Re: Legends: skills & spells

From: aiko@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (aiko gieskens)

Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1993 10:53:00 +0000

lee@torrid.ogo.dec.com (wooga wooga wooga) writes:
: How do the higher level "meta"-spells work for priests.  i.e. suppose a priest
: has been granted the Eye of Patterns spell (rating 4), and wants to cast a Detect Spells: Character spell (rating 1), which has not been granted  individually.
:
: Does the priest have to be level 20 (4 * 5) or level 5 (1 * 5) in order
: to cast it?

lvl 20.

: Also, I have questions about a couple of skills:
:
: Bard -- sounds like they can bless/curse characters, gather flora like
:         Rangers, and somehow acquire rumors & myth information.  Is this
:         correct?  Can they make poisons or healing draughts?

They cannot make poisons or healing draughts, the rest is correct.
Although they can't really aquire rumors, just the myths and legends,
rumors are for rumormongers.

: Assassin -- Are they somehow able to avoid duels?  Or do they just have
:             some special attack that allows them to attack an individual
:             without starting a duel?  Can they make poisons, or is it only
:             assassin _guilds_ which can do this?

They can make poisons. Don't know exactly how assasinations work.

: Spy -- Are they able to discern information about characters/locations that
:        others can't, or what?  (the description for this skill seems quite              nebulous)

Spies can do what they are supposed to do:spy. They can get information
other chars can's, but a spy is not the only way to get thjis info.
(seers are good at info gathering too).

: Stealth -- How generally useful is this?  What does it do?  Is it necessary for             all the characters in a group to have stealth, or can one character              who has it "cloak" the rest of them?

Stealth has various use
1: it's used with thieves/assasins/spies to keep unnoticed.
2: it's used for overall military commanders to lower the sighting value
of their legion.
3: A character can turn stealth on, making him effectively invisible to
normal means of detection.

: Ranger -- Can they make healing draughts, or is it only ranger _guilds_ which              can do this?

Yep they can make healing draughts.

: Finally, how helpful is it for an arcanist to have a familiar?

Very!! You get increase in Magic resistance, some spells, sometimes
increase in attributes/stats (like str, Combat factors etc.), sometimes
increased stealth abilities, sometimes increased mana-recovery,
sometimes influence bonuses against specific races. (usually it's a pick
of three or four out of above things. For example I've got a demonhound
familiar which gives me 5 spells, increased attributes (+5 Str, +25 CF,
+2 Df), increased stealth, +5 influence against orcs, and increased (+2)
Magic resistance.

Aiko Gieskens

References

Legends: skills & spells
lee@torrid.ogo.dec.com (wooga wooga wooga)
Mon, 01 Mar 1993 16:27:05 +0000