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

[Romulas]

The issue is when your character is drain to zero level, he/she then explodes and all things that they carry (except for critical items) get destroyed.

The concern her is not necessarily the spell disentegrate or energy drain but some items have the ability to do this but there is only a chance of this happening, hence when dragonslord has a chance to drain levels. This makes it is difficult to control.

It sucks to survive one of these difficult battles just to have to reload because the item you were going for gets energy drained.

Romulas