RE: [Arianne-general] Newish concept: PC vs NPC and morelogout i nfo

[Brian T. <bri...@ho...>]

>
> > Resurrection + High Karma => Spiritual Quest =>
> > Return to life
> > Resurrection + High Karma => Spiritual Quest +
> > TIMEOUT => Death forever
> > Resurrection + Low Karma => HARDER Spiritual Quest
> > => Return to life
> > Reincarnation + High Karma => BETTER Life form
> > Reincarnation + Low Karma => WORSE Life form
>
> OK, what about a player that doesn't really care about
> the gods?  Say a group of people that just like to
> dungeon crawl, I don't think there should be a penalty
> for that.  And if you are from an evil race and don't
> worship an evil god, you shouldn't have bad karma
> unless you go against your race's principles.
>

You can be godless but the then essense is figured solely on your other
interactions not on allegiances to a god still essense and karma are figured
on you actions, you are then judged in the same way along the lines of your
life.  High higher lifeform or regeneration.  Evil again is a relative
concept in this world and dark elf would be evil to humans but then humans
would be evil to dark elves....  No race is truly evil just some races hate
or dislike other races naturally our concepts of evil in the real world will
not matter in the game rule.  Nothing limits us to good or evil actions
there except us following our choosen path that we want to roleplay and if
we don't roleplay within that path we are penalized.  The gods do exist but
if you choose to not follow a god you simply don't get the advantages in
that gods magics.  Certain magics aren't associated with gods at all,
alchemy and natural magics for instance.

>
> I don't think too much of the focus should be on the
> gods.  I also think it would be nice if differant gods
> were more or less powerful in differant areas(a god in
> the snowy areas is differant from the ones in the
> eastern regions which are differant from those in the
> western ones).
>

The gods control the magics, most magics, otherwise where does magic come
from????
Gods will have realms of more and less power, common sense rules here Fire
in the desert, water underwater and in swamps, earth underground and only if
in touch with the ground, air only above ground.  Characters are always able
to tap into the Body, Mind, and spirit magics directly.  Alchemy and natural
magics will require the use of reagents and ingredients, respectively.  Void
magic will come from the void and may only be used when dead if <127 ability
binding magic is a way of combining effects from several of the magics
together.  Belief in a god is not necessary to use any of the magics, but
belief in the gods gives an advantage to the use of that magic(and to a
specific type of that magic creative or destructive) Again players with
ability <127 for elemental magics fire,earth,air,water will be required to
use runes to cast the magic.

I'm working on this, but there is alot going on in my personal life both
physically and intellectually right now.

Brian Thompson