Re: Possible new potion

[Andreas Bringedal <andreabr@ifi.uio.no>]

>Hmm.. what about something like a potion of restore experience?
>Drat those grimreapers!!!
>It would work something like a grimreaper in reverse, i.e.,
>give back some percentage of lost experience points.
>It would require keeping track of the max experience points the
>character had - I would also make it pretty rare.


Hmm. Then I would say that we would need more monsters that drain exp.
What if somebody made bitmaps of vampires(and Dracula), wraiths,
wights etc...etc...Otherwise the game will be way to easy. It's 
already easy once you learn the basics(like using the control-key,
brace and heal-spells). 

Artifacts are still too easy to come by. Hopefully a new treasure-
algorithm(?) will come into existence. (Maybe it has already. It's
been a long time since I played)

We also need some control over how many characters a player can have.
It may be a minor problem but one player had over 50 characters saved
at one time with not more then 10 exp each. I deleted them...:)

Another problem I've seen is that new players seems to die every five
minutes due to not using control-keys. What if one gave a little more
exp for killing monster without control(to compensate for lack of skill)
and a little less for monster killed when braced(to compensate for lack
of active playing). Well just a thought.

I think it have been inflation in diamons. A diamond is worth 50(?)gp
or less. There should at least be some valuable gems around.

And of course I still don't like the character generation. If you 
choose a barbarian, does this imply that you're not human or elf
(ie, you're something else), or that it isn't specified.
What if I want to play a human swashbuckler ? Or an elven 
wizard ?

One could also give a player about 70 points to distribute to the
various stats(max is 84 I think). This would relive me for the 
endless search for a good startup-character.(It wouldn't be so good
thou). Maybe one could give him 75 points. Comments anyone ?

Of course we also need some positive criticizing which I am not 
capable of due to my nature as pessimist. Anyone ?


>Pat

Andreas