GDNet - You be the Designer!!

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Original post by jwalsh Hail All, For those that are unaware, I'm running a tutorial here on GDNet called "How to Make Your Own MMORPG (Miniature Multiplayer Role-player Game)" via my journal "Man vs. the MMORPG". The goal of the tutorial is to a) demonstrate that it either is or is not possible for a single person to implement a MMORPG and b) to provide a place for the GDNet community to send new developers asking the question "How do I make my own MMORPG?" With that in mind, I thought I'd open it up to the creative minds here on GDNet to help fill in the gaps of some of the list-based items. Please be creative and have fun with this. What I'm looking for specifically are:- Items: Armor {Leather, Metal} for various body parts Weapons {Daggers, Swords, Maces, Staves, Wands, Crossbows}. Potions Food/Drink- NPC Names: First and Last Names- Favors: Things which can be exchanged for favor from Osiris, god of the underworld. - Special Abilities: Abilities for the 4 classes Tank, Nuker, Healer, and Handyman. - Quests: I dont need to explain this do I?- Unique Events: Special events and or encounters that happen randomly

I'm going to go out on a limb here and make a wild guess that you're aiming for a traditional, Tolkien-esque fantasy MMORPG.

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If you'd like more info on these, feel free to check out my journal for an introduction and description of the tutorial. Please provide the above here in this thread with the below formats: NPC Names First Name & Last Name Type of NPC you'd like them to be {Quest Dispenser, Class Trainer, Profession Trainer, Event NPC, Banker, Merchant, or Psychic} - If it's relevant to the name

Beatrice "Little Bo" Peep.
Quest Dispenser.
Has lost her sheep and has no idea where to find it. Careless? Certainly, but she's always had a knack for misplacing things. Her late husband was found murdered less than a year ago. Could these two incidents by any chance be related..?


Jack Anjyll
Event NPC. (Water Carrier.)
Jack is the town's water carrier. He goes up the hill to fetch a pail of water, brings it back down the hill and, using his "l337 water-carrying skillz", manages to do this a few times each day without injury. (Well, no injury that requires more than brown paper and vinegar.) Jack suffers from a multiple personality disorder, but he may hold some clues...


Ruddy "Ruddy Hell" Haring
Merchant.
Harry officially sells potatoes. Very good potatoes. Maris Pipers, raised by his own hands. ("Perfect for roastin' an' chips!") He's also a dealer in potions. Some of them are "technic'ly legit".


Travis McBastard (of "McBastard & Son")
Profession Trainer (Builder / Spy)
Travis is a professional builder who has a useful, but surprisingly unsuccessful sideline in spying. (His white-painted horse-drawn cart even has: "McBastard & Son. A Smile, A Song & A Secret Document" painted on the sides.) The player could learn a lot from Travis, but only if he can get him to stop banging on about different types of cement and the fine art of plastering.


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Special Abilities Name Short Description Class (Tank, Nuker, Healer, Handyman) Target Effect

Curser
Ability to swear like a trooper in all known languages.
Class: (Tinker, Sailor, Soldier, Spy, Actor, Journalist)
Target: Publicans, fellow drinkers, other sailors, tinkers, soldiers, spies, (etc.)
Effect: Makes people temporarily ignore the fact that you're actually a spotty, wet-behind-the-ears teenager wearing string 'armour' and a cardboard 'sword', who seriously thinks he's going to complete a quest.

Shouter
Ability to shout VERY LOUDLY INDEED without the need for a loudhailer.
Class: (Soldier, Actor, Publican)
Target: Easily-swayed, impressionable people, rednecks, hicks, etc.
Effect: Makes people think you're a figure of authority. Until they realise you're actually a spotty, wet-behind-the-ears teenager (etc.)

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Quests Name Description Text Goal Reward (If you care to specify - if it's relevant to the quest)

Name: "Find My Sheep!"
Description: Beatrice has lost her favourite ovine. (Why she keeps one is something best left to the imagination.) In order to win her heart, you must agree to find it... but it won't be easy. Where has it gone? Did it run away, or was it abducted? And does it have something to do with the late Mr. Peep's untimely demise..?

Goal: Find "Little Bo" Peep's missing sheep.

Reward: Respect from the villagers -- nobody pulls the wool over your eyes! (See what I did there?) Also, you win Beatrice's heart and she becomes much more willing to ignore the large pimple on your nose. And your cheap medieval-era glasses. (Oh: and the speech impediment...)

