Pandemonium Purger
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Joined: Saturday, 7th July 2012, 02:28
Location: Limbo
Beastly appendage
Currently beastly appendage has a whopping 36.73% chance of actually doing SOMETHING when you attack on a HuTm.
That's really nice considering that spider form has a 100% chance of actually doing something when you attack.
And so does ice form.
And blade hands.
And hydra form.
And statue form.
And even necromutation does what it says on the tin all the time!
But what if instead of 1 level 3 auxiliary, it had 3 auxiliaries - talons, fangs and horns - whose level depended on your spellpower - starting at level 1?
http://anydice.com/program/5944
Holy shit, a 74.68% chance of actually doing something!!
Obviously this is an unacceptable buff to the background that is just about the absolute worst at XL1.
And if you're thinking "but wait, won't 3 auxiliaries make beastly appendage too powerful????"
Let the numbers speak for themselves:
That's a HuTm at 0 experience with horns:1 fangs:1 talons:1
This is a HuMo.
MEGAEDIT: fyi this is a fsim against an adder
I don't care about "oh no but think of the equipment conflicts!!", I don't care about "think of the message spam!", I don't care about "would you PUHLEASE think of the poor racial mutation conflicts".
What I care about is making transmuters have an actually reliably useful starting spell that actually does its job most of the time.
And with a whopping 25% chance to do the absolute definition of nothing three attacks in a row I'd say it kind of doesn't do that at all.