Design-a-Weapon Contest

[KingOfPain]

Details are HERE. We have about one month to deadline.

Ideas, anyone?

KoP

[Drasca]

Limit one submission per person. Well, we do have a number of folk here.... Time to play 6-year old! I mean. . . design weapons. Cough cough. I wonder if they accept crayons...

[KingOfPain]

One entry per item type per person.

KoP

[Green_Gloom]

Cough cough. I wonder if they accept crayons...

simply send us a drawing, sketch, or printed image

Also while you can enter more than one item you can't win more than one prize.

[WarBlade]

I always wanted one of these games to accurately depict a seax blade . . .

After all it have a battlefield use as a sidearm spanning some 600 years. Maybe now's the time! 8) Although considering how Blizzard managed to screw up the bearded axe I shudder to think what A/Net might do with a scramaseax.


Other sword ideas? We have the Dragon Swords. What about continuing with an elemental theme collection?

- Ice Blade? Hehehehe
- Lightning Blade?
- Stone somethingorother

Or even just add a hammer and axe to make a set of elemental weapons when placed next to the Storm Bow and Dragon Sword.

- Ice Axe?
- Stone Hammer?



Axe: A Bearded Axe! A proper 1-handed bearded axe.

Bow: Expand on the Storm Bow perhaps? Imagine a purple version of the same thing called a Chaos Bow.

Focus: Animal Totems for Beast Mastery skills. A knife for a Warrior off-hand.

Hammer: Big two-handed ball and chain.

Shield: Rangers have armour with extra defence against specific elements so something that gives a reduced maximum defence while adding an elemental bonus defence could be interesting to see . . .

- Storm Shield?
- Magma Shield? (revise the existing item)
- Winter Shield?
- Earth Ward?

Staff: Why do rangers get stuck with bows as their only skill item? I mean, we have Druid's Armour, so why not a Druid's Staff?

Wand: Druid's Wand (ranger skills)

[Lurker Wyrm]

Hammer: My hammer would be something that had a semi-standard haft (aka a big stick) with a sort of butterfly/hourglass head. Hard to explain exactly what I mean, but it'd be something like... <=>-<=> ...Yeah that really stank, but it's the general idea of what I meant. Either that or a really big tree branch/stump.

Sword: I've always liked swords that don't have a handguard or anything like that, just handle and blade (think sword of the daywalker from "Blade" or the Excalibur from "Merlin"). Chances are this one will probably wind up being something that resembles a katana, though.

Axe: A hatchet! Seriously, have this little dinky thing that's barely larger than a warrior's hand. I'd go for a scythe, but since it has to be one-handed...

Bow: Hmm... I'm really not all that particular about bows, but it would be pretty neat to see a crossbow in the game for a change.

Shield: A buckler. Not the ones we already have in game, something small and circular that looks more like a wristguard.

Focus: I wouldn't mind seeing something animated, like a snake/serpent that moved up and down the forearm in a circling figure 8 pattern. Decapitated heads would be neat if they were going to be for the assassin (or necromancer).

Rod: A torch, or something simple, maybe a Javelin?

Staff: A regular, standard shaped staff like what you would use for martial arts or whatnot, only it's completely crystal, so it reflects/refracts light.

Back in the hayday of D2 (before the expansion), I was helping a friend make a D2 mod and one of the other people working with us completely redrew all the weapons. They were really nice too, I'd wonder if he could do something for this...

[Havral]

Shield: A buckler. Not the ones we already have in game, something small and circular that looks more like a wristguard.

Y'mean like how they look on Charr Blade Storms?

[WarBlade]

Y'mean like how they look on Charr Blade Storms?

Sounds more like a request for calling an item a "buckler" and then actually putting a buckler in the game instead of something else just arbitrarily named "buckler".

http://www.higginssword.org/guild/demo/muse/buckler/