Echopeus Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 This is a legendary quest to conquer rats at a tavern, but how many rats can there be... A great part to this quest could be to add as many rats as there are backers and name each one a backer 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 This is a legendary quest to conquer rats at a tavern, but how many rats can there be... A great part to this quest could be to add as many rats as there are backers and name each one a backer Close to 70000 rats? And you want to name each and every one? Well I guess it beats combat xp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AwesomeOcelot Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 (edited) They could just be a giant moving mess. The floor, it moves. To complete the quest you just burn the place down, or some other single solutions. RELEASE THE CATS! Edited October 16, 2012 by AwesomeOcelot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 I always liked the fight in IWD where you can't get an ale because of giant spiders in the basement (as opposed to rats). Low level party walking into an early fight only to be hit by web and poison? Ouch! But still fun. 1 I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echopeus Posted October 16, 2012 Author Share Posted October 16, 2012 well they wouldnt all have to appear at the same time, could be a spawn of backer rats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabain Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 It could just be one giant mutant rat that when you hover over it says "this appears to be a conglomeration of 68455 individual rats". 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AwesomeOcelot Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 Rat king of unusual size! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorganJha Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 Rats? in a tavern? By Moradin's hammer!! In a warehouse! And a dwarf gives you the quest... in Candlekeep! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simsum Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 I always liked the fight in IWD where you can't get an ale because of giant spiders in the basement (as opposed to rats). Low level party walking into an early fight only to be hit by web and poison? Ouch! But still fun. ... Are you sure they weren't non-poisonous beetles? It's been a while, but I'm almost willing to bet that's what they were. Bards Tale: The Mostly Terrible Remake ARPG had a cool take on the "go killy mah ratsies" quest: a puny-sized, fire-breathing rat that you had to run away from like a good little hero-wannabe. I'd love to see the traditional rat killing get a similar treatment in PE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aVENGER Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 I'd love Project Eternity spoofed the rat cellar quest, similarly to how it was done in Age of Decadence. For reference, AoD has a quest where the player discovers a cellar full of rats. If the PC says that he wants to fight the rats for experience all the people in the area just give him weird looks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 I always liked the fight in IWD where you can't get an ale because of giant spiders in the basement (as opposed to rats). Low level party walking into an early fight only to be hit by web and poison? Ouch! But still fun. ... Are you sure they weren't non-poisonous beetles? It's been a while, but I'm almost willing to bet that's what they were. Bards Tale: The Mostly Terrible Remake ARPG had a cool take on the "go killy mah ratsies" quest: a puny-sized, fire-breathing rat that you had to run away from like a good little hero-wannabe. I'd love to see the traditional rat killing get a similar treatment in PE. yes you are right. My memory lied to me. There were spiders somewhere early in IWD. I think. Maybe I should go play it again... I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOG Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 How about the player discovering a rat nest on his own incentive (while looti... um inspecting the inn's cellar), kills them, and returns to the innkeeper, but instead of the expected reward gets scolded because the rats were the secret ingredients of his famous stew? 1 "You are going to have to learn to think before you act, but never to regret your decisions, right or wrong. Otherwise, you will slowly begin to not make decisions at all." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ignatius Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 A tavern keeper tells you to go kill some rats, you begrudgingly accept his stupid quest, but while fighting the rats, you come across a trap door, the trap door leads to a secret thieves hide-out, while clearing out the thieves hide-out, you come to learn that it is actually a front for a daemonic cult which turns people into rats or something. Anyway, you fight a dragon. The end. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sensuki Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 I don't think Rats will be the first quest, it could be if there is a prologue before you experience the supernatural event. But I have a feeling that might be the whole prologue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinitron Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 (edited) Edited October 16, 2012 by Infinitron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjshae Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 Evil-looking six-legged rats with forked tails and glowing red eyes... "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StreetBushido Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 While it would be funny to see some kind of subversion of the usual "newbie adventurer having to work their way up from fighting rats in a basement to sickly goblins with rusty forks" I would actually prefer a more serious subversion of that trope. Pit us against something that makes us feel like the protagonist of the story, and not the stablehand or errand boy! Maybe the basement is full of wererats that are currently in rat form? Nasty surprise that! Make sense, not war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjshae Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 While it would be funny to see some kind of subversion of the usual "newbie adventurer having to work their way up from fighting rats in a basement to sickly goblins with rusty forks" I would actually prefer a more serious subversion of that trope. Pit us against something that makes us feel like the protagonist of the story, and not the stablehand or errand boy! Maybe the basement is full of wererats that are currently in rat form? Nasty surprise that! Wererats might be a bit of a handful for a first level character. "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StreetBushido Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 That's just the thing. We're so used with first level characters being quite weak. As they should be, sure, but it's about the scale of the overarching conflict and the feel of the setting in general. Basically, we've already seen quite a few games where a low level character is killing puny creatures. It's more seldom that we see low level characters take on more impressive/interesting foes. Make sense, not war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSOCC Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 relentless rats, get +1+1 for each other creature named relentless rats ingame. (and then have it so that after every 30 seconds, another one of them appears for each one still alive, doesn't seem like much as a challenge at first...) Remember: Argue the point, not the person. Remain polite and constructive. Friendly forums have friendly debate. There's no shame in being wrong. If you don't have something to add, don't post for the sake of it. And don't be afraid to post thoughts you are uncertain about, that's what discussion is for.---Pet threads, everyone has them. I love imagining Gods, Monsters, Factions and Weapons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veynn Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 I saw in the KS comments, an Obsidian guy jokingly said that killing barrels will be the first quest, not rats. lol! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjshae Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 That's just the thing. We're so used with first level characters being quite weak. As they should be, sure, but it's about the scale of the overarching conflict and the feel of the setting in general. Basically, we've already seen quite a few games where a low level character is killing puny creatures. It's more seldom that we see low level characters take on more impressive/interesting foes. It's possible that the split Stamina/Health approach may allow the designers to make first level characters more plausibly robust against puny creatures. I guess we'll see. "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huinehtar Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 Hum, why not a quest involving a ghost giving up a waterchip after killing rats in a cavern? ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Magniloquent Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 Be careful what you wish for. Planescape: Torment already defied this convention with Cranium Rats. Positively lethal. Who knows what they might concoct to outdo that horror. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenetic Pony Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 Well there definitely should be a rat catcher quest. It's just rats, ordinary rats. And you only get paid like one gold to do it. And then after you can complete it you can say to the quest giver "I, uhm, was expecting something a bit more... heroic." and he just shakes his head in pity at the poor deluded soul that thought catching rats would be heroic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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