598 réponses à ce sujet

[Rolo Kipp]

<waving away...>

Not ignoring this. Thinking hard.
Frankly, I'm enjoying the East/West rivalry as a fun little bit of spice, but I also want this to be both accessible (meaning Makers can contribute where they want) and enhancing (meaning it adds to the value of the CCC).

One of the jobs I'm falling down on is creating the demo mods for all this great content. I have grand plans for a meta theme that starts with the Rogue demo "Get Ducky!"(done) where all of Cestus' back-pay has been stolen from his "thief-proof" vault, with the story continuing and developed free-form through each month's demo (ala "Where in the World is Vibrant Penumbra") until it culminates, somehow, with the big boss encounter in the December mod.

It is for this purpose that the vault's Lockstone was made a trophy (with other trophies tracking a player's advancement through the year. It is for that purpose that players XP is adjusted to level 15 and then restored (with xp gain) at the end of each demo. The name/concept of the Oriental mod is "Oni the Lonely" and really depends on a couple of tilesets *cough*. And that's where I bogged down :-(

If we could fit this demo challenge into that story arch, and keep it fun and accessible, I think that would be the best possible development. At the end of 12 months we'd have 12 great CC packages, we'd have a playable campaign highlighting that content and we'd showcase and promote the truly impressive talents of contributors *including* the rather overlooked level designers and scripters who somehow don't consider themselves CC Makers (*excuse* me?!). Hah! <end rant, wizard>
Er, yeah.

So I'm thinking. Hard. <*cough cough*>

Ideas:
Partner with the Academy for Modding Excellence

 
Loving this!

<...the smoke pouring from the old man's ears>

Modifié par Rolo Kipp, 28 juin 2012 - 04:01 .

[_six]

Can I have my own "the civilized world" team?

Theme idea: puzzles.

[Rolo Kipp]

<putting his foot down...>

_six wrote...
Can I have my own "the civilized world" team?

No.
You'd be all alone.
There is no team in "I" <uh, boss? bass-ackwar...>
Oh, stuff it, bird.

Theme idea: puzzles.

Ok.
Title : Puzzles
Description: ???

<...to squash an idea>

[Rolo Kipp]

 <thinking about the expense...>

Shemsu recently asked me a rather thought-provoking question. The answer was simple and obvious (to me), but there was that blasted can-o-worms attached to it.

"Are the old themes closed or can I make some things for them?"
heh. Anyone who knows me knows I *adore* new content, I get all warm & fuzzy at the thought of getting my <sticky> fingers on new shiny things. So the answer was, "Go for it!", of course.
Then the worms started wriggling out of their can and me without a fishing rod ;-P

What to do with new content for old themes? No way would I update a 20mb archive for a single new item, forcing builder's to re-download everything everytime someone adds something.

But I don't want people new to the CCC to have to download a dozen different files either.

So here's how I'll handle it:
New content for old themes is added to a monthly queue for that theme. At the end of the month any queue with content will be archived as a Builder's Source Addendum and made available on the Vault.
At the end of the year, all addendums will be combined into an Annual and the addendums removed.
I believe with this system we open up all those great old themes for improvement (I'd love to see Uncager's Planescape stuff added :-) but we maintain an organized, sensible method of additional content.

And, in case you're wondering what Shemsu-Heru has made (I believe someone was looking for a rolling pin weapon? :-)

• Ancient Civilizations - Pelta Shield
• Commoners - Rolling Pin
• Oriental - Kunai (dart)

<...of hiring more clerks. and wincing>

Modifié par Rolo Kipp, 10 juillet 2012 - 10:02 .

[Rolo Kipp]

<unlocking the gates...>

Basically, this means I've re-opened every previous theme for new content.

Just in case someone missed it ;-)

<...and unbarring the doors>

[The Amethyst Dragon]

Quoted from a PM:

Tarot Redhand wrote...

Quite simply I'd like to suggest Dr. Who for at least 2 very good
reasons. Next year is the 50th anniversary of the very first episode and
there is (I had a good search and can find) absolutely nothing on the
vault. I mean how hard can a Tardis be to model?

Good idea.  Any specific or general things besides the Tardis?

[Tarot Redhand]

K9 for one, sonic screwdriver for another. Then there are daleks, cybermen, Dr. Who style yetis, all 12 (including the 60's movie peter cushing version) Doctors, an incredibly long scarf (), the face of Bo, Captain Jack - the list goes on and on.

