Mines Malingerer
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Joined: Monday, 4th July 2016, 04:56
DD Replacement - Crystal Dwarf
I came up with an idea for "fixing" them. They would be replaced by the following species:
Crystal Dwarf
The origin of these strange creatures has led to much speculation. They hail from the deepest depths of the earth, and their whole bodies are made of hard crystal.
Crystal Dwarfs have much the same aptitudes of Deep Dwarfs (but more than open to change).They also posses huge amounts of HP.
Now for the interesting part - Crystal Dwarfs lose Max HP, permanently, from taking damage.
e.g: CD has 27 Max HP. He then gets into a large fight, and loses 3 HP. This then brings his Max HP to 24. The CD cannot, however, get that HP back- as rather than subtracting from HP, it subtracted from his Max HP.
The only possible way for said Crystal Dwarf to get HP back to 27 is either through XL advancement, or increasing Fighting skill.
Things such as Makhleb or wands of healing would not change HP in any way.
Crystal Dwarfs would also be immune to poison, seeing as their bodies are made of Crystal.
Please let me know what you think- I'm not quite sure how such a race would play out, but thought I'd suggest it for discussion.
NB: On a side note, if it seemed better, Crystal Dwarfs could have damage equally dished out between current and max HP- leaving room healing items, abilities etc.