UC MUD World Planning
From UtterChaos
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.
Contents
Player
- Player can log in and have access to multiple characters
- No player information available in game automatically, only available to creators
- 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
Items
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