Re: [lojban] Random lojbanquest noodlings

[Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

I'm glad to see movement on this! -Eppcott


On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>
> https://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg5wbmjw_12fjmvcm for background.
>
> It used to be on the MUD, but I got tired of implementing that.  I
> think it would be pretty easy to do it as a web app.
>
> Anyways.
>
> I was thinking randomly today that the problem with Lojbanquest has
> always been motive; it's *only* about monster-killing, basically.
>
> Some random ideas I've had more-or-less related to that
>
>
> - rooms have various connections that are non-Euclidian (connections
>  to words that differ by one letter, connections to the same
>  selma'o and (most importantly) connections to the next-most and
>  next-least common word)
>
> - monsters get harder in less-commonly-used-word rooms
>
> - random bosses; when you try to go to a room it warns you?; bosses
>  are much harder
>
> - Key Idea #1: Rooms only drop the word associated with the room
>  name, which forces exploration to be able to make whole sentences
>
> - Key Idea #2: A special/rare treasure is magic *sentences*; if you
>  have all the elements of the sentence, the attack is *MUCH* more
>  powerful.  Using these is essentially required for bosses and the
>  higher end rooms, let alone a boss *in* the higher-end rooms.  But
>  what if your magical sentence needs "zajba"?  Well, you'll have to
>  get to the zajba room, and defeat something.  Major incentive to
>  explore.
>
> -Robin
>
>
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