About being a dirty rotten scoundrel in AOD

[Major_Blackhart]

I was wondering if you could be a bit of a thug or a crime lord type in AoD. Collecting protection, theft (theives guild obviously) and other stuff, maybe even running gambling and prostitution houses etc, and all that jazz. So what of it?

 

[Lumpy]

Why would you want to role-play a dirty rotten scoundrel in a game?

 

[Vault Dweller]

I was wondering if you could be a bit of a thug or a crime lord type in AoD. Collecting protection, theft (theives guild obviously) and other stuff, maybe even running gambling and prostitution houses etc, and all that jazz. So what of it?

Well, there is a thieves guild, as you know, but it's a very early form of organized crime, and most activities revolve around stealing. So, no racketeering, managing gambling and prostitution, etc.

Thieves guild quests are theft, business arrangements, and guild's security. Theft is understandable, business arrangement's example is finding a secure way to smuggle goods, and the security is protecting the guild and dealing with the guild's enemies.

 

[elander_]

This would be a good idea. Prostitution is part of every human society. It would be realistic.

TES:Arena had a protistutes guild but the player could not join any guild in the game. They used to stand in dark corners of towns and give hints after doing a service to the player and sometimes also some diseases.

Daggerfall has some traces of a prostitutes guild that was never made into the game:

http://www.svatopluk.com/daggerfall/museum/sex.stm

Now theres an idea.

Besides what the article says Dibela the godess of love was also a patron of arts. She was said to protect bards, singers and prostitutes and free sex was praticed inside her temples.

The witches is another clan of sex liberal woman similar to amazons. They live away from man in their clan and only abandon the clan to get pregnant, then abandon their man and return to the clan to raise their children. They are suposed to be the best potion makers in Tamriel.

http://www.svatopluk.com/daggerfall/covens/

 

[Vault Dweller]

This would be a good idea. Prostitution is part of every human society. It would be realistic.

Prostitution and gambing fit everywhere. Organized crime running these activities don't. In my opinion, of course.

 

[elander_]

Prostitution and gambing fit everywhere. Organized crime running these activities don't. In my opinion, of course.

Of course. Prostitution don't have to exists in organized crime or exist at all in the streets if there was an inquisition for example that actively hunted poor prostitutes. That should be concistent with the setting the game is trying to create.

 

[Crap Artist]

Regardless of the situation this fits right in with the difference between "organized crime" and crime that is organized. Crime that is organized fits in with any time period. It would be rather sweet if AoD allowed the player to organize their own crime schemes on a small local level and just be a regular merchant John Doe with a few tricks on the side or a gambling den in the back of your house/store.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Now that would be kewl. Hey VD, implement this in your next game.

 

[Elwro]

...in space.

 

[jeansberg]

PIMPS in SPACE!

 

[StraitLacedDeviant]

For is that not what man has dreamed of since first he looked at the stars?

Kiff, i'm asking you a question.

 

[Leo Valesko]

BTW dirty rotten scum is one of the most popular characters in RPG because it's the only way to gain that kind of experience during your peaceful boring life.

 

[Lumpy]

Not for Blackhart, it isn't.

 

[sheek]

Will there be a "strip genitals" command in AoD?

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Why is it everyone assumes I'm the worst sort of raping, drugging, vile, evil, putrid, sodomizing........

Nevermind.

 

[FrancoTAU]

The Godfather RPG would pwn!