Ideas:chad3f:SkillsSystem

Skills System

Instead of limiting skills to general attributes such as atk and def, create itemized skills that map to realistic real-world skills (where possible, as a few synthetic ones may be needed). Some of these have already been mentioned in some form, but this will cover my ideas as a whole.

Some groups of skills could be:

• Attack/Defense placement
  • Range
    • Close
      (fists, hand dagger, knife, short sword)
    • Medium
      (long sword, thrown dagger)
    • Extended
      (arrow, ice/fireball)
  • Elevation
    • High
      (head)
    • Medium
      (torso, arms)
    • Low
      (legs, feet)

• Enemy experience
  • General type
    (elf, drawf, orc)
  • Specific type
    (archer_elf, leader_drawf, hunter_orc)

• General skills
  • Agility
  • Strength
  • Speed
  • Endurance

Except for Enemy experience, all of these skills would also be assigned to creatures. And with persistent non-player storage support, even specific player experience could be a factor for creatures. So the more you fight a specific create (or type in an area), the better it is against you. as if it learns to anticipates your combat.