Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] Paralysis and stab

[Josh <doc...@ya...>]

How about we just give a CHANCE at stabbing the
paralyzed monster, and let the chance be governed by
ranks in Fighting (thus requiring a character to split
his skill ranks further).

Cheers, ---J

--- David Ploog <pl...@mi...> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> during the TSO implementation, we (dolorous and me)
> settled for allowing 
> paralysed monsters to be stabbable. The advantages:
> * very much fitting
> * TSO conduct
> 
> The disadvantage:
> * completely broken
> 
> The problem is of course not the wand of paralysis
> but the spell (as usual 
> in such cases). There are several solutions to the
> problem I can see, but 
> we should definitely take one. Leaving things as is
> would be game breaking 
> (Stalkers start with Paralysis in their book, for
> example).
> 
> a) return to the old state; just declare attacking
> paralysed monsters to
>     be a violation of the TSO conduct
> b) replace the Paralyse spell with something
> different (in general, not
>     just in the Stalker spellbook)
> 
> Of course, a) would be the simple solution but I
> _always_ wondered why I 
> can't stab paralysed monsters. (I figured out later
> and should have 
> thought of it here.) If someone has a better
> solution for a), for example 
> a nice spell to help in b), that would be really
> nice.
> 
> David
> 
>
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