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[KingofstarrySkies]

Tom Bombadil Sim 2014

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2015*

[Arx]

AlleeCat is working on it.

IRL stuff means she hasn't made too much progress, but the project is there and alive (or at least re-animated).

[LordBaal]

I have always thought of something along those lines too. Where do you start? Local cemetery? Recent battlefield? Do you rise linches to help you command? What would be more difficult or cost more? Zombies or skeletons? I have always liked to think that skeletons are harder than zombies because there's less to animate, hence it requires far more magic. Of course that's my opinion.

What about vampires? How do you angle them? Werebeasts and others. It would be very interesting.

[scrdest]

I have always thought of something along those lines too. Where do you start? Local cemetery? Recent battlefield? Do you rise linches to help you command? What would be more difficult or cost more? Zombies or skeletons? I have always liked to think that skeletons are harder than zombies because there's less to animate, hence it requires far more magic. Of course that's my opinion.

What about vampires? How do you angle them? Werebeasts and others. It would be very interesting.

I would think skellies would be harder, since they lack a proper motion apparatus and all, and are harder to find, but would be tougher on account of not having much in terms of vital organs, so you just gotta smash 'em to pieces.

Zombies, on the other hand, come pre-equipped with... well, normal human parts, in various stages of decay, but still, but it would also mean you're piggybacking off of reanimated tissues doing the work for you, so they would be more susceptible to piercing damage than skellies, but the flesh would make them a bit more resilient against smashification.

E: And if you guys want to mess with that kinda thing, and have the original Mount and Blade (i.e. not Warband), there's the Solid and Shade mod which is pretty much exactly that.

[LordBaal]

Eventually you become a vampire lord? A linch in it's tower? Endless possibilities.

Only that I would love to have all that as only a faction of a strategy game, that's it on that game you could play all the other factions too, humans, dwarves, elves, orcs, goblins... and each one have it's own perks, ways and possibly individual factions. With at least two maps, one for the surface and another for the underground where you play goblings, dwarves and other factions like it.

I was thinking the other about a game like total war where instead of the current "artificial" way of recruitment it would be more organic. For example if you start to play as a Gaul "barbarian" you start only with this village/tribe and if you want to have more troops or make a proper empire you'll have to fight/bribe/awe/diplo your way trough your neighbors, your influence rising and falling on the deeds of your leaders/faction finally unifying as many Gaul tribes under your command and then do what you will with them. Fight the romans back or awe them or even ally with them, make an empire, a republic, a kingdom... all the while other Gaul tribes strive to do the same. This will make you think and fight your way to more troops and resources but you'll get what they have, that's it, you won't be "recruiting" on the classical sense where you choose what to have, but you get what they have and that's it.

In contrast the Romans would be doing more or less the same, but they would be conquering by pen, coin or sword, and imposing quotas of either auxilias or recruits on each town (if citizenship has been granted on the kingdom, province or individual town).

[Scoops Novel]

A third person puzzle/partially horror game based on "what have they done to me", where you need to keep an eye on yourself (your avatar) as much as anyone else. It should range from very subtle (My feet aren't that size.) to blatant (I didn't sleep here, and OH GOD STOP BREAKING THINGS), and beyond your control. You can however learn it's tricks (for how long?), try countermeasures, and in movement and actions do all the typical things (why did they allow this?).

Will armour just hide things from me? What are the triggers? Today went well... are they bribing me?

Credit me when you make the game

[Shadowlord]

On undead:

I'd mention Warcraft 3 (I remember the necromancer/undead/Frozen Throne faction, and they were in the campaign).

Also Warlords Battlecry (all of them, I think) also have undead as a race (there are a ridiculous number of races in WBC3).

Both of those are real time and hero-with-army games. Neither have a real overworld conquering thing (There was that sort of thing in Warlords Battlecry 2, but Warlords Battlecry 3 has a different campaign system). I'm not sure how well WBC3 works on modern OSes. I tried running my copy (which I own on DVD) and it did not want to run at any kind of sensible resolution (I mean 1080p), though.

