JS
Sergeant at Arms
So I've always thought it would be fun to be a bandit lord; raiding and pillaging caravans and villages.
The fun of being a bandit is robbed(see how I did that ) by a few factors (although I'm only allowed to post one in every thread):
Just how hard it is to get "real bandits" (e.g. Forest Bandits, Tundra Bandits, Sea Raiders, etc.) I am usually forced to recruit men from villages, and after a while, find myself with knights in shining armor as my companions. How often did you see Robin Hood walking around with brightly colored soldiers dressed in armor that the sheriff could see a half-mile away?
And while I can defeat bandits and then recruit them, this is a long and painful process, of which, with one lousy battle, can ruin your success as a bandit lord.
After you've acquired enough bandits to start doing some real damage (which, again, takes quite a while), you find you have a slow party, (despite training quite a bit in Path Finding), which allows the lords of the land to catch up with you, and ultimately lock you up in a nice prison cell. And then you are forced to go about and start recruiting all over again.
So I think there should be an easier way to recruit bandits. Maybe make Bandit Havens where you can recruit brigands and the like?
So I do have some more ideas for making the bandits more fun, but I guess we're supposed to stick to one topic at a time, so I guess I'll see how this one comes over.
~Twinkle, outlawish-ly
The fun of being a bandit is robbed(see how I did that ) by a few factors (although I'm only allowed to post one in every thread):
Just how hard it is to get "real bandits" (e.g. Forest Bandits, Tundra Bandits, Sea Raiders, etc.) I am usually forced to recruit men from villages, and after a while, find myself with knights in shining armor as my companions. How often did you see Robin Hood walking around with brightly colored soldiers dressed in armor that the sheriff could see a half-mile away?
And while I can defeat bandits and then recruit them, this is a long and painful process, of which, with one lousy battle, can ruin your success as a bandit lord.
After you've acquired enough bandits to start doing some real damage (which, again, takes quite a while), you find you have a slow party, (despite training quite a bit in Path Finding), which allows the lords of the land to catch up with you, and ultimately lock you up in a nice prison cell. And then you are forced to go about and start recruiting all over again.
So I think there should be an easier way to recruit bandits. Maybe make Bandit Havens where you can recruit brigands and the like?
So I do have some more ideas for making the bandits more fun, but I guess we're supposed to stick to one topic at a time, so I guess I'll see how this one comes over.
~Twinkle, outlawish-ly