Roleplay and Dominions 2

[Vicious Love]

Also, when roleplaying, be sure to play a cold hearted bastard. Otherwise, your blood slave economy will grind to a screeching halt, and pillaging'll be right out. You could always be a great big hypocrite about it, though.

Update: A typo! Have I learned nothing?!

[ March 19, 2004, 03:38: Message edited by: Vicious Love ]

[Karacan]

I participated in a couple of pbems, and the Messages sent ingame are far more often in-character than not.

I personally tend to adapt a language I find suitable for the nation I play - Marignon with all its fiery passion for the unbelievers, R'lyeh cunning and subtle and shifty, Ermor laced with dark poetry coming from the Mouth Of Doom... And I only drop it when the replies don't come likewise. So far, though, the results are pretty satisfactory, roleplaying wise. I don't think I'll grow out of it.

[Tricon]

I like to roleplay in most of the strategy titles I play.
And Dom2 just begs for it. There is a certain satisfaction involved when you cry out "An outrage! I shall smite the infidells! Disease their lands! Take their virgins! To arms!"


(If you think thats rough, you should hear what my wife promises to do to my troops...)

[ March 19, 2004, 15:11: Message edited by: Tricon ]

[Vicious Love]

'course, none of us are implying we've gotten any genuine, semideep RP outta Dominions, are we? Strictly thematic, stylistic stuff, a bitta superficial flavor.
Fun as all hell, but while I'd never pass up an opportunity for some good RP, I'd be willing to waive this stuff for most games. I suppose, theoretically, it'd wear kinda thin after a while. Theoretically. Boy, insulting people's mothers in Latin is fun.
Still, big difference between an RPG(Not CRPG, please do note the difference) supplemented by a wargame, and a wargame with subordinate RP elements. Apples and oranges, mind you, sweet, sweet oranges.

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Hypothetically speaking, would any of you mind if an opponent spent a few dozen paragraphs describing a Tien Chi diplomat's hollow affectations and diplomatic niceties? Beats dealing with Ermor.

[st.patrik]

I dunno - Dom II has it all: Character development (what more development than someone becoming a god!), colourful history ("...back when I was a swamp guard I remember..."), cultural differences ("they ride spiders iin Machaka, isn't that gross!!"), etc. Not to mention ways of playing to suit every taste - from the bloodthirsty Mictlani to the cold-hearted Ermorians, to the beneficient guardian of nature (Pangaea), to the rigid code of honour (Tien Chi), etc.

The main thing is to make sure that you are roleplaying a good general, rather than someone who is a strategic and tactical klutz.

[Leif_-]

Originally posted by Vicious Love:
'course, none of us are implying we've gotten any genuine, semideep RP outta Dominions, are we?

Agreed. That said, I think the Dominions world could make a decent back-drop for a roleplaying game. (In the same way that the world of Warhammer Fantasy Battles miniature game makes for a decent roleplaying setting.)

"He is a lute-wielding bard from the mist-shrouded forests of Man. She is a succubus from the seventh level of hell. Together they are: Spies in Tien Chi"

[PhilD]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

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Originally posted by Stormbinder:
BTW what's wrong with battle replayes on msoehansen's server?

Mosehansen's server runs Linux. That means that battle replays are incompatible when viewed on Windows machines, and the result you see will not bear any relationship to what actually happened. This tends to render them rather useless to look at it.

Illwinter is aware of this bug and might even fix it in the next patch.

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This, IMHO, is just some minor compensation for all of us Linux geeks who have to live with the Windows battle replays of other games...