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A bestiary you say?? Yes please!
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Saw this mentioned as part of another thread and thought, "hellz yeah!" Would love a bestiary to peruse all the creatures we encounter, including bosses that we have encountered. To include a brief description of them such as place of origin, etc..
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Vanthras79✭✭✭✭✭Like a dungeon guide? With loot tables?Norion Germain - Telvanni Wizard, Covenant Battle Mage, Resident of Wayrest, and Lord of Tel Galen. -
Vanthras79✭✭✭✭✭Edited by Vanthras79 on February 19, 2019 10:13PMNorion Germain - Telvanni Wizard, Covenant Battle Mage, Resident of Wayrest, and Lord of Tel Galen.
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✭✭That would actually be really awesome.
The bestiary in the Witcher 3 was one of my favorite things about the game. That would be great if they could include something similar in ESO.PC NA: CP 810+
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✭✭Oh cool! I think Dungeon Siege 2 had something like this. It was a lot of fun to read
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✭Rather than a beastiary, I would like my pet to run wild in my psijic villa.
My cats and dogs running around, occasionally fighting, like cats and dogs.
My wolf pets chasing the chicken I baught and left loose in the villa.
Or the guar, trying to catch the flying contraption from clockwork city, the dovadragonfly something.
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jainiadral✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Vanthras79 wrote: »Like a dungeon guide? With loot tables?
More like a lorebook or codex with entries about each beast you've encountered. -
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✭russelmmendoza wrote: »Rather than a beastiary, I would like my pet to run wild in my psijic villa.
My cats and dogs running around, occasionally fighting, like cats and dogs.
My wolf pets chasing the chicken I baught and left loose in the villa.
Or the guar, trying to catch the flying contraption from clockwork city, the dovadragonfly something.
Not that I don't support support your idea, but start your own thread on that topic. -
Tasear✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭jainiadral wrote: »Vanthras79 wrote: »Like a dungeon guide? With loot tables?
More like a lorebook or codex with entries about each beast you've encountered.
Would buy lorebook hard copies too... -
SirMewser✭✭✭✭✭russelmmendoza wrote: »Rather than a beastiary, I would like my pet to run wild in my psijic villa.
My cats and dogs running around, occasionally fighting, like cats and dogs.
My wolf pets chasing the chicken I baught and left loose in the villa.
Or the guar, trying to catch the flying contraption from clockwork city, the dovadragonfly something.
Both!!
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✭✭✭✭✭jainiadral wrote: »Vanthras79 wrote: »Like a dungeon guide? With loot tables?
More like a lorebook or codex with entries about each beast you've encountered.
Would buy lorebook hard copies too...
I wouldn't - I gave away 2k+ books two years ago to step-granddaughter. Too much to dust, and I have an e-reader, so who needs hardbacks? Or even paperbacks.... -
Facefister✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Sylvermynx wrote: »jainiadral wrote: »Vanthras79 wrote: »Like a dungeon guide? With loot tables?
More like a lorebook or codex with entries about each beast you've encountered.
Would buy lorebook hard copies too...
I wouldn't - I gave away 2k+ books two years ago to step-granddaughter. Too much to dust, and I have an e-reader, so who needs hardbacks? Or even paperbacks....
Because a display can't replace paper. -
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✭✭✭✭✭Facefister wrote: »Sylvermynx wrote: »jainiadral wrote: »Vanthras79 wrote: »Like a dungeon guide? With loot tables?
More like a lorebook or codex with entries about each beast you've encountered.
Would buy lorebook hard copies too...
I wouldn't - I gave away 2k+ books two years ago to step-granddaughter. Too much to dust, and I have an e-reader, so who needs hardbacks? Or even paperbacks....
Because a display can't replace paper.
I don't have an issue with that. I read, I don't make love to paper. A book is for reading, not fondling. -
SirMewser✭✭✭✭✭Facefister wrote: »Sylvermynx wrote: »jainiadral wrote: »Vanthras79 wrote: »Like a dungeon guide? With loot tables?
More like a lorebook or codex with entries about each beast you've encountered.
Would buy lorebook hard copies too...
I wouldn't - I gave away 2k+ books two years ago to step-granddaughter. Too much to dust, and I have an e-reader, so who needs hardbacks? Or even paperbacks....
Because a display can't replace paper.
Save the trees!
I do like having a physical copy of something in my hand, but... well yeah. -
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✭✭✭✭✭Sylvermynx wrote: »Facefister wrote: »Sylvermynx wrote: »jainiadral wrote: »Vanthras79 wrote: »Like a dungeon guide? With loot tables?
More like a lorebook or codex with entries about each beast you've encountered.
Would buy lorebook hard copies too...
I wouldn't - I gave away 2k+ books two years ago to step-granddaughter. Too much to dust, and I have an e-reader, so who needs hardbacks? Or even paperbacks....
