Lore (books, or "tomes")

[sofar]

Describes world placement of tomes
List categories of tomes (e.g. random, story critical, lore)
List how to obtain, how generated in-world.
Book Interface UI

[gaelysam]

• Books should be very scattered, but with some clues helping the player to find them (found in ruins, on some mountain tops…).
• Build a big texts database, with very various texts. We can write some things like funny stories, or copy old texts that are in public domain.
• Use an online repository to store a big number of texts? Of course, there should still be some texts in the game to allow playing offline. Not sure it's possible with current MT engine.
• Books may contain images, with very low resolution for both pixel style and small size.
• Interesting books – which speaks about the game – will be less common in village bookshelves than the others.
  • Many contain craft recipes, for example for potions
  • Some of them deal with the world's destiny, or the underworld…
  • A little say wrong things, so that the player should read them carefully.
• Useless books: sometiles off-the-wall
  • Extracts from famous theatre plays or novels
  • Poems
  • Jokes
  • Cooking recipes (that may work in the game!)
  • Completely random letters, or other stupid things
  • if we allow images: fictive ads, herbarium, drawings, sheet musics…

This is what I would like to see in an ideal world. I know this would be a huge work.