WOW?

[manikus]

It's UANL #36, with some updates (I don't know about screenshots) in #38.

It's pretty cool stuff. It makes me want to play it, and then see what I can do in DC.

[Uatu]

WOW! That is a very, very nice hack - very well done! Lots of work done into lots of icons, backdrops, walls, combat sets, etc....

However, I, being the anal retentive that I am, would have done a few things differently...

1. The Chinese hu-hsien and Vietnamese con-tinh look Japanese; I would have added more non-Japanese influences.
2. The monks should not be wearing karate uniforms; the sohei also had a particular look (and were armed with polearms); I think I would have done the yakuza differently, too, but....
3. As you have read from my blog already, I have problems with Oriental Adventures itself Thus, I guess I would not be the best person to do an "as-is" OA hack for DC as I would be complaining about this and that along the way. I.e., I don't like the Oriental dragons that much, many of the classes seem redundant to me (bushi, samurai, yakuza), etc. and everything has too much of a Japanese slant.

Still, this all makes me want to do some OA-related art Looks like great stuff that Hans did, overall!

Also - the gargantua monster seems to look quite similar to Cthulhu - instant OA icon! Plus, yours is more "to-scale," since DC does not have FRUA's 2 x 2 restriction...

[Uatu]

Also, were there any other hacks for FRUA? Seems strange that noone would do a Dragonlance one...

[manikus]

The worldhacks for FRUA are OAUA (obviously), SFUA (sci-fi, and I don't know if it was ever released or finished), SHUA (super hero) WWUA (Wild West, I know all the art was completed and some of the tiems...) and and underdark hack that had all of the art done, but I don't know if anything else was finished.

I'm surprised that there is no Dragonlance hack as well. I bet if you suggested it over there and talked it up, you could get Mr. O'Donnell on board. He is the hackmeister who added the five new events to FRUA/OAUA. If only he would switch over to DC...we'd be done by the new year, or next summer at the latest. (He's very prolific, almost as prolific as he is sarcastic.)

[manikus]

When we get around to doing that Asian-inspired hack for DC, we can do whatever we want. It can be multi-cultural, or uni-cultural.

[Uatu]

Sarcastic is good, if it comes with prolificness

But yeah, I think for DC we could just go and include EVERYTHING we want perhaps. (There is no reason why kensei cannot fight alongside paladins and Solamnic knights ) Perhaps we can have a checkbox or something to include/remove class/race types in our various games someday.

[manikus]

Ah, someday. My favorite part of DC.

That sounds good to me. I would love to ba able to have a setting where you could choose from 30 different classes, not counting multi-class and play one of 25 different races.

[Uatu]

Exactly! Could sort of have a feeling of one of those rogue-likes, except with actual graphics and stuff

[manikus]

There are some rogue "front-ends" out there that have some pretty nice isometric graphics. There was one I was following for a while that was using DC monsters. (That was a couple years ago.) There is another similar game that is called Net-hack. That has some nice isometric front-ends as well.
They get pretty boring, pretty quick. Actually, I felt the same way about Diablo. (I hope Blizzard doesn't send a hitman after me now.)

[Uatu]

Hey, if there is one using DC monsters out there, there are a lot more DC monsters now... Which one was that one?

But yeah, those Rogue-likes get really boring (or annoying) really fast - I hate how death is saved and permanent (I am just a hobby gamer, I don't want gaming to be my life!)...

I never played Diablo, actually...