It would be great to have mini-games in the taverns, sounds silly doesn't it? But imagine that guild that has to prepare their raid instead of being bored in their respective cities, they go to the nearest tavern and spend their time there with some minigame (Blackjack/tic tac toe/drink game).
The taverns are always underused and it's a shame as it really enhances the RPG element (remember it's an MMORPG). I don't know if here you will do like in wow classic, that factions don't understand each other, please, put commands like /chicken /spit and those that generate hatred between factions.
Also it would be GREAT if there were hidden quests, I don't know if you know it, but in wow classic there is a quest, where in the human zone of level10 (after hogger) there is a chicken. If you make a macro and you put /chicken all the time in front of it, a new quest exclamation will appear and it will ask you for a sack of feed, which has a farmer (it costs 10 copper), you give it to him and when you complete the quest, the chicken becomes your pet and from then on you can summon it and go everywhere with your chicken.
These are the things that make videogames magical, the secrets, the mysteries, the discoveries, and the going off the beaten track.
It would also be nice, missions to explore x place and that is with complicated jumps or use x skills to make your way.
You can do a lot of things!
▶I fucking loved that idea, sorry, seriously, and it’s true.
▶Sorry if I’m resurrecting a dead thread.
▶Taverns aren’t crowded places, there are only NPCs, and it kills that feeling of an RPG.
▶So I really think it must be done, it can be a unique distinguish trait for Scars of Honor.
▶In RDR 1 and 2, TW 2 and 3, AC 3 and 4, taverns really feel alive with those few mini-games, and they are solo games, I spent a lot of time there.
▶TESO already started doing it on this year’s expansion, adding a card mini-game.
▶Someone create a mod like this for Skyrim, and it was really fun.
▶I hope devs and other players watch this and comment their thoughts.
Making taverns iconic again
▶Board easy and quick Mini-games for taverns with PvE and PvP. This will give a nice use to a lot of NPCs.
▶You can make tavern games a way to level up “Luck” in the game, “Luck” can affect gold found, drop rates, apart from other RNG aspects.
▶Strength can affect Arm-Wrestling and Fist Fights games
▶Dexterity/Agility can affect games like Darts and Knife Games
▶Intelligence can influence games like Black Jack, Battleship and Tic Tac Toe.
▶Board games can get their own talent tree. Actually, I would prefer a “talent system” like Lost Ark and TESO, account wide, and not only for combat.
▶Maybe making these talents only available for PvE.
▶We can get skins for the different boards, cards and pieces, you can monetize some of them since they are going to be only cosmetics.
▶Casual and Competitive modes, leaderboards, mini tournaments 1vs1, 2vs2, up to even 4vs4 modes. PvE and PvP
▶TW 2 and 3, RDR 1 and 2, AC 3 and 4 had PvE tournaments quests, they were of my favorite parts of the game.
Tavern games suggestions
You can include some of these or all of these
▶Blackjack, Tic Tac Toe, Fingers Knife game, Dominoes, Checkers, Dart’s game, Classic Chess, Critter race, drinking games, Battleship
▶The Witcher 2 Fist fights
If you want to make it more “turn combat” maybe a rock paper scissors system, players can choose between grab, punch, kick, block, dodge, up, left, etc., with cooldowns, idk.
▶The Witcher 2 Arm-Wrestling (not mindless button smashing)
▶Assassins Creed 3 mini-games, I loved them
▶AC3 Bowls game
▶Pirates of the Caribbean Liar’s Dice
▶Red Dead Redemption 1 Liar’s Dice
▶How to play Liar’s Dice (sorry, one of my favorites)
▶Card race drinking game
▶Classic Gwent, The Witcher 3
▶Auto-Chess Mobile (DoTA 2), Team-Fight Tactics (Riot) (not very conviced about this one)