01-20-2004, 07:02 AM
First off, I love your idea. I'd love to see 6 or so legionares charge in and slam into a wall of monsters.
A couple of suggestions:
Don't let people use any fancy skills that really, really couldn't happen in Rome, i.e. lightning or lightning fury or bone armor.
That just seems to ruin it. Enchant, poison jav, fire arrow... that's rather acceptable, as long as you think of the sorceress as some woman putting pitch on their swords, or the amazon as a foot soldier that had the apothecary put some ghastly poison on her javelins. The skill description in the book said something about the poison javs having "bladders" filled with poison, which seems pretty cool.
Second, pallies are eminently more fitting to this build. I mean, they have the olive complexion, the dark hair, the stance, all of the dead-on fitting skills, the aura ability for the commander. Plus, if they look more uniform, you can tell they are part of the same organization.
If you think about it, there will be far more awesome screenshots or displays with a crowned paladin (conviction/fanat?) and 4-6 legionares in the same outfit (tower, gladius, javs, skull caps, whatever) and a pally with a staff (who, being the standard bearer, should have the Defiane aura on IMO). The similar-looking fighters, the leader, the standard bearer- the scene would be even more perfect if the infantry were charging, ahhh.
Third, um, for the sake of not horrifying certain people, if you think about it, druids are part of folklore stemming from England and Ireland, which were subject to brutal conquest and battles under the Roman empire. The Druids and their people held VERY little love for the Romans. And by VERY little love, I mean they hated their guts, and their children's guts, and their dog's guts, and the guts of their shoes and clothes and houses (which they don't have, so go figure). I doubt a Druid (or any red-haired person at that time) would share the same square mile with a Roman, let alone fight with them.
All in all, good work, and I'd love to see your screenshots, journals, whatever. Five pages of curse-only necros and barb mages in tedious endurance battles with single bosses in hell kind of makes me nauseous after a while, though it's uh, still novel and very interesting.
A couple of suggestions:
Don't let people use any fancy skills that really, really couldn't happen in Rome, i.e. lightning or lightning fury or bone armor.
That just seems to ruin it. Enchant, poison jav, fire arrow... that's rather acceptable, as long as you think of the sorceress as some woman putting pitch on their swords, or the amazon as a foot soldier that had the apothecary put some ghastly poison on her javelins. The skill description in the book said something about the poison javs having "bladders" filled with poison, which seems pretty cool.
Second, pallies are eminently more fitting to this build. I mean, they have the olive complexion, the dark hair, the stance, all of the dead-on fitting skills, the aura ability for the commander. Plus, if they look more uniform, you can tell they are part of the same organization.
If you think about it, there will be far more awesome screenshots or displays with a crowned paladin (conviction/fanat?) and 4-6 legionares in the same outfit (tower, gladius, javs, skull caps, whatever) and a pally with a staff (who, being the standard bearer, should have the Defiane aura on IMO). The similar-looking fighters, the leader, the standard bearer- the scene would be even more perfect if the infantry were charging, ahhh.
Third, um, for the sake of not horrifying certain people, if you think about it, druids are part of folklore stemming from England and Ireland, which were subject to brutal conquest and battles under the Roman empire. The Druids and their people held VERY little love for the Romans. And by VERY little love, I mean they hated their guts, and their children's guts, and their dog's guts, and the guts of their shoes and clothes and houses (which they don't have, so go figure). I doubt a Druid (or any red-haired person at that time) would share the same square mile with a Roman, let alone fight with them.
All in all, good work, and I'd love to see your screenshots, journals, whatever. Five pages of curse-only necros and barb mages in tedious endurance battles with single bosses in hell kind of makes me nauseous after a while, though it's uh, still novel and very interesting.
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