Talk:Glamour

What a fine idea! I like it for it's humor and somewhat regret that it was removed. IMHO "glamour" ability couldn't have much influence on balance. -- Bwijn 10:53, 21 January 2013 (CET)

Not to rain on your parade, but it wasn't intended to be humorous. See the third definition, "glamour" can be just another word for bewitchment or enchantment. Nowadays it appears with some frequency in vampire mythology (notably in True Blood), but evidently the DCSS devs decided it didn't fit with the vampire race when they introduced it. Apologies if you already knew this and simply have a different sense of humor than I do. -Ion frigate 11:48, 21 January 2013 (CET)

I don't see any contradiction. The definition as bewitchment or enchantment is allright. The movie industry glamour of actors/actresses are sometimes ridiculous to a sober observer but will have effects to susceptible fans - just like game mechanics in DCSS maybe. The spell "Alistairs intoxication" is a little bit in this direction. And "glamour" is just an overwhelming effect even without alcohol. The allusion to "real" TV show worlds makes me laugh. - The mythological vampyres have a tremendous bewitchment trait to possible victims, true. But wasn't it an ability of grey elves and not especially vampyres in our game? -- Bwijn 14:19, 21 January 2013 (CET)

I can see where you're coming from, it's just not the way I read the ability. Though one thing I can tell you: the ability was given to grey elves and not vampires because vampires didn't exist when it was created, way back when in the pre-DCSS days. Vampires are one of four races that the DCSS devs introduced (the others being Deep Dwarves, Felids, and Octopodes. Renaming Kenku to Tengu doesn't count). I think the Glamour ability was removed well before grey elves themselves got the axe, either in 0.1 or 0.2, *maybe* as late as 0.3.