Because a display can't replace paper.
I don't have an issue with that. I read, I don't make love to paper. A book is for reading, not fondling.
Why not both 🤗 -
IsharaMeradin✭✭✭Hmm... Something similar to the outfit display tab. Every creature gets a slot and when moused over a tool tip appears with more information. When that creature is killed, more data is available in the tool tip. When that creature's monster trophy is obtained (if ever) then the icon goes from grey'd out to full color just like the outfits do when motifs are learned for the first time.
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✭✭✭✭✭Sylvermynx wrote: »Facefister wrote: »Sylvermynx wrote: »jainiadral wrote: »Vanthras79 wrote: »Like a dungeon guide? With loot tables?
More like a lorebook or codex with entries about each beast you've encountered.
Would buy lorebook hard copies too...
I wouldn't - I gave away 2k+ books two years ago to step-granddaughter. Too much to dust, and I have an e-reader, so who needs hardbacks? Or even paperbacks....
Because a display can't replace paper.
I don't have an issue with that. I read, I don't make love to paper. A book is for reading, not fondling.
Why not both 🤗
Because the older I get the more I realize that - things - aren't important. As in 2000 + books taking up space and.... the DUST....
Give the physical books to those who can use them. There's no need at all for anything beyond the words.
Seriously. Any book is - the message. That does not depend on a physical presence. Far from it. The message is - non physical.... -
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✭✭✭Sylvermynx wrote: »Sylvermynx wrote: »Facefister wrote: »Sylvermynx wrote: »jainiadral wrote: »Vanthras79 wrote: »Like a dungeon guide? With loot tables?
More like a lorebook or codex with entries about each beast you've encountered.
Would buy lorebook hard copies too...
I wouldn't - I gave away 2k+ books two years ago to step-granddaughter. Too much to dust, and I have an e-reader, so who needs hardbacks? Or even paperbacks....
Because a display can't replace paper.
I don't have an issue with that. I read, I don't make love to paper. A book is for reading, not fondling.
Why not both 🤗
Because the older I get the more I realize that - things - aren't important. As in 2000 + books taking up space and.... the DUST....
Give the physical books to those who can use them. There's no need at all for anything beyond the words.
Seriously. Any book is - the message. That does not depend on a physical presence. Far from it. The message is - non physical....
Hey now, we don't burn books 'round these parts missy. I say now, I say don't begrudge your fellow man the tactile and aromatic journey that is a well-worn, many-traveled compendium!Edited by Judas Helviaryn on February 20, 2019 6:10AM -
VDoom1✭✭✭✭✭This idea sound awesome.
If it could also keep count of kills that would be handy. Edited by VDoom1 on February 20, 2019 8:39AMWe Fight For Cyrodiil.
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We fight for The Aldmeri Dominion.
We fight for The Ebonheart Pact.
We fight for Tamriel!CP 810+
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aaisoaho✭✭✭✭This idea tickles my lizardly brains in a good way. It wouldn't even have to have any rewards tied to it. Just pokemon-esque style of codex with entries about the encountered creatures with maybe special tabs about named creatures of that type. (bosses)
The good thing about a beastiary is: it gives something more to the achievers and explorers. It makes you wander around just because you want your beastiary to be filled with entries. -
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✭✭jainiadral wrote: »Vanthras79 wrote: »Like a dungeon guide? With loot tables?
More like a lorebook or codex with entries about each beast you've encountered.
Would buy lorebook hard copies too...
I'd be all over that. I remember those old D&D books from the 80s. I never played but I had a couple of them that I read to bits for all the beasties... ah memories
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✭✭Sylvermynx wrote: »jainiadral wrote: »Vanthras79 wrote: »Like a dungeon guide? With loot tables?
More like a lorebook or codex with entries about each beast you've encountered.
Would buy lorebook hard copies too...
I wouldn't - I gave away 2k+ books two years ago to step-granddaughter. Too much to dust, and I have an e-reader, so who needs hardbacks? Or even paperbacks....
...ow my soul
I tried to do the e-reader thing. Hard. But nothing I read that way lasted. Words that were meant to be savored faded away like mere data blips.
Pages have a presence that makes words feel immortal. They hold more than ink-- they hold memories for generations. Long after ereaders and ebook formats become obsolete, physical books will hold the essence of the human soul. They are our transcendence.
Never mind My mom is really into ebooks these days-- a generational thing? -
Ye_Olde_Crowe✭✭✭✭✭And if we have a bestiary which also tracks how many creatures of a certain type we killed ... why not get a pet of a certain type once a certain number is reached? Kill, say, 1000 wolves to get a wolf, for example. If there are more colors, get a differently-colored one after the next 1000 are killed. And have all those pets have their own page in our bestiary.PC EU.
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