Races for MMORPG
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Have you ever played Blood Omen 2? There's an enemy which used to be a vampire, but has been altered and now is some super power monster with something which I think i a steamtank on his back, which seems to power him.
Ehm.....how about an alien race gifted in engineering? *cough*lombax*cough*
I dunno really.......what exactly IS steampunk?
I dunno really.......what exactly IS steampunk?
Actually, Steampunk means modern-day trappings in a Victorian setting - steam powered computers, airships, space ships, that kinda crap. hell, in the Steampunk comic, Blaquesmith even had a steam-powered pacemaker.Ken_J said:
Of course, that also powered a steam-powered cubernetic arm with a minigun in it. Fun stuff.
Aaanyway...
Elves - don't overlook Elves. The Iron Kingdoms have brilliant Elves that fit perfectly with a Steampunk setting and a reason for being immortal yet endangered.
Dwarves - traditionally steampunk, even in the most medieval of settings.
Undead - If you take the steampunk prosthetics to it's logical (for steampunk) conclusions, you can have all manner of cool stuff. Off the top of my head, how about providing a service for the ultra-rich where, when they die, they can imprint their minds into a machine that will take over corpses purchased from the working classes so they can enjoy "life" a bit longer?
Sub-humans - Steampunk means more pollution. There's nothing to stop you having a race that used to be humans that have been mutated over several generations by the "fun" stuff belched from the factories straight into the rivers that they drink from.
That's a few to mull over. I love Steampunk stuff (and I also happen to be training to write video games
), if you want more ideas for races/plot, shoot me a PM and I'll see what I can come up with Are we talking player character races?
Dwarves and gnomes are often presumed to be technically minded, so they would probably fit the bill nicely.
As for other races, I'd say it depends very much on what the lay of the land is, so to speak.
A lot of svamps? Maybe savage lizardmen occupy the svampy regions, worshipping heathen gods and waiting for enlightenment by the civilised races. Or maybe they have an empire.
Maybe the northern regions are inhabited by a race of seal-people?
Maybe a race of short, hairy-footed people live in the lowlands of the civilised lands and grow most of the crops the lands are dependant on
Dwarves and gnomes are often presumed to be technically minded, so they would probably fit the bill nicely.
As for other races, I'd say it depends very much on what the lay of the land is, so to speak.
A lot of svamps? Maybe savage lizardmen occupy the svampy regions, worshipping heathen gods and waiting for enlightenment by the civilised races. Or maybe they have an empire.
Maybe the northern regions are inhabited by a race of seal-people?
Maybe a race of short, hairy-footed people live in the lowlands of the civilised lands and grow most of the crops the lands are dependant on
How about a few varieties of deformed underground mutants? Maybe include "savages" too. It'd fit the neo-Victorian Steampunk aesthetic.
I wouldn't make them clockwork though - that kinda goes against the whole "steam powered" design choice. Steampunk's all about using steam in highly optimistic, improbable, and ultimately pointless ways.
Aren't androids just robots that look like people? Maybe you can include some kind of bulky war-automaton as well.Ken_J said:
I wouldn't make them clockwork though - that kinda goes against the whole "steam powered" design choice. Steampunk's all about using steam in highly optimistic, improbable, and ultimately pointless ways.
Eh, not really. I'd say there would be enough variation between an android and a warbot to distinguish them. Both physically and psychologically. We're also talking about player races, not factions.Razada said:
Ya know, why not? There are three dozen varieties of elf. Each with variations more minor than the last.
I say the warbots declared themselves separate from the androids. Who's going to stop them? They're warbots.
oo i thought of other races, Fairies, a steam Fairy seems like it can be fun and a semi good idea to a degree, you can use a race the uses the steam tech to power there psychic powers, that seems like a race I would like (but then that just reminds me of the one race i made up for my comic $$), but then that's more of a class, kinda like a steam caster -_- I never played a Steampunk MMO i tried to but never found any good ones that caught my fancy $$ but ima still looking $$ most seem to just have a human race
Just to let everyone know I dicided to make a steampunk game because no one uses it. So with the races I want something different. That means no Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes, Lizardmen, or Selkies. So think of something different, the best ideas I've seen are the zombies and mutants.