[CF-Devel] Re: New races and spells.

[Todd Mitchell]

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        Well, it's not just a simple matter of 'dwarf wizard should have robes'
     
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      of thing.  After all, pretty much any race/class can use any weapon and
     
     armor.
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        that priest could use a sword and plate armor and look indistinguishable
     
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      a fighter in terms of equipment.  Monk and wizards might look very much
     
     alike.

Ya - this is true, but for all intents and purposes you could get away with
three faces per race and I don't think there would be too much complaint -
heavy duty combat (full armour big sword), light duty(leather type and
sword) and magic guy(robe and stick).  Of course more is better but these
would cover most tastes.  Assigning the faces could be the subject for some
debate however as you say.

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        But it really isn't possible to support all of those combinations  (how
     
     many
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      armor * weapon * race combinatins are there?  A lot ).
     
     
This is a problem for sure.  Maybe we should sell Crossfire t-shirts and use
the proceeds to hire a real artist -"work you art slave...work!" ;)

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        If anything, since we tend to let players set their title, why not let
     
     players
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      set their faces (animations), within reason?
     
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I was going to suggest this but figured there would be opposition to it
since it would be more work and someone would have to do it, so I suggested
the other.  I personally think it would be ok even just to dump the class
faces and use the race ones.
I am sure there are people who would disagree however.

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        There would have to be an 'approved' list from which the player could
     
     choose
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      from - you couldn't choose a 'blob' face for example.  And a player could
     
     choose
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      a face that doesn't really match their character (eg, choose an armored
     
     figured
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      even if they were nothing, or whatever else).  Players could re-choose as
     
     their
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      characters change.
     
     
I think this is a good idea.  If we got rid of the class/race face
distinction and made a set of  choosable arches for each race (with some
overlap when body types are similar).  Need a few more pictures here and
there (some more elves, trolls, a halfling in full battle armour...maybe
even a couple different dragon types, but they would be useful to reuse for
npc's as well. It would be easier to have players pick from one big larger
set, but I wouldn't want to see fireborn picking a halfling face, or a dwarf
looking like a troll...