Here's something I've been working on lately, please give me some feedback:
- Keep their name, clan, gender and alignment
- Gain 2 ranks per reincarnation, but have all their ranks reset and must buy again (including Arctic Legend). Rank Thoughts?
Overall a great idea. given how easy it is to go from 1-3 compared to 41-43, then it seems everyone would need to delay most of their reincarnations until rank 40. Perhaps we could have reincarnation points which could be spent on stuff like +v, imm_charm, imm_fear, auto_light, imm_blind, nightvision, detect invis. might be nice to allow gender change. after all it is 2019 and there seems to be no point in playing a male in arctic. i've seen half a dozen pieces of female-only gear (much of it pretty nice) and no male-only gear.
the skill retraining sounds like a major deterrent to reincarnating. some skills are brutal to train and never get used after they get trained. maybe we could purge the skills that people do not use after they train them. solo skill training is detested and only endured because it opens up legendary. the thought of voluntarily losing legendary and having to reskill seems like a bitter pill to swallow. perhaps we could keep the legendary rank but lose all others upon reincarnation? Or maybe the reincarnation process could be merged with the legendary process so that you reincarnate upon legendary (and become a level 1 legendary with a race/gender of your choice)
On second thought, if the skill training bonus is good enough, people might choose to reincarnate before legendary simply to speed up skilling. the race change makes me hopeful that i will get to play a kender paladin. The hit point bonus concerns me as the power creep would bring the need to rebalance the mobs (like it did for legend and steelskin ranks). quality of life such as +v, det invis, fly, det poison, det good, light, det evil, skill training bonus wont create power creep. part of the reason people dont buy these ranks is because they compete with ranks that influence the outcome of a big fight. (steelskin, immblind, imm silence, nocharm, spellsaves, mindshield, imm heat, imm gas)
So to sum up, I really like the idea and propose two modifications: reincarnation points instead of rank increase, allow people to keep the "turn your character into a legendary" rank upon reincarnation.