Re: Call for mixed blessing-style jewellery and consumables

On Apr 28, 4:30=A0pm, Andrew Sidwell <takka...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > ..An amulet/ring of bowman****p that gives a bonus to ranged attacks
but =
a
> > penalty to close combat? (But doesn't affect rangers -- they're
already
> > as practised at bowman****p as they're going to get...)
>
>  would be too hard to implement, so I veto it. :)
An easy way of implementing the bowman****p would be to give the bonus
to to-hit and to-dam and just prevent all melee like fear does.
And maybe if character has extra_shot then it has no effect except
preventing melee (which could still be helpful for teaching yourself
to use your bow instead of melee as a ranger).
There's also a possibility of amulet/ring/potion of super melee (needs
better name) which gives great melee bonuses but prevents any range
shooting or spell casting (but for warriors would do nothing but
prevent shooting).

> > Some kind of item (?staff?) of Mass Confusion, that addles the brains
of=

> > every monster within sight -- until the effects wear off, of course!
>
> I've added this, but I fear it will just turn into another staff of
> slow/sleep.
I have added a spell of mass chaos to DaJAngband which causes minor
chaos damage and confusion to all monsters in line of sight, and it
additionally has a chance of also stunning, slowing, scaring,
blinking, and/or doing gravity damage to all monsters in line of
sight.  I think this might also work well as a staff instead of just
mass confusion.
(the mass chaos spell is in the last book of the chance realm.  The
rogue class is currently the only one who uses this realm.  (Will
later add tourist, escape artist, and chaos warrior which will use the
chance realm)).

(feather falling)
> I'm tempted to make it levitation, so that the player doesn't fall down
> trap doors wearing it, as you say. =A0But new terrain is a while off
yet,
> so I don't think I'll be doing anything with this right now.

Will this prevent you from picking up items from the floor like it
does it Nethack?  It does make sense if you're levitating to not be
able to reach things on the floor.
I plan to (later) incor****ate an invisible luck stat in DaJAngband,
and with high luck and feather falling you can have a choice of
whether to fall in a trap door or not.

I like some of these ideas and plan to put selected ones in
DaJAngband, namely the mushroom of stone-skin, mushroom of terror,
maybe the bowman****p/super melee idea, the blindness/ESP idea
(probably as a mushroom), and probably a couple others.