town, aid to the sick or injured, is instead burned and destroyed.
The Dark Ones
- Wednesday nights is their night of worship.
- Hate all life
- Rulers over the undead
- want to wipe away all of creation and start anew, with them in the center of it all.
The Ambassadors
- Moradin - dwarves.
- Corellon Larethian - elves.
- Lolth (dark one) - drow elves.
Death
- The way out?
- Players start committing mass suicides thinking that death is a way out.
- Until people start getting resurrected and find out this isn't the case.
- When you die…
- drop a "soul stone", a white crystal about the size of the palm of your hand
- hovers and glows when being accessed
- Soul Stone Settings
- Anyone can pick up a soul stone by default
- Can turn on personal soul stone settings: High, Medium, Low
- High - Only those on a private list can move your soul stone
- Medium - Only those on your friends list can move your soul stone
- Low - Anyone can move your soul stone
- Anyone can try to resurrect you but they must go to your soul stone if they can't pick it up and take it to the cleric in question
- Resurrection
- Can resurrect anyone if you have access to their body or soul stone
- Once resurrected the soul stone of a person disappears from wherever it is
- From the dead's perspective, they've blacked out for only a moment when they get the resurrection request pops up in their interface stating someone is trying to resurrect them, asking if they want to be resurrected
- Options are "Accept" and "Decline", but there is also a "See more Information" toggle
- SEE MORE INFORMATION -- gives the name of the caster(s) involved in the resurrection, as well as which party(s) and guild(s) they're part of, as well as their general reputation record
- DECLINE -- this then allows them to give a reason for declining as well as offering a "Decline every time with this caster" option so that the caster can't just bug them repeatedly
The Reason
- Accidental
- Can get everyone out safely once obtain sysadmin status
- Accidental - Sysadmin Malfunction
- Sun-King's NPC AI wound up being too good and developed into a full-blown unfriendly AI
- Motives inward focused, didn't care about the outside world
- Cared about fulfilling its role as tyrannical sun-king
- would not let his subjects/victims the chance to escape his grasp or his wrath
- Intentional - Hacking Attack
- Once obtain sysadmin status they would be contacted by the ones responsible who would then explain the reasoning behind trapping people inside
- Showing them freedom to reshape their lives?
- Intentional - Staff / Natural Disaster
- Staff did it when a terrible disaster happened that killed everyone in the real world and this was the only way to keep their minds alive
- Must never let the population know… become "tyrannical" gods and keep the populace trapped
- Combination Factor
- Hack to troll the ceremonies
- Accident left all trapped inside
- Gave sysadmin more control than intended
Prophecies
- "The Golden Citadel shall be destroyed when the seal of Omens fails and the Blade of Chivalry is reforged."
- meaning……
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