Age of Conan – Hyborian Adventures Interview
- December 11th, 2007
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Grimwell (of SOE fame) has recently posted on his blog about a “Hardcore Exercise” that he is undertaking on his own within EverQuest II. This exercise is all about permadeath and its rule set. To be more precise, a self imposed set of rules that he will adhere to during his experiment. In other words, the Role Playing aspect and oft forgotten about RPG ending of the MMORPG acronym.
His postings have led to me writing this one for my first installment on the site here. Lets take a step back first though. No matter what MMORPG game forum, fan site, industry press site, blog and so on that you read, there is an avid group of participants who call for more “hard core” rules. Most often this wish list includes the aforementioned permadeath. Permadeath meaning that once you die in game, you must re-roll another character and start over from scratch. Or, quit the game in frustration.