Vulnerability to slow, sleep, confusion

Hi

I have been adding a feature to Ironband which makes some monsters
extra-vulnerable to the player's sleep, slow and/or confusion
attacks.

For instance:
- orcs, trolls, giants (if not described as 'cunning'), ogres and
multi-headed monsters are vulnerable to confusion
- snakes, dragons and many animals are vulnerable to sleep.

But what kind of monsters do you think should be vulnerable to
slowing? I have no particular intuition on this...

A.

On 2008-01-06 21:02:46, Antoine <antoine.from.rgrd DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have been adding a feature to Ironband which makes some monsters
> extra-vulnerable to the player's sleep, slow and/or confusion
> attacks.
>
> For instance:
> - orcs, trolls, giants (if not described as 'cunning'), ogres and
> multi-headed monsters are vulnerable to confusion
> - snakes, dragons and many animals are vulnerable to sleep.
>
> But what kind of monsters do you think should be vulnerable to
> slowing? I have no particular intuition on this...
>
> A.

In Un, I've made golems vulnerable to hasting so that they take damage as their
internal cogs/ratchets etc spin out of control.

Slow is probably powerful enough as it is against uniques - so you'd want to
make other powerful non-group monsters vulnerable to it.

Having said that, I'm not a big fan of having multiple levels of
'resist/vulnerability etc'. If you can be affected by confusion, you're already
'vulnerable'.

Andrew

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