What About Race Selections?

OK, so the Class introductions are pretty cool. In fact, the class mechanics are the coolest art of Wynncraft IMHO. But as a D&D nerd, I began wondering what else could be done to enhance the experience of the largest MMORPG server in Minecraft. After seeing a post about dialogue ruining an RP, I had a thought.

Races.

Now, I haven't personally gotten too far into the Wynncraft storyline, but from what I've seen, there are plenty of races besides humans that live there- the Avos, the elves and dwarves, and the Doguns, to name a few. What if (and while I don't expect this to be implemented anytime soon, it would be awesome nonetheless) Wynncraft players were given a chance to, at class selection, create a character of their own? Their own name, race, gender, class, just like a game of D&D with different mechanics (Avos could fly/glide, Doguns could be fire resistant, elves could get mana boosts, etc.) for each race.

At character creation, my idea is that you could choose from either a small pool of skins for each race, or use your own skin for further customization. That, along with a name and a gender selection, could make the game more immersive, despite the fact that it'd probably be a bitch and a half to pull off. Would any of y'all be interested in something similar?

 

I've been thinking about this a lot, this would be quite cool! Maybe flying is too overpowerd, but something like that would be very cool!

 

This would certainly be interesting, but I don't see how it could fit in the lore very well without taking a TON of the ct's time. Humans are the only species who can canonically fit King's Recruit and most of the stuff we do in Wynn, even if others exist and go to Wynn sometimes. If this were to be implemented, it'd likely take full separate sets of quests for each species, or at the very least checking of literally all dialogue for mentions of "human" as the player for nearly all quests (some would have to be reworked depending on species no matter what), both of which would take incredibly long amounts of time.

Gender choice would be kinda cool, although considering the CT seems to have gone through and deliberately removed all gender-specific player references they could find recently rather than do that, I doubt that'll be happening anytime soon. (Also, you can pick your character name, you just have to pay $170 for champion! Very fair deal!)

 

It could had been cool but, no . We simply cant because the Lore say that you are a recruit comming from "Fruma" a tyranic Human empire wich doesn't has any other races and for the perks it could be interesting to add something like a passive for the already existing classes.

 

Too confusing and unnecessary, if you want to pretend to be a dwarf, elf, man, goblin, halfling or anything then go ahead but it would be very difficult and a bit silly to implement. Especially if Dwarves were shorter than humans, lead to lots of glitches. I don't know if I'd even implement it if I could with a click of a button, I wouldn't like it but there's no reason why you can't in your head! Have fun regardless ;)

 

Gameplay-wise, yes, it seems to be a very interesting choice for people to choose what race they would be, and it would be interesting for the player to be a Dogun, Elf, Villager, etc.

Lore-wise, no. King's Recruit strongly says that you are a human, and not a Gnome, Orc, Elf, Dogun, etc. There would also be some inconsistencies there as well, such as:

- How would any species other than a Human come from Fruma? It is strongly suggested that Fruma is only ruled by Humans, not Wynn which is kind of partially ruled by both Villagers and Humans. There are also no known Avos, Doguns, Elves, etc. that are from Fruma.
- For Doguns, they cannot live temperatures colder than the regular temp in the Molten Heights. Even the Almuj Desert, the second-hottest area in the map that is not Corrupted, would feel like a very cold day to a Dogun.
- Elves are usually very seclusive and all live together in one place - Aldorei Valley.

However, as inconsistent as it would be, if the tutorial was adjusted slightly to fit the other races, then it might work.

Tl;dr: Interesting gameplay-wise, lorebreaking.

 

Ideas on how to implement lore:
You are sent from whatever place your race came from to help Wynn fight some baddies/research on Wynn. In the place you are they are just giving you some combat tests before sending you off.
Also quests that imply you work for Wynn and Recover the Past would be changed dialogue wise.

 

Which would probably not work if we ever decide to go to Fruma, especially to find out about our history.

Alsp many NPCs make jokes about us being humans (e.g. small-nose and other), which would have to be changed which is bad.

This just would not work and wouldn't be worth it.

 

Maybe not. But it'd be a cool idea nonetheless-