There's also Dominions 4, which is a turn-based strategy game but has some nations which are undead-centric. It has both in-combat spells to summon undead (the undead only last for that battle), as well as ritual undead-summoning spells which tend to require dead bodies in the land, IIRC. Some nations give you undead for free in each province and are designed for use with death scales (kills people in your dominion), but that leads to everyone in the world ganging up on you in MP, for obvious reasons. The more dead a province is, the less supply it has*, and if it lacks supply, that makes it particularly problematic for conventional troops to travel through it since they need supply to eat...

* = To be precise, the manual says:

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Supplies  The supply rating of a province determines how many units the province can support.  If more units occupy a province than can be supplied by the indicated supply rating, starvation occurs.  Units consume different amounts of supply based on their physical size (see Units for more information on this).  The supply rating in a province is determined by multiple factors.

Population-based supply is calculated from the population present in a province, modified by the Growth/Death and Heat/Cold scales.  The first 10,000 population in a province generates supplies at 1 supply point per 100 population.  Additional population generates 1 supply point per 200 population.  This is modified by the Growth/Death scales (first) and the Heat/Cold scales (second) to arrive at a Population-Based Supply number.

Fortress-based supply depends on the province's proximity to a fortress.  If the province in question is within four provinces of a fort, fortress-based supply is added to the population-based supply calculated above.  This depends on the fortress' Admin rating (see section on fortresses below) and uses the formula (Administration * 4) / (Distance + 1).  Only the highest fortress-based supply is used if there is more than one nearby fortress.

Example:  A province with 20,000 population has Growth 1 and Heat 3 dominions in it.  It generates 400 supply points for the first 10,000 population, and 200 supply points for the remaining 10,000 population for a total of 600 supply.  Supplies are increased by 20% for the Growth 1 dominion, increasing the total to 720.  The Heat 3 dominion, however, reduces this amount by 30%, or 180 supply points, for a population-based supply of 540.

The province is also three provinces away from a Castle (Admin 30) which has had 10 points of Admin added to it through upgrades, resulting in an Admin rating of 40.  This generates an additional 40 supply points.  The province has a final supply value of 540 + 40 = 580.

If there are not enough supplies in a province to supply all of the units currently occupying that province, starvation may occur.

[Kingbodz]

I want a open world third person Shadowrun game. Dragonfall and returns are awesome rpgs, but there are so places a job can take you in the PnP and I'd like to see that.

[Arx]

I'd mention Warcraft 3 (I remember the necromancer/undead/Frozen Throne faction, and they were in the campaign).

Last time this came up, I mentioned that as well. The downside is that reanimated skeletons are temporary, but with enough necromancers you can roll over everything.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

I want a open world third person Shadowrun game. Dragonfall and returns are awesome rpgs, but there are so places a job can take you in the PnP and I'd like to see that.

uh well we had that shadowrun 2007 game, which despite mixed reviews from asshat critics, I think most players mentioned to me that it was awesomesauce^tm

[UXLZ]

A game with Skyrim level mod support and community that's actually a very good game to begin with. (At least not 'meh' like Skyrim is. Personal opinion though.)

[Kingbodz]

I want a open world third person Shadowrun game. Dragonfall and returns are awesome rpgs, but there are so places a job can take you in the PnP and I'd like to see that.

uh well we had that shadowrun 2007 game, which despite mixed reviews from asshat critics, I think most players mentioned to me that it was awesomesauce^tm

That was a piece of fps trash that was so bad it made the makers of the PnP say its not even a shadowrun game.

[UXLZ]

A Dwarf Fortress with a good UI.

Maybe 2050? With luck?

[Urist McScoopbeard]

A Dwarf Fortress with a good UI.

Maybe 2050? With luck?

DF UI is perfect. Once you learn it it's infinitely quick. INFINITELY. QUICK.

[MrWiggles]

A Dwarf Fortress with a good UI.

Maybe 2050? With luck?

I'm not sure what else could really be done with it, if you're keeping to the constraint of a keyboard driven interface. Its a pretty dense game. It just could use polish, but the UI isn't even 'done' yet.