[CF-Devel] spell path & cause black death

[Mark Wedel]

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      I found that cause black death followed the PATH_NULL.
     
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      Is this only to avoid to make them avaible from books?
     
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      All other cause spells are from _WOUNDING
     
     
 Being available from books has nothing to do with the spellpath.  there is
actually a field in the spell structure that determines books chance, anothe
that determines scroll chance, another that determines wand/rod/staff chance.

 Now I'm not sure why this particular spell would be path_null instead of
path_wounding.


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      Perhaps we can remove the PATH_NULL spells and add them to
     
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      other pathes?
     
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      We can use one "normal" path as "default" path where we add
     
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      levitate and others.
     
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      This path should be never forbidden through items or other effects.
     
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      This will make the path thing much clearer.
     
     
 Why?  consider path_null the same as path_none or path_misc.  If you make a new
path and then make it so that no items affect the path, how is that any
different than just using the current path_null we have now.  I have a feeling
that if you do make it a real path, you'll find someone down the road making a
map or artifact that does change that path in some regard.

 If the spell doesn't need a path, then path_null works just fine.  I'm just
missing the point of what you are trying to fix/improve here.  If given the
choice, making no change vs making changes with no discernible effect, I'll
choose the no change option every time.