Disintegration and energy drain Options

[Romulas]

Kudo's to you for making IA, even though I might not think so when my party gets blasted a few hundred times <g>.

Here is a thought and mainly because I am not sure how it works from a game mechanics point of view.

I know we talked earlier about disentegration destroying powerful items and as we know the energy drain from vampires and such will do the same thing. However how does this affect "mission" critical items such as keys and so forth?

One of the times I was running through I remember using dragonlord and destroying the bad guy who as it were had one of those mission critical items that I needed to continue. I could not find it and chalked it up to having it destroyed with the bad guy. Regardless, I had to play the battle over and not use dragonlord to win and continue.

I think this energy drain (destroying everything) kinda limits the use of items like dragon lord, if you are facing a horde of gnolls that don't have anything anyway it would be ok but against the really tough opponents it can stop the game so to speak, it could be a bad end to a good battle.

Thanks,

Romulas

[Sikret]

Critical items are not destructable, but they are not sellable either. Making an item "critical" has the bad side effect that you won't be able to sell it.

Moreover, keeping such items destructable can be taken as part of the challenge. If a character is so incompetent against (say) a vampire, why should he/she have such important items in his/her hands. (Just an alternate way to look at the issue)