[Discuss] What about unique items named after dead heroes?

[Josiah Allen]

On Nov 27, 2007 5:48 PM, Jonas De Greef <curs21 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  I was just wondering about unique items. I've heard of an item named
> after "Ucdauh", and I posses one named after some "Ralag"... And I also know
> about a lot of items simply being named after the region where they were
> found in.
>
> And I thought it would be a cool feature if we could remember and honour
> heroes by their famous weaponry, their famous armor, or whatever made them
> so heroic to begin with. Not only does it make the game more of an
> interaction with the players, but it just has a really authentic feeling to
> it.
>
> I was thinking about giving the hero the option to chose his favorite kind
> of item, be it an axe, a claymore, a scimitar, a buckler, ... Some variation
> of course... And when he died, this one item name gets put in the list of
> unique items still to be found (on that continent, and only once, so not on
> another continent). (I suppose that unique items are not already 'prenamed'
> before they are build, so that might be tricky to add it to a list that
> doesn't exist)
>
> What do you all think?
>
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That could create some interesting drama, because say hero Bob of Keplerstan
dies fighting the Elbonians and months later Bob's Sword of Greatness ends
up in the hands of the Elbonian King adding insult to injury.

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