Game idea: You play as a humble peasant who must fight off waves of adventurers who feel entitled to just waltz into your house and loot whatever they please.
LET GO OF MY CHEESE WHEEL YOU JERKFACE
Humble Peasant kills adventurers that enter their home
Humble Peasant keeps their weapons, magic items, and hold
Humble Peasant realizes that stronger and stronger adventurers are coming to claim their growing pile of loot
Humble Peasant builds traps and fortifications to keep them out
Humble Peasant procures exotic pets to help defend their home
Humble Peasant continues to amass more and more loot and attract stronger and stronger adventurers
Humble Peasant has to keep building up and fortifying their home, traps, and pets to keep the adventurers out
Humble Peasant suddenly realizes that they have accidentally built a dungeon. It’s a fucking dungeon now. It’s fortified and full of traps, monsters, and treasure, and the Humble Peasant is the boss.
Humble Peasant realizes that adventurers will never leave them alone now.
Humble Peasant hates adventurers.
Humble Peasant accidentally becomes major villain.
I’d play it
10/10 would play
I would totally play this
i mean, this is actually how a lot of kingdoms and early city-states/poleis began. A bunch of humble farmers and/or pastoralists kept getting raided by their nomadic neighbors so eventually they started a bronze age arms race, the peasants fortifying their villages into forts and building permanent, specialized armies and getting all the horrible shit that goes with that like rulers, the nomads capturing cities and becoming settled themselves and becoming less egalitarian among themselves until they both evolved into the horrible leviathans we now know today as states.
Look,if I’m a humble peasant I’m not gonna keep all that stuff for myself. What am I,an arrogant peasant?! I’m gonna buy Magda down the road a donkey so she doesn’t have to pull the cart herself. I’m gonna buy some grain for Tomas up the valley because I know they had a bad harvest this year. I’m gonna hire a gang of my fellow peasants to shore up my irrigation ditches and overpay them shockingly – I don’t need more than a few gold pieces, they only attract adventurers anyway. And maybe I can get some of these damn broadswords and cuirasses off my hands while I’m at it. Maybe we can get together and teach each other how to use them. Before you know it this entire valley will be adventurer-proof.
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