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What is Athelor ORPG?
The world of Athelor is a massive continent filled with danger, exploration, magic, legend, and adventure. It is inhabited by elves, humans, trolls, orcs, small critters, dragons, and almost every mythical creature you can imagine.
The concept of Athelor ORPG was actually started over 4 years ago. Over the years I had been looking for a way to put the world I made into a game played by multiple people - Well, until I get enough programming skills to make my own MMORPG (lol ), I have been creating it in World Editor.
Overview
Athelor is an open role playing game designed for up to eight players. There are many different classes and races to choose from, each with their own unique abilities to use in and out of combat. In Athelor, you embark on daring quests taking you all over the lands, usually with great rewards. There are many different things to do, allowing hours and hours of non-stop gameplay that will keep you entertained.
Features In Depth
Over 20 Fully Unique Classes
Tired of an RPG being out for about a week before there is a "FOTM" class that is the best at everything? Say goodbye to that! Athelor ORPG has over 20 fully unique classes, each giving a different contribution to groups and parties of players. In addition, some classes are best used with other players. For example, the Cleric is a healing support class. A cleric fighting an elite boss alone would get pounded. However, a cleric healing a tank who is fighting an elite boss would do much better. The classes have been designed for every kind of support: DPS, Healing, Debuffs, Buffs, Tanking, and more.
Detailed Quest System
The quest system in Athelor ORPG will most likely gain alot of popularity. In Athelor, you don't just mindlessly go around killing and farming enemies for experience. Sure, you could, but why would you want to when you can do over 40 quests yielding often great rewards? All of the quests are multi-instanceable, meaning that if you get a quest, ONLY you will get the quest!
Helpful Commands
In order to make the game's interface more easier to use, there are a number of commands that the player can type to see things. For instance, if a player is wondering where everyone is, they can simply type "-who." In an instant, the name, level, class, and location of all players is displayed to the typing player.
Detailed Terraining
Athelor is ment to be a world of magnificence and beauty, so you can expect to see some detailed terraining go into play. Buildings will be proportioned to the creatures and people, and forests will actually seem foresty (Is that even a word? )
Abilities, Abilities, Abilities!
One of the most important features of Athelor ORPG are the unique abilities for each class. Each class will have 12 abilities, each advancable (See "Feats") based on where YOU want to go with your character. These abilities will be fine tailored and 100% unique, meaning no Generic made spells like "Blizzard" or "Heal".
Feats
Personally, this is my favorite part of Athelor ORPG. Feats are available to every class in Athelor. They can improve skills, or improve attributes and other things. Each class will get the regular feats plus two class specific feats that can be advanced. Feats can be improved with Feat Points, which your character gains every level. Each consecutive level of a feat will cost more Feat Points, so be careful where you distribute them!
Generic Feats For All Classes:
Heightened Senses - Improves the Dexterity of your character by 3 per rank.
Heightened Mind - Improves the Intellect of your character by 3 per rank.
Heightened Physik - Improves the Strength of your character by 3 per rank.
Example Class Specific Feat for Crusader:
Leadership - Improves the Crusader's ability to inspire and lead others in battle. (Improves all "Leadership" related Crusader skills by one level)
As you can see, there is really no limit to how much you can customize your character in the game. Hopefully, this will lead to alot of diversity in the game.
Grammar and Accuracy
One thing you can count on is that not only will the game mechanics of Athelor ORPG be superb, but also the storyline, ability and item descriptions, Quest descriptions, and other text will be error free and look professional. There will also be alot of colored text that is easy on the eyes, making the game colorful and not dull and white.
Monsters and Creatures
Thanks to whoever made the simple respawn trigger that stores all creeps into an array at the beginning of the game, creatures will respawn in their STARTING location, and will still drop items once they respawn.
Items
Not much to say here. There are different levels of items of course - Uncommon, Rare, Mythic, Legendary, with the latter ones being increasingly harder to find.
PvP or PvE? Both!
So, you've attained the level of 60 Pyromancer. You've completed alot of quests already, and have hardcore gear. The game is probably getting a bit boring for you, right?
Athelor ORPG will be released as two maps. One being the actual game, and the other being a PvP game arena. In the PvP "arena", you will be able to load in your character and combat other players' characters in many different PvP scenarios, such as Capture the Flag, Deathmatch, and some unique ones. You will NOT be able to create characters in the PvP arena, only load them in. You will not receive experience in the arena, but you can win PvP gear and rewards for winning and/or participating in the games
Game Status
Athelor ORPG is being heavily worked on, but lets face it - It's a big game! Progress is looking very successful, and many of the classes already have alot of abilities working 100%. Some of the first areas have been completed as well as a good deal of items.
Overall, Athelor ORPG will take a while to complete, but there will be testing phases along the way! Every so often there will be tests available to people that have signed up for the closed beta and possibly alpha testing.
Links
Official Forums (Testing signups are here, but you must register and it helps to remain at least a little active)
http://z11.invisionfree.com/AthelorORPG/index.php?act=idx
Official Webiste (Coming Soon)
Sneak Peak - Map of the Avhel Forest Region (rough outline of the terrain)
Thank you for reading, and if you have any questions feel free to ask! (There are alot of other features, but I only listed the biggies )