Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > Here's a number of proposed changes to Crawl gods. Including a deicide!
I like most of your suggestions. Hope to hear some discussion and hopefully to have some time to playtest. (Is the next planned release in July?) > Cheibriados > =========== > Ponderifying armour leads to problems with races that have fewer slots, it > also causes theme problems like "why would heavy gloves impact my walking > speed but not fighting/casting?". I like your ideas and have some slight tweaks, but before I do I want to ask whether these are real problems. The first one has serious gameplay limitations, but we simply accepted them for Ash. I approve of NOT accepting them (especially because it would be sad to have two gods with the same accidental race restrictions), but I just have to get the question out in the open. The second one is not a gameplay problem; it's a description problem. It's MAGIC and doesn't operate by sheer mass, and shouldn't be described as "it's heavy", but rather as something like "it generates a field that slows your maneuvers". (I don't want to use the word "magic" here, to avoid the implication that carrying antimagic can counteract it.) > Proposal: > * let's axe ponderification, reducing the brand to just to something bad > highly enchanted plates can be generated with. Alternately, make Chei generate a temporary version of the brand. (I do approve of keeping the permanent version... In fact it might possibly be interesting to make it sometimes get generated as a permanent or temporary side effect of things like miscasts.) > * give CB two invocations: "Slow down" and "Hurry up". When used, they take No need for "Hurry up" -- it'll have no tactical use anyhow, so just let Chei give and Chei take away when he gets around to it, meaning that the duration of the ponderous effect will be set based on "when Chei gets around to it", which I would say implies a random duration. Chei isn't Xom, of course, so the results won't have a huge spread; and all affected items will de-Ponderify at once, not in a scattered way. Probably a large constant plus a 1 or 2 relatively small dice. > There is a concern, though: you'd be able to use artefact armour, and I'm > not sure if we want to take away this downside of CB. If that downside is important, it might be worthwhile to write the story so that the god works *through* your armor, actually requiring that you not be wearing artifact body armor in the process, so that if you're wearing artifact armor the entire ponderification won't work. We can then rescale the benefits and penalty of multiple Ponderous items so that wearing one is slow, two is *slow*, but four or five isn't much different from three, so that races with limited slots aren't too restricted from Chei. Clearly, equipment is very important to Chei; he likes tanks more than he likes clunkers. -Wm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 _______________________________________________ Crawl-ref-discuss mailing list Crawl-ref-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crawl-ref-discuss
