Slime Squisher
Posts: 332
Joined: Friday, 4th February 2011, 18:04
Location: The South, US
Bad Mutation Proposals
I'm aiming for 'Not Annoying, and on a scale between Hampering and Dangerous."
Looking for feedback and other bad mutation proposals.
Current Malmutations
- Berserkitis
- Teletitus
- Shoutitus
- Slow Movement
- Deformed
- Attribute Loss
- Fraility
- Low MP
- Slow Healing
- Deterioration
- Vegetarian
- Fast Metabolism
Bad Mutation Proposals
- Remorse - Chance to lose mana OR stat drain OR get drained when you kill something (edit: I was actually thinking a 3%, 10%, 30% chance on kill of losing mana, OR a 3%, 10%, 30% chance of a single point, single stat drain, ... Not all three effects in one mutation)
- Hypochondriac - Chance for unbranded physical damage to be Poison
- Forgetful - Chance of draining during tension
- Fearful - Chance of reducing AC and EV upon taking damage
- Marked - Chance of Sentinels Mark for each XP percentage point, with duration increasing based on XL (could replace Shoutitus. Having the level descend upon you seems like it would cause more excitement/desperation than having intermittently terrible stealth, but that could be a bad thing)
- NAME? (concussion prone) - Upon taking damage in a single blow that is a percentage of max HP (% maxHP damage), your movement is temporarily slowed
- Mana Leak - % maxHP damage threshold drains mana like the guardian amulet, only without the guarding
- Spontaneous Combustion - % maxHP damage threshold gives fireball centered on player. The damage of fireball should likely be based on max HP so spriggans don't die instantly
- Awkward - Negative EV (edit: while minus DEX does lower EV, it does many other things. I think something analogous to Deformed might be nice, something like a minimum EV malus + EV malus based on perhaps XL?)
Ideally, I'd like to see some weaknesses to the various resistible effects beyond a simple negative resist, along the lines of cold-blooded (slows when hit by cold), but I'm still thinking about these.
Also, 'Bad Mutation Proposals' is grammatical fun.
TSE