muuhd/resources/ideas.md

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GARBAGE COLLECTORS

At night, the Garbage Collectors (smelly gnolls) or other Janitor Mobs come out to remove any loose items or dead characters that may be lying around. They are quite tough.

These janitor mobs clean up almost everywhere except Instances (that clean up themselves) and players' homes, prisons, and other VIP locations.

They never trigger quests or events where they go, but:

• they can interact with adventurers (they are quite aggressive, and may attack unprovoked, maybe sneak past)
• they can interact with each other, but mostly do so if there are PCs nearby.

ATTRITION

Even when a player is offline, their characters have to pay rent on their homes or room and board in an inn, or they can chance it in the wilderness.

If they run out of money or rations, there is a small chance each day that the characters will be garbage collected.

The sum that needs paying while offline not very large though.

CHAT SPELL

You can buy a spell that lets you initiate a secure and encrypted group chat with other players.

The person who casts the spell generates a private key and sends the public key to the others in the chat. Each recipient then generates a one-time symmetric key and sends it securely (via the caster's public key) to the caster. The caster then generates a "group chat key" and sends it to each recipient via their one-time key.

Any chats via the spell from then on is encrypted with the "group chat key".

All parties throw away the group chat key when the spell ends.

Each group chat has a name.

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CONSTRUCTION / BUILDING

• You can build a house / mansion / castle / wizard tower / underdark / cave / wattever.
• You can invite other players oveer for a tjat.
• You can build portals to other dimensions (instances), and you can allow other players to try it out.

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• Caves

  • GameMode = Spelunking: Sir Whalemeat the Thurd is Spelunking in the Caves of Purh.
  • Played like Rogue
  • Procedurally (pre-)generated caves (Game of Life? automata?)
  • Turn based: you take one action, and everything else gets one tick.
  • 1 Location == 1 cave

• Donjons

  • GameMode = Crawling: Lady Gurthie Firefoot is Crawling the Donjons of Speematoforr.
  • Played like Knights of Pen and Paper
    • WebGL: Actual rendered 3d, but black and white.
    • Texture pack is just ascii text (TEXTures).
      • Possibly Procedurally generated
      • Most likely like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1jLK4TG6O4&list=LL
    • Animations like Stonekeep - only showing animation when the player moves.
    • Monsters are just outlines of monster shapes, shaded with variably-sized letters that spell out the monster's name.
  • Procedurally (pre-)generated dungeons
  • Every time you enter a non-explored space, you roll a die, and see what happens.
  • Combat is like Dark Queen of Krynn (i.e. third person semi-iso)
  • 1 Location == 1 donjon room/area
  • BSP (binary space partition) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlLIOgWYVpI&t=374s

• Overland

  • GameMode = Traveling: Swift Dangledonk the Slow is Traveling the Marshes of Moohfaahsaah
  • Travel is like Rogue
  • Combat is like Dark Queen of Krynn
  • Static terrain.
  • Random encounters.
  • Each encounter has a randomly generated mini map (which is just monsters and a few obstacles)
  • 1 Location == 1 area / screen

• Settlements

  • GameMode = Sojourning: Swingleding the Mage is Sojourning in the City of Hovedstad.
  • may be played like MUDs (go west, go to town square, etc.).
  • Static (mostly)
  • Combat is like Dark Queen of Krynn
  • 1 Location == 1 area (an inn, etc.)

• Dwelling

  • GameMode = Hanging Out: Wendlegloom Uklimuck is Hanging Out in The House of the Sitting Sun.
  • Homes that players can own or build.
  • Like Rogue but with tweaks such as detailed descriptions of the cool stuff the players have done with the room.

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• Waif-Unction Collabs
• Waify Collapse
• Drag-on lance