Tartarus Sorceror
Posts: 1888
Joined: Saturday, 9th July 2011, 20:57
Re: New God: Seth, the Shadow King
tsouns wrote:Great to see a new god!
He says:"Let there be no light!"
and there was no light.
"U can use lightning, though, no problem!"
*sets all the forests to fire with a wand of lightning
--
Shouldn't lightning be banned, too, to fit the theme?
This came up in ##crawl-dev a while back while we were tossing around ideas for new piety rules and conducts, since "likes: killing things, doesn't like: not killing things" is kind of boring. Eventually we realized that banning every spell that might conceivably cast light would be awkward, and so it's just things whose description specifically involves illumination (though personally I think the criteria here are still too general) and additionally, a proscription against fire for more symbolic reasons.