Throwing potions should cause the potions effect on the target

Also consider allowing weapons to be coated by potions (From Unangband).

For what it may be worth, I quite disagree with this suggested feature. If I wanted that sort of thing, I'd be playing NetHack? rather than Angband.

Also consider:

1. throwing mushrooms affecting target 2. allowing coating of edged weapons with potion / mushroom / flask effects (Unangband does 20% of the damage effect for this)

As Antoine notes, this may make the game feel 'non-heroic'. http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.development/msg/420df58e75dd91d1

Potion effects should be the same no matter char level or dungeon level, so at what point would you think potions should stop being useful ? If they are even useful at the end, surely they would be too powerful in the beginning ?

Cheers, T.

Potion effects should be the same no matter char level

Not quite. E.g. all charming effects (confuse, slow, etc.) may be CHR dependent (the thrown potion is the physical component, but how you use your enemy disorientation is up to your wits). Coating effect may depend on the wound depth (in Un it does not, IIRC) and it surely depends on the number of attacks.

But, as much as I like throwing, I think common potions throwing is mainly for starting characters, so that they have one more help in surviving and so that they can identify a potion in a creative way (while they cannot afford ID or WOR so easily). Later on you just can't afford to carry ordinary potions for throwing and that's it.

About Un weapon coating --- that's not Vanilla enough, I'd say. I'd rather go for 4GAI or NPP version of terrain features. Yes, coating makes average and good weapons less junk, but only for a short time. And coating is distinctively a new concept, a new UI hack, a new feature, that will last for the whole game. I think V should be KISS. You can occasionally throw a newly identified bad potion at DL 80, even just for kicks, instead of destroying it, but you won't ever coat a weapon past DL 30. With O combat and a few extra hacks, that would be different... Throwing brittle glass objects around is a natural instinct for a hero, mucking about with slimy potions and weapons is not.