Re: Water magic and matrix gems

[Greg Mowczko <mooch@cioe.com>]

> From steve@virtual-voodoo.com  Tue Feb 29 08:26:03 2000
> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:24:09 -0500
> From: Steve Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>
> To: "Sean L. McLane" <zodo@laf.cioe.com>
> Cc: gmlist@cioe.com
> Subject: Re: Water magic and matrix gems
>
> > > So if you can't buy down bought skills or stats, what else is there to buy 
> > > down? The way AQ works, everything is a bought skill, including spells,
> > > combat mods, and even DP. I thought that with Transmogrify, you bought yourself
> > > down to zero, including your stats, then bought everything back up to what
> > > you want, within the parameters that you can only transmog into an existing
> > > creature.

And as a result of becoming that creature of equal rate you forget how to
pickpockets. The question is can you pick pockets a little if you transmog into
a creature of lower rate? I mean you have extra rates left over. According to my
own "screw the player" rules though your screwed. My exception is I might let
you put the extra into maintaining you DP. What good is turning into a slug if
one squit kills you?

> > Of equal or lower rating. Stats don't count toward your rating hence being
> > able to buy them down is money for nothing... and would increase your
> > rating which would place you outside the parameters of the transmog.
>
> To reply to myself... the purpose of a transmog is to let you change from
> one creature into another. It is _NOT_ designed to let you reorganize your
> skill purchases. Only those things intrinsic to the creature should be
> able to transmog. This means its perfectly acceptable to sell down racial
> abilities (including base movement). You might be able to make an argument
> for _reorganizing_ your stats but probably not. If your a strength 17
> human, your going to be a strength 18 ogre/elf/draco.
>
> But lets say I'm dead wrong about being able to transmog and that you are
> alowd to totally sell everything down to zero and re-organize. Two things
> become apparent:
>
> 1. Your getting stuff that you never paid for (stats are free in AQ, if
>    they weren't I'd be agreeing with you)
> 2. It still doesn't allow you to build the eep generator that John Hogg
>    was talking about (which is where this discussion started).
>
> However (*grin*) I'm not wrong on this. Wish I was. My character has
> transmogrified more than every other adventurer in the game put together.
> I was forced to play by some pretty tight rulings.

Yeah screw the player trying to bend things :)

> -Steve
								Greg