On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Dave Gaines wrote:

>
> 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.

*sigh* I guess I think too much about how I would've done
these things as a developer. Frankly, I think any arbitrary
game design decision that requires the players to use their
imaginations to justify the consequences is lame. I could use
my imagination to explain away going linkdead. Does that mean
going linkdead every few hours is acceptable? H*ll no.

--
John H. Kim
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