Hostile environments

[Winter83]

I think it would be cool if certain areas had threatening properties, which can enhance RP --> Like preparation to the area where you are going.

Deserts of Sibayad - A small ammount of fire damage over time. Add some desert garbs to NPCs and some to the crafting matrix that offers fire resistance.
Mountain areas (the colder it gets the higher you go) - Some of the spires are already marked no rest zone. Add a small ammount of cold damage that can wear down the unprepared.
Dark areas, tunnels, underdark - Some morale debuff for those without light or darkvision. Like -2 to will, or even more if you progress deeper. Always found it strange that races without darkvision can traverse dark places without a problem. Bring a torch
Similar can be applied to unholy places, or undead infested tombs. Uneasyness. Which can be negated by protection from evil for instance. I can imagine nauseating stench lowering fortitude.

[Mithreas]

Baator has this in the Minauros layer.

We use it very sparingly (and on the UD server only) because heartbeat scripts like this are bad for performance.

[Tathkar Eisgrim]

Talosian Wands of Weather Control (Hostile Effects) for DM's? As an alternative? So they can zap players. Well, when ever they feel like it.

[IndifferentPerson]

It'd be nifty if there was a global -# penalty to certain stats for underdarkers in the surface and vice versa, either out of fear, discomfort or whatever.

[Mithreas]

Only if the same applied to surfacers underground (higher penalty the deeper you go). Except Dwarves. They like caves.

Still - this isn't going to happen. It comes up every year or so, and the reason is always the same - this sort of dynamic status effect based on location is very hard to code in a way that's performance efficient and bug free. It won't add enough to be worth it.

[DM_Ironfist]

I would like to second the call for the DM's to be able to do this for a limited time in specific areas during events, however.

[IndifferentPerson]

I assume you have already thought of this, but I guess creating a new [Underdark] tag wouldn't be efficient or bug free. And yeah, I meant that surfacers underground would also suffer with the 'vice versa'.

[Mithreas]

It's not the tag. It's applying the effect and checking when to remove it, and policing its interaction with spells, resting, potions etc.