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]

Hua-Ha-Ha, Silly mortals! The world is full of magic. All things were once created by divine force, and in all things that spark still exists. The form and nature of this strange force varies from object to object of course, but there are masters among mortals that know the secret nature of flesh, steel and stone. These grand masters understand the underlying nature of things, and through this understanding can bring forth the essence of this spark during the act of creation.

This is the nature of the Soul of the Forge. A power that in the right hands, with the assistance of power of the Great Forge can extract the spark of first creation from seemingly mundane items. With this spark they can embue items with the most marvelous powers.

I do not understand mere mortals of mundane minds to understand the secrets of wizards, oracles and sages. Know this however, there are those that Can undo creation as well as bend it to their will.