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

[map101ca]

I have to agree, as it was mentioned. These stones\gems, are suppose to be very rare, and it would be foolish, seeing as you can only put 1 on an item, to load up all your gear with frost protection and go face off against a red dragon.

A mix of, I'll use, gems will give a little protection against a couple of differant elements. And ask yourself, do you keep whereing the same armour through the whole game? How about the same weapon? Even though I would have to say that a weapon upgraded should only count as offence and not provide protection properties.

In closing, I would have to say I agree with the percentages as they are presented.