Enhancement: Changed behavior for Thaumacurse

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Thaumacurse as currently designed is quite pointless, as it essentially trades 
an inventory slot culminating in a few turns as an equipment slot (that is: a 
cursed item) for a one-time attack, until extremely late in the game where one 
can trade a randomly-found "DOOM (and the slot for your real amulet) + an 
equipment slot plus a casting of, um, *Remove Curse* for a series of 
not-THAT-great attacks instead. 

Here's an alternative suggestion.
1. Thaumacurse curses one worn item per attack.
2. Thaumacurse only hits already-cursed items if there's nothing less to curse.
3. Thaumacurse permacurses already-cursed items if it hits them.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by erikpi...@gmail.com on 15 Feb 2011 at 8:17

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s/permacurses/*curses*

Original comment by erikpi...@gmail.com on 15 Feb 2011 at 8:18

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4. The quiver is skipped, for simplicity's sake.
5. Once all equipment is *cursed*, the spell deals damage equal to X percent of 
the PC's HP instead. X =... 20?

Original comment by erikpi...@gmail.com on 15 Feb 2011 at 4:28

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5b. Alternatively: Once all equipment is *cursed*, the spells reduces Luck by X.

Original comment by erikpi...@gmail.com on 15 Feb 2011 at 4:46

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Well, thaumacurse deals nether damage, which isn't at all interesting; it's 
simply damage.  I think one option is to have nether inflict status effects in 
addition to damage.

That doesn't solve basic problem of making the spell powerful and based on 
curses, which you have some ideas I like.  Increasing, rather than decreasing, 
curses will create a powerful spell that can start to become dangerous the 
longer it is cast, assuming some painful feedback when objects start being 
re-cursed.

Original comment by jmidd...@gmail.com on 28 Apr 2011 at 8:07

• Changed state: Accepted