A few months ago, I was online and I saw someone post something about a game called Habit RPG (for those of you who don’t know, RPG stands for Role Playing Game).
It sounded interesting, but I didn’t want to download some sort of game, especially one that claimed to be helpful to everyday life. I mean, who has ever heard of a helpful video game? I decided to keep scrolling and go along with my day.
A couple weeks later, I saw one of my friends on this really neat website. He had a cool avatar and a bunch of checklists. I asked him what website he was on. It was Habit RPG. I told him how about my skepticism, but he convinced me to give it a chance.
I logged on (and didn’t have to download anything), and I created my profile.
From there, I learned some of the more specific details of how Habit RPG works, and I quickly learned that this is one of the most useful (and most fun) websites I’ve ever used.
First of all, you get to customize your own avatar. At first, you don’t have any (useful) weapons or armor. However, you do get to choose your skin, hair, and shirt color from the get-go.
As you level up, you can buy better equipment, and once you reach a high enough level, you get to choose a class (warrior, mage, healer, or rogue) and have specialized abilities based on your class.
Every time you level up, you are able to attribute a skill point to intelligence, constitution, strength or defense.
Each category has a different effect on how your character gains experience, takes damage, and completes tasks.
Second of all, you get to create three different types of tasks.
Dailies are things that you have to daily (duh!). You can also modify dailies so that you only do them on certain days.
For example, if you want to make sure you call your grandma every Tuesday and Friday, you can customize it so it only shows up on those days.
Habits are another category for tasks. Habits can consist of good habits that you want to try to pick up or bad habits you want to try to quit. Both taking the stairs and biting your nails could both be in the habits category.
To-dos are things that you only have to do once but still need to do. If you have a really big paper due in a class, that would go in to the to-do category because you only have to do it once.
As you do your dailies, habits, and to-dos, you gain experience, gold, and items, all of which help you level up in the game, you are building good habits in real life.
You are able to go on quests by joining a party or guild.
You fight bosses (either by yourself or with other party members) by completing your tasks, but you have to be careful.
If you miss a daily task or enforce a negative habit, the boss does damage to your party, and if you take enough damage, you fail the quest and miss out on getting some sweet loot.
As I mentioned earlier, there are a variety of items you can get from completing tasks and quests (or you can buy them if you are feeling extremely impatient).
Most of the items dropped in the game fall into three categories: eggs, hatching potions and food.
There are several different variants of each type of item.
The eggs could contain anything from a bear cub to a tiger, a cactus to a flying pig.
You use the hatching potions on the eggs to turn them into pets of different breeds.
Once you have hatched your pet, you can feed them food, and eventually they will turn into a mount.
I’m not quite sure what the point of having a mount is, but man, they sure do look cool.
With all these cool features, how could you not love Habit RPG?
Personally, I have found this website extremely beneficial, and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys RPGs and knows how to use a computer.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to check “write article” off my to-do list.
To begin your adventure, visit habitrpg.com
Becki Brown
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