Astrological signs in HardArcanum.Feedback needed.

Astrological signs in Arcanum.


I am thinking of adding astrological signs in HardArcanum.
This means that you would have an astrological sign and that would give you a small benefit depending on your sign .

For example sign of the Bear +2 melee bonus damage or Sign of the Rifle +1 perception +1/4 guns or sign of the Raven +10 % critical hits .

The question I would like to ask you is
Would you prefer to be able to ask for that sign ?
In that case Althea at the start would ask you what under what sign you were borned and then you would receive a blessing : Because you were borned under that sign you have that blessing blah blah

Or you would like to get a random sign randomly ?

In that case you would not know what the bonus is and you would not get until say you almost left Shrouded Hills .

In that case of course and for balance reasons you would get a bigger bonus than actually choosing the bonus (reloading just prior receiving the bonus would not work)


So my question is what would you prefer ?

Choose or receive randomly ?

 

uhm a combination of those 2
IF you DO choose you will get that bonus, lets say +2 to charm
OR if you DON'T choose you will get a random bonus, if you get charm you will then get +3 to charm

just an idea

 

I have thought of that too but for technical reasons its impossible at the moment .

So please choose one.

 

next thing you'll be giving us a bad day on friday the 13th!

Parmanian

 

uhm how about a small bonus you choose AND a bigger not chosen bones

but uhm if I had to choose between those 2, I prefer the chosen and smaller 1

they don't have friday's in the game but there is a 13th day
no not ALL 13's day as bad luck

but I heard rumor that in Italie it is the day 4 (could be mistaken so don't quote this) and in japan even another day for bad luck

 

I think this is a very nice idea. Along the lines of Morrowind. It allows a further increase in the amount of personalisation you can make.

I think allowing the character to make the choice would be best. You can then use it to design your character far better than you used to...

 

i'm going to dis-agree there, it might be interesting to have a "random" element to things. you would have to make the bonus's fairly generic though, +10 DR, +1 STR and so on, it seem's a little un-realistic to have a bonus to guns from a star sign.

BTW, i've just started playing HARDARCANUM, and i must say.... FUCK ME!, nice work Mr Beddoe's, nice work indeed.

 

They are random . The effects are decided at the start and you find out what effect you have in Tarant .
Reloading will not change effect . You will have to do a new char.

Oh and 3 people in the official forum voted for random . So sorry ferret but you were outvoted 4-1.


Let me know if you do not like something. Oh and huge bonus means 10/4

But you need to heve spend some points in the preq stat to get all the benefit.

Oh and the game has been made slightly harder to compensate . Like a poison nova like effect when some undead die .

{1076}{Because you were born in January the month of the Rat the stars
have blessed you with some of the qualities of the Rat.You gain a huge bonus to prowling.}
{1077}{Because you were born in February the month of the Ox the stars
have blessed you with some of the qualities of the Ox .You gain +2 to strength.}
{1078}{Because you were born in March the month of the Tiger the stars
have blessed you with some of the qualities of the Tiger .You gain a bonus of +5 melee damage.}
{1079}{Because you were born in April the month of the Rabbit the stars
have blessed you with some of the qualities of the Rabbit .You gain +2 to dexterity.}
{1080}{Because you were born in May the month of the Dragon the stars
have blessed you with some of the qualities of the Dragon .Your fire resistance cannot be lower than 50%.}
{1081}{Because you were born in June the month of the Snake the stars
have blessed you with some of the qualities of the Snake .You gain +4 to constitution.}
{1082}{Because you were born in July the month of the hawk the stars
have blessed you with some of the qualities of the hawk .You gain +5 to perception.}
{1083}{Because you were born in August the month of the Sheep the stars
have blessed you with some of the qualities of the Sheep .You gain +1 to max followers.}
{1084}{Because you were born in September the month of the Monkey the stars
have blessed you with some of the qualities of the Monkey .You gain +3 to intelligence.}
{1085}{Because you were in October the month of the Bear the stars
have blessed you with some of the qualities of the Bear .You gain +10 to life and +10 to fatigue.}
{1086}{Because you were born in November the month of the Dog the stars
have blessed you with some of the qualities of the Dog .You have a huge bonus to spot traps.}
{1087}{Because you were born in December the month of the fox the stars
have blessed you with some of the qualities of the fox .You gain a huge bonus to persuasion.}

 

nice signs and yes there are nice to get 1 it
/sees org with bonus to prowling