After picking Dev\'s brains for hours, houses are going to be so super-mega-ultra-uber-expensive, the odds of getting one are going to be highly unlikely, and they\'ll likely be rented/leased.

Originally posted by WizardsRule
Would serpents be classified as dragons or not

For technicalities, from latin Draco, or Dracon, was used to describe any large serpent.  Not just limited to what we consider the traditional sense of the mythical beast usually represented as a giant, winged, bi-legged, or qudra-ped, fire-breathing reptile, that loved to hoard treasure.

Animal Planet  has been airing a thing on dragons... it was actually kinda cool.

http://animal.discovery.com/convergence/dragons/dragons.html

The animations were incredible.  Sorry at little OT.

Common familiars in past games, were usually retained for Rangers, Druids, and Mages.

Mages could use them to aid them in spell casting, protection of an area (depending on the size), or to retrieve things from areas they could not go.  Something like a cat, would be able to go into obvious places we could not fit.

Or a fairy dragon, something like Carkass, could aid in combat, by spell use.

Familars are generally treated in such away by intelligence, and all relationships between master/servant were considered very much as equals.  So much so, that if the familar died, the bond between them wa so great, it causes pemanent loss of skills.

The talking features, I still think are great, this kind of spills into living items (talking swords), and dabbles into a couple other areas as well.  This is a great idea.

Rangers, were usually aided in combat, but a familiar in that sense, is not the traditional type, it could be a magical mount.  Think of Gandalf\'s horse, Shadowfax... but this types of mounts have also been reserved for the Paladin class.  Rangers, could have something like a pixie, gnome, or other small woodland creature, like a racoon, squirrel, or otherwise.

Mage familairs were usually magically summoned.  Where a ranger formed his bond through time naturally through gaining the animals trust.  Which falls into the \'animal trainer\' skillset.

This could get extremely complicated.  But is a traditional part of any good RPG.

** EDIT ** The most famous familiar I can think of, was the mechanical owl, from \'Clash of the Titans\'.  What a horribly cheesy movie, but was it ever cool when I was younger.

http://www.jonahfalcon.com/bubo.jpg

You don\'t have to see it, to feel it\'s effects.

I vote we need to clean up the forums... I\'m posting off the stickies in the wish forum, not even noticing the sub-forum below.    And I\'m too lazy to double post novels.

I\'m for pickable... but lock picking should not be a random skill check.

http://planeshift.oodlz.com/wbboard/thread.php?threadid=6616&boardid=11&sid=88dbeab8edd9be52ea32f46bd2b7fb1a&page=1#9

Growl... I have been using the search and look what it gets me.

Your way was definately shorter and to the point. Lol... I totally agree, it\'s not sim city.

This is kinda what I was thinking for the arena, or combat training.  As a means to train instead paying.  The winner would gain experience, while the loser just went home with a bloody nose.

It would be impossible to kill someone, just to bring them within an 1\" of their life.  Naturally they would have to let their health recover, for X amount of time, or they\'d likely just end up losing again.

I\'m all for PKing... under the right circumstances.  And this if it was exapanded to armed combat, would yeild essentially the same result.

Having time pass... would require adding onto the aging discussion... It could implement an interesting adition to moon phases, or such.  After all, the moon even in life has an effect on all of us, and tides.

It was known for many years that patients during surgery would bleed heavier, or less depending on the moon phase.

That could be something, depending on birth dates and such, now you\'re getting into astrology.

or maybe, I\'m spinning too many new ideas.

I\'m getting so bored talking to myself...