The Librarian in me speaks of Books
dreamrider
Member Posts: 417
Hey, this kid was raised in the greatest library in the world. Its part of his (weird, constricted) heritage.
There really should be some sort of award/reward/Easter Egg for collecting the right combinations of books:
the multivolume History of the North, all the many volumes of the History of Shadowdale, the various volumes of the very, very ancient tales (Last March of the Giants, etc.)
Perhaps a bump to protagonist Lore value, or for some rare (and secret) combination of volumes, a Tome.
Maybe the some rewards are just that some complete collections of sets are worth vastly more than the odd volumes are worth singly or incomplete.
Mechanism might be to collect the target collection on the same bookshelf, in whatever place you are using as base. Alternatively, you might have to bring a complete set to Firebead in Beregost. He is, of course, glad to see that you are still finding time to read (other peoples books, but whatever.)
I think there is scope here to do a lot with a feature that has been close to some of the plot themes, but fairly meaningless up to this point.
(If you really want to plant an Easter Egg in it, make certain rewards (Lore bump?) only available, or different, IF you have OPENED each volume of a certain set, as in presumably READ it. Maybe the reward for a set collection is only extra money, but there is just a 5% chance of a 5-10 point Lore bump. Be creative - there a lot of stuff you could do with this.)
There really should be some sort of award/reward/Easter Egg for collecting the right combinations of books:
the multivolume History of the North, all the many volumes of the History of Shadowdale, the various volumes of the very, very ancient tales (Last March of the Giants, etc.)
Perhaps a bump to protagonist Lore value, or for some rare (and secret) combination of volumes, a Tome.
Maybe the some rewards are just that some complete collections of sets are worth vastly more than the odd volumes are worth singly or incomplete.
Mechanism might be to collect the target collection on the same bookshelf, in whatever place you are using as base. Alternatively, you might have to bring a complete set to Firebead in Beregost. He is, of course, glad to see that you are still finding time to read (other peoples books, but whatever.)
I think there is scope here to do a lot with a feature that has been close to some of the plot themes, but fairly meaningless up to this point.
(If you really want to plant an Easter Egg in it, make certain rewards (Lore bump?) only available, or different, IF you have OPENED each volume of a certain set, as in presumably READ it. Maybe the reward for a set collection is only extra money, but there is just a 5% chance of a 5-10 point Lore bump. Be creative - there a lot of stuff you could do with this.)
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