Topic: From Kulthea to Elanthia

[windmarkbob]

Terry, out of curiosity...

What in the world happened that caused Kulthea to die along with the RM rules in the engine of GemStone III about 15 years ago, and do you know if there are any plans to take Shadow World back into the world of online gaming, perhaps using the Hero Engine license from Simutronics (or whoever owns it now)?

Thanks, and keep on keepin' on.

Bob

[Terry K. Amthor]

Terry, out of curiosity...

What in the world happened that caused Kulthea to die along with the RM rules in the engine of GemStone III about 15 years ago, and do you know if there are any plans to take Shadow World back into the world of online gaming, perhaps using the Hero Engine license from Simutronics (or whoever owns it now)?

Thanks, and keep on keepin' on.

Bob

To be honest, I was never that involved with the Gemstone (Kesmai?) guys, and I never even played the online game (I've never been that big of a player of games like WoW, but that's another story). I think Coleman and Pete dealt with them mainly. As far as I remember, there was an amicable split, but I can't for the life of me remember the reasons why.

I'd certainly be supportive of an online SW game (I hear there's one for Numenera that did kind of okay on a recent kickstarter ), but it's not really my strength.

[Guillaume]

Well, the fact is that RM would do well as an online game system. ( Yes I know of the might have been with DAOC ) 
It wouldn't even need to be heavily modified for online gaming, even today.

And with Shadow World added to it it has a hit potential... As long as the right development company is found. ( look at what happens/ed to Neverwinter Online ( Basically D&D 4th Edition online ), Dungeons and Dragons Online ( 3.5 ish ... erm not anymore ), and several other games )

[Terry K. Amthor]

Well, if you know anyone who might be interested in using SW as an environment for an online game system, hook us up! 

[Cory Magel]

RM would be an incredible system to use for a MMORPG.  I mean, you get RM without having to look up all the results - the game'd do it for you.  What's not to love about that?

The character diversity would be amazing, although it would almost surely be toned back a bit on all the skills.  Shadowbane was an amazing character building system, if they hadn't of screwed up the launch by allowing the beta guilds to utterly and completely dominate the game it might have gone further than it did.

But... I quit playing online games about 8-9 years ago.