TR

[Urk]

I love the Doctor Who idea.

In terms of assets I'd suggest some of the villains. The good thing about Dr. Who villains is that they're pretty much boiler plate. The important ones would include Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, Silurians, and Zygons. Nestines can be pretty much anything.

The new series has some cool assets too, but I think trying to incorporate all of these into one package would be too much work. I'd suggest limiting the project to the "classic series".

The only character I can think of that would need his own model is Davros, although some heads for the various doctors and sidekicks would be a nice bonus.

The D20 Modern tilesets would suffice for a tardis interior, spaceships, etc, but a proper Tardis Nav console would be a must. Like Tarot says, sonic screwdriver, and K9 are both iconic and pretty much awesome.

Modifié par Urk, 14 septembre 2012 - 01:31 .

[Squatting Monk]

I know it's not one of the classic Doctor Who monsters, but one that could be usable and fun for the community at large would be the Weeping Angels. Basically, a frozen statue for the idle animation. If the rest was animated like normal, you could use scripts to freeze them every so often in combat and get the different poses. People who don't want the Who-lore would just not use the script and still have a viable angel gargoyle.

[Tarot Redhand]

Just in case there are those in the community that don't know what we are talking about I have gathered a few links (mostly wikipedia) for you. Apart from the TV series there were 2 movies starring Peter Cushing -  Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) and Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966)

All the rest of the links refer to the TV series.

List of Doctors, List of Companions, List of Doctor Who villains, TARDIS, List of Doctor Who items

And finally here is something that I came across on deviantArt - For Sarah Jane

I hope these are of use.

TR

Modifié par Tarot Redhand, 14 septembre 2012 - 02:15 .

[Rolo Kipp]

<coughs delicately...>

Been after Cestus to make my long ugly scarf for a while...

<...well... as delicately as an old man can>

[Bannor Bloodfist]

Rolo Kipp wrote...

<coughs delicately...>

Been after Cestus to make my long ugly scarf for a while...

<...well... as delicately as an old man can>

The "kippster"  !*!  Glad you are back, hope everything is going well!

[Rolo Kipp]

<dancing like...>

I'm so up right now you need a telescope to track me =) <poetic, boss. on-topic?>
Damn good hearing from *you*, too :-) <*raven scowl*>
Er, yeah... uh, yeah, someone was wanting clarification of my interpretation of the CCC fine print... <which you wrote, btw>

Rolo Kipp wrote a bit above...

"Are the old themes closed or can I make some things for them?"
heh. Anyone who knows me knows I *adore* new content, I get all warm & fuzzy at the thought of getting my <sticky> fingers on new shiny things. So the answer was, "Go for it!", of course.
Then the worms started wriggling out of their can and me without a fishing rod ;-P

What to do with new content for old themes? No way would I update a 20mb archive for a single new item, forcing builder's to re-download everything everytime someone adds something.

But I don't want people new to the CCC to have to download a dozen different files either.

So here's how I'll handle it:
New content for old themes is added to a monthly queue for that theme. At the end of the month any queue with content will be archived as a Builder's Source Addendum and made available on the Vault.
At the end of the year, all addendums will be combined into an Annual and the addendums removed.
I believe with this system we open up all those great old themes for improvement (I'd love to see Uncager's Planescape stuff added :-) but we maintain an organized, sensible method of additional content.

<...nobody's watching>

[Bannor Bloodfist]

other than the removal of addendums, it sounds like a good plan.

However, instead of removing addendums I think I would keep them available, but change the listing to something like "out of date, see here" instead of complete removal. That way folks could find specific things if they have constructed their own haks or whatever...

just 2cents, and with today's dollar value, well, I think we all realize exactly how much gasoline you can purchase with 2 cents right? Oh wait... it's $7 per gallon now? I thought it was only $6.50 this week?

[Rolo Kipp]

<nods thoughtfully...>

Well, as I haven't done but a couple addendums and am a long way from the end of the year... that sounds good. storage is cheap and I like having old versions. Just have to remember to mark them as superceded. <four syllables, boss. you'll forget for sure>
So? I'm sure you'll remind me... <it'll cost ya>
*sigh* Always does.

<...and tries to remember to not forget where he puts suggestions>

Modifié par Rolo Kipp, 22 septembre 2012 - 04:55 .

[Tarot Redhand]

Rolo, I don't mind where you put them as long as there isn't a chain and a whoosh, gurgle, gurgle sound afterwards.

