Jude <bookofj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Another approach I considered was making the hell effects caused by > the individual lieutenants of Hell. We needn't explain away fellow > worshipers of a god wanting to kill or harm you -- though perhaps if > these are using Makhleb's power, rather than their own, Makhleb might > refuse to use it against you.
I still don't see why a god of torment and pain wouldn't want his followers to offer him a little torment and pain. Not all deities want to protect their followers. > But, the issue with hell effects is: if they are hell-lord derived, > they should end when the individual hell lord ends. If they are > Makhleb-derived, they shouldn't affect you at all -- or at certain > levels of piety -- or you should be protected by him in some way. I don't mind either way of reading this, although again I'd like to push the edginess just a bit further so that they CAN hurt you. > I both like and dislike the ideas! Heh! > As an aside, and also on the topic of hell, we could have the > individual hells themselves close whenever the lord of that hell was > destroyed -- perhaps a timed "run" out of the hell with the loot and > the rune before it collapses? That's kind of cool. > Likewise, his gifts of health could this be seen as an investment in > your future capacity to provide destruction and death and chaos -- > more so than your individual demise. And your ability to SUFFER more pain. > -J -Wm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
