On Thu, Dec 16/99, Dave Gaines <dave@...> wrote:

> From: Dave Gaines <dave@...>
> > From: kim@...
> >
> > You folks are trying to justify the DT saying that he's a god
> > and should have it. That's fine and good, but if he doesn't
> > use it like a being of super-intelligence, then I don't see it
> > being much different than death by router crash - i.e. it gets
> > applied more or less randomly and without reason. You can't
> > justify either being necessary for the game IMHO.
>
> Sometimes you just have to use your imagination on these things.
>
> Lets imagine for a moment, ...
> He has the power, but the inability to control it. Thus he says
> Finger of Death, and mumbles something, and someone dies, he can't
> control it. Obviously this god isn't the super supreme god.
>
> He can't do it constantly, it has a nice recharge rate like
> some of our spells. ... Maybe it even randomly comes back to him.
>
> Use your imagination some to think why he might act like he is...

I think Kim's point is he'd rather the game designers had used their
imagination to come up with a more challenging way of dealing with the
problem of their god mob being a pushover.

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