RP-type? (medium, like amia, or hardcore, including mandatory resting/eating/toiletbreaks)
Whatever amia is, if you call that medium, then medium. I like a server that focuses on character interactions, char development, PvE quests against epic threats to the realm. Nothing should be forced, and you should be allowed to pick your kind of rp and go with it. In this category, I feel Amia is just perfect and spot on and the main reason why I still play here.
No crap like forced sleeping, eating, or having rats drop useless rat tails which sell for nothing and just fill up inventory.
Death penalties? (leveldrops, permadeath,...) what XP progression? (higher or lower XP then amia)
No perma death, death penalties should be negligible. Being forced to respawn should put you out of the hunt by porting you to a hub area with no port back option. There should be no other penalty though. You just need to do the whole quest/area again.
Xp gain should scale up with level. It should not take significantly longer to get from level 5 to 6 than it does from 25 to 26. On amia, getting to around level 20, progression is at a rather steady rate, while levelling an epic becomes a chore.
Setting? (Pure Forgotten Realms, FR with custom lore, or entirely new pantheon and house-lore)
I like an amia like setting that is original but still part of the greater canon realm. It gives us opportunities to diverge from the norm and does not restrict us in our options like a server placed around say Neverwinter would be, but it still gives us a basic framework of the world to work with and to draw from.
High magic. +5 should be the standard, and wizards, scrolls, and magical creatures common.
Levelcap, classchanges, feat and spellchanges... what alterations to the standard mechanics you make (no need to go all in detail off course)
No level cap, goes all the way to 40. All classes should be freely avaliable. Not good enough to go on about mechanic and spellchanges, but I feel Amia got it mostly right. I would certainly not like to remove things like hips or devcrit, but adjusting their power is fine.
Geography and landsize (what types of areas you want)
A possibility to interact with some exotic cannon locations is welcome. (planar travel, or say, an island in chult?) And as a pinnacle of awesomeness, a server set in Sigil would be awesome.
Crafting system(s), spellcomponents or not (maybe just a gold cost)
It should not be a necessity. Crafting your own armor and weapons is a nice addition, but the economy should not be completely player driven, you should not be dependant on other players to get good gear. No spell components. I like the mythal system myself, though I would hash it out with more options and less restrictions. (higher power limit, flawless and perfect mythals easily available)
Subraces, Deity and jobsystem (with or without changes from the amian implementation)
Few restriction on subraces, with a few exceptions like undead or children of gods. If you want to play a drow, an eladrin, avariel, rakshaka, a full dragon, you just go and make one. There should be basis templates to chose at char creation, for the basis subraces, as well as some more generic ones like dragon, celestial, devil, so you can pick the one that fits the race you are roleplaying the closest. Basically, unless the race is too much out there, you can play it. Wings, tails and eye modifications would be freely available to be applied to characters any time.
Do you try to tackle the "economy problem" a long time server has or dont you care
Nuke the economy. Make everything available from the module, not having to buy it from players. If you could buy wonderforged weapons from a NPC merchant for a fixed price, none can sell them for millions. I would have epic merchants as rewards at end of actaand/abyss like dungeons. Maybe have the boss drop a token which can be exchanged for one item each. If you can just go out and get anything you want yourself with reasonable effort, there won't be a case of those who have and those who don't.
Do you make it a Good vs Evil server (each a base starting city and free group pvp in between their grounds) or do you try to limit pvp rather then promote it.
The focus would be on player versus environment/DM conflict. PVP between players should be discouraged unless consensual, or restricted to arenas and selected battlefield locations. No random attacks on characters just drinking tea in peace by ''evils''.
Is there an RP reward sytem
DC's work fine, though prizes for things should be much lower.
HAKs or not?
Yay haks.
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The xp scale would have to be adjusted to make levelling hard at both low and high ranges. Kobolds, goblins, skeletons and bandits should be threats, while orcs and ghouls should be major threats.
