[MUD-Dev] Stunning success and catastrophic failure for skills. Ideas needed!

[Edward Glowacki]

On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 15:51, Britt Green wrote:

> certain skills. For example, what's a catastrophic failure for
> candlemaking? Stunning success?

  "On the table sits a ball of wax with pieces of string randomly
  hanging out the sides.  You raise an eyebrow and try to light one
  of the wicks, but it just makes a loud hissing noise and turns
  black.  The heat from your lighter does however melt the wax,
  which spreads out all over the table creating a terrible mess.
  Suddenly one of the strings catches fire, and the candle springs
  to life!  Flames spread all over the wax-covered workbench, then
  leap to a nearby stash of candle wax.  By the time you manage to
  get the fire extinguished, you've lost the raw materials required
  to make 10 candles."

  "On the table sits a masterfully made candle.  The wick and wax
  are in such perfect balance that the candle will burn twice as
  long and twice as bright as a normal candle, and emit light that
  is pure and clean. The different colors of wax woven through the
  candle tantalize the eye and draw the observer into their depths."

You can do the same for most of the other craft skills: catastrophic
failure = ruined materials, stunning success = increased quality and
value.

-ED

--
Edward Glowacki			glowack2 at msu.edu
Michigan State University	
"...a partial solution to the right problem is better than a complete
solution to the wrong one." (http://uiweb.com/issues/issue14.htm)


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