If you got to create a unique race for the next Fantasy MMORPG, what would it be?
Describe your unique race:
What is the name of your race?
Describe your race's size, shape, or form.
Lore: Where does your race originate from?
What are the Strengths and Weaknesses of your race?
Alignment: Good, Evil, or Neutral?
Does your race have a special "fluff" or cosmetic spell? If so, describe it.
What is the name of your race? Zahouin (a play on words between Bedouin and Zahrani)
Describe your race's size, shape, or form. Humanoid, red to orange skinned (similar to Zabraks of Star Wars) but with no horns, instead they have long angular faces and wear wrapping around their heads and necks. They also have large flat ears and rigid bone like appendiges under the skin where their noses and chin bones would be (Think Worf from Star Trek).
Lore: Where does your race originate from? Desert Dwelling people
What are the Strengths and Weaknesses of your race? Strengths are their mobility, agility and ability to go long periods without rest. Basically a Desert Elf if you will.
Alignment: Good, Evil, or Neutral? Neutral to Evil
Does your race have a special "fluff" or cosmetic spell? If so, describe it. Scavenge, a special ability to find excess items from a mobs corpse.
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What are the Strengths and Weaknesses of your race?
Alignment: Good, Evil, or Neutral?
Does your race have a special "fluff" or cosmetic spell? If so, describe it.
Mechaniati
Quite varied but featuring a common core with a visible crystal at its center.
Originally conjured as a the ideal power source for (steampunk inspired) machines, these crystaline beings soon found a nearly ideal host. The water bound them to the machine, robbing them of consciousness. However, once the boiler ran dry, these beings had complete control of whatever body they occupied.
While extremely versitile as a race, the specialized parts for each role (rather easily swapped in town) limits their flexibility once in the field. Water can weaken them (especially if the boiler is damaged) and they suffer from abysmal regeneration rates.
If you got to create a unique race for the next Fantasy MMORPG, what would it be?
Describe your unique race:
What is the name of your race?
Describe your race's size, shape, or form.
Lore: Where does your race originate from?
What are the Strengths and Weaknesses of your race?
Alignment: Good, Evil, or Neutral?
Does your race have a special "fluff" or cosmetic spell? If so, describe it.
OK so appologizing in advance - not sure if anyone already had this notion, but ----->
Not sure how the LORE would work yet, but for example everyone are relics of a lost civilazion (think Stargate ascended and not Rift ascended) and now to protect something they somehow still hold dear they have to come back and because they have no bodies there is a need for that machine and her "creations".
In essence i think that you could create a world that the "classes"/"races"/etc in it are made by the players....
Think of it like this - each part of your body has some kind of special effect/ability/skill etc (like hands could be either regular/magical/tentecle like with gripping abilities etc) and each and every part of the body is constructed at the begining by the player - allowing each char to be unique entirely (as long as you have enough options for each body part).
So - lets say you have head/torso/hands/middle-part/legs/feet/wings/whatever to "play" with...
on second thought you could be a part of a machine that is trying to create the ultimate "weapon" against some kind of threat (depending on the lore) and at 1st you are "creating" yourself.
This will allow the Devs to expand on it later on - all they have to do is actually add more variations (each with its own ability) to the machine, and because you are a creation you can later on (after XPACKS for example) go back to the original machine and add wings or any other variation you wish to add.
Also you cannot die - you simply run out of power or whatever and have to recharge somehow (maybe add like a catalyst when you are depleted of power you become energy form and have to "rebuild" yourself at the original machine, or machines like it).
As for PVP - you could use an RP themed mechanism like each Clan/Guild (whatever you wish to call it) can "fight"/"engage"/whatever other Clans/Guilds because of how they apear in game (for example a Clan that only accepts winged beings will not tolerate other beings and wish to fight them over power/resources/politics in the newly formed world/etc...)
What do you think - could this even work?
EDIT: armor ---> think what TSW did - use artifacts that do not change how you look or fight , and add special Lore related to this "game" -> after killing another "creation you can take some/all of his parts for you own for a temporary boost (special skills can be developed to allow that or to even allow you to absorb others and change them into special abilities maybe).
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3 outside the interwebz
4 can make gamer guys do almost anything they want
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6 they can make all your gold and items "transfer " to their account but somehow you don't feel ripped off till hours after they log off.
Sandbox means open world, non-linear gaming PERIOD!
Subscription Gaming, especially MMO gaming is a Cash grab bigger then the most P2W cash shop!
Bring Back Exploration and lengthy progression times. RPG's have always been about the Journey not the destination!!!
OK so appologizing in advance - not sure if anyone already had this notion, but ----->
Not sure how the LORE would work yet, but for example everyone are relics of a lost civilazion (think Stargate ascended and not Rift ascended) and now to protect something they somehow still hold dear they have to come back and because they have no bodies there is a need for that machine and her "creations".
In essence i think that you could create a world that the "classes"/"races"/etc in it are made by the players....
Think of it like this - each part of your body has some kind of special effect/ability/skill etc (like hands could be either regular/magical/tentecle like with gripping abilities etc) and each and every part of the body is constructed at the begining by the player - allowing each char to be unique entirely (as long as you have enough options for each body part).
So - lets say you have head/torso/hands/middle-part/legs/feet/wings/whatever to "play" with...
on second thought you could be a part of a machine that is trying to create the ultimate "weapon" against some kind of threat (depending on the lore) and at 1st you are "creating" yourself.
This will allow the Devs to expand on it later on - all they have to do is actually add more variations (each with its own ability) to the machine, and because you are a creation you can later on (after XPACKS for example) go back to the original machine and add wings or any other variation you wish to add.
Also you cannot die - you simply run out of power or whatever and have to recharge somehow (maybe add like a catalyst when you are depleted of power you become energy form and have to "rebuild" yourself at the original machine, or machines like it).
As for PVP - you could use an RP themed mechanism like each Clan/Guild (whatever you wish to call it) can "fight"/"engage"/whatever other Clans/Guilds because of how they apear in game (for example a Clan that only accepts winged beings will not tolerate other beings and wish to fight them over power/resources/politics in the newly formed world/etc...)
What do you think - could this even work?
EDIT: armor ---> think what TSW did - use artifacts that do not change how you look or fight , and add special Lore related to this "game" -> after killing another "creation you can take some/all of his parts for you own for a temporary boost (special skills can be developed to allow that or to even allow you to absorb others and change them into special abilities maybe).
Just my 2 cents...