Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] Artificer class

[Matthew C. <zel...@us...>]

On Sunday 07 December 2008 04:48:14 am David Ploog wrote:

> 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.)

Hmmm.  The randomness of drawing cards would be counter to what I see 
as an exactness on the part of someone who works with machines and 
contraptions.  On the other hand, maybe they could rig traps out of 
decks.  That would be interesting.

> Do you have more concrete ideas on the potions->recharge theme?

That was just an example to stimulate brainstorming, but  a 
value-in-potions times a constant to value-in-charges would be easy 
to do: using a multiplier of 2 would turn one potion of cure mutation 
into one charge of a wand of healing or three charges of a wand of 
digging.

Also, moving around charges between wands would be a good idea for a 
class that was supposed to make good use of them, at least between 
wands of the same type so you'd only need to carry one wand of each 
type.

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