Hi, Allan.
I've been doing some thinking about rpg games and there playability on a
pc. (I think the game should be definately in real time, and fight seens
would happen more or less in tandem. However, would depend on the same
kinds of dice rolls as the regular d20 game.
For example, a player is fighting some Orks. The Ork takes a swing at
the player The game would pick a random number from 1 to 20. then, it
would add up the player's armor, and other atributes. If less than the
required hit points to score a critical hit you hear the weapon crash
against the player's armor or shield, or sword etc...
If the Ork strikes a blow you hear a flesh sound an the player yells,
grunts, or make some sounds he/she was hit.
At the same time the player is swinging his broad sword down at the ork,
and the same kinds of rolls and attributes applies. The first one to
fall to 0 is dead.
I imagine the player can find healing potions or other magic items
around the levels or areas to heal himself, and to remain in the game.
I suppose real paper and pencil rpg games take turns with combat because
there is no way to do loads of calculations at once in real play. Each
side must roll and do the adding/subtracting where on a computer it
does the calculations so rapidly that it all can be done in real time as
the move is being made.
As soon as the player presses the fire key you hear the sword swing and
it starts calculating where the hit will land, if it will land, or if
the enemy will evade, the blow will hit armor, or do critical damage.
Milliseconds to do that kind of calculation, and then the ork is coming
at you. Smile.
I've been thinking of an idea for a sample rpg type game. It would not
be to complicated, only have one story, but I am going to practice with
these real time dice throws.
In my rpg idea there is an evil Mage who has assembled a huge army of
Orks, Wolves, Ogres, Skeliton warriors, etc and has sent them throughout
the relm looking for a lost spell book. It is said the finder of the
spell book would have unlimited knolege in light and dark magic, and the
holder would be the most powerful Wizard in the entire relm.
You wishing to have the heart of the princess volinteer to find this
dark mage and destroy him. However, before you find him you must locate
the spell book, discover it's secrets, and fight the mages army and slay
the dragon that gards his mountain castle.
So you would start out with little to no magic powers, but upon finding
the spell book you would be able to cast spells to become invisible,
conjure fire, hurl lightning bolts, and perhaps some other tricks.
Which of course finding this book would be necessary for fighting
powerful creatures like the dragon.
What do you think?
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