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

[David P. <dp...@ma...>]

On Tue, 30 May 2017, Nicholas Feinberg wrote:

> If you want to reduce inventory item types to reduce inventory pressure, I
> would strongly consider just removing types, rather than combining them
> willy-nilly.

I wouldn't think that combining !might, !agility, !brilliance is 
willy-nilly: use of the latter is quite disjoint from the first two. Next, 
these are *good* items (like many consumables), because they create good 
decisions. I believe that a combined potion would produce a very similar 
type of choice, at reduced inventory cost.

> Is a potion with three different unrelated effects really a good design,
> something that would be added to the game on its own merits? Or is it just
> an appeal to crawl's history?

I can resort to hyperbole as well: why does !resist provide a bunch of 
different effects (but not MR+)? Surely we should have !rF+ etc.

David