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Fluff Skills
We're looking for ideas on skills that do little to nothing, but provide great amounts of flavor. For example, the Syssin use a special sign language. It has no combat implications, though it is hard coded as a thing.
I am considering things like, Luminaries and Zealots being able to light pipes/cigs without a tinderbox.
Put them in here, I'll update every now and then with yes/no/already did it.
I am considering things like, Luminaries and Zealots being able to light pipes/cigs without a tinderbox.
Put them in here, I'll update every now and then with yes/no/already did it.
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I know that's not exactly what you asked for but it'd be super legit if you did. At least Masquerade pls
Lighting things without tinderboxes should go along with other classes that can play with fire, like, say, Ascendril. (I'm not biased at all, natch.)
I always liked the 'feel' of form demonstration, to the point sometimes I'd just stand around doing demonstrate at lessers when bored.
Similarly, I have always liked Rock-Paper-Scissors.
Combined, the two form something like SPAR , which compares your Tekura skill vs theirs in a form-lite demo that ends with one person being thrown based on stats or even just pure RNG.
Person 1 tries to grab person 2, person 2 wins the check and avoids it. They counter by sweeping the legs and tripping the other guy. Person 1 fails the check and falls, person 2 wins. Little automated things like that with some pretty flavor text you can do while bored and sitting around (or gamble on) are always neat.
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Let Sentinels paint their faces for colored descriptions?
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Let Templars use custom emotes with quickdraw up to a certain line limit? FANCYDRAW RAPIER LEFT .
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Shamans able to surround themselves with a crackling veil of lightning for a few minutes or at some steep WP cost, like those veil items already do.
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Indorani PICKACARD to flick a random card out of cache/deck and show it off with some flashy effect.
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Teradrim throwstone
skill. 1 damage, clonks someone on the head with a rock at decent balance cost.
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I really wish Carnifex soul consumption was just a channeled ability where your soulstone floated over your head and sucked in souls without you having to smack them with your halberd because it's spammy and I like the aesthetic of a rock floating overhead sucking in souls while the Carnifex focuses.
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It'd be a lot of work probably, but giving Archivists the ability to SCAN and see some basic info about it (species, sapient, strength, random fact, etc.)
Shadow Apparition / Spirit Apparition
You can send this apparition to a mutual ally of yours in the continent, where you can see through the apparition, say (or maybe even emote) through it while you are somewhere else. The complex spell is hard to maintain, thus even a punch will destroy it for good. The skill could be optionally used on other people in the wilderness who are not on monolith (But has cooldown associated in that mode perhaps not to spam it?)
ELICIT SPACE : Increase the space in a container by 50%. Only one container can be expanded at a time. Does not effect container decay time. Cannot be used on artifact containers.
I.e. Can create a pack with 75 spaces in it.
Cute-Kelli by @Sessizlik.
Abiliity to compose messages only other Archivists would see, something akin to leaving an in room message, floating about in the room in like purple text, a cleverly hidden notation.
* make use of Air and bend it in a way to conceal, direct or distort speech.
* resist falling flat from weather-induced wind or choking from similarly existent sandstorms.
* shift shadows and darkness in a room that has been flooded with darkness
Ascendrils:
* be able to speak long distance through fire, if it is present in the room. (total HP ripoff >.>)
* become water resistant, so when it rains they can opt to not get soaked.
- Sentinels able to use any woodlore ent like that
- Is a channeled instakill fluff? Syssin able to headshot someone for a kill with a bow like a behead clone
- Warhound fetch
. Throw an object into the next room, your dog runs and brings it back
- BREAK ICE with savagery warhammer to get rid of ice on the ground for a bit
- WHITTLE for Wayfarer. Bored in the wilderness, you learn to carve little trinkets for yourself/others. Give a few pre-defined shapes or creatures, like bird/wolf/bear/toothpick/whatever. 1 wood comm turns into that trinket.
- Wayfarers can chop down trees to make a furniture item with a few weeks decay time.
- shaman jolt - charge yourself with static electricity and zap someone for a little damage
- I wish bashing/pking actually made you look grimy or bloody, cleared on death. Everyone could SCRUB, but you could give a select few classes access to ways to clean themselves off, like shifters could clean their claws or Templars/Carnifex could POLISH ARMOR with a rag.
Hi.
As far as Ascendril remote-communications ideas go, the fireplace idea is a lot cooler (or hotter if you will.) That said I'd hate to see the water side of the equation get neglected, so to that end:
Do we really not have any other CRITters or DnDers here.
Cute-Kelli by @Sessizlik.
Carnifex:Instantly clean self
Add temporary colorful lines to rooms
Make firework/firestick-esque effects (limited?)
Add very minor (negligible) nourishment to food (changing/improving taste); alternatively, save a food description/eating lines, and apply it to other food with no change in nourishment? turn rations into cakes.
Luminary/Zealot:Hound fetch (see toz's post)
Hound fights? (Have two hounds fight each other, win/lose based on stats?) Maybe too much.
Seconding polish armor/weapons, but ANOINT WEAPON/ARMOR WITH SOULS.
And this one will never get through: SOUL SUMMON STEED. soul warhorse
Light pipes/tinderboxes with hands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sanctuary/Warmth: creates a line in the description of the room that's like, a sense of warmth and comfort pervades the area. doesn't do anything, just makes people feel all good, maybe some ambience lines. lasts a day?
The ability to tag a single animal/npc, which lets you seek out its location later.
The ability to have the woodlore animals deliver things.