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Random Events (These are events similar to what you'd encounter in LoGD/LoRD PHP/BBS games) Name Description Options

Name: "Gerroff Moi Laaaand!"
Description: Whenever you wander onto some stranger's property (or venture anywhere near it), there is a probability that said landowner will appear and demand what you're doing on said property. Usually while brandishing a gun and pointing it in your general direction.
Options: (a) Run away; (b) Explain your Quest (then run away); (c) Invent some plausible bullshit -- e.g. "I'm a Journeyman Poet looking for inspiration for my next sonnet. Do you have a pretty daughter / son*?"

*(delete according to sexual preference.)







(What?)

Haha Sean, very nice! =)

Come one, Come all!! Post your serious and nonsensical list items!

Name: Norman "Milk Man" Cowsman
Quest Dispenser
The town milkman, although he has a nasty habbit of getting drunk on the job and losing the bottles of milk, hence he's always in need of brave adventurers to recover them.

-- Cleaned up the thread.

You want some items...well I got you some items:

Potion of Doom!
Heals a quarter/half/full health but inputs doom.

Sword of Creepiness
Weapon:Sword (5)
Really long sword with bunch of weird angles
-Chance of emitting fear on enemy

Big Long Tall Sharp Hard Two-Handed Axe
Weapon:2H Great Axe (10)
As the name suggests, its pretty ass kicking

Staff of Stupidity
Weapon:Short Staff (12)
Colorful short staff
-You may look stupid but hey, your enemies probably won't attack you

Throwing Axes of Return
Weapon:20 throwing axes (15)
More of a stick with a sharp stone stuck in the middle but hey.
-Neanderthal axes boomerang style!

Bow of Light burst
Weapon:Longbow (18)
OOOhhhhhhhh pretty colors...
-Confuses foe with shinyness.

Quick Rapier
Weapon:Rapier (22)
It would make Speedy Gonzales proud.
- +5 or something to speed stat

Maybe some more later but, sadly, all humans need sleep.

228 views and only 4 people have bothered to provide input? /sigh.

A few stuuf taken from my old rpg's
missing info about attributes and missing enemies

Items
Name: Excalibur
Type: Weapon - sword
Desc: The famous sword
Level: 75

Name: Demon Sword
Type: Weapon - sword
Desc: Sword taken from a slain demon. Two handed with long red-glowing blade. Small spikes at both sides of the blade.
Level: 60

Name: Dragon hide
Type: Armor
Desc: Armor made with hide, taken from the great dragon Gadraoth.
Level: 75

Name: Tinnbel's special
Type: Armor
Desc: A lot of wood nailed together. Will give you some protection. Some of the nails go out so it may be used as a weapon.
Level: 25

Name: Bear hide
Type: Armor
Desc: Hide taken from a bear. Pretty cheap and is better than nothing.
Level: 1

Npc names

Things in Exchange for Favor
Title: Sell your soul
Desc: You sell your soul to the devil, getting an (small) increase in stats
Favor: 100
(in my game this was balanced out because the devil came for your soul # of rounds later, this might be hard to do in mmorpg)

Title: Thunder bolt from god
Desc: A lightning bolt comes down from above, strikes and immediately kills your enemies.
Favor: 95

Special Abilities
Name: Berserk
Desc: Scream and start running towards target
Class: Tank
Target: Enemy
Effect: Temporarily increase some attribute and decrease others

Name: War cry/shout
Desc: Shout out and you are ready for pain
Class: Tank
Target: Self
Effect: Temporarily increase some attributes and decrease others

Name: Open locks
Desc: Calls the god of all locks and tells her to open it.
Class: Handyman
Target: Locked stuff
Effect: Opened lock

That's all for now...

Special Ability
Work Harder!
Force your weapon to be stronger! (Warning: Weapons don't like hard work, and are likely to abandon you.)
Tank
Self
The player's weapon becomes X times stronger for Y seconds. It then is destroyed.

Item
Moody Leather
Armour - Leather
Armour with mood swings - it can help or hinder.
X seconds of +Y bonus to Z attribute(s), followed by X/2 seconds of -Y penalty to Z attribute(s) (maybe you could time it nicely?)
Level 20 (or 30, or 40, whatever)

Quest
Suzy's Cat
Suzy has lost her cat. Can you find it, or one like it?
Bring Suzy a cat (Her cat is located somewhere, or you can buy her a new one).
Suzy gives you that week's pocket money.

Event
Snow
It snows. Movement is restricted. Flaming arrows / fire spells have a healing effect (warms target). Water spells have no effect (the idea that they freeze too soon). Potions freeze and are unusable.
No options.

Event
Thunderstorm
Lightning! Anyone wearing or holding metal is likely to get hit.
No options.

Whats is the overall theme going to be?

