Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] Too many inventory items these days, meld some

[Alex J. <al...@ju...>]

I like the idea of having fewer potions with broader use cases. It will
make deciding when to use a potion much harder.

Rather than offering the player two levels of quaff menu (which this
proposal seems to do), I suggest changing potions to apply ALL the effects
at once. A potion of power would give might, agi and brill. Etcetera...

(Inventory pressure also doesn't present interesting choices: there are
always enough "strategic" items in a player's inventory which can be
dropped without concern. It just makes the player backtrack more, which is
a tedious activity.)

On Wed., 31 May 2017, 6:29 am Kristoffer Björkman, <
kri...@gm...> wrote:

> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 2:08 PM, DS L <dsl...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> also... years ago.... some potion colours were more likely to signify
>> certain potion types. In the early game, a black speckled potion was more
>> likely to be a bad one (mutation, degeneration) than a glowing pink potion.
>> I kinda preferred that.
>>
>
> That seems to promote [classic nethackish] spoiler knowledge, a direction
> that seems contrary to the intention of DCSS. Or am I misinterpreting the
> suggestion?
>
> /Kristoffer
>
>
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