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[Andreas Vogl]

in reply to Scott Wedel:

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      > Create a way to sing or steal monsters to death.
     
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      Hopefully that is meant as a joke. I was with you all the
     
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      way up to that point.
     
     
LOL, of course this was meant as a joke! ;)
I hope nobody would ever seriously want to implement
what I have written in those last lines.

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      Your suggestions on better integrating skills into the game are
     
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      some of the best ideas I've seen here in a long time.  The
     
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      archetypes should allow specifying stealing, singing and hiding
     
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      resistance levels.  That would allow a mapmaker to put items needed
     
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      for solving a dungeon on a powerful monster that is vulnerable to
     
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      stealing or being pacified.  And a mapmaker could make the monsters
     
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      in a particular dungeon have extra difficulty seeing hidden players.
     
     
Yes, this is exactly what I had in mind.

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      Special skills do not require special maps.  It does require
     
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      existing maps are adjusted when applicable.  Pirates in a drinking
     
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      area should be particularly vulnerable to singing and oratory.
     
     
That's true. Modifying existing maps is fine and makes a lot
of sense in this case.


Andreas