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… Oh, and glad you like the art, thanks! 😀 … I should turn this into a post and actually apply it to Dredmor. and this gets right back to why the races in Elemental: War of Magic failed to evoke the interest of the races in Master of Magic. Or better yet, Starcraft is a prime example: each of the three sides plays differently because their difference is much greater than the Age of Empires sort of “+15% movement to Korean villagers” or whatever. Take as a counterexample how Dominions 3 handles injury to units – yes, they have hitpoints, but units can gain “afflictions” like ‘crippled’ or ‘lost an eye’ to add state-based flavor to what would otherwise be a rather sterile stat-based approach to hitpoints. I should say, the effect was that the lack of really meaningful differences between game elements was rather boring.

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Hmm, how to describe this I recall making a somewhat mean-spirited reference to the “Brad Wardell School of Design” as a reference to Elemental: War of Magic (and previous Stardock game designs) using stat percentage boosts, numerical iterations to differentiate spells/items/structure rather than some kind of state change differences. Like, you could have a sword that causes poisoning and a sword that stuns an enemy versus a sword that does 2-14 damage with a 2% chance to crit and a sword that does 3-12 damage with a 3% chance of crit. That’s a good point which relates to another design point I’ve been kicking around – it’s a matter of state-vs-stat based differences. What would you, dear reader, do to make the Warrior an interesting class to play? We are also giving the warrior a number of pre-combat passive specialization skills and silly special abilities along with in-combat spell-like combat powers.īetween the item collecting, booze drinking, weapon swinging, carrot hunting, area attacking, face mashing, health stealing, and hat wearing, if you really can’t find enough to do as a warrior, you can always effectively multiclass because Dredmor is an entirely skill based game (read: no classes) and is made to be friendly toward combinations of skills across class archetypes.Įdit: Epyon, in a comment, makes me think of a great conclusion for this post: Said items shall have sundry absurd powers and unique odours. One hopes that these are always interesting and meaningful choices, of course.ĭredmor takes up a few approaches to giving warriors the love they deserve: Naturally, we have piles upon piles of ridiculous items to wield, consume, quaff, and wear upon one’s head and/or other extremities. The necessity of giving pure-combat classes more gameplay/agency has generally been recognized so, in all, games give warrior characters many more choices to make than they once did. Regardless, there were also talent trees which gave specialized skills, attacks, etc – The latest D&D even seems to have taken up MMO-influenced abilities for warrior-type classes with gusto. Or maybe it was Rogues that build up skill to do neat attacks. Now take World of Warcraft as an example – it’s been quite some time since I’ve played, but from what I recall, Warriors build up and use “rage” to execute special attacks along with using skills that use timed cool-down periods per-skill as a limiting factor. Titan Quest did similarly, and with mana. Diablo 2 gave the Barbarian class piles of both passive and spell-like skills which used mana as a limiting resource (though perhaps mana is thematically inconsistent for the class). I must mention Blizzard’s evolving solutions to the problem: The Diablo 1 warrior had barely anything to do but hit ‘attack’, quaff potions, and collect loot. It is compelling to collect and use equipment, but a warrior really ought to have something to do in combat aside from clicking “attack”.īut this is a known problem, and it has been dealt before, and cleverly. A player’s agency comes more from the set-up to combat through having a much more equipment-driven character than, say, a wizard. Maybe you get to quaff (but never “drink”) a potion every so often. Combat RPGs don’t traditionally offer much active choice to a warrior character: Do you attack? Do you not attack?

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