Elf playable race may not be Obsidian elves

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  1. Arkah EMPstrike

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    So elves as a playable race are deffinatley planned. But the idea chris gave is that they are going to be a reskin and maybe slight body shape change to avoid having to make 1000 more animations.
     
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    If you ask me, I would even like kobolds to be playable too since its a major race in Novia too
     
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    Nice! I seem to remember a while ago that they were going to be half-elves of sorts, and not fugly like the Obsidian Elves.
     
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    Yeeeeesssss. If they get some devs later that can focus on that that would be incredible and I would change to kobold in a heartbeat.

    The fact that they are the only race aside from humans that aren't a result of experiments, and their hardcore honor-bound culture made me like them from the get-go
     
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    yes that sounds like what they are gonna go for. basically a elf reskin of humans, so very much like half-elves.
     
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    Playable lemurs are next.
     
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    It's a fuzzy!
     
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    its zaboomafoo! My daughters brother used to watch it when he was little!
     
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    Thanks for the H. Beam Piper reference. A fond memory.
     
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    I was actually thinking of Ultima III. :) But Richard did steal a lot from many sources back in the day.
     
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    How are Elves able to have the abilities of an Avatar?
     
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    So glad it won't be the fuglies.
     
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    As far as I remember the general background story for us avatars is that our mind was “transferred” from earth to novia. We are controlling so to say lifeless puppets that could not do anything without us avatars. We also can change at will the body we are controlling (by switching to another character) by transferring our mind into a new body. This is also the reason why we are able to resurrect as there is created a similar puppet or the broken one is repaired while our mind is drifting in a bodiless form. The original novian NPCs do not have this possibilities and that’s one reason why at least some NPCs do not trust the avatars.

    This way it doesn’t matter how the by avatars controlled body looks like and all kinds of bodies would be possible elves or kobolds included...but I guess all in all they have to stay humanoid with two arms and two legs as it would be reasonable that we do not know how to handle four arms or move as a slime. ;)
     
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    Handling a Kobolds tail shouldnt be too hard though! :p
     
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    So it's a merely cosmetic thing? Not even different lore or roleplay? Just different looks? How utterly boring and a waste of development resources better used to make the game more appealing to others but us hardcore fans.

    Though I can of course not wait to see everyone run around as elves with color cycling clothes and all sorts of wings on their back... :eek:
     
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    Gives the fuzzy warm UO feeling, eh?

    I.....actually find myself agreeing. If it's just a reskin it is a waste of time imo.
     
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    Maybe they get reborn in a more Buddhistic way *shrugs*
     
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