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

[Awake]

That is a good point. I've tried discussing this in blackwyrm chat right now, but dragon_lord doesn't know, but I think that we should move the gems for protection from the weapons to the armor. As for the rarity of the gems here's how it will work:

1 for the highest quality of a gem
1 for the medium quality of a gem
2 of the lowest quality gems

There is a screenshot of it in the Screenshot thread stickied in here. There are also several screenshots of some animations that I have put into the game.