I''m trying to design an rpg like game. I''m not trying to make something easy or innovative. I''m gonna write about some ideas about the world the games develops around. I''m just looking for a really interesting world. It''s a world that has as much good as there evil; neither of them has managed to beat the other. Both are tought to be imposible to beat. The game''s world is supposed to have 7 main dimensions, and an extra dimension but the last one isn''t really in the scope of this post. The dimensions are supposed to move from evil to good, starting from 1 to 7. So 1 would be hell and 7 would be heaven. Hell could be tought as absolute imperfection, no one''s happiness; heaven is a place where absolutely everyone can lead a happy life. All the living beings are supposed to be able to die within the 2 - 6 dimensions. Early and horrible death is the one almost on one can escape from in the 2nd dimension and in the 6th, a pacefull death would be unfrecuent and tought as a blessing, because dieing beings in the 6th dimension should go to heaven, unless it''s a special case. Beings in the 4th dimension and lower have to earn they path to a higher dimension and die there to achieve heaven. A being that dies in the 3rd dimension or lower is supposed to go to hell, unless again, it''s an special case. Dimensions shouldn''t be like mirrors, like they are just opposite. Tought dimensions should be balanced. The good contained in the 5-7 dimensions together should be equal to the evil in the 1-3 dimensions together, but it doesn''t means the good in the 5th dimension equals the evil in the 3rd. So the world design is going to be based around these so called dimensions. The player is supposed to be eventually able to travel between them, and death does not means game over; it means your soul goes either to hell or heaven, tought because of the nature of the main character (which I plan to explain in a later post) won''t let his soul stay in neither of these places. Any toughts, ideas, comments, things you thing I got wrong, posible improvements for my model to design my world, or resemblances with previous games, movies, books, etc? Would you play an rpg game where this was the game world? why yes or why not?

having your universe stratified that way seems less conducive to a heaven/hell dichotomy than to a more gradual process. Maybe your performance before death in a given dimension will cause you to be taken one dimension up or down, with dimensions one and seven representing the most extreme cases.

Build in a karma system, which would be required in any case, and offer a bonus for players who get to one extreme or the other. Say they get a super-power or special item of the appropriate alignment, and then are re-inserted into level 4, or maybe in to a level of their choice, so a demon could spawn into level 6, but he probably wouldn''t last too long there.

orionx103 what''s the problem with trying it this way?

I am with the other guys, sounds like your idea needs some work on, A LOT of work.

So, basically, the average persons spirit would reside in the 4th dimension, the neutral plane. Each side (good/evil) is trying to conquer all 7 dimensions, which as you said has accomplished nothing for either side. Now depending on the dimension, the power of good/evil varies. So a good creature would be nearly powerless on plane #1, whereas an evil demon would have some power on plane #5, but would be unable to achieve its full potential. Now it doesn''t make sense to me that an evil spirit on plane #2 would be able to affect something on plane #5 (if they are layered, which is how I understand it)

With that in mind, we come to a simple fact. Each plane is only connected to the ones directly above or below it. Depending on a persons alignment, they become more removed from the 4th dimension. Ok, so the ''real world'' where people interact with one another is the merging of the 5 middle dimensions.

I can''t understand how you could travel to these different planes with this type of model. It seems like all but #1, and #7 are invisible to a normal person. They all merge together on the material plane, and which plane your soul is on affects your material life. However, it would be nearly impossible to determine what plane you were on (its like seeing your soul).

The only way the travelling makes sense to me is if you are talking about a physical manifestation of a spiritual world. So demons from hell dimension plane #1 travel to the spiritual plane #3 and since it is an evil plane, are able to influence the people who''s souls reside on that plane. Basically, the people dont exist on each of the planes, just their spiritual selves. I can picture a game where you are an angel or a demon and you travel to different planes to perform different tasks. (Like recruiting souls from the neutral plane, or encouraging people to perform certain deeds if they are already of your alignment). This doesnt seem to be what you are thinking, but its just an idea. I think it would be easier to comment on the world if you provided some more details on its importance to the gameplay itself.

I think this idea has a lot of potential. As for would I play an RPG with a world like this, well that depends on the RPG. I think the gameplay mechanics are a lot more important, but having a good consistent universe doesn''t hurt. Please post a few more details, as your idea seems rather interesting.

Nah, it''s ok, that''s just the reason of why I posted about it :D I didn''t wrote much more because I didn''t wanted to make the post too long...

Heaven doesn''t really tries to completely eliminate evil, but to send it completely to the first dimension. So far they haven''t been able to wipe it out completely from the 2-6 dimensions, evil it''s sneaky. However from hell they do want to eliminate everything good but they lack power.

The reason of you dieing in one dimension and going to either hell or heaven it''s because entry to dimensions from 4-7 it''s protected by heaven. Beings from dimension 4-6 are supposed to go to heaven, because they are supposedly good. Tought sometimes an evil can go through protection, but of course it''s easier to break through just one protection that to break them all, and persons that break and are discovered are sent back. Those are the exceptions, if you aren''t supposed to be living in a higher dimension but you broke through you are supposed to go to heaven. There are less strong barriers in dimensions 2-3 made by hell beings, to prevent suffering weaklings to leave.

It''s more common to be pushed(pushed because it''s supposed that you definitly don''t want to go one dimension lower) into a dimension lower than yours than being rewarded(in heaven''s case) or to make a deal(in hell''s case) that gives you the ability to be able to move one dimension higher.

Every dimension are supposed to have their own problems. They all started the same, but the lower ones were more influenced by evil, and the higher ones more influenced by heaven. Random events happen, most big things that happened only affecting one dimension, so they evolved to have notable diferences in some aspects, but having little changes in most that make each dimension unique, but at the same time changes from evil and good, that are the most notable ones, were gradual.

Oh, I forgot to say, you can lose the game as in game over but only through certain methods that are supposed to destroy your ''soul'', or certain types of death, but only in heaven or hell(tought to get killed in heaven should certainly be almost imposible).

You don''t have much to do in hell usually but to go through the world to go back to your dimension and resume whatever objective you were acomplishing. You may gain something out of it but mostly the price of death is to have to go through all this, tought if you go to heaven it''s not too time consuming or hard. I''m thinking about methods to avoid saving and then reseting when you die to avoid going through hell.

Also, no more comments about this?