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Art craft skill
Posted: 05 Aug 2003 08:43 PM |
I talked with a few of you in irc about this the other day and it was suggested I post here discussing the ideas we came up with.
I would very much like to see an art crafting skill. This would have no other purpose, save roleplaying, and ideally, as a way to earn money. Other possiblities would include coloring armor and weapons and clothing.
I see the skill progressing from simple sketches. You need charcoal, and hemp paper (make hemp paper by collecting hemp and working it in a chemical bath or something). Then moving onto watercolors, then onto oil paintings. Items you would need are a pallette, an easel, brushes, and paints. You would have to make or buy the canvas (collecting animal hides) and paints (perhaps gathering flowers to make the dyes for paints). The higher your skill progressed, the more you could sell your paintings for, and the better armors and clothing you could color. When you reached a certain skill, mayhaps one of your pieces would be displayed in the Midor Museum or the palace in Port Royal.
Any other ideas?
Pokeundi Fei'vrien
elven artiste extraordinaire
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Re: Art craft skill
Posted: 05 Aug 2003 09:22 PM |
| Sculpture, too. Either by using a type of stone (granite, marble, etc.), or perhaps wood. You'd need tools befitting your medium, such as chisels for hard substances, knives for soft. |
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Re: Art craft skill
Posted: 05 Aug 2003 11:44 PM |
Interesting idea to create pieces of artwork in game.
But don't make it a skill, like the other crafting skills !
Art is more dependent on creativity than brute skill :)
-- signed Picasso
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Re: Art craft skill
Posted: 06 Aug 2003 03:19 AM |
I don't dare to argue with the great Picasso when it's about art! ;-)
But i think he's right, don't make it a skill. Probably some of the materials needed will be part of a skill allready (gathering flowers to make dyes = tailoring, gathering wood is woodcutting, etc).
The only 'problem' with this is that u can't really make an unique piece of art in game. This should be a bit more realistic if one could at a description in-game to the piece of art. Describing what exactly the pc is looking at. I guess there are allready some topics about this (adding description IG), but i haven't gave them a good read yet....
Anyway I like the idea!
Sug. |
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