Gear and Items You'd Like to See in Armageddon... but Aren't

[James de Monet]

Thread full of spoilers in here!!!

seriously, if you know something exists, don't comment, just PM the person or something.

* Harmless leaves the thread

Is it really that shocking to find out that head scarves, things to help you punch people, stuff for medics besides bandages, and stoves exist?  This is all stuff that people would improvise if Zalanthas was a real world, so finding out that the items exist IG is not really OOC on any level except 'hey, you don't HAVE to emote that crap. You can get it in game if you know where to look.'

It's not like anyone is dropping the dime on vorpal swords or Vulcan cannons.

I mean...boomerangs, yeah maybe. But lets be honest. They're not exactly the most practical weapon, even IRL.

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

Ought to need an oven, a stove, or a fire to cook in any room that is not described as a kitchen.

Already in game.

As in, you can't cook meat and pies and stuff without these things?

Because, if so, alright.

Our crafting system unfortunately doesn't really do "backwards compatability" to include an item as required for dozens of crafting recipes  but that's where RP comes in!

True, but I like being forced to do the right thing, most of the times.

[long live miley cyrus]

A tool that is specifically for carving and crafting with bone, none of which currently exists, which is odd in a world where bone is used for many items.

I know of one which exists and can be made with relative inexpensive and lack of effort in some areas, but it used to be something that you could sell to a shopkeeper at a ridiculous price and now that the price is nerfed its a lot harder to find if you don't know how to make it. Probably one of the most useful crafting tools in the game, and something I thought should be as common for crafters to have as chisels. Chisels are f&^%ing everywhere. So should bone carving implements I think. My imagination is sufficient, but it doesn't give me a crafting boost. I'm not sure how much I care about this.

I've always, as in for a month wanted flags for the two city-states. Large flags that can be seen from very far away, somewhat smaller flags to hang up in the shitty multi-cot apartments that are opening up, and little mini flags to wear around the wrists or tuck away in a pocket to be fond of forever and hide with trepidation when your clan abruptly decides to transfer to the other city.

[Dalmeth]

Fences.

Relatively expensive, require heavy items, could be climbed over, and broken apart by animals like tents.

But fences.

[Incognito]

This would be supremely helpful on Zalanthas:




an ornately-carved lodestone compass





a lodestone-needle water-bowl compass





And yes, I am well aware of how rare and expensive this would be - so it'd be that much rarer on Zalanthas!

[Kronibas]

I've always wanted some kind of knuckleduster or Caestus, as a bludgeoning weapon. It seems like a very Southern weapon, and would go well with the fighting style described in the docs as the one-handed only one.

Already in the game.



I've always wanted to see more torturing tools than whips:

-Actual torturing racks/iron maiden type stuff.

-Implements like boabab splinters that can be driven up fingernails with the use command.

-knives made for flaying the give off an echo and leave people with massive patches of scared flesh.

-Hot irons and brands.

-An actual "Beheaders axe" type weapon that comes with a chopping block to instantly kill people. Or also give partial beheadings and nicks.

Maybe I'm just just a sick bastard.

Those are all pretty neat ideas.  Personally, I'd be reluctant to request stuff that have effects requiring extra coding or scripts... but if they were for templars/the public, then things like this would have a better chance of flying, I imagine.

[Kronibas]

Good topic. 

Having played a couple of physicians, I'd love to see an expansion of crude medical whatsits.  Even if 'bandaging' wasn't renamed as 'first aid' to represent a broader use, these items could be bandage-type for code use.  Things like:

a hooked needle and gut thread
a small jar of maggots
a cool, black paste (description mentioning something about it numbing the skin)

Ha, I posited the last one in game within the past 2 RL months.  Maggots, though... oh man, that's great.  I bet runners in the Byn wouldn't let themselves get hurt beyond regeneration quite so often if they had to get maggots put in their sparring wounds.   

[Kronibas]

I do not think a hot air balloon would ever make reliable transport on Zalanthas with the chaotic weather and terrible sand storms. I would love too see this as a Noble House project, perhaps as a dwarf focus, where the balloon is safely tethered in an estate so it can raise a moderate distance in the air and allows the noble to entertain one or two others with a tea party in the sky!



A throwing weapon that returns! Who doesn't want a boomerang in game? Of course the fantasy notions of it returning to the throwers hand after it hits is totally unrealistic but having it return to the room it was thrown from if it missed would be pretty cool.

I was after the time of the Allanki airship, but my Bynner elf sorcerer (yes, really) actually helped dismantle said airship for the Byn fort... and I have account notes saying the elf was being "lazy" about the labor, lol.  So, I suppose the last airship (THAT I KNOW OF) was over 15 RL years ago.

