On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > You mean, a good god of law being opposed to an evil god of chaos? > They're near exact opposites; "near" because Zin is more lawful than > good while Makhleb is more evil than chaotic. Zin can have another > arch-enemy beside Xom.
I meant that I wasn't sure how to handle overlap, not that there shouldn't be overlap. Zin's having another arch-enemy is fine, of course. > Makhleb protecting his charges from his own hell effects or mitigating > them doesn't conflict with Zin doing (mechanically) the same. A > similar case: necromantic torment is Kikubaaqudgha's shtick, and both > she and TSO partially protect you from it, her on the basis of hurting > her own worshippers being counterproductive, him because his warriors > need his support while vanquishing evil. There, even the mechanics > are different: Kiku randomly negates it completely, reduces damage or > does nothing, while TSO grants rN+++ for a constant ~1/3 reduction. So, then, Makhleb should have a different mechanic from Zin. Zin just does flat protection based on piety or when in sanctuary, so I suppose Makhleb should negate it randomly? > By the way, torment being closely tied to Kiku means Makhleb should > stay away from it. Very good point. > It could be explained by it working by draining life force, while > Makhleb prefers delivering pain and destruction in physical ways. He > supports no less than four ways of dealing it: healing warriors, > sending his summons, fueling mages and fueling invoking his own > destructive powers. Unfortunately, beams of negative energy also drain life force, and they're available as part of Makhleb's greater destruction. Either the latter needs to be replaced with something else, or the torment issue could be explained away differently. (Maybe Makhleb doesn't protect from it because it can never directly kill the target, which is not true of negative energy per se. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger; a *true* servant of Makhleb can endure it.) By the way, if the hell theme is appropriate, I can tweak one word in the flavor text in order to reference it (demonic -> hell-spawned): Makhleb the Destroyer is a fearsome God of bloodshed and mortification of the flesh. Followers are expected to cleanse others by inflicting suffering and death on them in Makhleb's name, and can gain further favour by ravaging the freshly dead. Dedicated followers may also access the raw energies and hell-spawned servants of chaos, so that they may better break the impure world and its false laws for this evil God's glory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Crawl-ref-discuss mailing list Crawl-ref-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crawl-ref-discuss
