Combine Scroll of Noise and Fan of Gales
Posted: Monday, 13th April 2020, 15:05
Seeing as Fan of Gales (FoG) is being removed, maybe there's some value to adding it's admittedly niche effect (pushing back monsters and clouds) to an already existing Scroll of Noise (SoN), because the effect of FoG is tactically interesting (not being just different type of damage) and very uncommon, and it would be a shame to lose it completely.
SoN itself has an even more niche effect, so giving it something extra would make the item just a bit more relevant. It can also be recoloured purple like immolation, vulnerability etc.
Balance-wise to be usable new scroll (Scroll of Gales, Scroll of Squall, Scroll of Storm...?) should probably have a guaranteed pushback of at least a couple of squares at point blank range. While this is a powerful effect for a relatively common consumable to have, the huge noise (which maybe should be increased), I think, balances it out and makes using the scroll as an escape tool more dangerous, since alerting out-of-LOS monsters probably will make your situation much worse in short order (in case of escaping upstairs, it makes the stairs in question very dangerous to use again).
Combining these items also works well for flavour reasons as both have fairly "airy/windy" type effects.
SoN itself has an even more niche effect, so giving it something extra would make the item just a bit more relevant. It can also be recoloured purple like immolation, vulnerability etc.
Balance-wise to be usable new scroll (Scroll of Gales, Scroll of Squall, Scroll of Storm...?) should probably have a guaranteed pushback of at least a couple of squares at point blank range. While this is a powerful effect for a relatively common consumable to have, the huge noise (which maybe should be increased), I think, balances it out and makes using the scroll as an escape tool more dangerous, since alerting out-of-LOS monsters probably will make your situation much worse in short order (in case of escaping upstairs, it makes the stairs in question very dangerous to use again).
Combining these items also works well for flavour reasons as both have fairly "airy/windy" type effects.