[game_preservation] Archivist character in Diablo

[Henry Lowood]

LotRO -- the historian vocation.  There is also an archivists group in SL.

Henry

Andrew Armstrong wrote:

> One thing, this does raise a question (in game design) why, at least 

> in a more persistant setting, there are not scholarly-available 

> classes - ones that do, literally, work on recording history or doing 

> research. There's a few stabs at this (some prestiege classes in D&D 

> for instance) but not really much of an attempt to get historian 

> classes into games.

>

> I say we petition every MMO for this :) Who cares about beating up 

> monsters if we can sit around researching, interviewing and recording! :P

>

> Andrew

>

> Rachel "Sheepy" Donahue wrote:

>> Not yet, I'm afraid. That was definitely the best April Fool's thing 

>> I saw, though!

>>

>> On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:05:04 -0400, Andrew Armstrong 

>> <andrew at aarmstrong.org> wrote:

>>

>>> That'd be nice, perhaps they'll respond to Rachels survey :)

>>>

>>> Andrew

>>>

>>> Vowell, Zach wrote:

>>>> Okay, so apparently it's an April Fool's thing, and this 

>>>> archivist's primary

>>>> responsibilities are scrolls and tomes, but still, fun to see:

>>>>

>>>> http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/characters/archivist.xml

>>>>

>>>> Maybe we can count on Blizzard to have a true-blue in-house archivist.

>>>>

>>>>

>>>> Zach

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>

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