Well, GD, it could be a naturally magical tree, but if so it needs to be said, because a non magical herb affecting such vastly different biologies strains credibility, it would be one thing if all the options were more homongenous, but the options here include a demon, a rock, a fairy, and a talking tiger.
It’s not really an issue for most of the options, since the jailor knows full well what you are so naturally wouldn’t give you something that wouldn’t work, but for the fae and the rakshasha he doesn’t even know what species you are.
@stsword did you play any rpg? Well potions affect all people exceptt mana ones. Has been all life that way. Think in elder scrolls skoma or potions with the same effects. It’s the traditional way of potions work in fantasy. It’s a rare potion and that’s equivalent to magic. Provably, only affect races with sensibility to magic.
Well poison_mara I feel the need to disagree with what you are saying. While you are correct that in older rpg’s and even newer ones healing items effect all races. However this is either A) the heals are blatant magic or B) the game doesn’t care about lore enough to bother with including something that could outright ruin game play for some people. Imagine if your healing items didn’t work on your best character. Also your comment on skooma is wrong. In elder scrolls lore the kahjiit are not effected by it in the same way, which is why their territories can run somewhat effectively with the vast majority of their population hooked on it. for religion of course >:) also their is other such things that don’t effect the argonians (hiss sap for example) or specific breeds of khajiit. while I agree with some leeway in the way of healing items or necessary plot devices in most games, this game is also a story, and as such requires far more care to the lore. afterall i’m only reading my character throw a fire ball, not controlling him as he does so. And since I don’t only want to rant on why I think what is wrong, i feel I must give suggestions, which the writers may feel free to ignore or improve upon without worrying about little old me’s feelings :(( . The first and most commonly suggested it appears being to give the herb some magical properties, either innate or enchanted. this solves the problem with very little change to the current flow. Another, and by far more difficult rout, is to ensure that the herb does not effect certain races. this would be slightly more interesting but also more work and dangerous. You would have to both increase coding for the races as well as give good reason to the unusual races that would not be effected to continue along with the situation in the manner you have planned without making the player feeling forced in even though they may be. There are of course ways to do this such as rewards at the end,some tangible threat to the MC or to just make it seem interesting enough that the player wants to. We can accept some forced choices in exchange for the story I believe, However this one is rectifiable and as such should be quickly remedied.
RANT-MAN AWAY!!
@DSeg, to be fair, Azraeldrake9 isn’t bumping threads just for the sake of it; her/his comments usually have some bit about how the WiP in question could be improved. This is an unusually content-light one. Brief but substantive comments like “it was good but can we have the option to be female and not just male” don’t strictly speaking break Rule 2.
@Azraeldrake9, that said, if a WiP thread hasn’t been updated in a long time, we encourage people to PM the author their comment, to keep from cluttering the forums. If the mods see new messages popping up on a dormant thread, we’ll usually close it, before it inevitably turns into “when is next update?”
Dat rant!