- Apr 22, 2020
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I was thinking about intelligent weapons and armor. What makes them different from normal equipment? Well they are intelligent, but wouldn't they also then have desires?
So What if the item required you to perform certain activities on a regular / semi regular basis, and if you did not the item would then withhold it's abilities from you or in some cases work against you.
These activities could be anything:
Ability Activation costs such as providing a portion of your essence to activate the buff/ability.
Buffs/Abilities that only take effect under certain circumstances.
Daily ritual of kill 10 rats, or pick so many flowers to keep the item appeased.
Overarching larger quest lines to fulfill the items goals and/or possibly leading to stronger or different abilities.
Rituals / Daily / Weekly / Monthly quests could possibly be set up to pull from a pool of quests so that it wouldn't all be the same thing all the time, but would want some way to keep them in line with the "personality" of the item.
As an aside it would be awesome if some items could whisper you, or time and money permitting have VO lines, including praising, taunting and mocking the player their allies and or enemies.
So What if the item required you to perform certain activities on a regular / semi regular basis, and if you did not the item would then withhold it's abilities from you or in some cases work against you.
These activities could be anything:
Ability Activation costs such as providing a portion of your essence to activate the buff/ability.
Buffs/Abilities that only take effect under certain circumstances.
Daily ritual of kill 10 rats, or pick so many flowers to keep the item appeased.
Overarching larger quest lines to fulfill the items goals and/or possibly leading to stronger or different abilities.
Rituals / Daily / Weekly / Monthly quests could possibly be set up to pull from a pool of quests so that it wouldn't all be the same thing all the time, but would want some way to keep them in line with the "personality" of the item.
As an aside it would be awesome if some items could whisper you, or time and money permitting have VO lines, including praising, taunting and mocking the player their allies and or enemies.