Separate True Artifacts for IDDC

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Unmouseable
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Separate True Artifacts for IDDC

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Hello, I was wondering if it would be possible to have a separate set of true Artifacts in IDDC?

This would make a pretty huge difference in survivability for classes that do not have access to resistance spells.
I mean being able to find some of the weapons with immunities. Finding one of the early weapons with fire, cold or acid immunity would go a long way to making classes like warriors, rogues, mindcrafters or archers a lot more viable, in town you could get a frostwoven or Immolation cloak and a fire/acid/lighting ring and have access to temporary resists as well.

Playing a weapon user in IDDC right now is also a real gamble considering you need to find artifact weapons of whatever type you are training just to kill ringwraiths. With Truearts available you will have found at least a few by the time they start to appear.

Randarts are great but appear less frequently, at later levels and have none of the cool activatable abilities that true arts do.

Just a thought, if it was possible at all. Obviously if someone left IDDC with one they would not be able to bring them with them.

An alternative I guess would be to make randarts as common as the true ones, and maybe give them random powers. Vanilla Angband and a lot of variants do this, some of the results are funny and interesting.

For example bows that brand their ammo with random elements, weapons that give temporary resists or restoration, armour that disarms traps, a bow that casts stone to mud or satisfy hunger.

I really think this would be a lot of fun if possible.

Thanks for reading.
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Re: Separate True Artifacts for IDDC

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Just recently I had an idea about separation of NE and EL true-arts:
https://tomenet.eu/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1334

It is the same idea, but to separate IDDC t-arts? Actually I though that IDDC already has t-arts separated from other game modes - so if non-IDDC player find t-art, IDDC player could find this art too...
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