Items:
cloth
lether
wood
iron
steel
titanum
//each one just an upgrade from the other.




Weapons:
Knife
Sword
Spear
Axe
Bow Staff
bow and arows
Cross bow(Upgrade automatic cross bow)
Musket gun

Potions:
Helth
Mana
Strength
stamina
life
invisabiltiy
Increase all stats(one temp and one permintly)
turn iteams into gold



Food/Drink:
Beer
Juice
Water
Meat
fruites
bread

- NPC Names:
not good with making up names

- Favors:
bones
scalpes
ears
heads





- Quests: take over land, be able to use squating rights were you can take over some elses house, town or area



- Unique Events: Make a calander for that land that is differnt fomr hours say like it has 29 mouths because they have 3 suns or something and they have strang holides or curses were sertin events or qest will only happen on that game day.

Here is the obligatory "give that to him" quest, with soöe random changes (the higher level you are, the more changes you get)

Basic Quest
You must take item I from Q and give it to person P.

Events
* that's OK, P is at home, just find his home and give I to him/her
* P is not at home. He's getting drunk in the street not that far, so that should not be difficult to find him
* * except that he don't want to give you the reward for the quest
* when you arrive, the guards seize I (because it's "tecnic'ly legal", as stimarco said). You have to explain the problem to Q. He is not happy.
* you give I to P, but he tries to kill you.
* someone is impersonating P. The real P wants you to get I back to him
* I is illegal, a guard intercepts you and ask you to get nore jobs from Q and to report to him. Eventually, you may be discovered.

Oh well, it seems that you can get loads of variations with a simple quest :)

Basic Quest
You need to get across the river, but you can't as the ferry attendant's girlfriend has left him, thus putting him in a bad mood. He refuses to operate the ferry until his lover returns.

Events
You find said ex-girlfriend in the town, but she will not reunite with the ferry attendant unless he can prove his love by recovering the Ruby of Antiquity which is currently guarded by the evil dragon Slur on top of the Mountain of Great Despair. You must recover the ruby and give it to the ferry attendant so he can win back his lost love.

Of course, the ruby is not enough to please this woman. The ex-girlfriend adds a second request (once you've completed the first). Collect 100 rare golden roses, which are scattered/hidden across the island you're currently on. I hope you've been collecting these things since you started (even though you didn't know their worth at the time) as some roses will be located at the very beginning of the game!

After you get the ruby and the roses, he girlfriend will return, and the ferry attendant will resume his business.

[Edited by - Cygnus_X on April 29, 2007 1:55:14 PM]

NPC Names
Thorack the Hunter
Merchant who sells furs also gives techniques on catch prey (ie. enemies)

Mary the Maid
Local town gossip. She gives you the inside info that no one else will.

Items
Sword of Redemption
Steel Weapon
This sword can turn the tides of a battle against even the strongest of foes. Special abilities include: Super or Mega attack, Countered or Parried Attack.
Special abilities of the sword are tied in to player's stats. (some not all)

Jewel of Time
Armor accessory
The Jewel can tell the player which attack (up to 3) the enemy will execute before the enemy does it.

Favors
Souls which have just deceased.
If you come across a person that has died not too long ago, you can take its soul to the temple so it may reach the underworld as opposed to being a wandering spirit or demon. More souls gives you Osiris powers. (whatever those may be)

Quests
*Save village from monster invasion.
*Save child from being sacrificed from demonic priests.
*The enemy has built a stronghold on the mountainside. Destroy before it's too late.

Basic Quest
You must recover the onxy staff for the great wizard Folax. There is only one person in the world who knows the location of this staff.. and he's fallen deafly ill. The local doctor can cure him, but he is missing some key ingrediants he needs to make the medican.

Events
You must Recover:
A Blue Slyphs Feather
A Steel Rhino's Horn
The Eye of a One-Eyed Tub Eel
A Hair from the Abominable Cave Dweller
A Mushroom from the Garden of the Purple Pulsating Piller of Power

Get these ingrediants to the doctor, and the patient will reveal the location off the staff.

Quest Dispenser
Xavier "el Toro" Medina

Quest
Name: El Toro
Desc: El Toro is locked up, and is offering you a share of his treasure if you find a way to set him free.
Goal: Free el Toro
Reward: You get additional quest's from El Toro, some carried out together with him, eventually leading to a hefty monetary reward




Special Abilities
Name: Aura of superiority
Short Description: The character lets all her energy flow uncontrollably making her radiate a powerful aura weakening all in her surrounding and striking fear in her enemies.
Class: Tank
Target: All enemies in close proximity of the character.
Effect: All enemy creatures iin close proximity of the Tank will suffer penalties to their attack (and/or defense?), and also risk (1d6?) being paralyzed by fear (2 rounds?). The effect will last for (5 rounds?) and once it ends the character will be fatigued, receiving penalties in both attack and defense.

