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How about "You partially resist the effect." Just a grammar suggestion...
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For flavor reasons, I *greatly* prefer "You feel your life slipping away".
Maybe we should change "It burns you" for melee attacks that are resisted to be "It singes you"
"It freezes you" -> "It chills you"
Language makes the game more enjoyable. You go "Ahhh! Thats what that meant!"
Added gameplay.Comment
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I disagree - the change in wording is so small you probably won't notice it's there (I didn't, and it looks like Timo and debo didn't), plus there's not anything to indicate that your life force slipping away is somehow better than your life force draining away. It's opaque from a gameplay perspective and just messy from a flavor perspective.I'm trying to think of an analogy, and the best I can come up with is Angband is like fishing for sharks, and Sil is like hunting a bear with a pocket knife and a pair of chopsticks. It's not great. -NickComment
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I agree completely about the importance of language - the messages were one of the first things that attracted me to the game. On the other hand, you don't want it to obscure what's going on, which is what people seem to be finding with the experience drain messages. There may be a way to keep the flavour but make the effect a bit more apparent.One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.Comment
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Maybe we could change it to "A [small] portion of your life force slips away!"
On a somewhat related note, Pyrel's acid-damaged-armor message is "Your [armor] was damaged by absorbing acid!" in an attempt to make it more clear that when this happens, less of the acid makes it to your HP. I don't know if that's sufficiently clear though.Comment
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When you successfully resist draining, the message is "You keep hold of your life forces." How about changing resisted draining to be "You keep hold of most of your life forces."?Comment
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"You struggle to keep hold of your life force"Comment
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