Further improvements of vampires:

1) Quaffing and eating
 * They now get full effect of potions unless hungry (er, thirsty) or 
   worse, in which case the effect gets halved as before.
 * Potions of blood heal on the level of heal wounds or healing, depending 
   on hunger state. Healing always heals rotting and removes confusion - 
   the chances involved were just frustrating to players.
 * Draining corpses has the same nutrition value as eating the (random) 
   amount of chunks you get out of dissecting, but takes longer (and all 
   at once, so draining your corpses in the middle of a battle is extremely 
   risky).
   I guess this is still too good (when do you ever get to eat all chunks
   you get out of, say, an ogre or centaur?) so will have to be nerfed.

2) Resistances
Resistances depend more strongly on hunger states now.
Vampires are always poison resistant and can always see invisible.
Additionally, they gain
 * rCold 1 at Hungry or worse, and rCold 2 at Near Starving or worse
   (The latter comes with susceptibility to fire.)
 * life protection 1 when satiated, 2 when hungry or worse, and 3 when near 
   starving or worse
 * At starving they also get torment res.
 * Hungry vampires and vampires in bat form are stealthier, and starving
   vampires are even more stealthy.

As before, they get the Necromancy boost (like Mummies do) at xl 13 and 26.

Also, vampires can now cast spells while starving, but suffer a failure 
increase akin to that of Blade Hands. (I've no idea what these numbers 
actually mean, so this will most likely have to be changed as well.)

Updated tables.txt.

Still TODO:
* Add special biting attack for successful stabbing.
* Add distilling blood ability, and possibly distinguish between old and
  new potions (new food type, maybe).
* Allow vampires to mutate, but these mutations to only take effect when
  Full, Very Full or Engorged.
* Update manual.

Apart from that, they are ready for playtesting once again. As always,
feedback would be much appreciated. :)


git-svn-id: https://crawl-ref.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/crawl-ref/trunk@3528 c06c8d41-db1a-0410-9941-cceddc491573

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/invent.h b/crawl-ref/source/invent.h
index df77475a8b..8bcbb5ab39 100644
--- a/crawl-ref/source/invent.h
+++ b/crawl-ref/source/invent.h
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ enum object_selector
     OSEL_EQUIP    = -4,
     OSEL_MEMORISE = -5,
     OSEL_RECHARGE = -6,
-    OSEL_ENCH_ARM = -7
+    OSEL_ENCH_ARM = -7,
+    OSEL_VAMP_EAT = -8
 };
 
 #define PROMPT_ABORT        -1