Blades Runner
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Joined: Thursday, 23rd December 2010, 19:17
Robes! Everywhere!
In Crawl sadly there's not much transitory value of a medium armor (it's either a plate mail or a robe. which, I think should be fixed. but i digress) and if you choose EV path you end up wearing a robe for the whole game.
Do not misunderstand me - i like robes in all its diversity. But there's almost nothing except them (animal skins quite rare compared to robes). For spell-casters it's fine and atmospheric and thematic and fitting etc.
But what about melee fighters? I can't imagine anyone except monks to wear a robe in a fight. Come to think of it, robes actually would obstruct the movement in a battle. That's why the bottom part of a shaolin robe made more like a pants - to move freely.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-jw0MlcPlg/Rsld0IYZ1lI/AAAAAAAAAnc/072qrLZ3BXg/s400/ShaolinMonk.jpg
Also, same goes for stealth-based characters. It's quite hard to sneak around stepping on the bottom part of the robe all the time.
As of now, it seems to me like there's a whole hidden branch filled with kobolds and goblins knitting robes day and night and fat overseer whipping his whip at them yelling "More! We need more robes to fill the whole dungeon!"
Actually I'm not just ranting. I have a proposal:
1)What if there's gonna be added more variants of "animal skin" and risen the chance of it appearing in the dungeon.
2)Add new item "cloth suit/costume/garb". Picture black ninja-suit on an assassin. Or evasive fighter in a vest with his biceps showing off.
Naturally, there's gonna be needed new tiles for this and I ready to contribute as much as I can for this cause.