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Mines Malingerer
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Mines Malingerer
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CanOfWorms wrote:if you take a moment to think about how many species actually have monster counterparts in the game, and where those monsters appear in the game/what abilities those monsters can have, you should realize this is a really bad idea
and to cut off the discussion immediately, adding a nontrivial number of monster counterparts for every playable species is also a bad idea
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Mines Malingerer
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CanOfWorms wrote: anyway *even* if we hypothetically added enough monsters in the game so that every species had monster counterparts this would still be a bad idea, see "if you take a moment to think about how many species actually have monster counterparts in the game, and what abilities those monsters can have you should realize this is a really bad idea"
CanOfWorms wrote:...you do realize the pan/hell rework is to reduce the number of branches that spawn in the game, not to add branches, right
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Elf lover wrote:CanOfWorms wrote: anyway *even* if we hypothetically added enough monsters in the game so that every species had monster counterparts this would still be a bad idea, see "if you take a moment to think about how many species actually have monster counterparts in the game, and what abilities those monsters can have you should realize this is a really bad idea"
You could make god gifts more/less powerful depending on race while keeping race flavour but whatever.
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CanOfWorms wrote:yes, coding in +20 special cases for a god is good, solid design and definitely not an indication that there is something flawed with the premise
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