Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] Vampires

[Eino K. <ein...@gm...>]

2007/7/21, Darshan Shaligram <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.

Blood vampires drink should affect them. It already does in a powerful
way (regen depends on it), but more dimensions would be great. Jarmo
envisioned them as becoming more human when they're not hungry, which
would neatly side-step the issue. ;)

> [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.

I agree with this.

--Eino