Re: Stormbringer is wimpy

[Peter Mardahl <peterm@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>]

In message <6438244@dancer.Dartmouth.EDU>, Preston F. Crow writes:
>>ya, never throw away a wand.... ALWAYS poly them.  Also poly amulets
>>and rings.
>
>Currently, this is good advice, but I don't think it should be a part of
>the game.  From both a philosophical and game ballance perspective, I
>think it would be better not to be able to polymorph items--certainly
>not change them into items that are significantly more powerful.
>
>--PC

I second this.  Once you have a heavy rod of polymorph, you've got it
*made*.  You transform lesser rings into artifact rings, worthless
cloaks into greater (though this doesn't seem to work lately), worthless
potions into stat potions....

PeterM