Yikes.
>>Ok, I need someone to fill me in on the War Stomp ability. Apparently it must have been mentioned while I was away (or at one of the cons).
Actually it was posted on the boards shortly after the guild-wide meeting at the end of January.
Before I go through the replies, let me outline what I've been working on for them so far:
Stomp will be done with your foot or certain weapons. Stomp will cost IF to varying degrees. Stomp will affect opponents at melee or pole range. It will unbalance and even knock them down. It will be a 100+ ability for a few reasons. 1) it's a fairly fantastical ability, so it's a very advanced technique for using IF. 2) I was asked to write it for 100+ folks <grin>. Right now, that's the extent of it. While it could certainly be expanded in the future, and the ideas I'm going to be going through in this thread are very cool, they will have to wait for awhile. The big reason that it went from suggestion on the boards to design so quickly is that, just like I said at the Barb meeting, the right people behind the scenes liked the idea and the scope was small enough to be manageable in the timeframe available.
Now onto more direct replies.
>>Stomps could be used, in my mind, to unbalance foes, stun them perhaps, cause damage, make opponents drop their weapons.
That's more like the plan for Roars, actually, though Stomp will be an ability that unbalances a Barbarian's foes more than roars.
>>Break items on the ground...breaking barriers (the ones from the sorrow war come to mind or FOI's)
Hmmm. Interesting.
>>A Stomp can be a devastating attack on a fallen foe.
Heh. Cool mental image.
>>I just wonder why they even said Snow elf you get to try it first,yet you may be dead before we even no what it will do let alone be released.
Since the proposal for it came directly from the boards, what it would do was already known. Timeframe is an unknown, true, though I'll resort to the infamous GM "Soon".
>>Hmm I thought Stomp was going to be a dwarf only verb! Stomp is how we dance.
That's a very valid point, and is something I was discussing with Solomon briefly today, in fact. One or two SimuCons ago, racial-specific movement verbs were mentioned as being Something the Boss Wants Done. STOMP was the classic example for Dwarves. Obviously, STOMP has not gotten to the point where it can be released into the game as a movement verb, but we're going to bypass that for now and tie the Barbarian War Stomp into the Stomp verb. However, Dwarves will be able to stomp to their heart's content at some point in the future (and some of the messaging for it that will remain GM-only for now really is cool to look at).
>>I prefer to see it as a huge burst of Inner fire that rocks the entire room, not only unbalancing the people/critters also knocking everyone out of hiding and distrupting all spells that are being preped/possibly screwing up the mana in the room for several minites, hereby making prepping of any spell impossible. This of course would cause all magic users in the room tremendouns pain. YEA!
The current design is fantastical enough, IMO, but I'll keep thoughts like these in mind for future versions.
Painbringer Skiori
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