Re: Oly: changes I'd like to see for G2

From: jeremy@insignia.com (Jeremy Maiden)

Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Olympia meets Pern!

Here's a tangential idea for the general thoughts on how to fix/break
G1/G2.

1) Do away with dragons in their current form, replace them with
dragons as a category skill. Keep reading, it will make sense.

2) Introduce a treasure item Dragon's Egg, perhaps normally found
with some horrendous and uncapturable adult dragon monster. This
is the one-use only source of instruction for Dragon skill.

3) Using a Dragon's Egg and a noble point lets a character "impress"
the hatched dragon, binding it permanently to that noble - learning
the category skill of Dragons.

4) Subskills are then available to the noble-dragon combination,
including:

4a) Flying (you really can't have dragons that don't fly)
4b) Carrying more weight
4c) Breathing fire (ie very large missile attack factor, and preferably
multiple attacks per round)
4d) Being tough (ie very large defence factor)
4e) Teleporting (a skill that's forgotten on each use)
4f) Stamina (for flying over water for months on end)

What this gets you is the proper role-playing chrome type of dragon
that's very powerful, but costs many months of study to build up,
without having the situation that someone can have 200 of them.

Whether this approach helps other perceived problems with beastmastery,
gatemastery etc. I leave to the reader.

Jeremy

References

OLY: breaking Beastmastery
pepper@smead.ecn.purdue.edu (Pierre H Pero)
Tue, 19 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000