Blades Runner
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Joined: Friday, 18th January 2013, 01:08
Location: Medical Mechanica
Proposal: Okawaru Passive
Heroism becomes a passive bonus to combat skills
-Can make skills go from 27 to 31 (Is this a no-no?)
-Indexed to tension.
-Lower boundary rises with piety, + 0,25 per piety *
-Higher boundary is (skill value / 9) + 1
-Slightly increases metabolism when the bonus is above +0 (Hero needs food badly!)
* piety, no skill: between +0.25 and +1 depending on tension for a theoretical max of 1 skillpoint where there is none.
****** piety, maXXed skill: between +1.50 ~ +4 depending on tension for theoretical maxes of 31
Optional: Gives you a status word giving you a rough measurement of current tension (The info would already be there if you cared to do the math, which shouldn't even be hard, so why not?)
Pros:
+Rewards piety
+Rewards skill investment (you're more likely to pull off heroics using tools you actually know)
+Waxes and wanes as you ride the waves of battles (Strongest when challenging, weakest when non-threatening)
+Triggers itself getting rid of the need to a-a for every decent battle.
+Has a food cost even if it is a passive.
+Gets rid of the "I'm at 27 skill now, what good is Heroism anymore?" question, making Okawaru more valid for the late-game.
+More varied than current Heroism: Instead of +5 across the board, each character would get better at what they already do better.
Cons:
-Would need to allow skills >27 with this formulation
-I don't know where to shoehorn a piety cost
-Indexed-to-tension may be perceived as too fickle for Okawaru
-Certain situations may cause annoying metabolism speed
-Means a semi-permanent skill increase, this may be perceived as biting Ashenzari's style, unless skill boosting is taken as Okawaru's schtick too - both can be seen as "excellence" gods (excellence through battle, excellence through sacrifice).
-The game's measurement of tension and the player's sense of threat may disagree leading to cries of foul.
Trolls welcome.
Hirsch I wrote:Also,are you calling me a power-gamer? this is highly offensive! now excuse me, I have to go back to my GrBe game, that I savescummed until trog gave me a Vampiric +9 claymore.