Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Pets and allies in Dweller

In Dweller there's a Bag of Monsters that you can come across while exploring the dungeon. When opened a charmed monster will pop up and fight along side you. It's the same as using a Book of Charms on a monsters, but it gives the warrior and ranger a chance to get an ally. Yesterday I added a Dog whistle and gave that to the ranger as a part of the starting gear. The whistle has an unlimited number of uses and when used it summons a dog (although you can only have one dog summoned at a time). The dog will work as any ally and it will try to attack targets adjacent to the player.

I am now contemplating if I should give the wizard the ability to summon elementals, but I'm afraid of the difficulty balancing this. The wizard is already powerful as it is.

2 comments:

  1. spiritofcatMay 18, 2012 at 1:51 AM

    Sounds good!
    One way you could balance summoned allies for a wizard is to make mana cost of the summoning sustained.
    That is, make it monopolise a certain portion of the wizard's mana pool.
    For example, an elemental might have a sustained cost of 20 mana, which would mean that if the wizard had a pool of 30 mana, then when he summoned the elemental, 20 of his mana would be occupied while the elemental is alive, leaving him with a pool of only 10 mana to cast his own spells with.

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  2. UnknownMay 25, 2012 at 8:39 PM

    Good idea. I'll consider it, but it will not be implemented from launch.

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