[Mozenwrathe]

*makes a brief request for the slingblade (as seen in some game somewhere) and the Gladius (made infamously famous in the game Rygar) and an actual regular shield to be used as a weapon for the hakpack.*

==now back to the regular posting==

In response to Legolas' wisdom in these things, would it not be possible to find various suitable weapons to use as the weapon type? If the differences were cosmetic only (such as the rolling pin idea), then could those not easily be implemented? It is mainly the new weapon types (such as the heavy maul, the trident, and a few others I cannot easily recall) which provide the real issue of "can I use this for my specialist character inside of the game?" that question, sadly, is answered by the unalterable game mechanics which state soundly "only if it plays by our predefined rules."

For example of what I was thinking of, let's just pretend that Ziroc's miracle working ways have just expanded a few frost-laden areas of the Undermountain by triple their normal size. Inside of one of these new areas, there are penguins. Not just any penguins, mind you, but Pirate Penguins of Penzance. (You should all get the references here!) Now, most of these penguins should be Swashbuckler (Fighter) builds, with specialists in one weapon or another. So Ziroc gives them all hysterically appropriate weapons: Frozen Flounder Of Flourish (weapon type: short sword and NOT fish in order to make them available for bonuses), Slippery Salmon of Smiting (weapon type: mace), Troublesome Trout of Triumph (weapon type: short sword), Heinous Halibut of Hate (weapon type: kama), and Gorgeous Goldfish of Goring (weapon type: dagger). If you did that with all of them, it would be easy to just let them roll on into the rest of the weapon lineup, right? But if you actually WANTED them to be "weapon type: fish" you can't get bonuses and specializations with the weapons you acquired from these penguins mainly as it is a weapon type not hardcoded into the game.

Are there any softcoded ways around this that won't keep certain types of characters from using them? Based on my earlier post, the trident by the CEP is currently underneath its own category, right? What would happen if it was thrown under spear instead? Is that even possible?