idea for a new creature type?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 11:08 pm

How about a Xorn like creature.
Basicaly it would be a "dragon" like class, but where you eat armour, weapons, amulets, rings etc for your resistances.
Maybe even get temporary attacktypes by eating swords.
ex. eat a sword with attacktype weaponmagic. You get that attack type untill you eat somthing with a new attacktype.
and if it has more than one attack type , only one is selected at random.
It would only eat metal items for food points not organic foods.
ideas?
comments?

cavesomething · Post by **cavesomething** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 3:10 am

Yes!! and then it could wield food as weapons and armour. I want to have a plate mail of fried chicken +4 ....

Zortan · Post by **Zortan** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 3:11 am

Cool.. once you eat enough dragon scale mail, you no longer get resistance from it.. You'd have to go get WDSM to increase fire resistance

How many rings of war for some good resistance?!

cavesomething · Post by **cavesomething** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 8:16 pm

Seriously, this does seem like a cool way to limit the degree to which the insanly powerful items get stockpiled. The balancing for this would reqiure that this race would be unable to wield items (I think probably completly). Could make the game really hard if you also banned rods....

Zortan · Post by **Zortan** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 12:17 pm

Hmm.. it would be new food type too! You HAVE TO eat equipment to survive.. if you eat regular food, it's like poison to you!

I can imagine now sharing my apartment with this other character.. I collect useless things, he/she can eat them

Insomniac · Post by **Insomniac** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 9:05 am

Wierd. VERY wierd. But I think you've got something there! As opposed to a character carrying around food [most players carrying around food, dragons carrying zombie corpses/steaks], this character would most likely carry around a good supply of small shields and swords

However, there's one thing we haven't specified on. Will spells work normally for this char, will it have a special way of casting, or will it not be able to use spells at all?

Well, bye!

Fiindil · Post by **Fiindil** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 11:21 am

yeah but then you might get some people who stockpile magic items from the goblin tc etc about to sell 600 kg worth of stuff to find it'sd been eaten

cavesomething · Post by **cavesomething** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 8:59 pm

Insofar as this is likely to reduce the massive stockpiling of items that I (and others) engage in, it is likely to be a good thing for the game's economy.

Besides the Goblin TC isn't worth bothering with above lvl 10.

Zephyrus · Post by **Zephyrus** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 2:18 am

Heh. I give you full points for creativity. I can't say we need another unbalanced race. Dragon already dominates MF.CF.net. This Xorn thing would need serious drawbacks.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 11:27 am

How to degrade Xorn:
Potions won't work for them.(maybe improvement or stat will or a percentage chance to fail for all potions)
No weild weapons
No wear armour
No wear amulets
No wear rings
Must eat metal armour/weapons/etc otherwise no improvement
Eating organics/leather/cloth is poison