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Maiden Creature Suggestion (For the Heroes)

PostPosted: 11 Apr 2010, 05:49
by DarkFire4114
Name: Maiden

Stats-

Health: Low
Attack: Low-Medium
Defense: Medium
Armour: Very Low
Speed: Medium
Dexterity: Very High
Intelligence: High
Construction: Medium
Luck: Medium
Wage: High

Skills:
Level 1: Melee
Level 3: Heal Self/Other
Level 4: Fireball
Level 5: Invisibility
Level 7: Sight
Level 8: Meteor
Level 9: Flame Breath (Uses from her hands)
Level 10: Word of Power

Information:
The beautiful and delicate Maiden Hero. She is very light armored, making her unable to take much heat, however she makes up with her speed and everlasting grace. She is very warm-blooded, and her magic of choice shows this endefinately. The Maiden can also see the Invisible, when strong enough, and turn Invisible herself. The Maiden may be a costly creature, but when used correctly, she can be very effective in battle. Outside of battle, however, lies her prime usage of motivation and the increase of efficency.



Behavior in Dungeon:
The Maiden's prime use is inside the dungeon.

She gets along very well with nearly all beings, except for other females, or competition as she sees. The only other thing the Maiden doesn't fully get along with, is Undead units, as they have no emotions and she cannot encourage them. The Maiden has a personal liking of Wizards, Warlocks, Monks, and other similar magical creatures, due to their high intelligence. She also is fond of Knights for their protection of her.

The Maiden is best in the Library, however, she is very compatable with whatever job you give her. She is very loyal to her master, and will follow whatever orders will please him or her. She also is very caring for her other comrades, and is loyal to all of them. Her favorite place to hang out is the Temple, and sometimes will take a Wizard, or one of her other favorite creatures, to the Temple to pray. Most of the time, however, she likes to sleep in her Lair after accomplishing all tasks.

The Maiden is most famous for her Encouraging. When she is working in a room, all creatures become "Encouraged" by her, and work harder. The effective increase is 10%, equal to one slap. Humans gain an increase of that 10%, creatures only 5%, and Undead, as well as other females, aren't encouraged at all. This is simply because creatures aren't as interested in her as Humans, Undead feel nothing, and other Females should feel no attraction. To be encouraged, the Creature must be at least two levels below the Maiden. And only one encouragement can work at a time. If there are two Maidens, it works as well as one.

Encouragement: Important Notes
  • Must be Working in the Same Room to Encourage
  • Must be at Least 2 Levels Above to Encourage
  • Only one Encouragement Bonus, Two Maidens is as Good as One
  • 10% Effectiveness Increase for Humans
  • 5% Effectiveness Increase for Creatures
  • 0% Effectiveness Increase for Undead
  • 0% Effectiveness Increase for Females



Jobs:
The Maiden's Primary Job is to Research. Once she's done with that, she will go to her Lair and sleep. However, she may sometimes come to the Temple to pray, and most of the time she'll bring a Wizard, Monk, Warlock, or one of her other favorite magical creatures with her, but also Knights.

When angry, the Maiden will leave the dungeon or pursuade other creatures, like the Warlock.



Behavior in OverWorld:
The Maiden can usually be seen with Monks and Wizards to help with support, but also a few Giants as well. She cannot stand her own, so she is expected to have some type of "body guard". She can also be found at Temples or Libraries, most commonly.



Obtainable By:
The Maiden can be attracted through a portal, torture, or found as a neutral creature.



In Battle:
The Maiden is a Flanker/Support type unit. You can be sure she'll deliver the strikes, but they won't be too terribly great. She will, however, be quite effective in numbers, or with some higher experiance. The Maiden becomes a Support unit when she learns Fireball, and she is rather late at level 4. At the highest level, she becomes very well defined as a support unit, and can deal a good amount of damage in melee if it other comes to that. But her Word of Power will help her survive greatly.



Hang Out Group:
The Maiden enjoys the company of most magical creatures. She also likes Knights especially. The Maiden tries to avoid Undead creatures, and other females, if possible.



Loves:
The Maiden loves to be at the Temple, researching, sleeping, and pretty much any relaxing job. She has this naive vision of a united peace over all creatures, humans, and beings. She loves to be with her master, and finds joy in her loyalty for her master.



Hates:
The Maiden does not like to fight, and hates stepping on dead bodies of her comrades. She doesn't find much joy in seeing her dead enemies either, her disliking of Undead is one reason but she also hates War in general. However she hates being disloyal to her master even more, as well as the destruction of her comrades.



Lair: A relaxing and cosy bed that looks like a giant flower, or a Rose more specifically. It still has the main actual body stump thing, thorn free. It also has a large torch with a red fire standing beside it (Like the Merchant from RE4 :P)



Appearance: She appears like the Priestess in DK1, but more elegant like a Princess (:)). She also has black hair and wears a long dress. Her coloring is mainly red, blue, and gold.

PS: I will try and get a good picture of her up after modding a Priestess image.



