zarqon
Well-known member
This has been discussed a few places, but I could find no official feature request, so I'm making one!
When there's something strange in your neighborhood, you naturally feel like calling people who bust ghosts, but if they arrive and go to face the invisible man in your bed, wouldn't you be embarrassed if they found it was only a run-of-the-mill horror rather than a ghost? Not even the right phylum! What an embarrassing blunder!
No, next time there's something weird, and it don't look good, let's require the monster to helpfully identify itself as either "ghost" or "not ghost", by checking $monster[].ghost. Then you can bust to your heart's content, or Pinch, or Hammer, or evilscroll, and it will make you feel good.
For your convenience, I shall quote you a very helpful list of things we ain't afraid of none of, provided by the sage Bale:
You'll note in the thread title I suggest possibly using a 'subgroup' field instead of a 'ghost' field. This is because there are also an increasing number of things that only work on bugbears, or seals, or werewolves, or snakes, or lions. I could see this being expanded later to include those other subgroups -- in which case it might be seen as nicer to have a string field (e.g. if ($monster[].subgroup == "bugbear")) than a lot of booleans.
Either way, I'll be glad when I can stop appearing to be a prank caller. Because, eventually, like in the boy who cried "wolf", they won't come.
When there's something strange in your neighborhood, you naturally feel like calling people who bust ghosts, but if they arrive and go to face the invisible man in your bed, wouldn't you be embarrassed if they found it was only a run-of-the-mill horror rather than a ghost? Not even the right phylum! What an embarrassing blunder!
No, next time there's something weird, and it don't look good, let's require the monster to helpfully identify itself as either "ghost" or "not ghost", by checking $monster[].ghost. Then you can bust to your heart's content, or Pinch, or Hammer, or evilscroll, and it will make you feel good.
For your convenience, I shall quote you a very helpful list of things we ain't afraid of none of, provided by the sage Bale:
You'll note in the thread title I suggest possibly using a 'subgroup' field instead of a 'ghost' field. This is because there are also an increasing number of things that only work on bugbears, or seals, or werewolves, or snakes, or lions. I could see this being expanded later to include those other subgroups -- in which case it might be seen as nicer to have a string field (e.g. if ($monster[].subgroup == "bugbear")) than a lot of booleans.
Either way, I'll be glad when I can stop appearing to be a prank caller. Because, eventually, like in the boy who cried "wolf", they won't come.
