and into wrote:Well as for the actual proposal, its more appropriate in CYC, however the question of *why* mummies are as they are seems relevant enough for GDD. So I think the thread can stay here, at least for the moment.
I think everything that's to be said about buffing mummies was covered in that last thread, which bcadren helpfully linked right off the bat.
Actually, in that linked thread, pretty much nothing about buffing mummies was discussed at all, it was about some weird melee contamination. Nobody listed a single problem with buffing mummies there, so I don't understand how you can say it was covered there, it was just derailed.
Anyway, my proposals of -1 instead of -2 apts was just to make them slightly less bad. The RC++ just seemed more consistant with undead stuff, but it's really not too important either way. I was just trying to think of a minor buff you could give them.
I don't believe the only thing that makes mummies interesting is that they're really bad. No potions by itself is a very interesting mechanic. Full torment and pain immunity is interesting. A built in necro boost is interesting. I just don't see the point of a race where the best advice regarding that race is "Don't play them". But maybe a blanket change to apts isn't really interesting either.
What about a built in, activated ability "Curse of the mummy".
Causes exhaustion, or some other timeout, plus some MP.
It could give a random irresistible debuff to a targeted monster, chosen from the following list:
- -X to accuracy and damage. X is based on XL
- -10% max HP
- fear
- slow
- flavor text
This ability would most useful in the early game, where mummies could use a survivability boost, but would remain somewhat useful all game, while not being incredibly game changing either. I'd think the timeout should be rather long, maybe even XP based, given that mummies are quite able to 5 away any turn based timeout. Being able to 'curse' things makes thematic sense for a mummy.
On a related note, shouldn't mummies have at least a 0, if not higher aptitude for hexes?