Re: Skills Hack

[Brian Thomas <thomas@chaupher.gsfc.nasa.gov>]

> From wacren@gin.obspm.fr Mon Apr 10 19:10:26 1995
> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 01:10:22 +0200
> To: Brian Thomas <thomas@chaupher.gsfc.nasa.gov>
> Cc: crossfire@ifi.uio.no
> Subject: Re: Skills Hack
> References: <199504102128.RAA11426@chaupher.gsfc.nasa.gov>
> From: Laurent Wacrenier <Laurent.Wacrenier@gin.obspm.fr>
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> Not sure it's a good idea :
>  - spell casters are aleady powerfull (much than warriors, in my
>     sense)
>  - a lot of people have already bank characters with a lot of
>    charisma for buying and keeping theyre stuffs, now the same will
>    have also clerics and wizards to avoid object identification.
	
	Yeah. You make a good point, but right now play balance is 
	only going to occur when more than one person (me!) tries
	out the various permutations. The spellcasting humans, for 
	example, might get a skill and 1 spellbook rather than 
	several spells for example. Also, you might be overating 
	the usefulness of skills - I have found that the sense cursed
	items skill much less usefull than other skills available.
	In the end the creativity of the player makes a big difference
	in the usefulness of any skill/spell/weapon/etc the character
	has. Under that proviso, I am making the skills hack stuff
	available - for feedback and playtesting. 


> Another idea of skill : `rogues' could detect traps more easily than
> other characters.
> 
	Yeah, I have thought about a 'detect traps' skill too. I 
	didnt try to implement it because it would basically
	duplicate the 'search' command. I do like the idea however. 

						b.t.