[CF List] wraight (& fireborns)

[Steven Lembark]

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       I guess I'm confused what struct and what field.  You certainly don't
     
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      want to modify the spells the fireborn casts in such a way, as it would
     
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      also heal other monsters.
     
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       And in fact, since the fireborn has 100 resistance to fire, some special
     
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      hack would be needed in the attack code in any place.
     
     
Last time I looked the resistance is accomplished by a
multiplier that effects the damage. If the sign if this
value were reversed then "damage" would be added to the
hp rather than subtracted.




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       Which is one reason having it food I think works better - food has a much
     
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      higher total allowed (999 - ok, at very high levels, players may get hp
     
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      that high).  But it does mean that a fireborn that starts with max food
     
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      in town should be able to get a decent amount of the dungeon done, and
     
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      then find fire or whatever to get food back up.  If its his hit points,
     
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      chances are he might leave town at max, gets to dungeon at less than max,
     
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      has to fire up, and now has less than max mana, waits for that to get up,
     
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      and once again has less than max hp.  mana regen would have to be faster
     
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      than hp loss, but the effect will still almost certainly be that the
     
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      player will spend more time waiting for those to go up.
     
     
At low levels they can get a wand, potion or spell.

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       Also, having it be hp would seem to me to make it impossible for a
     
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      fireborns hp to naturally go up unless he is in fire.  This could really
     
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      screw the fireborn - imagine he got into a treasure chamber with no
     
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      magic, but that also released big nasty monster - he's basically hosed
     
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      now, as his hp will continue to go down with no way to get them up again.
     
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      At least if food is a seperate stat, assuming he has enough food, his hp
     
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      will get maxed out.
     
     
That would be a problem. But fb's are already completely
screwed facing monsters in places with no magic (though
casting flaming aura outside the door would go a long
way towards keeping them going).

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