How Introduced: Hero



Attracted by:
9 Lair
9 Library
9 Temple



Creature Sacrifice Combination: Dark Mistess + Warlock



Hero Sacrifice Combination: Monk + Wizard



Torture Animation: The Maiden is laying on the Torture Chamber, her arms pulled forward and forced down. Then her hands are constantly exposed to fire, causing her to scream.

Re: Maiden Creature Suggestion (For the Heroes)

PostPosted: 11 Apr 2010, 11:03
by svenskmand
Excellent idea :), I think that she will be very suitable for the Humans :)

Re: Maiden Creature Suggestion (For the Heroes)

PostPosted: 11 Apr 2010, 14:59
by andrewbuck
Thats a really cool post, feel free to copy it over to the wiki if you like. I will probably do so later today if no one beats me to it. The only thing I would say is that we don't currently have any concept of dex, int, con, etc, but it doesn't hurt to post these as guidelines for the creation of her persona. If you can think of a good way to implement them (i.e. how they should affect the game) I would be happy to implement them.

-Buck

Re: Maiden Creature Suggestion (For the Heroes)

PostPosted: 11 Apr 2010, 16:23
by DarkFire4114
Oh don't worry about those too much, those were in the original DK1. Also, the format is the format style of the WftO suggestion creatures, but I did add in a few things myself. Not much though, just Luck and the two types of Sacrifices.

Defense is how well they dodge.
Armor is, well obvious as in DK1.
Speed is simply how fast they move around.
Dexterity is how well they hit.
Intelligence is like a research value, same thing for Construction and the Workshop.
I doubt you knew this about Luck, since it feels like such new information, but it is sorta a chance for a "double". It increases the chances for a double attack or defense. I'm not so sure about including Luck, it seemed kinda unique to DK1 but then again, maybe I'm noob in that field, lol. I don't play too many games.

Pretty much those things were in the original DK1, we can always change the names so they don't look so similar. Although, Intelligence and Construction won't need changing as they're referred to as Research and Manfacturing values. :P

And I'm very happy to see that this idea is liked. :D

I did re-write this from my original Maiden, I think it is much better. I have three more ideas from WftO that I felt had some real potential, an Orge, Witch, and a Lancer. I can work on them later, maybe next weekend. I would today, but it did take a long time to get the Maiden done, and I have some schoolwork to do today. :cry:

To be honest, I'm actually scared to post it in the wiki, fear of doing it wrong, really...

Re: Maiden Creature Suggestion (For the Heroes)

PostPosted: 11 Apr 2010, 16:39
by andrewbuck
DarkFire4114 {l Wrote}:To be honest, I'm actually scared to post it in the wiki, fear of doing it wrong, really...


No problem, I can post it on your behalf if you would like, although there is no problem in editing the wiki. All the changes are tracked so if you break something it takes 30 seconds to undo it. I will try to see about getting dex, luck, etc implemented in the game engine at some point.

-Buck

Re: Maiden Creature Suggestion (For the Heroes)

PostPosted: 11 Apr 2010, 22:00
by Evi
You know, I finally plan on showing some of my suggestions... Nah, I'm too lazieh, unless people want to know, I'll pm you my suggestion list. :p

But anyhow, congratulations on your Maiden Re-Dark Fire.

Re: Maiden Creature Suggestion (For the Heroes)

PostPosted: 12 Apr 2010, 20:13
by DarkFire4114
Is there anything that would need some improvements or anything? I want her to be perfect! :D

Now what creature type/class would I put her in? Weak Spell Casters or Strong? Or did someone beat me to it?

Re: Maiden Creature Suggestion (For the Heroes)

PostPosted: 12 Apr 2010, 20:38
by svenskmand
DarkFire4114 {l Wrote}:Is there anything that would need some improvements or anything? I want her to be perfect! :D

Now what creature type/class would I put her in? Weak Spell Casters or Strong? Or did someone beat me to it?

As you said she was a supporting spell-caster I think that weak is the right one, but it of course depends on which other creatures we put there. But you can always move her :)

If you could make a sketch of how she looks that would be awesome :)

Re: Maiden Creature Suggestion (For the Heroes)

PostPosted: 12 Apr 2010, 22:29
by DarkFire4114
svenskmand {l Wrote}:
DarkFire4114 {l Wrote}:Is there anything that would need some improvements or anything? I want her to be perfect! :D

Now what creature type/class would I put her in? Weak Spell Casters or Strong? Or did someone beat me to it?

As you said she was a supporting spell-caster I think that weak is the right one, but it of course depends on which other creatures we put there. But you can always move her :)

If you could make a sketch of how she looks that would be awesome :)


Hmm, she does have some good powers but cannot really stand her own. Well weak for now I suppose.

No it would not be awesome, my drawing skillz suck. Best thing I could do is put 3 hours into it to make it look like a 5 minute sketch so someone else can add more details.

Umm, who here can draw well?

