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]

Funny thing that. I had that exact idea, but we rejected it because the element is poison, not acid. It's somewhat confusing as the two elements are very close, but there is a difference. Perhaps we will change the element to acid, but I seriously doubt it as poison has more options and just seems, well, better.

Perhaps I could get some public opinions on one of my ideas as well. I'm thinking of two different gems. Holy and unholy. There will only be one of each throughout the whole game. Only a few items will be upgradeable with it as well. Also, holy weapons cannot be made unholy and vice versa. For example, Holy Avenger cannot be upgraded to Unholy Avenger. A holy weapon will, depending on the weapon, either be able to smite undead or deal extra damage to them. For unholy weapons there will either be disease inflicted, chance of spawning undead, chance of smiting living, or level drain.

Unholy weapons will have the chance of backfiring on the user. They will only be usable by Evil, while holy weapons will only be usable by characters with good alignments and reputations of 12 or greater.

Opinions please.