Re: Call for mixed blessing-style jewellery and consumables

Andrew Sidwell <takkaria@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> (Posted to r.g.r.a, angband-dev and the forum.  If you have suggestions,
> please reply in only one place.)
> 
> As noted in a previous mail, I'm reordering the object list, and
alongside
> this adding a few new items and removing a few others.  For example, I
am
> changing the mushroom effects so they are mixed-blessing and a little
odd (as
> it has been pointed out, the purpose of mushrooms is pretty much
entirely
> flavour, so they might as well be interesting.)
> 
> Anyway, I would like to remove entirely-bad stuff from the object list
and
> instead have some mixed-blessing items that might plausibly be used.
This
> especially applies when it comes to rings and amulets.

I tried to think of interesting combinations, but the only one that ever
seemed good the next day was { +int, +wis, -str}.  The problem is that
other
than str, any stat decrease is either meaningless or too painful to
consider
at the point where you would consider a mixed blessing item.

> Mixed-blessing items don't have to be made up of already-existing item
> abilities, but could have new ones.  I don't need especially many, just
a few.
> More ideas for consumables (potions/scrolls/staffs/mushrooms) would also
be
> nice, but not essential.

How about a potion that attempts to blind you, and then gives ESP as long
as
the blindness lasts.  Perhaps you could extend the effect with other forms
of
blindness, such as being breathed on by appropriate hounds.

Perhaps, very late in the game, something like *HEAL that permanently
reduces
a stat.  Then augmentation [or the appropriate stat potion] would be
useful to
undo it.  You would need to guarantee the loss could be fixed by a single
augmentation/stat potion or no one would ever consider it, i.e. no
dropping
18/100 to 18/91 with the current increase system.


Eddie