Re: Maiden Creature Suggestion (For the Heroes)

PostPosted: 12 Apr 2010, 22:48
by svenskmand
DarkFire4114 {l Wrote}:
svenskmand {l Wrote}:
DarkFire4114 {l Wrote}:Is there anything that would need some improvements or anything? I want her to be perfect! :D

Now what creature type/class would I put her in? Weak Spell Casters or Strong? Or did someone beat me to it?

As you said she was a supporting spell-caster I think that weak is the right one, but it of course depends on which other creatures we put there. But you can always move her :)

If you could make a sketch of how she looks that would be awesome :)


Hmm, she does have some good powers but cannot really stand her own. Well weak for now I suppose.

No it would not be awesome, my drawing skillz suck. Best thing I could do is put 3 hours into it to make it look like a 5 minute sketch so someone else can add more details.

Umm, who here can draw well?

If you have a digitizer/wacom then draw it in GIMP :)

My drawing skills are also a bit rusty, but the only way to brush up is to practice :) And if you are in doubt about some specific techniques to draw stuff you can probably find it here, it looks like a very good site Edit: I can see you need to make an account to view other tutorials than the first :S, but it seems like it is free to get an account.

Re: Maiden Creature Suggestion (For the Heroes)

PostPosted: 13 Apr 2010, 02:36
by DarkFire4114
svenskmand {l Wrote}:
DarkFire4114 {l Wrote}:
svenskmand {l Wrote}:
DarkFire4114 {l Wrote}:Is there anything that would need some improvements or anything? I want her to be perfect! :D

Now what creature type/class would I put her in? Weak Spell Casters or Strong? Or did someone beat me to it?

As you said she was a supporting spell-caster I think that weak is the right one, but it of course depends on which other creatures we put there. But you can always move her :)

If you could make a sketch of how she looks that would be awesome :)


Hmm, she does have some good powers but cannot really stand her own. Well weak for now I suppose.

No it would not be awesome, my drawing skillz suck. Best thing I could do is put 3 hours into it to make it look like a 5 minute sketch so someone else can add more details.

Umm, who here can draw well?

If you have a digitizer/wacom then draw it in GIMP :)

My drawing skills are also a bit rusty, but the only way to brush up is to practice :) And if you are in doubt about some specific techniques to draw stuff you can probably find it here, it looks like a very good site Edit: I can see you need to make an account to view other tutorials than the first :S, but it seems like it is free to get an account.


Ah thanks. I'll take a look at those. Maybe it'll prove more useful than this art class I'm taking... I don't think I'm learning in there. >_>

Now here's a really noob question... how do I add the Maiden in? Uhh... I think it would be better if someone else added her in as I don't even know how... >_<

Re: Maiden Creature Suggestion (For the Heroes)

PostPosted: 13 Apr 2010, 08:50
by svenskmand
DarkFire4114 {l Wrote}:...
Ah thanks. I'll take a look at those. Maybe it'll prove more useful than this art class I'm taking... I don't think I'm learning in there. >_>

Now here's a really noob question... how do I add the Maiden in? Uhh... I think it would be better if someone else added her in as I don't even know how... >_<

Add her in?

Re: Maiden Creature Suggestion (For the Heroes)

PostPosted: 13 Apr 2010, 17:37
by DarkFire4114
svenskmand {l Wrote}:
DarkFire4114 {l Wrote}:...
Ah thanks. I'll take a look at those. Maybe it'll prove more useful than this art class I'm taking... I don't think I'm learning in there. >_>

Now here's a really noob question... how do I add the Maiden in? Uhh... I think it would be better if someone else added her in as I don't even know how... >_<

Add her in?

Into the Wiki like it was suggested... but I don't know how... lol I'm semi-noob into the internet world. Well not really but some stuff I am really noob in...

Re: Maiden Creature Suggestion (For the Heroes)

PostPosted: 13 Apr 2010, 18:54
by svenskmand
DarkFire4114 {l Wrote}:
svenskmand {l Wrote}:
DarkFire4114 {l Wrote}:...
Ah thanks. I'll take a look at those. Maybe it'll prove more useful than this art class I'm taking... I don't think I'm learning in there. >_>

Now here's a really noob question... how do I add the Maiden in? Uhh... I think it would be better if someone else added her in as I don't even know how... >_<

Add her in?

Into the Wiki like it was suggested... but I don't know how... lol I'm semi-noob into the internet world. Well not really but some stuff I am really noob in...

Create an account (click in top right corner of the wiki), then goto this page: http://opendungeons.sourceforge.net/ind ... pellcaster and click Edit, then add this
{l Code}: {l Select All Code}
, [[Maiden]]

to the end of the line where it says
{l Code}: {l Select All Code}
[[Cleric]]

so the line now becomes
{l Code}: {l Select All Code}
[[Cleric]], [[Maiden]]

Preview and tjekt that it is right. Then submit the change, then you click the Maiden link that you have just made, and the Wiki suggests you to create the page. You do this and make your character. Here it would be a good idea to look at some of the other characters to get the wiki formating right, look e.g. at this: http://opendungeons.sourceforge.net/index.php/Kobold