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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 20 2006, 01:14 PM (951 Views) | |
| LABaller | Mar 20 2006, 01:14 PM Post #1 |
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I would like your opinions on text based RPG's. Now, as you can probably tell, a text based RPG involves mainly text. In some they can include the basic skills like strength, magic, attack, etc. and a story line involving quests. So what do you look for in a text based RPG to make it fun, or interesting? What do you see in most text based RPG's that you have played that you would want different? What additions would you make to the text based RPG's you have played? Any other input is good. I have a really good understanding now on how to create one, but I know text based RPG's sometimes just aren't the most exciting things to play, but I have seen some very good ones before. |
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| Mara88 | Mar 20 2006, 01:32 PM Post #2 |
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A text based Role Play should have something novel in it. It shouldn't be just another of the 600 Magic School roleplays (aka, take-offs of Harry Potter) or just another sci-fi forum. They should be fairly realistic. It's really no fun to play something when the person you're playing with keeps coming up with off the wall stuff. I do a lot of Medieval Role Plays and it really bugs me to see people play characters in Medieval Role Plays who wear blue jeans and have spiked hair. I've heard some people say that creating a plot for the site limits creativity, but can you think of any place in the world where there is nothing going on? There should be some background to the site- trials that are upon every one there, perhaps a war or a plague. What do I see most that I'd like to change? Illiteracy. I don't mind occasional errors; I'm sure even this post is full of them, but when a person is in the writing habit of not capitalizing sentances and misspelling every other word and misplacing modifiers and running sentances together it gets rather annoying. |
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| Alfamille | Mar 20 2006, 02:07 PM Post #3 |
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I believe one of the most popular text based rPG is "Legend of the Green Dragon". Although I'm not that kinda RPG guy |
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| sadrilli | Mar 20 2006, 02:09 PM Post #4 |
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One of my favorites is "The World Called Hollow" I love Text based RPGs, I am a writer, so its what I do best. |
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| Lindsey | Mar 20 2006, 02:31 PM Post #5 |
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burn victim.
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Ditto. From my experience from RPing you need a plot or there is no motivation. I hate unoriginality, mostly in medieval/fantasy role-plays. In that category you have so much that can be thought up, and to not think of anything slightly original is horrible. |
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| Dale | Mar 20 2006, 03:23 PM Post #6 |
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I own LORD (red dragon) both the door game as well as the worldgroup 2.0 version, also own MajorMud and Telearena for Worldgroup 2.0...someday I will get around to getting this back online, I did run it from 1995-2000, I love the older text based games... |
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| Sirin | Mar 20 2006, 03:25 PM Post #7 |
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It is very easy for me to create one for myself. PHP/MySQL/CSS/XHTML/JAVASCRIPT... I'm stuffed, arent I?
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| LABaller | Mar 20 2006, 04:40 PM Post #8 |
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Latino Heat
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Okay, thanks for the input. Gonna start setting up my design sheet for the game. |
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| Fire and Salt | Mar 20 2006, 07:38 PM Post #9 |
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My friend moonie has her own site like this and she is does a great job at it. But its a PB not an IF. PM if you want the link to her board.
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| xxVtPriDexx | Mar 20 2006, 08:38 PM Post #10 |
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my opinions on a text based rpg is that i dont even like it because you would have to type everything and when you play a rpg in a game is always entertaining |
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| LABaller | Mar 20 2006, 09:30 PM Post #11 |
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That's not the kind of RPG I mean. Not a forum RPG, one you code with PHP and SQL. |
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| xxVtPriDexx | Mar 21 2006, 12:25 PM Post #12 |
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oh i see |
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