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  • Booby traps are not legal and should stay that way because they are indiscriminate and could hurt people you do not intend to, including yourself.

    Say you have a medical emergency and tragically die at home, and someone calls for a wellness check on you after weeks or months. If you have your house trapped for “protection,” the first police officer that gets through the door ends up blasted by a rigged up pipe shotgun for no good reason.


  • CarmakazitoDark Days Ahead Discussion@cdda.socialNPC chat
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    1 year ago

    I’d kind of like to know how the mutants in the center got to become mutated, especially since the lore behind mutation has become more defined over the years of development, if not changed completely. Did they escape a research facility? Did extradimensional screwery or radiation change them in the early days (is that even still a thing?) Right now the arsonist is just a quirky catgirl that is…there, and the beggar with fur is understandably grumpy about it with not a lot of further development, at least last I saw.

    They probably wouldn’t be forthcoming with that information with strangers, so perhaps gate it behind their quests. Something beyond just dialogue, but maybe they would want to seek out how to change back to human, or how to become further mutated. Maybe you could sway them one way or another with social checks.





  • Besides the easy answers of actually good NPCs and rebuilding the game to be multi-thread?

    I’d like to see a system that despawns loot from an area over time if the hostile mob count nearby is low, to simulate it being scavenged out. Easy targets like rural houses and roadside gas stations would get cleared out a couple months into the Cataclysm. An infested town might still have good stuff 6 months in, but if you clear the monsters out, fill up a duffle bag, and move on, maybe if you come back a month or so later you’ll find not much left.

    For an apocalypse, I feel like too much of the world is intact, at least until you come along.