Development News: Beware of that Rusty Mace!
Hi everyone,
This week we continued working on major effects including new diseases and sanity loss effects. We are also adding a new overworld incident.
One of the diseases is tetanus. Hero may get this from the enemies who use rusty equipment. Skeleton Warriors have rusty swords and maces. Also some of the Sharkmen use rusty anchors.
Since this disease affects jaw muscles, our hero’s speaking ability suffers. He gets -10 to all speechcraft checks. He also gets %50 less nutrition from food because eating is hard for him. The shop prices are calculated taking speechcraft skill into account, so they become expensive too.
Another new disease is “Itchy Skin”. It comes from the Giant Centipede and causes -4 dexterity loss.
A new Sanity Loss effect is “Superstitous”. This comes from ghosts and cause our hero to lose 10 points of mind resistance. This is bad news for the hero because ghosts now can drain hero’s stamina more easily and can make him fatigue.
Hero can use a Sanity Potion to cure all sanity loss effects. Also talking with Elder Scholar and gaining Logical Thinking effect cures "Superstitious" condition. All disease effects are cured by Cure Disease Potions.
To make use of the sanity loss and disease effects, we worked on a new incident for the overworld: Lost Mausoleum. Hero may come up to this mysterious location and can investigate if he wishes. It has a randomly generated battlemap with a sarcophagus, broken pillars and otherworldy creatures. It will have better loot from normal incidents but will have more enemies too.
We tested The Grim Plague disease we mentioned last week. Now when the hero has Grim Plague, he is not allowed to go inside the town. Town guard stops him because of public health concerns. Hero can bribe the guard or sneak into the town. If he visits the tavern, he triggers “Epidemic” status at the town. This happens even if the town has different status before, like “Royal Marriage” or “Alchemy Festival”. Because of epidemic, all activites are postponed.
If the town already has epidemic, no one stops our hero. Also we put a small disease effect to the town model if it has epidemic. That’s all for this week. Thanks for reading.
May the tides bring you triumph!
This week we continued working on major effects including new diseases and sanity loss effects. We are also adding a new overworld incident.
One of the diseases is tetanus. Hero may get this from the enemies who use rusty equipment. Skeleton Warriors have rusty swords and maces. Also some of the Sharkmen use rusty anchors.
Since this disease affects jaw muscles, our hero’s speaking ability suffers. He gets -10 to all speechcraft checks. He also gets %50 less nutrition from food because eating is hard for him. The shop prices are calculated taking speechcraft skill into account, so they become expensive too.
Another new disease is “Itchy Skin”. It comes from the Giant Centipede and causes -4 dexterity loss.
A new Sanity Loss effect is “Superstitous”. This comes from ghosts and cause our hero to lose 10 points of mind resistance. This is bad news for the hero because ghosts now can drain hero’s stamina more easily and can make him fatigue.
Hero can use a Sanity Potion to cure all sanity loss effects. Also talking with Elder Scholar and gaining Logical Thinking effect cures "Superstitious" condition. All disease effects are cured by Cure Disease Potions.
To make use of the sanity loss and disease effects, we worked on a new incident for the overworld: Lost Mausoleum. Hero may come up to this mysterious location and can investigate if he wishes. It has a randomly generated battlemap with a sarcophagus, broken pillars and otherworldy creatures. It will have better loot from normal incidents but will have more enemies too.
We tested The Grim Plague disease we mentioned last week. Now when the hero has Grim Plague, he is not allowed to go inside the town. Town guard stops him because of public health concerns. Hero can bribe the guard or sneak into the town. If he visits the tavern, he triggers “Epidemic” status at the town. This happens even if the town has different status before, like “Royal Marriage” or “Alchemy Festival”. Because of epidemic, all activites are postponed.
If the town already has epidemic, no one stops our hero. Also we put a small disease effect to the town model if it has epidemic. That’s all for this week. Thanks for reading.
May the tides bring you triumph!