RE: [Adonthell-general] Items

[Benjamin Walther-Franks]

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> From: Kai Sterker [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 12:10 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Adonthell-general] Items
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> On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:15:20 +0200 Benjamin Walther-Franks wrote:
> 
> > > As far as potions, I think that list should also be 
> small, including
> > > healing potions, potions of blindness (throwable, for 
> getting out of
> > > fights without actually killing), poisons, potions of sleep, 
> > > etc. I'm at a 
> > > loss, though, about what would go into these various potions.
> 
> I guess we can have different herbs and minerals that can be found in
> the wild or bought off the Dwarves or people like Solmanus.
> 
> 
> > > Marcella might also learn a few songs and perhaps a spell of 
> > > healing from 
> > > Ella, which would more or less replace her creation of or 
> > > dependence on 
> > > potions, since I imagine that an Elven healing spell, even a 
> > > simple one, 
> > > would do quite a bit more than even a moderately effective potion.
> > 
> > I think we should give that point some thought. In any 
> case, it should
> > be really hard for the player to get that knowledge of other races
> > special abilities, since it's something really, well, special. Maybe
> > only if Marcella really pursues her roots and the doings of 
> her mother
> > (e.g. chat a lot with the witch and get high in her favour 
> - plus some
> > other related task).
> 
> She also mustn't do anything evil, I'd say. That should make it quite
> hard for people to receive this knowledge.
> 
> 
> > But we should consider not making that option available at 
> all in 0.4.
> > I mean, if people see this cross-blending of special 
> abilities in the
> > demo, what will they expect from 1.0? 
> 
> This probably depends on how hard it is to gain these 
> abilities. I think
> both in 0.4 and 1.0 this should require great devotion to a 
> faction and
> lots of disciplin. In other words, it should be _really_ rare.
> 
> Another point is: what is so special about an Elven healing spell?
> That's practically nothing. In 1.0, cross-blending might open 
> the way to
> much more impressive spells and abilities. If we allow that in 0.4, we
> can still top it in 1.0, I think.


Okeydoke - we should then consider incorporating the idea of cross-blending
in the rules, to make some general guidelines about it.

But as you say it should require a certain devotion, and should stay a
rarity: A healing spell probably isn't anything special, but a human
practising magic woul be very special.

 
> > Also, I think the player will
> > already have quite a lot of choices concerning specabs - 
> don't forget
> > mechanics! With the player being able to decide between the good and
> > the evil path (s)he should also be able to decide wether to take the
> > mystical or technical path. Not that you need to add or change
> > anything to your writing on Marcella, Andrew, we should 
> just leave it
> > up to the player what to do. By saying that Marcella is eager to
> > learn, this can be anything - alchemy, mechanics or just 
> plain combat
> > moves.
> 
> Hm. I agree that there are plenty of choices already. But some more
> wouldn't hurt, would they?

Agreed :)  That would certainly add even more possibilites, and cool ones at
that. There'd be spells or the likes that require ranks in elemental magic
AND alchemy, or mechanics AND dwarf runes and so on.
 
 
> All in all I think this is more a matter of time. For the beginning we
> should concentrate on the things we really need. But if we have the
> opportunity to include a song or spell, we can do it without causing
> much harm, I think.

Yup!

BEN