Harry Potter Style, I am not a really big fan, so Options

[tjoudega]

I am not the greatest fan of Harry Potter you could find, but I do like the concept. And this is what I like about it:

It is a very, very big castle
You could play in the castle and outside
There are people he constantly run into
there are secrets, monsters, there is magic and a whole other world to explore just than the castle itself (such as the forbidden forest, which may be in my mod a bit less forbidden, and magic villages and such)

So what I am saying really is something like this: I dont want to make a Harry Potter fangame, but just a really big castle and all the things i mentioned above. Therefore, the will differ, and the looks of the castle and so on.
I just wanted your opinion. What do you think of this?

This post has been edited by tjoudega: Dec 13 2005, 08:21 PM

[RobRendell]

Well, I'd certainly agree that a magical academy based in an old, large castle is certainly a potentially rich setting for adventures. You don't even have to take any more than that from the Harry Potter stories to have an interesting setting.

Personally, I'd prefer that the location not be overly large. A decent number of NPCs all crammed into a moderately sized castle, so you don't have too many large empty areas, would be my preference. I'd rather that the NPCs were well developed, with several roles each in a multi-phase (ideally non-linear) story, than a large sprawling castle with thinly spread NPCs who only do or say one thing each.