Perkara & adding races or languages to SK other than orcs.

jhorleb · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 8:22 pm

That's true. I just attended Bloomberg's "State of the City" address in NYC. Maybe we should have a "State of SK" address each January by Dulrik.

Snowmaniac · **Joined:** Wed Sep 08, 2010 1:56 pm **Posts:** 118

I love the idea of a new class and/or a new race. Merfolk sounds cool, I think it would be a really fun class to RP as.

It strikes me as a tough race to balance, because its a race that would be physically strong (from swimming constantly) and agile (most things fish are agile, even great white sharks), but also with some innate magical abilities (being able to shift the tail into legs, and vice versa). Then there's the whole mermaid, siren, (little mermaid) singing thing, so perhaps they have high charisma (maybe they can be the max charisma race?). Anyway, it seems to me that maybe mermaids would lose Str/Dex when they shift to their bipedal land form, and regain Str/Dex in the water, maybe 3 pts of each, to balance it. Or just Dex.
And would they start out in Selhys, Iul'anka (or Teron I guess?), or just anywhere they please?

TL; DR : New races/classes sound fun, hurray merfolk.

ObjectivistActivist · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 5:17 am

Dulrik wrote:

All game changes that would make a big difference in gameplay are being held so that we can have a more splashy release of new features that affect more than just one class at a time.

Like an improvement to the tedium of enchanting?

werttrew · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 7:22 am

ladyjennbo wrote:

Yes, I am curious enough to start its own thread Dulrik. What's with the anger about derailing threads lately? It's bound to happen every now and then.

So who coded/wrote Perkara? What is it based off of?

Merfolk? What would be the probability of that actually happening?

How about a new class?

Dulrik wrote:

I also don't know anything about Perkara. If you want an explanation about it, someone should probably go pry Werttrew away from his Twitter account for an hour and see if he'll answer here.

Who dares awake me from my Twitter slumber??

Perkara was a concept I invented when creating Craeftilin. It is a written-only language. The inspiration was that (from my understanding) there are several distinct Chinese languages that are incomprehensible to one another BUT they have same written language--the pictograph writing allows speakers of different languages to write in the same system.

So, Perkara is intelligible to all races and all tongues. It is also instantly understandable to any adult because it is (magically?) intuitive. However, no one can "speak" Perkara. The gnomes of Craeftilin speak Deep but write in Deep or Perkara.

Basically this gave me an in-character reason why characters could read the stories I had in extended descriptions in the game or read books set in the "universal" language build code.

evena · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 9:56 am

Mermaid? Really? They'd be pretty limited in range. I'd rather see satyrs or some sort of lizardy thing.

ladyjennbo · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 2:10 pm

Thanks, wert!! That's really interesting!

meztiso · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 2:47 pm

I was scared when I read

werttrew wrote:

Who dares awake me from my Twitter slumber??

Also, even though he used ?? in my mind it sounded as if written in all caps and using !!! in a deep evil voice.

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