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[Bansidhe]

Being witless with the toolset or in fact anything thats not a book,I have been reflecting lately on the servers I would have love too have  made,or at least helped on.and would play on like a shot!

First,Steven Eriksons Malazan series...i mean seriously someone please make this!  it screams out for a gameworld!
Gritty combat,hedge too high magic,a whole new world of gods and acendants and the chance of becoming one yourself!..brilliantly varied races with rich back histories and old terrible foes.

Second: Mary Gentles Ash,was called something else in usa I belive,but semi-mythical late reinessance,with steampunk golems and such..seriously read it!  ok a little warhammer-ey with cannon and arquebus but still beautifully rich in enviroment and alt history.

Third: an ARS MAGICA server,this would be fantastic! late medieval with magic and loads of political intriuge...what a low magic server this would be!

OK,thats me for tonight,but ,please ,add your own wish here...who knows maybe its the inspiration someone needs!

[fingers crossed]

[ehye_khandee]

ARS MAGICA was an awesome game, but IDK if the magic system could be rendered inside NWN, and the magic in that game was, pure magic. I played the original with many of the writers and playtesters, was a great time, excellent company and amazing product.

Be well. Game on.
GM_ODA

[ffbj]

I like the Gothic series. In fact I have tried to emulate the feel of Gothic in my pw. The first time I saw a skeleton in Gothic it was truely frightening. Later watching a group of them swim to the rocks in the moonlight in a cool, methodical, pursuit of my character was surreal and horrific at the same time.

[Bansidhe]

@Ehye.wow,wish I had had that oppertunity too play with them,didnt one chap go and get a history degree so he could play and write better for it?

@ffbj,looked at your PW,are you doing any more too it? and still hosting?

[Eoghan UiNial]

I'd like to see one based off of the Wheel of Time series.

Would definitly have to revamp the magic system, and item system but it could be very cool.

[Bansidhe]

I thnik there is about 3 at least WoT servers under roleplay atm!,go check them out

[ehye_khandee]

Bansidhe wrote...

@Ehye.wow,wish I had had that oppertunity too play with them,didnt one chap go and get a history degree so he could play and write better for it?

IIRC, you are referring to Mark Rein-Haggen (sp? - man it has been years) - and again iirc, yes. There were some very very brainy sorts and very heavy history-major types involved. I was involved in what I think was the first Gen Con LARP with them -  great fun indeed.

Silly me, I only just realized my old friend Shane Hensley is in charge of the new Neverwinter project. I'm soooo out of the loop at times. lol.

Be well. Game on.
GM_ODA

[Metaldwarf]

Personally I would love to see a Warhammer Fantasy Role Play-based server. While a lot of the tropes are older than Tolkien, WH just happens to come together in a way that suits my taste.

I would also love to see a PW RP server that takes place in our world during the Rennaisance Period. It would be fantastic if the primary countries involved would be Europe, the so-called Middle East, Asia, and Africa, but being logistically improbable it's far more likely it would confined to Europe, likely even just a few key places like Spain, France, England, and the Papal States for instance.
It would be historical roleplay with one big difference...magic would exist. 'Artes Magicae' would be prohibited by The Church (as it was in real life) but it would be a very real thing. A lot of political rp with heavily ambiguous morals but accommodating enough that the playerbase would not need a degree in history to play and appreciate it.

[Eagles Talon]

Dyrini or Amber.

[Bansidhe]

@Metaldwarf yep i would so play on that server!

[henesua]

Castle Amber and Averoigne based on the old school pen and paper X2 Chateau d' Amberville but heavily modified so that no one would know how to solve the thing by looking in an old module. Basically the silver keys would move around in the house, and be difficult to hold on to. That way passage to Averoigne would be available to everyone. And you'd have a system for getting back to the house as well.

It would have a limited run, as eventually some players would solve the curse, but it would be a blast while it lasts.

I like Zelazny's Amber too, but don't know how you'd do it in NWN as everything between the courts of chaos and amber would be procedurally generated, and then once generated - permanent. Perhaps you save the data for a shadow in the database? Very tricky to do this in my view.

[ffbj]

Nine Princes in Amber would be intense. You could have the setting and just have to write the world/story.

