Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] Artificer class

[David P. <pl...@mi...>]

On Sat, 6 Dec 2008, Matthew Cline wrote:
> On Saturday 06 December 2008 07:55:17 pm David Ploog wrote:
>
>> Two activists have put together a new class, the Artificer. This is
>> a class starting with a good feeling for technical stuff, which in
>> Crawl translates to Evocations, Traps & Doors and Crossbows. (The
>> Evocations being most important, I guess.) They start with two
>> wands (one being of random effects, the other one a minor tier wand
>> to be chosen).
>
> Unless Artificers are given a way to recharge wands I would think that
> they should be given some sort of rod.  ToME3 has plans for an wand
> centered Alchemist class which can recharge wands using potions.

This would be interesting: a way to turn resources into charges. Has to be 
carefully balanced -- we don't want making charging of crucial wands 
trivial.
(I mentioned Deep Dwarves below: in my current design, they start with a 
wand of healing and the ability to recharge (anything) at the cost of one 
Maxmp.)

> > Also, this could be a good class for implementing a player-set-traps,
> since mechanical traps would fit in with artificing and also fit in
> with their starting Traps & Doors skills.

Yes, setting traps by the player will come, ultimately.

>> I think that the class adds interesting gameplay: it would be an
>> ideal choice for players intending to go with misc. items and/or
>> with Nemelex.
>
> I don't think that "artificer" would go well with drawing magical
> cards out a deck created by a god, but maybe that's just me.

You mean it is counter to the flavour? As I see it, they accept the 
presence of Magic (you have to in the dungeon) but prefer to produce their 
magics in a way different than casters. If you want, in a manual way 
rather than an arcane way. Drawing cards seems to be 'manual' too (which 
is why it falls under Evocations, I guess.)

Thanks for input! Do you have more concrete ideas on the potions->recharge 
theme?
David