Normal and greater rewards for those outside of Andunor

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Cortex
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Re: Normal and greater rewards for those outside of Andunor

Post by Cortex » Sat Mar 24, 2018 8:00 pm

Flat mechanical boosts other than ECL are a big bad idea.
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Re: Normal and greater rewards for those outside of Andunor

Post by BegoneThoth » Sat Mar 24, 2018 8:35 pm

Exactly. It's why the planetouched bloodline aka +2 con the race is so problematic.
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Re: Normal and greater rewards for those outside of Andunor

Post by TimeAdept » Sat Mar 24, 2018 8:50 pm

I'd love for there to be more RP-enabling Reward things.

Minor Reward - an item added to your character that lets you create a VFX with no other effect attached to it, a few times per rest. A fey that can make fairy sparkles or faerie fire, a druid that can spawn the entangling roots vfx, a cleric that can call the Hammer of the Gods vfx, etc.

Normal - An item that lets you place down a custom defined PLC that may not normally be craftable, such as a pillar of light or sparkles or other things. In this case the item wouldn't leave your inventory and would be picked up/removed via the item to prevent loss/theft/crash eating it.

Greater - Cosmetic summon appearances or streams, "ooze" stream, "mephit" stream, "Giant" stream, etc etc.

Cosmetic "Hats" seem like a good way to add reward content that doesn't imbalance the server, doe sallow for expanded RP and concept options, and would be helpful for both the surface and the Underdark.

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Re: Normal and greater rewards for those outside of Andunor

Post by PinataPlethora » Sat Mar 24, 2018 8:58 pm

TimeAdept wrote:Cosmetic "Hats" seem like a good way to add reward content that doesn't imbalance the server, doe sallow for expanded RP and concept options, and would be helpful for both the surface and the Underdark.
Lesser Award - One Loot Crate
Normal Award - Five Loot Crates
Greater Award - Ten Loot Crates
Major Award - Twenty Loot Crates!

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Re: Normal and greater rewards for those outside of Andunor

Post by TimeAdept » Sat Mar 24, 2018 9:30 pm

No RNG, and allowed to pick exactly which one you want, but succintly - yes.

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Re: Normal and greater rewards for those outside of Andunor

Post by JediMindTrix » Sun Mar 25, 2018 12:20 am

Cortex wrote:Flat mechanical boosts other than ECL are a big bad idea.
I find the versatility that a third gift option would provide races that would otherwise be 2nd-ed style "shoehorned" into a class stereotype rather exciting.

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Re: Normal and greater rewards for those outside of Andunor

Post by TimeAdept » Sun Mar 25, 2018 12:31 am

It'd just be a free +2 int for more skill points letting them push con or str higher depending on the build, as a luxury

MIGHT go to dex or cha on some builds

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Re: Normal and greater rewards for those outside of Andunor

Post by Durvayas » Sun Mar 25, 2018 4:11 am

JediMindTrix wrote:
Cortex wrote:Flat mechanical boosts other than ECL are a big bad idea.
I find the versatility that a third gift option would provide races that would otherwise be 2nd-ed style "shoehorned" into a class stereotype rather exciting.
I'd support it so long as it couldn't be applied to humans, which are already the most optimal and versatile race available. Applying it to literally any other race just brings said race up to par.
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Re: Normal and greater rewards for those outside of Andunor

Post by susitsu » Sun Mar 25, 2018 4:15 am

uh, mechanical boosts please? more? it's definitely a large part of the appeal of even investing in the roleplay of any reward and rolling a character, especially when many of them come with implications of as early as level 2 pvp.

It should be worth the time, unlike imps.

I am also unironically interested in loot crates and just a large number of cosmetics. It colors up the world.

edit: reward, not gifts
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Re: Normal and greater rewards for those outside of Andunor

Post by Xanos950 » Sun Mar 25, 2018 4:18 am

New ingame money sink? Can we have lootcrates with pay2win bonus skillpoints or feats?

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Re: Normal and greater rewards for those outside of Andunor

Post by Cortex » Sun Mar 25, 2018 4:18 am

Flat mechanic boosts in exchange of nothing wouldn't work. Planetouched at least have a few stat penalties, vulnerability to two spells and IC stigma.
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Re: Normal and greater rewards for those outside of Andunor

Post by susitsu » Sun Mar 25, 2018 4:20 am

I'm not saying they shouldn't come with penalties, I'm just saying REWARDS** should definitely come with mechanical boosts and benefits that make it more appealing and fun to play, as well as allowing for some interesting build diversity and making certain things just "work so right."

still a game, still my preferred server to game on because the devs have done great work in allowing such and I want them to keep doing that. Literally auto-loot re-inspired me to roleplay.

I want to be clear that I'm not joking about this.

EDIT: rewards, not gifts

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