Bansidhe: Currently I have been working on Orilion Nights for about 3 years and it is coming around very nicely. Not much of a player base since I only put it up on the weekends when a few friends show up. It's prettty harsh and really an expert server. I could send you a copy if you want just pm me your e-mail and I will float you a copy of it. The one you looked at, thanks btw, was Second God War.  My first attempt at an epic setting.  I have suspended work on that world, though you can probably play it up to around 25th level, so there is something to do there, around 300 areas.  My current project Orilion Nights is more concise, and less epic. Some of it's features are:
Fatigue System
Notoriety System
Improved Combat AI
Random Spawns with spot/listen stealth/detect determinants
Ambushes
Bounties (after 12th level)
Persistent Faction Relationships
Treasure Maps
To name some of the main features.

Modifié par ffbj, 23 août 2011 - 01:41 .

[ffbj]

You could also try my contest entry 'Mission to Askalon' which is pretty short, and will give you a glimpse into my approach:

http://nwvault.ign.c....detail&id=5494

[Bansidhe]

Thanks,i will be keeping an eye out at the weekends!

[Molpadia]

I'd like to see a server where DMs run events/quests in European evenings. I have been to many great servers but they all make me frustrated as all the good roleplay and server events happends in the middle of my nighttime (which is evening time for americans). Sure there are some players on my evening time, but it seems they use this time to just farm xp or sit around afk. I really want a place to play where I can feel Im part of something and not just running around killing monsters on my own. if wanted to do that, I'd just play the single player game.

Modifié par Molpadia, 24 août 2011 - 05:42 .

[Bansidhe]

@Molpadia...I would just hang out in gamespy at your prefered times and look through the server lists,check which ones seem too have a lot of players and if ness. go and get the haks etc,then log-in and make some friends,quite a few servers are Euro based,or have euro DMs,and some of them like you too visit their forums and say you want too join in so the DM,s can plan out whats happening in that event.[Doing an event for 10+ people can be quite differant than for2!]

[Molpadia]

Lot of players doesnt always mean lots of Europeans it seems, because when I log in and play a bit all I see is afk people, or people out farming for xp, and when I check the forums I see all the planned events are in my nighttime, which just makes me sad..

[Bansidhe]

I take it you are looking in the RP section?.hmmm...well try some of the PW story or Story worlds perhaps?
Also neverwinter connections has Certain time only DM,d games /campaigns I belive ,may be worth looking there?

[TheSupremeForce]

Years ago, there was a Shannara PW. I was quite fond of that place, particularly for the setting. It's too bad that it died and no one else successfully completed one.

I'd have liked to have seen someone take a stab at pulling off a Word & Void/Genesis of Shannara type server.

A Sword of Truth server could have worked. The setting itself was better than a number of the books.

How about a Mistborn server? The magic system would have been tough to pull off in NWN though.

[Bansidhe]

Yeah the mistborn series was way cool,as you say though,hard too pull off with nwn

another one I would like too play on would be "On Her Majestys Arcane Service"...lots of reinessance shenanigans under queen bess with John Dee hovering in the background!

Modifié par Bansidhe, 24 août 2011 - 04:40 .

[-Absolute-]

Personally I would love to see a Warhammer Fantasy Role Play-based
server. While a lot of the tropes are older than Tolkien, WH just
happens to come together in a way that suits my taste.

I agree. The Warhammer universe is not only very interesting, but also extremely diverse. I haven't gotten the chance to play any fantasy era based WH games, but when the Warhammer RTS came out, it was a like a new drug. Excellent universe.

I would
also love to see a PW RP server that takes place in our world during the
Rennaisance Period. It would be fantastic if the primary countries
involved would be Europe, the so-called Middle East, Asia, and Africa,
but being logistically improbable it's far more likely it would
confined to Europe, likely even just a few key places like Spain,
France, England, and the Papal States for instance.

I would definitely agree! That would be awesome. One RPG that incorporated this idea very well was a game called "Lionheart", focusing on Europe after a doorway to another realm was opened during the time of Lionheart's crusades, bringing magick and other forms of evil into the world. It was a very rich campaign, tying in Leonardo DaVinci, the Spanish Inquisition, and many other factions.

