After reading your doc briefly I have a minor complaint on the sleep/eat part. Now as for games that actually implements this, Baldur's Gate had sleeping did it not (Memory fails..)? In Ultima 7 (and 6 I think, possibly others) you had to eat and let me tell you it was a pain! First your whole party was whining about that they were hungry and then the hitpoints starts dropping slowly...I had my whole backpack full with dried meat. Many have said it before and I say it again, RPGs shouldn't strive to simulate reality to 100%. If we want that much reality the question comes to mind how one lone hero can beat armies of thousand demonic monsters where all others have failed. How often do we not find dead guards hanging along the roads where evil persists? While I am able to defeat the horrible monsters at level one whole bands of guards trained for months and months perish very rapidly.
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Another thing that annoyed me about a certain CPG was that when you cut off a zombie's leg, they fell over dead. I would rather see the zombie flailing on the floor in pain before they died of lack of blood. Maybe they could crawl after your character and try to make a last feeble stand against you.
Since when does undead creatures need blood to live?
On second thought, how about we add that monsters must eat and sleep to. They could feed on players! To bad most of them would strave since well, players usually don't die that often.
What RPGs need more: "common everyday tasks". The reason Ultima 6-7 is, I think, one of the best CRPGs ever is 1) you can actually bake bread and sell it 2) you can fish 3) you can dig for gold..and 4, well I'll leave that blank for now.
Anyways, keep working on the document. But try seeing it from the players perspective too. I wouldn't want to have to go pee with my character whenever he had to..I mean what if I was fighting some giant demon and have to take a piss with my character..man that would suck.
Drinking alot of healing potions would mean I have to take a piss once in a while, right?
Edited by - Staffan on August 10, 2000 5:57:48 PM
) then please tell me what and why (and I will analyse whether or not you are lying... Just kidding 
