Golden Hills RPG

Well I have alot of free time at the moment and after terraining about half a map I decided to make use of it. So I started this idea.
I have been playing a few RPG's on b.net and found out a few things:
1. The terrain sucks. I played one RPG with average terrain.
2. Repeating gameplay (kill, level, kill, level ect)
3. Mostly boring heros.

So I am trying to do an RPG that is better then the rest. With good terrain, origionality and fast gameplay.

Golden Hills is a small village located in a rather mountain area, it is knowen widely for the golden tint to the trees surrounding the towen. But unknown to most of the people living and visiting there, an underground group of wizards mine the local mountains for magical gemstones. The area seems to be peacefull to outsiders, but the wizards and important people know that this is not the case. Many other groups of wizards want access to the gemstones and are beginning to attack the village openly. As a player your mission is to protect the village using any powers at your disposal.

Heros: Each player will have a hero that can choose his wizards element. When the wizard gains a level he can choose to updrade his stats in any way. Giving the player the choice of making a combat or spell based wizard.
Skills are gained by buying a scroll. When the hero uses the scroll he learns the skill at a level depending on his element. Skills have 3 lvls. I will use a diagram to explain better (fear my Photoshop skills)

Elements are represented by colors.
Red: Fire (duh)
Blue: Water
Yellow: Wind/lightning
Green: Nature/Eath
White: Life
Black: Death

Depending on how many steps away in the circle you are the spell is more or less powerfull. Spells on your element are learned at lvl 3. Spells 1 step away are learned at lvl 2, 2 steps away lvl 1. Spells that are 3 steps away cannot be learned. So a life wizard cannot learn a death spell, or a fire wizard cannot learn a water spell.

The village will be under attack at random intervals. So while no one is atacking the wizards can do several side quests to earn money and exp.

Also there are only 16 normal items that can have elemental gems added to them, each gem has a different effect.

I have posted the terrain in the terrain forum if anyone is curious.

Team member wanted:
I am looking for someone pretty good with triggers and object editing to help out with the workload, thats all. It's not a very big project.

im up for it, i have average trigger skills and fairly good knowledge of OE

If you have msn add me, I'm on now :P [email protected]

Anuzzer one? I'll do triggers ^^


Yes, seriously, I'll do triggers. As long as I don't have to do spell editing... I hate spell editing :P

I like your spell idea, except there's only one spell thing that can't be learned, maybe add another color (like maybe physic)? *shrug*

Finish your AOS, Mr.Pinkrep!

i could do some triggering for ya. The main project im working on now is starting to hurt my brain... (stupid lack of basic language constructs) so i need something more light-weight to work on :)

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You could add Chaos/Order to make it 8

You could alss add some races or semething so like>

3 races, 8 elements

24 possiblities.

etc. :-)

Or keep his 6 elements and have 4 races...

Sounds like a good idea PlasticAngel. I added your new msn to my list... so we can chat on MSN.

Hey first post back, in a long time.

I dont have any pink rep I sware!

Oh and where did all these trigger people come from? Who let the triggerers out of their cages? :D Thanks for offering guys, I'll get in touch over msn.

what else?! triggers!

My MSN is being noobly, you may have to wait a while.

Idea sounds classic, terrain looks awesome, I'd gladly help.

I can do triggering (moderate) and object editing (only difficulty here is time comsumption IMO)

I'm not too experienced at spell editing (as far as flashiness goes). The most I've done was make all the spells in a map stat based (which was a pain, seeing as there were 300 some spells) Of course I can always learn.

I'll PM you with my contact info if your interested.

6 elements listed, what about classes?

Like Priest if he tends to go more o the light powers, warlock if he goes toward dark, then terramagus, pyromancer, hydromancer, etc.... Meh are these human or elf or what wizards?

There are other words for Priest, like Pastor, Bishop, etc.

Nice map. I hope I see it completed... someday.

Please consider not using too much terrain and doodads. I've had experiences to where my computer gets very laggy because of trees, little knick-knacks, etc.