I'd like to see a server where DMs run events/quests in European evenings.

Well, I can certainly say that when my PW is launched, I'll plan events for all timezones. I have had many friends back in th day who lived in Europe, Asia, Australia... and on the previous worlds I administrated and DMed plots on, I always made plans to be there for everyone (only with the fortunate boon of having a lot of free time on my hands as we all have responsibilities to attend to, of course).



I wanted to get the chance to show my Persistent World to you guys since you're all talking about types of servers you would like to see, and any suggestions/feedback for ideas are more than encouraged. It is called Eonswar Chronicles with a cutom setting. I'd like to offer something new and lively to the NWN 1 community. I've put together a narrated introduction video introducing some of the world and its lore with more videos of lore and screenshots of the module in the next few days. All of it can be found here: http://www.eonswar.com

What would you say has been the best qualities out of many previous servers you have played on? What are some things that current servers are lacking in? Would it be DM involvement, lacking Lore, custom features...?

[Bansidhe]

the best one i ever played on was the sadly shortlived CAP by 9fires,fully realised monster races,orcs were bloody scary!,random by area loot,even the dm couldnt spawn loot!,differant spawns/effects depending on the time of day,[dont go THERE at night!],random things happening,eg: those goblins would spawn and raid the town!..or someone would hire assasins too kill you!.say a certain gods name in vain and bad guys would show up...and chase you ,even if you teleported out of there,from over 6 screens away!,into and out of buildings![hide under the bed time!]they would track you down!

other things i would like too see.

Reputation by race and your actions,if you are a half orc,no that human village will not let you in!,the npcs wont talk too you except too say go away and guards will run you off!
Undead...all those villagers will produce torches and the priest will come out too help!
Kill a npc?...ok see the barons castle,those guys will send out patrols looking for you ,your wanted poster will appear in towns with a bounty!
Subraces that actually mean something on the server,rather than being a new shiny skin with a few stat boosts,so if you do actually meet a lich,vampire,ye rusty old saw...its unusual and scary...and if you are playing one...its difficult!...with the relevant drawbacks in that setting.

Getting back too the CAP server,9fires had the best ever quests I have seen.
low lvl,go find chalice stolen by goblins...ho hum you think,nope, theres 3 or more ways too get it,then when you return 3 choices when handing in the quest[hand it over=xp and gp/say you couldnt find it and keep it for the once per day=xp/say you killed them but its lost ,destroyed-gp],but each of those choice led too 3 differant new quests with the same divurgance of paths with a subsaquent effect on your standing with the church,village etc...amazing stuff!

Weapons that are integral too you,not throw away my family heirloom as soon as a new shiny appears,one that grows with you and your char choices influence that.

good monster AI!, and random spawns having a chnce too surprise you.

traps and locks for rogues,stuff that you need differant chars too access,like doors that need too be sung open and stuff.So that one guy cant grind too 40 and solo it once per day!

Bosses with the chance of random reinforcements...eg:ohoh,looks like the giant king was having a feast today!

Id say from looking at it,have a look at ffbj,s stuff too,and amethyst dragons and have good look at the custom forum for ideas.

Well its late here,so thats my 2gp for the moment!...others feel free too chip in!

[ffbj]

Yeah Cap 9fires was great. He has always been a big supporter of mine. Sadly he came into my game one night, and he took the bait of heading into the crpyt where he died. I tried to save him but by going in there I only spawned more zombies, he kept popping back up only to be killed over and over again by a plague of zombies. He did not have a coffin receipt which allows you to respawn at the carpentry shop. Well after about 5 deaths in a row he shouted in disgust, logged, and I haven't seen him since. I really felt bad about that.

[Bansidhe]

Heh,i wouldnt worry,hes firey but dosent hold it long,always had a good word for you,which is why i,ll be popping into your server this wkend,missis permitting!

[-Absolute-]

Hey everyone,

I'll definitely be looking into some systems based on the features listed above. If any of you are also interested in helping me beta test the module for the systems' efficiency and applications, let me know. I would love the help and feedback.

Cordially,

-Absolute
http://www.eonswar.com