One of the objections to Northern Rebirth is that the swarm of
identical level 0 peasants in scenario 1 is boring. Zookeeper is
working on new level 0 graphics to introduce at least some visual
differentiation. And this got me to thinking...maybe we can in fact
do some interesting things with level 0 characters.
Wherefore, I propose that we modify the Peasant slightly and add two
new level 0 units. Here's a table. Changes from the existing
Peasant class are marked with *.
Name Alignment GP HP Melee Ranged
------- --------- -- -- ------------- -------------
Peasant Neutral* 8 18 5-2 pitchfork 4-1 pitchfork
Hunter Chaotic 8 18 4-1 spear 5-2 bow
Citizen Lawful 8 18 4-2 spear 5-1 bow
Peasants advance to any of: Spearman, Bowman, Thug*, or Poacher*.
Hunters advance to Thug, Poacher. or Outlaw.
Citizens advance to Spearman or Bowman.
The only really novel bit here is that Peasants would change alignment
when they level up.
Here's the narrative idea: Peasants represent farmers who just want to
be left alone, Hunters represent those drawn to both wild places and
the margins of society, and Citizens represent civilian city dwellers
(the graphic for Citizen should maybe look like a Peasant with a
feathered hat and spear replacing straw hat and pitchfork).
Citizens would be a drop-in replacement for Peasants in scenarios
where cities have level 0 civilian defenders, as in TSG and TROW.
In NR, the player would be allowed to recruit both Peasants and
Hunters.
I could write the WML patch for mainline in 45 minutes. All that's
missing is art for Citizens and Hunters.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
I don't like the idea that the police department seems bent on keeping
a pool of unarmed victims available for the predations of the criminal
class.
-- David Mohler, 1989, on being denied a carry permit in NYC
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