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Alternate alignment, Path, or other morality Mechanic

Started by jibbajibba, April 08, 2013, 02:50:12 AM

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April 10, 2013, 09:02:20 AM
Quote from: Novastar;644583I would say an alignment scale might also affect social interactions.

The Gentleman Pirate Westley, known for only taking the wealth of vessels he seizes and only killing when he needs to, is going to have an easier time to get a civilian vessel to heave to, than the Dread Pirate Roberts, known to kill any man he pleases.

At the same time, a death threat from Westley is going to be a lot weaker than Roberts swearing "he will be avenged upon ye..."

Kind of like the KOTOR video games, it rewards someone who works to get an extreme reputation.

I could tie a 'known alignment' to the reputation stat hmmmm
I have been thinking I will have a Morality Path with 3 zones roughly aligning to Good; Bad; Ugly. (Good/Evil/Neutral)
From that I could tie the Reputation and Path so I end up with the sort of this you mention here. So path Bad + reputation +10 means never trust this guy, run , he will kill you and your family etc
Ugly + rep 10 means he will let you live if you just leave the gold and don't look back
Good means if he says he won't kill you then he probably won't.

I will write it out formally and post it here then I will play it at the weekend and see how it rolls.

Fair point on the name hero points from the wizzard. Dog Chips or similar might be a better name.
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April 10, 2013, 12:32:54 PM
Quote from: Novastar;644583I would say an alignment scale might also affect social interactions.

The Gentleman Pirate Westley, known for only taking the wealth of vessels he seizes and only killing when he needs to, is going to have an easier time to get a civilian vessel to heave to, than the Dread Pirate Roberts, known to kill any man he pleases.

At the same time, a death threat from Westley is going to be a lot weaker than Roberts swearing "he will be avenged upon ye..."

Kind of like the KOTOR video games, it rewards someone who works to get an extreme reputation.
essentially a reputation/faction sysem.
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