Kelek's Grimoire of Power for Rogues

[Bombadil]

This book appears pretty much useless for a rogue. The only spell in there that is legible is Bedlam (confusion ball).

Space is becoming a premium now for my rogue:

http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=16602

Should I just get rid of this book and save the space?

[Estie]

Yes. (filling up to 10 chars)

[Derakon]

Yep. Not all books are useful for all classes. Paladins don't like either Holy Infusions or Purifications and Healings, for example.

[Zikke]

Raal's also leaves a lot to be desired for Rogues. Squelch city.

[MattB]

Typical! Within ten minutes of reading this post, guess what my rogue found on dlvl12?

I'm blaming you, Bombadil, for ruining a perfectly good 'superb' level!

[Estie]

Wow that was not nice of you, Bombadil! Without no-selling, you´d at least get the value of a stat potion for it.

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Derakon

Yep. Not all books are useful for all classes. Paladins don't like either Holy Infusions or Purifications and Healings, for example.

This raises an interesting question. If the books are pending a redesign, should every book be (more or less) worth an inventory slot for every (applicable) class?

Yes: finding every book feels good
No: why spread fewer spells (for non priest/Mage classes) over more slots?

Which would be preferable I wonder.

Related: with no selling turned on, could/should useless spell books (e.g. Holy spell books when playing arcane casters) be auto-squelched/never generated?). Would probably create less irrelevant level feelings (with the way they work now)

[Zikke]

Here's another brain storm idea just for the sake of thinking outside the box:

Why do we need to limit each spellbook to 5-8 spells? It could be 14 spells or some other number.


Here's another brain storm idea:

Can we add the spell "Brain Storm"?

[Nick]

In restructured V, everything to do with books is an edit file change.

Less books for half casters is certainly a possibility, with spells redistributed as required.

[Maddz]

OK, here's a thought: books you can buy in town contain spells usable by all the classes that can use that specific book. More powerful books you find in the dungeon are specific to a spell casting class. So, you'd have books usable by mages only, by rogues only and so on.

This would allow removing spells only used by a specific class to a specific dungeon-find book, and hence condensing the town books. In fact, if you increase the number of slots per book, you could have only 1 or 2 books of each type purchasable in town - that includes all the spells useable by a magic-using type or all spells usable by a prayer-using type.