[DGD] two headed characters

[Jared Maddox]

> Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 02:42:44 -0700
> From: Raymond Jennings <shentino at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [DGD] two headed characters
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> One of my beta testers amused me with the notion of a multi-headed
> character shared between two players.
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> I've only seen the concept in practice once, with golems on another mud.
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> thoughts?
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Sounds a little crazy to me, but if you're going to do it, then why
stop there? You could add Hydras or Chimaeras as a race type (though
that many heads would be troublesome to find players for... maybe
restrict it to guilds, and use it as a race that players can be
ASSIGNED, as if it was a piece of equipment), and D&D has some Ogre
variant (which I'm pretty certain got referenced in Warcraft 2) with
two heads. I think there's some Hindu deity or spirit that's depicted
with lots of heads as well, and there's surely some other stuff also
(I believe that one of the Greek myths had a two-headed cattle-herding
man as a villain).

For e.g. Chimaeras, allocating an AI to any "unfilled" heads would also help.

What kind of setting are you considering this for? I don't recall the
type you're using.