Re: Olympia: opinions on magical research

From: skrenta@cbnewsg.att.com (Rich Skrenta)

Date: Fri, 01 May 1992 04:47:04 +0000

Bill.Viggers@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Bill Viggers) writes:
> There are two differences:
> 1: You use the material component (major downer for a certain snake spell)

The material component is a separate issue from the "practice" suggestion.
I really like the idea of having rare, obscure items necessary for casting,
I'll work that in eventually.

> 	2: You never *know* that your spell will work.
>
> 	I'd prefer the system to remain the same.  Currently there is a distict
> 	bias towards not casting any spells you know (due to time), so you don't
> 	get people just firing off spells for the fun of it

Interesting.  I think that having spells misfire is too harsh.  It sounds
good on paper, but I think it would be more annoying than fun in the
game.  Magic will already be hard enough to pull off:

-	Learn the research skill
     -	Use it to learn the spell
     -	Study the spell up
     -	Find the rare items necessary to cast it
     -	Spend time actually casting it

Especially if I fracture research into n different skills:

summoning research
	weather magic research
	battle magic research
	etc...

After all that, I don't have the heart to say "Foo on you!  Spell misfire,
you're dead."

> 	I do like the idea of material componets for spells.  It means even us
> 	powerful people have reasons to go out and do things :->

Yes, anything that gets you sticks-in-the-mud out of Drassa will be
a Good Thing.  :-)

--
Rich Skrenta

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Re: Olympia: opinions on magical research
Bill.Viggers@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Bill Viggers)
Fri, 01 May 1992 03:01:03 +0000

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Re: Olympia: opinions on magical research
Bill.Viggers@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Bill Viggers)
Fri, 01 May 1992 03:01:03 +0000