Entertainer Archive

It has been stated that the mind pool should not be the deciding factor in most battles, currently it is. Almost exclusively due to the fact that Doctors can buff up the other pools by thousands of points (yes thousands, I've had over 3k in health/action pools) and can heal those massive pools just as efficiently. Mind pool can only be buffed (in the oh-so buggy and very little known way it is now) by Master Musicians or Master Dancers. I've tried this out and only receive a 50 point mind buff that lasted all of 5 minutes, after listening to a Master Musician play for 10 minutes in a cantina. Giving the mind buff/healing to medics would imo (and in the devs opinion since it was taken away from them) be a mistake. The logical choice is to give this ability to Entertainers (perhaps branches of the ability to Musician and Dancer profession for increased ability in buffs for Musicians, heals for Dancers.)

What I propose is this. Either merge the "Entertainer Healing" line with the musician/dancer lines or just add this new line abilities on to it. Rename it "Relaxation Techniques." Now entertainers would be given the ability to craft two different types of kits. (any names for them, I just use two I think would work well) Massage Kit, and Aromatherapy Kit. The Massage Kit would be used to heal mind damage. The Aromatherapy Kit would be used to give mind buffs. I don't know much about the medical professions myself, but I think that Doctors are the only ones that can buff. So in this case perhaps the Aromatherapy Kits should only be available to Musicians, Dancers, and Image Designers, whereas the Massage Kits would be available to Entertainers. Give them similar healing/buffing amounts to the medic/doctor equivalent skill types. This gives Entertainers a nice little crafting incentive (Instrument crafting is done very rarely, you only need one of each type and they never break or get used up), and fixes the problem with the mind pool having no way to heal or buff. This also greatly GREATLY enhances the use for entertainers out in the field. If a Master Musician, Master Dancer, Image Designer with zero combat skills wants to go out hunting, they have practically nothing to offer a group. Now they would be the ones to take care of mind damage.

I havn't thought of all of the specifics, but they should not be too hard to work out. I believe a change like this would give many entertainers a skill they would use outside of the cantina. What does everyone else think about this?

- Darril Starstrider, Gorath

(Will re-post in medic board and possibly general board as well)