>A couple of things: Would it be possible to make concoctions
>not evaporate over time? I can't see how this would make
>poisoners overpowered, but certainly it'd make them much less
>time-consuming (annoying) to play. Now you have to run around
>for ingredients all the time (well almost), which most often
>requires (you to get) money as well, and then carry around
>this extra weight. You step out of the shadows for a
>considerable amount of time for concocting, so in order to be
>prepared you need to have concoctions ready (whether this
>changes at high skill % I don't know, never got that far...
>anyway the skills improve so slowly that it would be unfair to
>lowbie poisoners). Also there's a bug on concocted vials: they
>weigh nothing (should be light though).

We'll kick it around.

>Additionally why must APPLY be a skill instead of a command
> only available to poisoners)? It seems to me the application
>success of the concoctions is already covered by the
>corresponding METHOD skill (food, drink, weapon, contact,
>inhaled). They have more than enough possibilities to fail the
>skills already, first with CONCOCT, then with both APPLY and
>METHOD, and finally victim resistance when applicable.

We're pretty close to being on the same page with this one.
Hang tight.

Q @ Work