New Setting

[ruba1987]

Quote from a friend: "One thing I like about warframe is how they chose to use space ninjas as characters that was kind of cool so...hear me out...instead of using the same old races (elf, dwarf, etc), would you consider trying something different? just off the top of my head, here is an example:

Races

• Mechanical
  • Some kind of robot - Tank focused
• Alien
  • High Alien - Light magic casting focused
  • Dark Alien - Dark magic casting focused
  • Wood Alien - Nature focused
• Monster
  • Lightfoot Monster - Thief focused
  • White Tower Monster - Caster focused
• Human
• Halfbreed (Alien\Human?)"

[ruba1987]

@dakdaros What do you think?

[ruba1987]

I kinda like this idea. I'm not sure i'm completely sold on this particular idea but I think looking into a new setting might be cool.

[dakdaros]

I think a new setting could be pretty cool. It would certainly be a way to be different from every other fantasy adventure game out there.

[ruba1987]

just some things that come to mind:

• Futuristic
• A broken world of today-ish
• Space age

[dakdaros]

I was thinking that it's a world that's starting to heal from an apocalyptic war that happened long ago. It was at the height of a golden age of magic and technology. Then the war came in and pretty much destroyed the world. Hundreds, if not a thousand years later, much of the game settings are in the ruins of the old world, some of which might still work. Like mechanized sentry guards still protecting the ruins of what was once a great palace.

[ruba1987]

We could do this as post world invasion.

Aliens come to Earth and try to take it over and have done a decent job of it. Other aliens come to try to help us take back earth (this is how we get the diff races). And we adventure together with these new people.

[ruba1987]

@dakdaros what would be the races there?

[dakdaros]

Or maybe to combine the two. The world was ravaged by a successful invasion, and largely destroyed and harvested for materials, now a long time later, the remnants of the survivors are under the threat of being invaded again.

[dakdaros]

I think mostly organic races. maybe have a class that acts as kind of a summoner, or hunter from WoW, but instead of the standard summoned creatures you get a robot or automaton like thing, and you upgrade it by finding materials and parts scattered throughout the world. And the various parts could point the robot in a direction, like tanking or ranged warfare.

[ruba1987]

I like that except for I would do it like this:

"Or maybe to combine the two. The world was ravaged by a successful invasion, and largely destroyed and harvested for materials, now a long time later, the remnants of the survivors are forming a rebellion and are helped by aliens that want to see Earth back to normal."

[ruba1987]

I agree on the organic thing. I have never been a big fan of robots

[dakdaros]

ooo, I like that. I can see myself working out a story like that.

[ruba1987]

similar to how Terminator worked except aliens, one really big and evil alien race that have taken over and couple smaller good ones that try to help us out

[dakdaros]

Right, maybe work into the story that those helpful aliens were either here, or that they just arrived, and their world was originally destroyed by the evil aliens, and they think that the only hope to stop them is to combine forces with humanity and start an uprising.

[ruba1987]

and I like that pet idea. Build a pet rather than summon one though. or maybe the class that gets a pet brings an organic one with them

[ruba1987]

and for "how they got here" I was thinking like you. Maybe one was invaded by them before but fought off the invasion and they sent some ppl to help, maybe another wants the trade routes back that they once had with earth. etc...

[ruba1987]

and if we go with how you stated it at first, thousands of years have past since the invasion, we don't need to worry too much about matching real places on earth

[ruba1987]

and our human hero could be Rambo :-)

[dakdaros]

right, like the start could be your characters, unlikely heroes, finding the small envoy of a ship or two of the helpful aliens that manage to make their way onto Earth's surface, and relay their plans to fight back, starting with Earth. Which can also set up for a sequel by fighting on the helpful aliens home planet.

[dakdaros]

So a large part of the story is actually sabotaging some key emplacements of the evil aliens. Which I think toying around with names should come pretty quickly so it's not just good aliens vs. bad aliens.

[ruba1987]

I am really starting to like this. Lets rewrite our characters on the wiki and come up with new races/classes and planet names they could be from.

Lol, yea, we need to work out solid names

[dakdaros]

hahaha, I'll work on some stuff in the story thread about names and the like. I wanted to say that the envoy of good aliens specifically sought you out, because they think you're the grain of rice that'll tip the scales in our favor, but that sounds pretty campy.

[ruba1987]

@dakdaros @walterthearchitect

I'm going to close this issue, I think we got everything out of it that we need. What do you think?

[dakdaros]

@ruba1987

I agree. We can still reference this if we need to, but I'm not sure that we have anything more we can contribute.

[walterthearchitect]

Yea cool.