TR

[Rolo Kipp]

<holding his cards...>

Tarot, the only thing I'm ever likely to flush is a handful of cards with important people painted on them!

<...close to his chest>

[The Amethyst Dragon]

A couple of new theme suggestions:

Plants: Plants set the stage in most D&D games, from lush jungles to parched desert to twisted dark forests.  Ruined buildings covered in vines, yew trees (gotta make longbows from something), farm fields with crop circles, animated giant carnivorous plant creatures (or placeables), new plant creatures, triggers for around exotic flowers that inflict special pollen-based effects on characters, spells that affect plants or summon walls of dense vegetation, sounds of wind blowing through a forest's trees, an improved visual effect for Entangle, new plant visual effects, prefab quests that involve finding/harvesting/saving/destroying/etc. some sort of rare plant, prefab plant placeables that can be sources of fruit or rare sap needed for the king's nightly drink, a tileset set completely attop a giant tree (or several giant trees) where the ground is not visible below.

Why So Serious?: D&D is not always a game of serious topics and deadly combat.  Sometimes things just end up a little bit (or a lot) obsurd.  This decade old game could use a few more things that are just plain silly or carefully considered D&D humor.  A gazebo monster, or a door that looks like a large jar.  A band of gnome pickpockets that steal footwear.  An overly curious NPC that just follows PCs around until they leave the area. A jester that tells random jokes. A longsword model that looks like a Chainsaw of Bloody Dismemberment. A set of prefab books with humorous descriptions and titles. Apprentice-scribed spells scrolls that have unforseen effects. A short quest that just ends up ridiculous halfway through before having a normal ending. A henchman that has a 25% chance on seeing any human (or elf, or dwarf, etc.) of voicing a crude insult about said being.  Be creative!

Yep, just in time to get added to the poll for November's theme in the morning.

Anyone have any past ones that were trimmed from lack of votes (and haven't been in the poll for at least a few months) that they'd be happy to see in the list again?  Mention them here, and I'll get them into the poll for December.

[gutwrench66kg]

I had a few theme ideas to kick in as well, a few have some potential overlap..

To the Winner go the Spoils/End of the Road:  Every adventurer has a different reason for adventuring, but eventually we beat an arch nemesis and loot their ill (or legitimate) gotten goods.  How about some toys for the end of that quest/adventure?  Instead of just the standard pile of GP and a spiffy lootable weapon, how about placeables for a dragon's hoard? What sort of artwork and museum goods were locked up into the vault tiles from the January Rogues challenge?  Piles of paintings? expensive rugs and tapestries? How about some trophies from past adventures.. (Anyone remember the mounted heads on the Adventurer's Guild wall in the old "Quest for Glory" by Sierra?) Stuff to spruce up the post-adventure tavern stop? We have a social phenotype now.. how about some new consumables for them to equip? Legs of Mutton and Turkey, variety of equipped bottles? We have a new dartboard placeable from the 1.69 patch, what of other games of chance? Equippable hands of cards? Placeables cards for the table?  Reskins/remodels for the antiquated "Innkeeper" "Shopkeeper" and "Prostitute 1/prostitute 2"?    class specific items to signify your wealth.. reskins of the equippable books/musical instruments.. A Dragonscale and platinum bound first printing copy of  "A is for Ankheg, B is for Barghest"  Did Johnny give the devil his due and win that shiny fiddle made of gold? Or did the Balors get his soul? Did our cleric recover that Silver Chalice like she had hoped?

Monster heads posted on spikes as a reminder that the quest was completed? Adventurers/adventurer heads posted on spikes as a reminder that the meddling do-gooders were defeated?


Masters of the Wild/ Let's make camp: Just expanding on TAD's awesome plant idea.. maybe expand it to function for any of our adventures outside and the characters that excel there. Goodies for our Barbarians, Druids, and Rangers. Keep all of the plant options, but add in some other love for them too... Dire Wolf skins stretching out on racks, Woodland snare/trap models/vfx for our outdoor adventuring,  different campfire placeables with a different hunted creature roasting on top of it.. reskins/remodels of the Uthgardt Elk and Tiger tribe models..  new bedroll models,   plus all of the plant based goodies that TAD listed.

Modifié par usagreco66kg, 01 octobre 2012 - 10:44 .

[Jez_fr]

* updates 1st post with Amethyst Dragon's CCC links page @http://www.neverwinternights.info/cc_ccc.htm *
Thanks AD =)

[The Amethyst Dragon]

usagreco66kg wrote...

