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Martin Read <mpread@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> "Dave Hammond" <davidjhammond@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>Generated with 5-10 beads. Each bead can be applied to give you a
>>prayer. Blessed gives 100% happy god prayer, and uncursed/cursed give
>>diminishing results including a good chance of an angry god result
>>with a cursed bead.
>
> Sounds like YA proposal for an item with no meaningful drawbacks, I'm
> afraid. (Bad things can happen if you use it when it isn't blessed?
> Well, damn. I'll just make sure not to use it when it isn't blessed,
> then.)
Possibilities to consider to balance
.. Align them, perhaps, as altars?
Not sure. If they can be converted then it just adds a step before
use (as with 'only works when blessed'); if they can't be converted,
become Just Another Useless Item.
.. Make them available only from priests?
For sufficient donation, of course -- or maybe if priests can offer
miniquests ("bring me the head of...").
.. ... from coaligned priests?
As above -- donation, miniquest -- but only if you get lucky enough to
find a coaligned priest. Might make for a nice bennie, may be too
annoying to try to acquire.
.. Require that they be constructed somehow?
This may have some possibilities. Take a number of gems, bless them
(or pray over them?), meld them together (as scales to make DSM).
Perhaps require multiple types of gems (burn up more holy water,
though by the time you can make a decent string of prayer beads you
probably have or can get lots... and requiring gems means that it's
*expensive*). Glass just doesn't work (and may even offend the god).
Other questions:
.. Would they work in Gehennom?
.. Would they work if god is angry?
Both of those would make them very nice to have. I could see building
a small one for emergencies, if they had this much power.
Keith
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