Re: [crawl] a story

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Larry Bassel wrote:
>Seriously though, this story illustrates something which I think is a
>misfeature of some roguelikes (Angband being IMHO a worse offender),
>namely that magic using characters often wield weapons which they have no
>proficiency in (and often never use in melee at all except perhaps in an
>emergency or by mistake) so that they can benefit from resistances, stat
>gains or other beneficial qualities of the weapon (i.e. the weapon
>replaces some quantity of rings and/or amulets).
>
>I'm not sure that this is anything that one would or should try to fix,
>however (or how best to do so).

Earthdawn-ish gains of weapon abilities? Ie. spend XP and use a skill to
activate a magical weapon's powers for you, persistently, in many steps?
(Perhaps only artefacts, perhaps all magical devices... you get the idea)

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