Tartarus Sorceror
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Joined: Saturday, 9th July 2011, 20:57
Re: Generic Brainstorming!
For cultists of the Horror From Beyond the Stars, instead of maxHP (or perhaps in addition to it) you could sacrifice a number of other things -- points of stats, or skills, or body parts (losing your off-hand, for instance...) In return, you can use the Pact from your sacrifice to purchase powers to use -- summoning horrors, causing fear or insanity, raging destruction. Some powers could be a sacrifice in and of themselves, like a body slot mutation. A variation: as you play, your god offers you powers at random times and tells you what you must do to gain that power. "You receive a horrific revelation: For the cost of 3 max HP, you can gain the power to inspire fear and insanity in those who see you. Do you accept? [Y/n]"
I had the idea that by the end of the game, a follower would probably be too deformed to use most weapons and armor but their bodies would be so utterly inhuman and their powers would be so great that this would not be a problem. Who needs crystal plate mail when your spongy flesh absorbs blows and swallows up weapons? For the deranged cultists of this god, becoming a horrific abomination is the greatest thing they can hope for.