Thanks for that Post MusingOoze. There is so much diversity to this game, I wouldn't have thought to go for a dodging vampire. I had considered using Warlockery, but your post makes me want to really give it a go.
No, it's more complex than that. There are three chances to get mana. There's an 80% chance to get one mana, a 50% chance to get a scaling amount of mana, and a 25% chance to get another smaller-scaling amount of mana. So you can get none, or you can get something like 3+(.15 * Magic Power) mana on the high end.
That's not more complex, that's just more "I have no idea what will happen when I press my skill button".
After all the description says you steal magic from your enemies. And being a vampire you keep beating on their heads. And so you discover more mana, when Psychic Vampire pop up on your head.
Yeah, so over the long term, it makes no difference. But in the short term, it means you have absolutely no way to plan your mana usage - the RNG will screw you over in such a way that you wouldn't expect it without having intimate knowledge of the source.
What if vampirism's restrictions on consumables were slightly tweaked? They would be allowed to eat meat products but as a tradeoff would be forbidden to drink wine....
I think there is exactly zero hope of this until the code parts of vampirism are removed from the executable and put in XML so we can edit it. Where oh where did the modding requests thread go? ... I will put a link in once I find it. http://community.gaslampgames.com/threads/modding-requests.1926/ BTW, I am almost sure this is in there already. Several times most likely. I feel stupid yet again... http://community.gaslampgames.com/threads/modding-requests.1926/page-12#post-41331 Read it and understand.
Are you being facetious, or are you really unfamiliar with the famous line "I never drink... wine" from the 1931 Bela Lugosi version of Dracula? I can't tell.
He's merely referring to Dracula from Castlevania series and his (their?) habit of drinking wine before the fight against him. So I guess he's being facetious.
Kids these days... He was in *MANY* films back when most were still black and white. Most of them were really quite good once you force yourself to pay attention despite it looking like a bunch of old cheese. (The cheese sensation comes about because the movies were so good that most of them were remade later in one form or another. So you get the feeling you may have seen the same ideas before.)
