06-24-2022, 08:10 AM | #11 |
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Re: Why holy water? And other questions about holy-powered PCs
You can easily make more holy water in the field if you #dip water into the holy water.
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06-24-2022, 10:38 AM | #12 |
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Re: Why holy water? And other questions about holy-powered PCs
Yay Nethack, the game of ridiculous tricks.
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06-24-2022, 11:01 AM | #13 |
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Re: Why holy water? And other questions about holy-powered PCs
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06-24-2022, 11:11 AM | #14 |
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Re: Why holy water? And other questions about holy-powered PCs
In Nethack, you could bless a normal item (or uncurse a cursed item) by dipping it in holy water, at a cost of the holy water. Also, you could dip a stack of items, potions of water stacked, and a potion of holy water was a blessed potion of water, so you dip your ten potions of water (acquired by dipping useless potions into fountains) into your one potion of holy water and you now have ten potions of holy water.
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06-24-2022, 11:16 AM | #15 | |
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Re: Why holy water? And other questions about holy-powered PCs
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Could we drop Holy Water into a river and turn it into a "Holy River"? Lol that could be useful |
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06-24-2022, 12:13 PM | #16 | |
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TAKE RIVER > You can't take that DIP RIVER IN HOLY WATER > Are you insane? |
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06-24-2022, 12:16 PM | #17 |
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Re: Why holy water? And other questions about holy-powered PCs
There's no options to #dip a river in holy water. I think you can #dip the holy water in a river, but doing so just turns it into ordinary water.
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06-24-2022, 12:18 PM | #18 |
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Re: Why holy water? And other questions about holy-powered PCs
Also, I think there was a big chunk in one of the GURPS rule books about the theology of Holy Water and how much tolerance it could have for adventurers playing fast and loose with it. Not directly DF, but we've already drifted into NetHack.
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06-24-2022, 12:31 PM | #19 |
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Re: Why holy water? And other questions about holy-powered PCs
As a GM, I would have injury from holy water bypass DR. First of all, this provides an answer to the question of "why not just use acid"; secondly, the weakness of certain monsters to holy water is similar to the Weakness disadvantage from GURPS, which says that the injury "comes off your HP directly, regardless of your DR or defensive advantages".
Additionally (or instead), holy water ought to be either a required component or a source of optional bonuses in many clerical rituals- that's what it gets used for in reality, after all.
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06-24-2022, 12:48 PM | #20 | |
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Re: Why holy water? And other questions about holy-powered PCs
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And create a magical river in the process... EDIT: Im not entirely sympathetic to that "divine homeopathy" thou |
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