Hi. I've been playing this game for about three weeks. It's great for the game play but the world and everything else is a big let down. What would be even greater would be a mod to give the world you play in a real story and atmosphere with factions, quests plots and so on.
My suggestion for this would be to use the world of fantasy author George R R Martin's 'Westeros' (or Seven Kingdoms) which is the setting of the book series called A Song of Ice and Fire. In many ways I think it is ideal for the gameplay as it is already designed. The region the books are set in is plunged into 'total warfare' on the death of the old King and half a dozen (with new ones appearing all the time) factions struggle to try to say they have the true legitimacy along with many unaligned rogues and bandits trying to profit from the confusion. It is also a very 'gritty', brutal realistic medieval world where there isn't much magic, no healing potions, superhuman heroes, strange races and so on - nearly all the factions and characters are as much 'bad' as they are 'good'. Also there is no 'central plot' but dozens of different plots going on at the same time which means that unlike some books or settings M&B's 'open-ended' structure is ideal and it would be relatively simple to make an enjoyable game.
Has anybody read these books? If so what do you think of this idea being used as a mod for M&B? I am trying to get some people from a forum I visit that's based on these books interested in M&B but so far I haven't got much response. But I think if we can get ten or so people interested with the right skills.
Here's a website where you can learn more about ASOIAF if you are interested:
http://www.westeros.org/
My suggestion for this would be to use the world of fantasy author George R R Martin's 'Westeros' (or Seven Kingdoms) which is the setting of the book series called A Song of Ice and Fire. In many ways I think it is ideal for the gameplay as it is already designed. The region the books are set in is plunged into 'total warfare' on the death of the old King and half a dozen (with new ones appearing all the time) factions struggle to try to say they have the true legitimacy along with many unaligned rogues and bandits trying to profit from the confusion. It is also a very 'gritty', brutal realistic medieval world where there isn't much magic, no healing potions, superhuman heroes, strange races and so on - nearly all the factions and characters are as much 'bad' as they are 'good'. Also there is no 'central plot' but dozens of different plots going on at the same time which means that unlike some books or settings M&B's 'open-ended' structure is ideal and it would be relatively simple to make an enjoyable game.
Has anybody read these books? If so what do you think of this idea being used as a mod for M&B? I am trying to get some people from a forum I visit that's based on these books interested in M&B but so far I haven't got much response. But I think if we can get ten or so people interested with the right skills.
Here's a website where you can learn more about ASOIAF if you are interested:
http://www.westeros.org/