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

[Sir-Kill]

I guess I fail to see what the problem is. the Pommel Jewel, Equalizer Hilt, and Equalizer Blade makes the Equalizer. nothing magic there and Gesen Bow Shaft and Gesen Bow String makes the Short Bow of Gesen. nothing magic there, and Wave Shaft and Wave Blade make Halberd +4, Wave, again... so you have some gems that have magical properties that can make non magical weapons to have some magical propreties from the inate magic inside them. you can have a horn but not a gem, I see no difference there.