Crafting of certain weapon types already requires wood, like crafting a mace.

Its kinda blah and annoying to see that everyone (yes, i'm generalizing and I know it), everyone uses one handed sword if its in their guild

I don't think it would be a terrible idea to even remove some of the weapon types. Two handed blunt for instance isn't something I think any of the guilds who have it would wnat to train. Plus, I think it would be easier to give unique properties to weapons, if say Kim's idea was put in, that all skills have 5 dev cost, if some of the weapon types were removed. Not all of them, but just some of the ones that seem kind of pointless. Then again, if they are all kept, and if they were all not made pointless, I suppose that might be better.

In some ways, I think the most common weapon types are going to remain the same at least for a little while, no matter what changes are put in, simply because of the availability of most of these weapons. If I made a char who needed blade, I could ask a friend if they have a decent sword. If I made a char who uses say, flail, I don't know anyone, and would have a hard time finding one. I'd for sure have to have it made.

Combine it with giving every weapon skill cost 5, and there opens for a lot of variety.

Other than that, innate damage (High cutting for axes, low cutting for knifes and so forth) might be looked at. Currently I have no idea how high/low it is. For example for cutting, is the difference between a knife and an axe more than 10% after a nica bonnes? Is it 50%? I mean, logically the difference should be enormous, but this is Darke

Runes that add damage types would take into account the size of the weapon, not whether the weapon already had the damage type on it. For instance if you made a platnite two handed polearm and added an energy rune you'd get a better bonus than if you took a platnite shortsword and added an energy rune. In this case it's the size of the weapon that matters rather than the weapon itself.

Well, not good for balance maybe. Unless smaller weapons automatically then made for better to hit/parry.

Unless you want a situation where everybody just goes for the biggest weapon possible.

And a 2 handed club doing better impaling than a rapier if both have nica bonnes does sound silly to me. Maybe make so runes see what innate crit types a weapon nhave (not counting materil) and then.. add a lot more if innate. A club getting a lot more crushing than a rapier from malsa xen, and reverse for nica bonnes.

Well, not good for balance maybe. Unless smaller weapons automatically then made for better to hit/parry.

Unless you want a situation where everybody just goes for the biggest weapon possible.

And a 2 handed club doing better impaling than a rapier if both have nica bonnes does sound silly to me. Maybe make so runes see what innate crit types a weapon nhave (not counting materil) and then.. add a lot more if innate. A club getting a lot more crushing than a rapier from malsa xen, and reverse for nica bonnes.

A much more extreme solution would be to add another level of weapon above unsurpassed. Perhaps it would take much more ingots and time (say 10 ingots and 5 hours to forge with a chance of destroying the ingots) and that type of weapon would fully utilize the mineral type by giving a weak TW to the type of crit of the mineral and -TW to all other types. This could also start with 50% wield (again just numbers from my ass) instead of 0% for a blank weapon.

Just to add some more variety. Or we could have difficult quests to obtain special materials that would allow for this special forging.

Edit: Perhaps solve a puzzle or defeat some guardian in a multi-person quest like we discussed in another thread to obtain some special rock that hardens the minerals extra hard. I'd propose a limit to how often a particular individual could get of this (so that people don't have storehouses of it) and perhaps even make it require a special location to create the blank or forge it.

First off, I don't see this as a solution at all. In fact, I see it as damn near a new set of problems. I don't like this idea because it seems to take what were initially solutions to the problem Charon outlines in the start of his post and makes it into an entirely different beast.

Would this be better as features you buy for a castle room, which otherwise wouldn't support the special actions of these items? For instance, marking a room as a 'library' would allow you bookshelves; a 'study' would allow chairs and desks, a 'foyer' would allow couches and lounges, etc. Or is it something that should be skill dependant and can work anywhere it's set down? Or is it something that should be forgotten completely?

What about allowing bookshelves, in castles, that can hold player-made books? Instead of wizards having to hard-code books submitted by Garkin, how about players being able to buy "blank books" (like the blank scrolls that exist) and players can write in them. Perhaps allow functionality for adding pages, where each page acts a bit like scrolls do now. And perhaps make a way to duplicate them (perhaps at a cost...Gutenberg comes to Darke) so that books can be distributed...for free, as a saleable item (if any of us are good enough writers that people would pay mcgrail to read what we produce), whatever.

How about being able to make the obvious thing? Chests. It could require X wood of at least Y size, and an ingot or two. Skill (Carpentry AND blacksmith) would determine how much the chest could hold, and wood/ingot type could decide weight....

And You should be able to featherweight it too.

Oh, on that note, tinker locks should require an ingot to do. Installing using a laen ingot on a vault door = near unbashable. Iron on a wood door = not so impossible.

Also, I think fighters should get bash lock back. But bashing the lock on a chest created using Laen should be near impossible, or at least never take less than an hour. Similarly for vault doors.