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Old 07-14-2008, 12:16 AM   #4
manikus
Jack Burton
 

Join Date: July 13, 2001
Location: Stumptown
Age: 53
Posts: 5,444
Default Re: What Campaign Setting for your Module?

My world is coming along quite nicely. I'm trying a different workflow for it, and not doing any art at the beginning, but all of the databases (.dat and .txt files) first. There are four main races and two hybrid available for the PC/NPC. All of the multi-classes have names, i.e. instead fighter/magicuser/thief, they're called bards. Instead of paladins, there are knights, including two special orders that aren't functioning properly b/c DC will currently not let me multi-class paladins. There are other, less straight-forward changes (rangers are now the name of a multi-class).
I've been toying with the idea making all major types of monsters into races, that way during the game, it would say "wyrm" instead of monster for the dragon-like creatures, for example. I think this would also allow me to do some specific magic and specific abilities for weapons, which is aimed at particular races of creatures. There is definitely a bit of code tweaking that needs to happen. I'm in a bit of thicket about which way to go- I think I can figure out how to allow paladin multi-classing for example, but if I change the source code, I have to make those changes available to all, and as I would be adding hard-wired multi-classes I'm not sure that I want to do this. The other option is that I hack the .exe and provide my hack, free for all to use. This is more difficult (though it does take me back to my FRUA days) and a bit harder to explain to others how to use.

Spelljamming would be cool. I think the only thing I have in electronic format is the 'Realmspace' book. I don't know that I've seen the boxed set, course, I haven't been looking either.

I don't know if Steve McDonald is around, I know he still gets the mailing list, but his modules that he was working on were Dragonlance and Greyhawk, if I'm not mistaken.

I've just been doing DC today, no school work. I've gotten a lot of stuff done, but nothing finished. It's been a nice break, that's for sure.
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