Pandemonium Purger
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Joined: Thursday, 16th April 2015, 22:39
2nd inventory just for food, books, scrolls: analysis
Food
Currently Crawl has 6 types of permafood and a handful of chunks. Shoving comestibles off into a second inventory will save players from having to purge 1 or more food stacks from their inventory, which is an uninteresting decision to make anyway. Will make the amount of food amusing (69 rations lol) without it being annoying. Will prevent some YASDs by newbies who leave all rations behind because they underestimate the magical ability of monsters to leave no corpses. Chunks are transient items, and their having to share space with persistent items is bothersome. Effectively, inventory space is expanded by 1 or 2 items.
Books, strategic scrolls, and useless scrolls
These are rarely of any use during a fight. Players prefer to drop/stash these to make more room in the inventory. Being able to carry these around is a mere convenience and does not actually empower the character. The main difference is that Trog's burn spellbook ability becomes more available and therefore more valuable.
Scroll of acquirement
Scroll of amnesia
Scroll of brand weapon
Scroll of curse armor
Scroll of curse weapon
Scroll of curse jewelry
Scroll of enchant armor
Scroll of enchant weapon
Scroll of identify
Scroll of noise
Scroll of random uselessness
Scroll of recharging
Scroll of remove curse
Essential scrolls
Most players keep these scrolls in their inventory at all times. Moving these scrolls out of the main inventory effectively makes the inventory hold 4 more items.
Scroll of fog
Scroll of teleportation
Scroll of blinking
Scroll of magic mapping
Desirable scrolls
The only remaining scrolls are useful to have, but tricky/situational/rare enough that dropping them is often preferred for making more inventory room. These 7 items suddenly become better because they can be carried without cluttering the main inventory space.
Scroll of holy word
Scroll of fear
Scroll of immolation
Scroll of silence
Scroll of summoning
Scroll of torment
Scroll of vulnerability