To the Winner go the Spoils/End of the Road: 

Nice!  In my PnP games I've always had the odd tavern with something like a trophy weapon (perhaps an oversized ogre's sword) on the wall above the bar, or a (badly taxidermied) dragon head on a shelf.  Something the locals can tell stories about or even have stolen as a plot hook.

Masters of the Wild/ Let's make camp:

I like this one all on it's own.  I don't see any need to tie it into the plants theme, since it's got so much room for new content directly related to it.  I can imagine a whole nomadic barbarian village outfitted with this sort of stuff.  And it would give rangers those wilderness snares that they use for survival or for thwarting invading orcs.  Druids might even benefit from the skinnned animals and such in the form of a goal: wiping out the camp of a group of poachers that are killing every nearby animal with fur.

I tried to add these to the poll for November, but evidently it won't allow the poll to be edited if there's at least a single vote.  I will get these onto the one for December though.  Ideas with both variety and good descriptions...too good to pass up.

[Rolo Kipp]

<Campaigning...>

For those who'd like to vote for their favorite CCC's, here's the really nifty/handy list from Neverwinternights.info, modified for *some* people to include current standings ;-)

(Edit: to go to the vault to vote, you click on the number of votes.)
(( to go to the forum thread, click on the name of the challenge))
Jun 2012 15 Votes  Animal Related Stuff     
May 2012 20 Votes  New, better looking weapons       
Apr 2012 8 Votes  Folk Tales & Myths       
Mar 2012 7 Votes   Elven Stuff       
Feb 2012 9 Votes   Oriental Additions       
Jan 2012 11 Votes   Rogue Stuff       
Dec 2011 12 Votes  Winter Stuff       
Nov 2011 16 Votes  Underwater Stuff   
Oct 2011 11 Votes   Demonic       
Sep 2011 14 Votes  Horror/Creepy       
Aug 2011 10 Votes  Planescape       
Jul 2011 10 Votes  Airships       
Jun 2011 13 Votes  Poor Folk Stuff       
May 2011 14 Votes  A Little Love for the Little Guys       
Apr 2011 11 Votes  Religious Items and Symbols       
Mar 2011 17 Votes  Statuary Garden       
Jan/Feb 2011 11 Votes   New Helms, Hats, Hoods, Hair Accessories, or other head decorations    
Dec 2010 15 Votes  Field war hospital, the toll of war       
Nov 2010 24 Votes  Ancient Civiliations  (Just one more vote needed!)     
Oct 2010 16 Votes  Commoners       
Sep 2010 26 Votes  Buccaneers/Pirates   (just went Hall of Fame :-)
Aug 2010 22 Votes  High Priestress/Cleric Apartment       

(Edit: And ignore the orphaned little 's' at the ends. I'm too frustrated to re-link the whole list :-P )

<...for votes>

Modifié par Rolo Kipp, 08 octobre 2012 - 03:43 .

[Tarot Redhand]

Nicely done Rolo although I wish you had made it plain that to go to the vault you click on the number of votes. Just too darned clever for an old grinning cat ().

TR

[The Amethyst Dragon]

Theme idea based on a post by henesua:

Overhead Stuff: More and more tilesets feature visible ceilings, why not have some overhead features visible from below?  The undersides of trapdoors, open chimney holes, hanging light sources, nasty looking eggs/pods, ceiling spikes with impaled corpses, ceilings with artwork painted or sculpted on them, fabrics hanging across the ceiling, spiders/bugs that move up the walls and across the ceiling, scripted visual effects that appear overhead (ghosts, sprites, etc.), a variety of tree/plant roots hanging down and/or across, swings mounted to the rafters, various vines hanging down, or even placeable bats roosting overhead.

[Tarot Redhand]

Couple of ideas-

• Grubby - Now this isn't a criticism of content creators but how come everything looks so darned new. So how about making some things that look well used. Maybe even positively caked with mud/dirt etc.
• Literary favourites - How about making things from the pages of your favourite book(s)? For example the ornithopters from the Dune books, Fire Lizards from the P.E.R.N. books, Jhary A'Conel and Whiskers from the eternal champion saga etc. The list could go on and on (Tik Tok from the OZ books).

One thought on the actual list. How about once a year having a list that consists solely of suggestions that have recieved zero votes in the past so that the challenge is not entirely dominated by challenges that produce things that we are already familiar with.

TR