[game_preservation] Archivist character in Diablo

[Andrew Armstrong]

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:

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>> 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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