[CF-Devel] Comments on current Gods proposal

[Peter Mardahl]

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      On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:41:03PM -0800, Peter Mardahl wrote:
     
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      > Sanctuary will DO elemental shield.  In fact, it was be hard
     
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      Does conterspell work against non-magical dragon breath?  Elemental
     
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      shield will do, and it also protects against direct hits.  Furthermore,
     
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      elemental and earth shield could give stronger (or weaker) protections
     
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      compared to other spells/prayers when partial resistances are
     
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      implemented.
     
     
Yes, right now counterspell can stop dragon breath.  The reason for
this is this:  nearly every monster casts all spells as abilities
rather than as magic.  Counterspell would be useless if it didn't
ignore AT_MAGIC.

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      > "earth shield" mildly concerns me:  it is just a clerical
     
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      > version of the "armour" spell.  The name also makes me think that
     
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      > a circle of earth will rear up and circle the player in 8 squares.
     
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      It can also reduce AC, like a real shield.
     
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      > "ironwood skin"?
     
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      I don't mind.  I can hardly ever think of good names.  ;-)
     
     
Should be easy enough to implement.  I'll go ahead and do it.

PeterM