ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Same as with the Sandworm Queen's Heart.

Corrupting it produces Blood of Death, which either grants you a random undead racial tree, locked, 1.0(Or possibly just Ghoul's. Or possibly just skeleton's. Depends on what people think is more balance for the loss of a life), or, if you are a skeleton or ghoul, strengthens your racial tree by 0.2 and grants +1 Life Modifier from then on.

Maybe drinking the Blood of Death as a living creature turns you into a vampire, if a racial tree for them is ever made.

stinkstink wrote:Maybe drinking the Blood of Death as a living creature turns you into a vampire, if a racial tree for them is ever made.

Funny you should mention that.

Not sure if...giving an undead racial tree to a living char is the best idea, but having blood of life be able to do SOMETHING for undead chars is a good idea. +0.2 to racial tree and +1 life mod seems like a reasonable boost to an undead, they do both like their racial trees

I never use blood of life because playing on roguelike death feels like deaths, not like "aww, only 1 life left now". BoL kills immersion for me. So I'd gladly give it in exchange for any bonus. But apparently giving a whole racial tree is OP, especially on adventure when you have a shitton of lives anyway.

Gatewalker wrote:Not sure if...giving an undead racial tree to a living char is the best idea, but having blood of life be able to do SOMETHING for undead chars is a good idea. +0.2 to racial tree and +1 life mod seems like a reasonable boost to an undead, they do both like their racial trees

I like this.

edge2054 wrote:

Gatewalker wrote:Not sure if...giving an undead racial tree to a living char is the best idea, but having blood of life be able to do SOMETHING for undead chars is a good idea. +0.2 to racial tree and +1 life mod seems like a reasonable boost to an undead, they do both like their racial trees

I like this.

Seconded. I'm not opposed to giving it a new tree or something but this is a really neat option until/if we decide it shouldn't give a new tree, IMO.

Yeah, that sounds like a nice, simple option that everyone can agree on being fine, so...

And the Blood of Death having no effect on non-undead seems reasonably fitting.

One minor suggestion: call it the Blood of Unlife rather than the Blood of Death.

Nobody likes Death, but some people might enjoy Unlife.

Or Blood of False Life. Really I think either that or Unlife works.

+0.2 to the racial cat is fine, +1 lifemod is something I am more ehn on but that is more personal distaste.

Unlife was my other thought personally, so that's good too.

I love the vampire unlock suggestion, and tons of people are suggesting and contributing to various suggestions for a vampire race, but it would need to be tied to another mod/update (that doesn't seem to be coming too soon).

Might be easier to just grant the undead mastery bonus when an undeads drinks it, rather than making them have to corrupt it. Its a fairly minor bonus.

It also needs to check if the player is actually undead race instead of having the flag from equipment.

stinkstink wrote:It also needs to check if the player is actually undead race instead of having the flag from equipment.

I kind of hate that belt.

Drinking the Blood of Life while wearing it is the kind of "ha ha screw you" that I don't expect from ToME.