Alright, to start off with this is nothing to do with the master title on boundless forums (dont worry @Havok40k)
So the idea came when i was playing around with the idea of skills the last few days, I Necroed the skill scrolls idea but what i was really interested in was how you could learn it, which further let to an idea i call ‘‘The masters’’
To start with the idea of learning visions. I still see skills as being part of the game since i find it horribly dull to play game without activateable skills, not the discussion though, the discussion was assuming we could have skills how could they be learned in a cool way? and i came up with Learning Visions there are basically two ways i thought this tied into
1: every certain weapon mastery level you unlock a skill
2: you could find skill cubes/scrolls which allowed you to make a skill
Refer to Skill Scrolls - #15 by werff
The real meat comes into what would happen then, using the skillcube i thought it would be awesome if when you touched it you got a small video, a ‘‘vision’’ on how to do it, you would see the ability in first person, so forexample if you learned ‘‘GET OVER HERE’’ scorpion style chain you would get a vision where you saw it from first person view, then again from third person view, and after that you would have learned it. i thought about how it could be done without too much work, i dont think it would be possible for your actual character to be the one from the vision which is when i came up with the idea of ‘‘masters’’
The point would be having ‘‘Masters’’ which are basically the founders of various things, for forexample each weaponstyle had a master which was the person creating the fighting style, the same goes for crafting if it could also be used there. Nobody would know the name’s of the masters, since they were all part of the races which existed before whatever eliminated the Ancient races. In the lore they would be mentioned with numbers, so the 4th master might be an axe master, the 10th might be a bow master and people would slowly learn that themselves. each master would have a set of wearables which made them known, think of FF14 on how the classes are represented with class armor
Personally i like this system since to me it gives a sense of ‘‘belonging’’ so to say, meaning that those who use swords are all trying to strive for the Sword masters knowledge, basically giving the masters a sense of deity status without having to make actual gods.
