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Choosing character death in char-gen

Paul Cunningham · 2000-09-08T13:49:54

Human are pretty fragile when it comes to the amount of ways we can die. We can be suffocated, poisoned, shocked to death, vital organs damaged etc. How about if you were allow to choose which way your character can be killed during the character generation process. If every character wasn''t human. They could be monsters, gods, avatars, spirits, cyberpunks or somethings else. I''ll take cyberpunks for example. If everyone choose a cyberpunk for their character they could then choose the way they could be killed. From the game design perspective this would put an entirely new spin on PK''ing and Guilds. You couldn''t just walk into a game and start killing players becuase you would have to know what their weaknesses are first. It probably wouldn''t change a game that much but i would be a interesting like nick nack to have in a game i think. Players would have a set minimum amout of weaknesses to choose from in character generation. Imagine playing a game where you couldn''t be killed from physical violence. Your enemies had to suffocate you to kill you and you could only kill them by shocking their character somehow. Player Killers would have to conspire to kill you which would make for some very emotion gameplay/yes? I love Game Design and it loves me back. Our Goal is "Fun"!

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Started by Paul Cunningham September 05, 2000 12:05 AM

11 comments, last by Paul Cunningham 23 years, 10 months ago

ahw

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September 08, 2000 09:00 AM

uh ??? just in case, what I mean, is that I don''t want of a "death trigger" or "fatality" thingie ... because it would just be very unbalancing. Now, what part was THAT funny ?

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September 08, 2000 09:36 AM

It just caught me off guard thats all

You gotta watch out for those typo''s. But i promise, i won''t (wank) quote you on this in my profile signature.

"I don''t wank a real Achilles heel thingie, because it''s way too much". -Ahw

Just kidding

Jokes over

ahw

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September 08, 2000 01:48 PM

LMAO

OMG

OK, I got it ... let's just ignore the incident altogether...

actually, you can quote it, because that one is way too funny.

raaaah, the shame !

Edited by - ahw on September 8, 2000 2:49:54 PM

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