Item Craftsmanship, Not all smiths are equally skilled. Options

[dragon_lord]

All craftsman/blacksmiths are not equally skilled in the art of forging weapons and armour. And so throughout the land varying qualities of equipment can be found:

-Normal items will have 3 levels of quality: Poor, Average and High.
Poor: THAC0 Penalty and damage penalty(in regards to average quality), a chance of breaking.
Average: Normal
High: THAC0 Bonus and speed bonus. No damage bonuses. Those are for magical
items

- High quality normal items can be upgraded through gems.
- 4 different gem types - the elements fire/poison etc
- There can only be one gem per item (stops it from getting too complicated).

Magic items of course can still have things added to them just like in bg2.

This post has been edited by dragon_lord: Nov 28 2004, 06:08 AM

[Chevar]

The bonus's from the gems seem overpowered, and the names are pretty sucky (is this a gem, or just a piece of rock that makes weapons better?).
Other than that, ok.

Here's where I object... I don't think it'd be overpowered at all. We're not talking about further enchanting holy avengers.. but a select (fairly small) assortment of weapons which have no bonuses to begin with.

This post has been edited by Chevar: Nov 27 2004, 07:07 PM