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This might be a terrible idea, but one of my favorite things from other roguelikes is single-use items that cause some great effect.
So I was thinking, maybe hard room challenges in SoG could have a chance of rewarding a Skill Seed, or something you could buy for a ton of gold from a shopkeeper, or a reward for a particularly difficult bishop challenge. (Maybe he offers to spawn in an Elite Monster from the next area into the next room?)
Skill Seeds are things you put on your hotbar and eat in a room. Eating a Skill Seed would add a random, 1-use Skill / Spell at Gold Charge level to your hotbar for use in that room only. Or maybe you could eat them at any time and use them whenever you liked, just one time only.
The appeal behind it is using them like how the Binding of Isaac uses cards. Get a Skill Seed, chomp it, have a 1-use Gold Charge of Static Shock to use in any one battle. Or a 1-use Gold Charge of Spirit Slash. Or a 1-use Gold Charge of Shadowclone / Cloudstrike / Frosty Friend that last for # seconds, then deactivate.
Mostly though they would just show players how absolutely epic all of the skills and spells are.
So I was thinking, maybe hard room challenges in SoG could have a chance of rewarding a Skill Seed, or something you could buy for a ton of gold from a shopkeeper, or a reward for a particularly difficult bishop challenge. (Maybe he offers to spawn in an Elite Monster from the next area into the next room?)
Skill Seeds are things you put on your hotbar and eat in a room. Eating a Skill Seed would add a random, 1-use Skill / Spell at Gold Charge level to your hotbar for use in that room only. Or maybe you could eat them at any time and use them whenever you liked, just one time only.
The appeal behind it is using them like how the Binding of Isaac uses cards. Get a Skill Seed, chomp it, have a 1-use Gold Charge of Static Shock to use in any one battle. Or a 1-use Gold Charge of Spirit Slash. Or a 1-use Gold Charge of Shadowclone / Cloudstrike / Frosty Friend that last for # seconds, then deactivate.
Mostly though they would just show players how absolutely epic all of the skills and spells are.