2011/3/23 Johanna Ploog <johanna.pl...@googlemail.com>
> On 23 March 2011 09:45, Raphael Langella <raphael.lange...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > We had some doubts about bound hands, but I think it's good. the only
> > problem with it is butchering. There's already a workaround with animate
> > skeleton. I even considered having ash give you the book of cantrips, but
> > it's not really appropriate. How about a more straightforward approach:
> make
> > Ash gift the player a book of magical cooking with a L2 Tmut/Fire spell
> that
> > turns corpses into chunks? Knowledge is power. Ash even teaches you how
> to
> > cook :)
>
> No cooking, please. This will just lead to players expecting to find
> the book randomly or getting it as a gift from Sif or Xom.
>
How about an even more straightforward approach with a butcher spell? It's
just more thematic to have Ash gift you with a book (knowledge), than an
invocation to butcher corpses. And the result is the same. The spell can be
available to others, it would just be worthless to them.
>
> If this is such a problem, why don't you directly add an invocation to
> butcher corpses? A bit unthematic, I know. Then again, is it so bad to
> make Ash more useful for blade users than users of unarmed combat or
> blunt weapons?
>
What about magical staves? Not being able to switch forces you to choose if
you focus on fighting or magic (with enhancer, power, energy or
channelling). It makes the conduct more relevant. For now, people uncurse
their weapon mid-game, and not just because of butchering. If we can tempt
them into not doing it, by making fully bounded more powerful and leave
access to butchering, we've won.
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