[Kronibas]

Please, please please make smokeable dung objects. Dried small pellets of dung, to put in my pipe and smoke. It's pretty much required for a future character concept I want to do.

Btw, I've IDEA'd this in game multiple times already, but thought I'd share with everyone. Also I really really want it.

Heh, interesting.  I could definitely see rinthers maybe cutting spice with poo or... whatever.


Where I'm from, the bowels of the Deep South, black people will cut cocaine with, uhhh... basically anything that's white.

[Kronibas]

A skinning hatchet, for stuff with chitin exoskeletons.
A bunch of stuff sized for half-giants.

Related: a silty prefix, to go along with dusty, bloodied, burned

I've seen half-giant packs and weapons limited to all but the strongest humanoids.

I wonder what some truly awesome half-giant specific gear might be.  Something like a "man sized battle axe"?  I dunno. I've never put more than a day on a half-giant before.

[Kronibas]

And kinda like what Ourla said, but more broadly: something to hide things.  Secret containers, not-quite-so-obvious sheaths, smuggling gear... I think that's like a whole range of stuff that might could be explored more in-game.

[Kronibas]

inv;

a precious, rag-swaddled infant

emote glances around furtively

open infant

get pinch infant;!;!

sniff pinch;!;!

close infant

[ShaLeah]

inv;

a precious, rag-swaddled infant

emote glances around furtively

open infant

get pinch infant;!;!

sniff pinch;!;!

close infant

Please bring back baby items. Please. Swaddled. Please.

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

I would certainly like to see more realism, and more bonuses and negatives attached to things. I love player-realized creations. I would love to see a lessening of the restrictions on player-made items, so that you didn't have to be a master crafter to make a rag-wrapped knife. I'd love to see uncooked food be edible, but with nearly no nutritional value. I'd love to see more mounts, and include in that more tamable beasts. I'd love to see crafting revamped to require tools and environments. I'd love to kick turned into strike (just a change in messaging that allows for more roleplayed variation of the skill).

Er, but, items? Gear? Traps. I'd love to see traps.

[Ourla]

inv;

a precious, rag-swaddled infant

emote glances around furtively

open infant

get pinch infant;!;!

sniff pinch;!;!

close infant

Please bring back baby items. Please. Swaddled. Please.

There's a few laying around, for sure.

[Bushranger]

inv;

a precious, rag-swaddled infant

emote glances around furtively

open infant

get pinch infant;!;!

sniff pinch;!;!

close infant

Please bring back baby items. Please. Swaddled. Please.

There's a few laying around, for sure.

MMmmmm, delicious baby.

[senseofeven]

Are there...katanas?

[Scarecrow]

I would like to see more things you can wear on your shoulders. When playing a fighter character, mostly all elsewhere of you is covered in armor, so it's nice to have these few spots for a little decoration and personalization of your gear. Brooches, ribbon twists, raggedy patches of cloth, that sorta stuff.

I think also it would be cool if we had an atlatl or woomera. Essentially a device that allows you to hurl a short javelin or spear with greater force, this seems like the kind of gear Zalanthans would use. The aborigines of Australia (who lived quite regularly in deserts so harsh it makes Zalanthas look like Jamaica) used the woomera.

[MeTekillot]

Are there...katanas?

There were, but they were retconned.

[Eyeball]

Onagers and ballistae.

[Saellyn]

Onagers and ballistas.

You need to go read some room descriptions. Ballistae are in Armageddon, and I'm pretty sure catapults are as well.

[HavokBlue]

I don't think they are? I remember a staff post from somewhere about how siege weaponry has never been developed because A) low technology/literacy and B) magick.

[RogueGunslinger]

No way there isn't siege weaponry in arm. Any dumbass who builds a crossbow thinks to themselves "An even bigger bow would'n be better" Until the boom. Ballista is born.

Onagers are just big slings, basically. It's not like you need metal parts to build them.

[Eyeball]

Onagers and ballistae.

You need to go read some room descriptions. Ballistae are in Armageddon, and I'm pretty sure catapults are as well.

I've not seen any, nor have any visibly been deployed and used in the wars my characters have participated in. Also, I meant physical objects, a little like wagons and a little like crossbows, rather than a couple of words in a room description.

Battering rams are another typical siege tool.

Heck, half-giants could practically wield ballistae. They aren't supported in terms of enormous bows, crossbows or slings with large chunks of rocks instead of pebbles. Just too deadly from a playability aspect maybe.

Oh well, maybe when you have half-giants, mages and Highlords who can move volcanoes, there's no incentive to develop engines of war, at least in Allanak anyhow.

[Zoan]

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I mean...boomerangs, yeah maybe. But lets be honest. They're not exactly the most practical weapon, even IRL.

Tell that to the kangaroo twitching on the floor with a curved stick jutting through its ribcage.