Alrik_Fassbauer
09-28-2019, 06:51 AM
Hello,
I have one logical problem.
In the Waterworks, there lives a giant spider called Calamity.
There is a possibility to get an armor piece called "Calamity's Carapace".
Its item description claims that it was mde from this spider's parts, but - and not comes my logical problem - it doesn't look like that at all !
It rather looks as if it had been made from an owlbear.
https://ddowiki.com/page/Calamity%27s_Carapace
https://ddowiki.com/page/Calamity
My guess is that this design failure ( I call it like that ) must be very old. Maybe someone wanted to adress the common fear of spiders.
No-one seemed to bother, because all people want is stats, not look. My fear i that most players would have their characters wear the most underworldly ugly looking items if these had superior stats. ( Well, that would be a way to troll power-hungry players. :p )
I however, as as story player, want a more consistent world.
In my opinion, this item should have been called differently OR given a different look.
Or, the other way round, create an ownbear's named item which looks like made from spider parts. :p
I do wonder how people could play a game, look at stats only, and not care about the look of their characters. I wonder, because this looks to me like a form of detachment from a game I will never be able to understand. Play a game in a specific game world, but not caring about the game world ?
That's a thing I can't understand.
Alrik
I have one logical problem.
In the Waterworks, there lives a giant spider called Calamity.
There is a possibility to get an armor piece called "Calamity's Carapace".
Its item description claims that it was mde from this spider's parts, but - and not comes my logical problem - it doesn't look like that at all !
It rather looks as if it had been made from an owlbear.
https://ddowiki.com/page/Calamity%27s_Carapace
https://ddowiki.com/page/Calamity
My guess is that this design failure ( I call it like that ) must be very old. Maybe someone wanted to adress the common fear of spiders.
No-one seemed to bother, because all people want is stats, not look. My fear i that most players would have their characters wear the most underworldly ugly looking items if these had superior stats. ( Well, that would be a way to troll power-hungry players. :p )
I however, as as story player, want a more consistent world.
In my opinion, this item should have been called differently OR given a different look.
Or, the other way round, create an ownbear's named item which looks like made from spider parts. :p
I do wonder how people could play a game, look at stats only, and not care about the look of their characters. I wonder, because this looks to me like a form of detachment from a game I will never be able to understand. Play a game in a specific game world, but not caring about the game world ?
That's a thing I can't understand.
Alrik