Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] Vampires

[Darshan S. <sci...@gm...>]

Just a couple of points:

On 7/21/07, jp...@mi... <jp...@mi...> wrote:

> For some reason, I think vampires should be able to mutate.

Crawl canon says that the undead cannot mutate. I'd want to have
really strong reasons for changing this.

[bat form]
> Here's a list of things bats can
> do in my version they can't in Jarmo's: memorise spells, zap wands, cast spells,
> quaff or read.

But this is too powerful. Bats are easy to transform into, are very
fast, and they fly. For balance reasons we have to restrict them: We
need to (at least) disallow wand zapping and spellcasting - stuff that
needs hands.

Cheers,
Darshan