Our beloved Pretenders!

[Sombre]

I doubt it. Those are new commands are for abilities already in the game for weapons (not items that also happen to be weapons). There are no abilities already in the game tied to armours (again, I don't mean items that are also armour).

[Wrana]

Congratulations, Xietor! He looks quite solid, though I wouldn't think that hunter should have a shield as a standart armament. And the spear can be made two-handed - most hunting spears (non-thrown) were. It's quite possible for him to have entanglement still which can be described as him having deep knowledge of traps also (not that I see it as necessary). He can also summon great hounds... By the way I don't think it will be possible to make armor-related abilities any time soon - they look to be either monster- or item-based...

[Xietor]

He still needs a good bit of work on his descr., but the shield will have to stay. While he usually hunts with his bow,
now that he is coming out of the forests to establish world domination, he has decided that a one handed spear and shield combo is superior to the 2hed boar spear.

Taking away his hand slots is a very good idea! I like it.
That way I do not have to worry about someone giving him a charcoal shield and him still having entangle. May give him an extra misc to compensate.

[thejeff]

The only trouble with taking away hand slots is limiting path boosters. Thistle mace at least since he has Nature.

[Tifone]

Mmh, that pretender seems so much a SC, i think it would be a very big opportunity-cost to set him on casting. But it isn't up to me questioning how a player wants to use his pretender god

I was just thinking about some people playing a noble born Samurai in some RPGs, which stop using the Ancient Katana of the Family Clan and Ancestors of their character, because the Flaming Barbarian Axe they just found gives more damage. I mean, that's just unthematic so maybe Xietor would like his creation always mantaining the thematic hunter's and nature weapons of his character, instead of a charcoal shield and tartarian chains o.O If this solves him even some technical problems, even better ^_^

[thejeff]

Probably not battle casting, there he'd be more useful as an SC, but there are times outside of battle when you might want him to cast summons or forge things your native mages can't. It would nice if he could use a hammer, for example.

You might just want to give boost him in Nature so he can cast Faery Trod to get to the front.

It's a limitation, that should be kept in mind. That's all.

[Tifone]

Anyway, a thing like that would be really unbalanced in the basegame