Special Abilities
Name: Liquid evasion
Short Description: Turn self into invulnerable liquid form
Class: Nuker
Target: Self
Effect: The character turns into an odd liquid, ending up as pool on the floor. Invulnerable in this form, the character can now move freely for 2 rounds and will then be turned back into her normal form. The character can not attack, access inventory or perform any other action other than moving or morphing back to normal form.

Eastern Sword Of Implausibility

Fashioned after the weapons commonly wielded by slightly girly looking characters in JRPGs, this weapon is nearly seven feet long, two feet broad and should probably weigh about three quarters of a ton, yet can be wielded one handed with ease. However, in order to use it, the wielder must 'power-up' before each combat. The powering up process basically consists of standing still and looking very angry for a short period of time.

Armour of Extreme Spikiness And Impracticality

This suit of plate armour is unfeasibly heavy looking and has several enormous spikes the size of greatswords poking out of pretty much every piece. The wearer of this armour cannot actually wield a weapon, nor can he move any faster than a very slow plod, as any attempt to do either would likely result in him impaling himself. However, no enemy can actually get close to him either, for much the same reason.

The female version of this armour is just as spiky and offers exactly the same protection, but only covers the chest, groin, calfs and forearms.

Helm Of Protection Vs. Helmet Hair +4

A must for all those fashion conscious adventurers, the Helm Of Protection Vs. Helmet Hair +4 is specially designed to prevent the wearer's haircut from being spoiled from being shoved into a helmet 24/7. It is also manufactured from the extremely rare and difficult to find metal, Invisiblium, so as to avoid concealing the wearer's incredible good looks.

Items:
Angel Skin Cloak
Skin gleaned from an angel wrestled from the Heavens.
This armor is completely resistant to dark magic, but against man-made weapons functions as well as cotton.

Food:
Bottle of milk.
There's something special about this milk. After about three bottles it doesn't have the health effects it once had, and you're not quite as ambulatory. In fact, too many bottles and you may black out and wake next to an ugly bar maid!

Favors:
Your Soul
After your death, your eternal essence shall forever work under the boot of Osiris.
+50 (After all, just who do you think you are?!)

Tattoo On Your Forehead
Hip to modern advertising, Osiris understands good word of mouth. It's easy to sell your soul, but to show eternal devotion while alive also has its perks from Osiris, and problems from other NPCs.
+25


Special Abilities:
Keen nose (Healer, Handyman)
A keen sense of smell can often save the smart adventurer.
Target: Passive ability
Effect: Player is made alert of demons approaching from any direction earlier than other players by their smell of sulfur.
Target: Food.
Effect: Detect status effects from included herbs (poison, health and strength bonuses.)

Special Abilities
Winged Dragon Eternal Fist of Sheng Long
"'Nuff said!"
Tank or Nuker
Enemy or enemies grouped together or in very close vicinity of each other.
"'Nuff said!"


*"'Nuff said!" == I don't know what it does but it sounds like the right response.

I see this turning into something along the lines of Legend of the Red Dragon. =)

You could use a name generator for town and character names. I may have some simple code that does it but there's an article on GDNet that explains a better way (using "grammars" IIRC).

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Original post by Alpha_ProgDes Special Abilities Winged Dragon Eternal Fist of Sheng Long "'Nuff said!" Tank or Nuker Enemy or enemies grouped together or in very close vicinity of each other. "'Nuff said!" *"'Nuff said!" == I don't know what it does but it sounds like the right response.

Enemies will die by the mere thought of what an ability with such a name could do, they will all perish during the build-up sequence:

The old man looks upon his fatigued opponent with a small grin on his face
- Ha! You stronger than I thought! But Sheng Long not yet reveal true power!
Suddenly a strange light covers the background as the old man bursts into flames. Floating in the air in an awesome pose, he yells
- Winged Dragon Eternal Fist of Sheng Long!
The power released from his body is so great that the opponent falls on the ground crying like a baby

[cool]

If you ask me, there should be a lot more Easter Eggs. This is a game development forum, after all. Mancomb Fourplog should probably be in there, somewhere (for the dimwitted, or young -- Guybrush Threepwood). Perhaps Weavin Twinenude (Bobbin Threadbare anyone. Loom? No? Okay.)?

Weavin can be looking for his mother (I crack myself up -- really, I do). Mancomb should probably be trying to complete some sort of task ... maybe ... a challenge ... Three Trials!

I am babbling.