love this thread already... ´bout time someone sat down and collected all the garbage we coughed up in the last months
I´ll try a few:


I am the rock, I fear none

Why is it that i don´t have to be afraid of any monster anymore? First, I can load at every time, second, most monsters are dumb and not really a problem (i can remember wading through a whole goblin army like moses). And if they´re tough they are because they have more hp and dish out more damage.
Let there be smart monsters. Let the difference in size, hp and strenght be no more than 50% between lowly goblin, hero and troll. If there´s no armor, everyone dies from a sword in the gut. Also, let the players run away some time. If there are 20 goblins rushing towards you it does not matter how tough your armor is or how long you sword is... they are just going to swarm you and then a butterknife or a rock will be enough to finish off mr knight. (and it´s easy to implement too... once you´re surrounded you´re done).


Healing: one fits all, 5$ a pop

maybe a lot of you are going to disagree, but i for one would like more realism on this one. Getting fixed up after a fight is less trouble than going to the gas station. And usually your knight fights just as well with 5% health than 100%! I want specific damage, I want effects (what sir? an orc broke your arm? no, i´m afraid a band aid is not going to cover that... and you´re not going to do much fighting with that arm either). I´m not saying that players should die from infected ghoul bites, I don´t want them hospitalized for a month either... just let them hobble around for a while.. or force them to use their off-arm for once.


Combat Magic: the ultimate solution

there´s been a lot of discussion about this already... I´ll sum it up by saying: put the magic back in magick. In most games the use of magic happens more thoughtlessly than sex in a hippie commune.... I want magic to be powerful and mysterious.. and dangerous. Not just as a better club.


I´m so nice, there are sunrays shining out of my ass

Diodor, this is yours. In almost every rpg i´ve played the "right" path was clearly set before me. All shiny and bright. Sometimes there are pretended possibilites of being evil, but usually youre punished severely for being nasty. IMO all paths that lead to the solution should be valued equally in terms of good and evil... sometimes it might pay to be nice to people, sometimes it pays to tighten the thumbscrews a bit... If the goddamn farmer who has the seventh stone of power wants to give it to me in return for finding his cat, fetching wood for his oven and finally going to town to rescue his only daughter from the clutches of the local pimp I WANT CHOICES! I want to be able to (not saying that i necessarily would) take him by the neck and punch him until he´s glad to give me the damn thing.


ok, that´s all for now... flame away

There is a small design concern about the Walking Wounded (or fighting wounded) implementation.

It makes sense that player performance decreases with injury, but this quickly becomes a slippery slope. Small injuries lead to performance loss which leads to more injuries which leads to more performance loss....

Any difference in combat strength get magnified tremendously.

The constant performance is used to make the mechanics easier to balance.

JSwing

Avoiding fights when you''re damaged isn''t a solution if you''re damaged (and you will be) during a fight. The slippery slope holds true; you go into a fight with full health, get injured, get performance degradation, get injured, etc. Besides, what if you get jumped while you limp home? "Hey, wait, I don''t want to fight, I''m hurt!". Having to do battle with a slow and injured player is frustrating and annoying, that''s why most games, from shooters to RPG''s, avoid doing do.