View source for UC MUD World Planning

This page is for things that are in-game, mostly code independent. It is also for how players would expect to interact with the game.

==Player==
* Player can log in and have access to multiple characters
* No player information available in game automatically, only available to wizards
* Log in will require an email address, generate a userid, and a password. 
* Characters will not require a further password
* One character logged in at a time.
* Player's characters cannot interact: items and xp cannot be moved from one character to another
* One character can unlock things for the player to use when creating new characters
* Retiring characters can give a bonus to creating a new one

==World==
* Map: define continents, oceans, countries, etc.
* Large areas or roads: handle differently from small rooms. Take time to move across them with automatic halting for encounters or points of interest.
* Have transportation between towns in civilized countries, like carriages
* Cities and towns, at least one hometown for each sapient race
* World history: Kill All Humans
* Quests by region
* Each city having all the major guilds

==Characters==
* [[UC MUD Stats|Stats]]
* [[UC MUD Races|Races]]
* [[UC MUD Guilds|Guilds]]
* [[UC MUD Skills|Skills]]
* [[UC MUD Languages|Languages]]

==Items==
* Weapons
* Armor
* Money
* Treasure
* Magic items: enchantable vs not
* Books, scrolls, notes
* Food and drink
* Potions
* Raw materials for inventing
* Clothing
* Barding and pet items
* Ammunition
* Backpacks and quivers
* Plants
* Non-distinct items: furniture, room decorations, etc.
* Locks and keys
* Traps
* Lockpicks and other rogue things
* Adventuring gear: rope, tent, bedroll, tindertwigs (tools)
* Spellbooks and holy symbols
* Ownable items? Specific to their owner, unusable by others, possibly even damaging to others.
* Poisons
* Alcohol and other drugs

# Things that can be wielded
# Things that can be worn
# Things that can be eaten/drunk
# Things that can be used and reused
# Things that can be used once
# Things that can hold other things
# Things that transport you (weight/strength based)
# Things that can be carried (weight/strength based)
# Things that can take actions (magic things? food? poison?)
# Things that know their owner


==Magic==
* Source? Divine vs learned vs innate
* Targets: other characters, monsters, items, landscape
* Spell lists
* Where to learn

==Monsters/NPCs==
* Killable vs. non-killable?
* Populate the world
* Interact with everyone
* Same stats as Characters?
* Ability to use items
* Wandering if not rooted to spot (trees vs animals)
* Shopkeepers
* Teachers
* Bugs as bugs

==Interaction==
* Quests
* Language based responses from NPCs
* Standard emotes for interaction with NPCs
* Homes, marriages, children? 
* Unlockable races for second characters
* Genetics
* Mood bonuses

==Religion==
* Deities
* Clerical "domains" and prayers
* Relation to races
* Gods as NPCs--killable?
* Alignment: good/evil, law/chaos

==Justice system==
* crimes: stealing, killing, etc.
* punishments
* alignment relation

==Character building==
* stats, race, etc. 
* point buy for stats and anything else useful.
* gender, features, appearance
* alignment
* hometown
* living or dead parents?
* backstory?
* Ability to hit "random" and roll up a character with same number of points as hand-picked (good for testing)
* Merits and flaws


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