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<LI><em>From</em>: Vadim Tkachenko <<A HREF="mailto:vt#freehold,crocodile.org">vt#freehold,crocodile.org</A>></LI>
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Travis S. Casey wrote:
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> On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, J C Lawrence wrote:
> > Travis Casey<efindel#polaris,net> wrote:
> >
[skipped]
> > Congratulations! First kid?
>
> Yep... we practiced parenting on our two cats first. We're expecting
> our new arrival at the end of August, and have no plans to find out
> the baby's sex until it's born.
Get some sleep upfront, 'cause after that you may forget about this for
decades :-)
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> Some paper RPers prefer to develop characters in play rather than
> generating them at the start. The idea is that the player may not
> know enough about the gameworld when the game starts to be able to
> generate exactly the kind of character he/she would want. Thus,
> some aspects of character generation are delayed.
>
> A more concrete example of this is to give the players the ability
> to "hold back" a few attribute/skill/whatever points and assign them
> when they want to.
Bad implementation may allow characters to change their stats right
before they know they will need ones - say, I'm about to run for a quest
which requires an enormous physical strength, so I just roll all my
stats into strength... I believe, all those attempts should have a cost
to them so it would be difficult to abuse that without suffering.
> Of course, some muds already use a variation on this sort of system --
> allowing players to choose such things as guilds after their characters
> have entered play.
And also to be banned from the guild?
Next flamebite, what is a definition of a guild? Why it is there? What
for? (I ask not because I don't know but because I want to analyze,
decompose and generalize that).
One of the best implementations (in my opinion) is Ultima Underworld I &
II (didn't play other Ultimas, maybe they're the same) - you start
[almost] flat, and then you decide for yourself who and what you want to
be.
> |\ _,,,---,,_ Travis S. Casey <efindel#io,com>
> ZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ No one agrees with me. Not even me.
> |,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-' Keeper of the rec.games.design FAQ:
> '---''(_/--' `-'\_) <A HREF="http://www.io.com/~efindel/design.html">http://www.io.com/~efindel/design.html</A>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00079" HREF="msg00079.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character development [was Re: ]</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 08 Apr 1998, 23:56 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00091" HREF="msg00091.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character development [was Re: ]</A></strong>,
Travis S. Casey <a href="mailto:efindel#io,com">efindel#io,com</a>, Thu 09 Apr 1998, 13:12 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00095" HREF="msg00095.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character development [was Re: ]</A></strong>,
Marian Griffith <a href="mailto:gryphon#iaehv,nl">gryphon#iaehv,nl</a>, Thu 09 Apr 1998, 17:19 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00098" HREF="msg00098.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character development [was Re: ]</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00114" HREF="msg00114.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character development [was Re: ]</A></strong>,
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