Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] Artificer class

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

On Sun, 7 Dec 2008, Matthew Cline wrote:
> 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.

I wouldn't draw the distinction between "magic -- non-magic" and also not 
between "random -- reliable". I'd draw the line between "brain -- hand" or 
also "Int -- Dex" (the latter is not really achievable right now).

>> 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.

Sounds interesting.

> 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.

Of course, we can't give any class-dependant abilities. I see two 
potential solutions:
(a) you get this ability with high enough Evocations skill, and/or
(b) there is a misc. item doing that.

The same goes for the potion->recharge ability.

David