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]

/me yawns

So, everything is explained away by the fact that "some nifty magic" resides in all things, as a left-over from the act of creation?

So.. my old boots can be added to my sword?

Are you a grand master mage/smith enslaved the the Soul of the Forge, imprisoned within the Great Forge? If so you may be able to use the leather from those boots to make the grip better so you drop it less often..

It's about forumlas, and arcane knowledge...

As for the spark of creation or "Nifty magic".. some research could do you good. Principals of this sort have been incorporated into not only modern views of physics as well as metaphysics, but also in ancient achemy and philosophy.

I perseonally like adding the nethack esk element without requiring the players to eat corpses.

Edit;

If you'd like the concept put to a poll I'd be more than happy to, but not here. Any major player polls will be conducted on sites that are not aimed at the modding community, but at players.

This post has been edited by Chevar: Nov 30 2004, 12:59 AM