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God items
Mostly this comes of a desire to have a HULK SMASH PUNY HUMAN playtime, and because I think making up god powers would be fun.
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Many (most) miscellaneous items should have two types of uses, one permanent (as now), and one single-use (disposing the item). This has a number of good consequences:
1. Using the one-off effect of miscellaneous items turns them into expensive consumables. Expensive, because they are generally heavy and don't stack.
2. Hence, there are choices of what to carry (in addition of when to use).
3. This would be another boost to a (not yet existing) Evocations playing style, because a character with high Evocations skill will be more likely to have good use for these items (with both permanent or one-off use).
4. Flavourful and large-scale effects (which are too big/powerful for scrolls) can go nicely to miscellaneous items.
5. And there is the inherent dilemma that a good item is gone if you invoke the one-off effect.
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mageykun wrote:Which items now have secondary, expensive, one off usages? I remember in nethack you had the option to break a wand in half, trading several linear zaps for one omnidirectional magical explosion (which, like a scroll of immolation, is sometimes strategically viable- if dangerous). In crawl though, I can't think of an example. The tome of destruction and box of beasts can be consumed/exhausted by evoking, but that's random, and there's no strategic reason to want to make that sacrifice.
Hrmm... actually, I suppose the new book burning amnesia thing qualifies. Forgot about that. Any other examples?
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You don't really mean "become a god", people. Your character can't become a God and still play the game, since Gods don't have stats. Because anything with stats, no matter how high, can be killed-and Gods can't be killed*. If you're taking on the powers of a god in a physical plane, you become an avatar of that god.
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