Implementing Poison in Stendhal: Difference between revisions

***I believe it won't be overpowered if each weapon can only have one coat of poison on it at any time, and they require an amount of time to apply, similar to skills like fishing or coal mining. Poisons can be treated as a property of an item, similar to atk or def, except as either true/false, 0/1, or yes/no, so poison cannot be added to a weapon that already has it. So new properties could be if the weapon has poison, and what type of poison it is. Combat could check for poison, and then apply the right effect. For instance a weapon with mega poison could have properties like this: Poisoned:1 P_type:5. It could be shown in the description as Poisoned [*****] with five stars. - Richgar

*** Depends on how effective the poison will be with or without the ability to stack. The values of the poison can be modified, since they have no impact in-game right now. I'm concerned about the stacking ability when it comes to arrows. It doesn't seem logical to poison a bow like a melee weapon, so its more logical to poison the arrows. However, poisoning one arrow with a whole bottle doesn't seem reasonable. It would be more logical to poison a bunch of arrows with one bottle, but ranged is already powerful as it is. If many arrows could be poisoned at once, combined with a stacking poison, it could make ranged overpowered. Instead, 2 arrows could be fully coated from tip to tail at a time, and provide the highest chance of inflicting poison. Next would be daggers, then swords, axes, and finally clubs. It would detect the weapon type based on the name of the weapon, "bow", "shuriken", "dagger", "sword" or "blade", "axe" or "scythe", "hammer" or "staff", and use that to determine the chance of inflicting poison. - Richgar

*** This needs some testing after we decide whether poison should stack. Unless we're talking about a poison revamp that includes changing enemy poison effects, i think poison should behave like the poison of the monster it came from, so it wouldn't diminish. How long it lasts would need some testing for balance, or we could just use the same values as the current poisonous monsters in-game. - Richgar

** I believe it should take time to coat a weapon with poison, similar to skills like fishing or mining coal. You would put a bottle of poison in one hand, and the melee weapon, ammunition, or missile in the other. "Applying poison." would show in the chat log, and after maybe 4 or 5 seconds, your weapon will have poison property enabled. - Richgar

*** I don't think this is a good rpg concept. Since poison mostly comes from monster hunting, I believe its better to give players the ability to poison their own weapons. Similar to the ability to mill your own sugar. - Richgar

* I think stabby weapons like daggers and arrows should have a higher chance of inflicting poison, since they penetrate deeper, and then swords and axes, and finally clubs have the lowest chance. To apply the poison, it would be similar to the scroll eraser. You put the poison in one hand, and the weapon in the other. When you attack with the weapon, whether you successfully poison the enemy or not, the poison is used up. Since the poison bottles in the game have no use other than quests... I think their values can be modified a bit to make them more balanced for implementing the use of poison. - Richgar