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Nicoliver

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New Scenarios- Ragnarok, Machine War and Golem War
« on: May 09, 2016, 02:53:37 pm »

Rage Against the Heavens
As is possible to find Demons if digging long enough, there could also be sky layers where the Gods themselves or possible celestial entities thrive. There should be possible to get into the layers by climbing the highest mountains(if existent), building a Babel Tower, or somehow through a portal.

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Ubercivilizations: Heaven/Hell could be civilizations just like the others, but in dormant war against each other, just waiting the right conditions for unleashing a Apocalipse/Ragnarok.
Hell and Heaven for Real: Souls of deceased sentient beings should go to Heaven or Hell: almost everyone to Hell, and some lucky ones to Heaven/a lesser worse part of Hell.
Holy Quest: In a even more extreme variation: your race is in a quest to save the world by preventing the triggering of Ragnarok. Ragnarok happens when Heaven gets enough warriors to fight Hell(enough soldiers of any race dying in wars, specially holy ones). When Ragnarok starts, Heaven starts a preemptive strike against Hell that potentially lays half the inhabited world in a wasteland where even undead don´t thrive. The player can prevent that souls go both to Heaven or Hell by dispatching them through special Void Pits, were they can turn in valuable Aether, or Dark Matter. Souls could both be snatched inside them, rightly robbed from Heaven or Hell, or convinced on going them through proselitism. The number of souls sent into the Void maybe should cause, however, the awakening of other forces...

Golam Wing
Civs make use of mountable mega-beasts operated by special people known as pilots. They use these beasts in their wars against each other.
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Golamgelion You has a collection of beasts and pilots, and a extraordinarily well-built fortress, but also are attacked by a consistent collection of Angels who try to lay wast to your base.

Rise of the Machine-People
There are another Civilization, which lives in sites know as Assembly Lines. They want to purge the world from all impurity. For them, the most impure are the undead, hybrid creatures and other great creatures, which they hunt actively. After that, they want to purge the very source of evil: sentient creatures who generate the undead and mutants, either by destroying them, or reassembling them as machine people also. Is rumoured that the Machine-People are controlled by a Great Technician who has the codes which made machines controllable.

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Technowar: Machine-People exists, but no such Machine Civilization. In place of that, there are various Technolords who demand that people give Raw Power or aethricity to them, so that they can fight their competitors. The Technolords Spires cause great enviromental destruction around where are, causing even the undead to flee them. Within time, any place around their influence is rendered a grey area full of pollution, espefically aether radiation.
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Re: New Scenarios- Ragnarok, Machine War and Golem War
« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2016, 09:13:38 pm »

Golam Wing
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Golamgelion...
Now I'm beginning to suspect troll.

Not to say Bay12 is adverse to puns, but these threads are all very poor suggestions.
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Re: New Scenarios- Ragnarok, Machine War and Golem War
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2016, 04:38:23 am »

Invading heaven with a tower and end of the world scenarios where heaven and hell go to war have been brought up before, but no word on whether it fits in with Toady's vision of the gods.  They are common enough in real world mythology that I would hope they might turn up in some worlds.

I doubt flying machines will ever be a part of the main game, but mobile siege engines and flying mounts are planned.  Between them, pilotable flying robots should be moddable at some future point.

As for robots, Toady has said he doesn't want to do steampunk, but you can already mod a civilization like this.

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Re: New Scenarios- Ragnarok, Machine War and Golem War
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2016, 07:37:35 am »

I think that having something !FUN! happen if you build too high might be interesting...

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Whether or not said !FUN! is due to intruding on the god's domain depends on how Toady envisions the mythological aspects of DF working...

For instance, will the gods interact with other gods and the world at large, and if so, then in what ways?

Shall they engage in divine politics, indulge in excessively perverse orgies, and generally frolic their fellow gods, or conversely will they, you know, not...

Do they all rule from one location, or do they each rule from their own private sanctums, or do they more just wander about the mortal plane being arseholes rather than rule...
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Re: New Scenarios- Ragnarok, Machine War and Golem War
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2016, 10:26:06 am »

When it comes to flying machines Toady did say that airship-like floating things were not out of the question so long as not steam powered.
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Re: New Scenarios- Ragnarok, Machine War and Golem War
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2016, 01:12:33 am »

Tabulating computers, golems and pseudo-eletricity circumvent this by being mechanical or magic....
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Re: New Scenarios- Ragnarok, Machine War and Golem War
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2016, 03:45:17 am »

Tabulating computers, golems and pseudo-eletricity circumvent this by being mechanical or magic....
It's industrial magic, which is still "no".
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Re: New Scenarios- Ragnarok, Machine War and Golem War
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2016, 10:54:23 pm »

Steampunk doesn't have to mean steampowered? Is that what you mean?
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Re: New Scenarios- Ragnarok, Machine War and Golem War
« Reply #8 on: May 12, 2016, 02:29:23 pm »

The first suggestion makes sense. There should be an option to toggle it off though if it's implemented
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Re: New Scenarios- Ragnarok, Machine War and Golem War
« Reply #9 on: May 12, 2016, 02:33:21 pm »

A battle between gods is really epic for me, but i'm not sure that your vision is apropiate for the game......specially the robot part.
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Re: New Scenarios- Ragnarok, Machine War and Golem War
« Reply #10 on: May 16, 2016, 07:52:39 am »

Wait...

Megabeast mounts?

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Re: New Scenarios- Ragnarok, Machine War and Golem War
« Reply #11 on: May 17, 2016, 04:35:09 pm »

A battle between gods is really epic for me, but i'm not sure that your vision is apropiate for the game......specially the robot part.

Unless it's done really really well. There's robots in D&D, but they're setting specific robots; they didn't just plop in generic androids.
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