Game News Deathfire: Races, Classes, Stats and Skills

[Dorateen]

So he has given up that card game feature, and returned to his senses about rolling dice. Great to see the twenty-sider in the character generation screen. Will continue to watch with some interest.

 

[Charles-cgr]

Luck as a skill... Treat wounds kind of suggests magic healing either won't be there or some kind of redundance unless physically treating wounds is a non combat thing only. It seems a bit strange but Guido's got the experience to be presumably able to make it all come together.

 

[villain of the story]

Everything seems to be about combat so it sounds like just another banal shit boring dungeon romp. Guido pls

 

[Smejki]

So has the contest "Where Guido stole/bought his last artwork" begun already?

 

[MicoSelva]

I wonder if the name is a reference to Glorion appearing in JourneyQuest.

 

[Brother None]

I wonder what incentive the player has to distribute points to those negative attributes.

What incentive did you have in RoA?

Depends on the DSA system. DSA 3rd (which RoA used), you just rolled it as you did your positive stats, plus it had minimum requirements for certain races (like dwarves has a minimum greed. Yip). DSA 4th was a point-buy system, so he may borrow more of it, and in DSA 4th buying negative attributes gave you points you could then put back into positive attributes or skills.I quite like DSA 4th and the way the Drakensang games used it. You could also invest to decrease them on level-up. So maybe that's what it is here too, a reversed point-buy: it takes points to decrease them, gives points to increase.

It can work really well, tho it's harder to do in a cRPG than in a p&p, when the GM can get nice and creative with it.

 

[Dorateen]

In Realms of Arkania, I remember having an elf in the party with necrophilia necrophobia, who would have a chance of freezing in fear when fighting skeletons.

Thumbs up, if the negative attributes have real gameplay consequences.

 

[Lady_Error]

So has the contest "Where Guido stole/bought his last artwork" begun already?

His wife? She is the one creating the character artwork we've seen so far.

About the combat system, he wrote this comment:

"There seems to be a misunderstanding. Deathfire is not an “action-packed” game as in an action game with twitch controls. We are making a deep character-based role-playing game in the traditional sense but one where a lot is going on and where environments are more dynamic than in other traditional RPGs that often have a very static feel – hence my use of the term real-time. These real-time aspects do not, however, preclude us from creating a proper combat system that is either turn-based or something similar.
I hope that explains it a little better."

 

[villain of the story]

That doesn't even begin to explain it.

Guido pls

 

[Smejki]

So has the contest "Where Guido stole/bought his last artwork" begun already?

His wife? She is the one creating the character artwork we've seen so far.

When I say Guido, I mean his team. Last time "he" used a heavily Shopped movie poster, in his infamous KS campaign he showed an art "how his artist envisions a specific something" though it was a years old piece he bought 5 minutes earlier. I bet there was more.

 

[Lady_Error]

When I say Guido, I mean his team. Last time "he" used a heavily Shopped movie poster, in his infamous KS campaign he showed an art "how his artist envisions a specific something" though it was a years old piece he bought 5 minutes earlier. I bet there was more.

Which picture was that? Do you have links to prove it?

 

[kaizoku]

FP?
RT?

no thank you

 

[Smejki]

When I say Guido, I mean his team. Last time "he" used a heavily Shopped movie poster, in his infamous KS campaign he showed an art "how his artist envisions a specific something" though it was a years old piece he bought 5 minutes earlier. I bet there was more.

Which picture was that? Do you have links to prove it?

Find respective news threads here on Codex. (I think it was all uncovered here.)

soo:
found the first for ya. It is even funnier. It was a heavily shopped fanart which itself was a heavily shopped movie poster Just go thru this:
http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...hfire-will-be-an-intense-blobber.81479/page-2

 

[Smejki]

Those edit time limitz
And found the second
http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...tarter-goes-online.78060/page-15#post-2377980

 

[commie]

RT blobber sounds like totally wasting this:

Why would this be wasted? Most of those skills are just damage, movement and resistance modifiers, big deal. Even the disadvantages are basically the equivalent of miss rolls and their effects(like dropping weapons, running away, fainting, being more sluggish) so can be simply simulated in any RT blobber.

 

[mondblut]

Why would this be wasted? Most of those skills are just damage, movement and resistance modifiers, big deal. Even the disadvantages are basically the equivalent of miss rolls and their effects(like dropping weapons, running away, fainting, being more sluggish) so can be simply simulated in any RT blobber.

Because in a Grimrock wannabe, you don't think of movement and resistance modifiers. You think of strafe, turn, click. Strafe, turn, click. Strafe, turn, click.

 

[Lady_Error]

found the first for ya. It is even funnier. It was a heavily shopped fanart which itself was a heavily shopped movie poster Just go thru this:
http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...hfire-will-be-an-intense-blobber.81479/page-2

Okay, big deal. They did the same thing in Realms of Arkania:

This is David Bowie as the Elven King and there were others.

 

[Monty]

Isn't there a bit of a difference between photoshopping a movie poster and claiming it is original art, and an elf that looks somewhat like David Bowie?

 

[Irenaeus]

That VGA art

 

[Smejki]

found the first for ya. It is even funnier. It was a heavily shopped fanart which itself was a heavily shopped movie poster Just go thru this:
http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...hfire-will-be-an-intense-blobber.81479/page-2

Okay, big deal. They did the same thing in Realms of Arkania:

I know. But:
- early 90s are over
- it is not an excuse
- it is still lame and ugly

 

[Lady_Error]

I know. But:
- early 90s are over

When it comes to CRPG's I'm all for the early 90's.

- it is still lame and ugly

No, it isn't. At least, as long as only some of the artwork is based off celebrities.

 

[Smejki]

I know. But:
- early 90s are over

When it comes to CRPG's I'm all for the early 90's.

Yea and I like turtles

 

[Excidium]

found the first for ya. It is even funnier. It was a heavily shopped fanart which itself was a heavily shopped movie poster Just go thru this:
http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...hfire-will-be-an-intense-blobber.81479/page-2

Okay, big deal. They did the same thing in Realms of Arkania

Not this shit again...Painting over a horribly photoshopped movie poster and drawing NPCs with the face of famous people are totally the same thing.