[Crawl-ref-discuss] [crawl-ref-discuss] Vampires

[<jp...@mi...>]

Hey, sorry about the silence - I've been offline reading Harry Potter. :p

To recap your comments:

* Vampires can't mutate :(
Instead they'll rot like Mummies and Ghouls, right? Should this also happen
when drinking mutagenic blood, or can anyone think of a cooler effect?

* Bats can't do anything involving hands, including zapping wands, reading
scrolls or books, quaffing potions or casting spells.

* Distinguish between dead form (hungry) and undead form (satiated).
Thanks, Jarmo, for explaining this. It makes sense now. I'm still against the
complicated regeneration-wounds-effect (probably because I don't understand it)
and against the not-drinking-potions thing.

In effect, vampires will have similar resistances like Mummies/Ghouls (cold,
life protection, susceptible to fire) when hungry/starving and also have no or
very little regeneration which will increase as they drink blood. Should poison
resistance only be available to hungry vampires?
Hmm... I guess we need to make these effects pan out somehow from starving over
hungry and satiated to full. Ideas?

The bat form makes this a bit more complicated. With bats being more "natural"
creature than vampires, I guess this firmly shoves them into the "alive"
section, meaning they regenerate normally but don't have the various
resistances.

Of course they should take damage from Repel Undead (or however it's called), at
least when hungering.

>> I don't know. How far is a satiated vampire from being undead? Jarmo?

> IMO they are still undead so they should alwas take some damage.

That's another point. Even when full to the rim, a vampire is still an undead
creature (prob. even as a vampire bat). So what about that?

Oh, and it's still called "Hungry" (I changed it, but patch refused to swallow
that particular chunk of code). Rethinking it, "hungry" makes more sense than
"thirsty": Whenever I've come across vampires in literature they were always
described as having a "look of hunger in their eyes", hunger referring to the
need to nourish themselves. I guess it's the oxygen they crave, not the liquid.

Thanks for your comments,

Johanna