[CF-Devel] New Skill System (Draft)

[Tim Rightnour]

On 20-Nov-02 Johnny Shelley wrote:
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      The main problem is in how to deal with the magic system and schools. I
     
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      will post one system as a follow up to this thread and Tim will post a
     
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      second view. We leave it to the list members to decide on which method
     
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      is the preferred route.
     
     
My idea, is to break each of the magic paths into it's own skill, and leave the
concepts of attuned/repelled alone.

In this way, Fire magic would be it's own skill.  So when you learned, and cast
a fire spell, it would contribute exp to the fire path, and your casting level
would be your level in the fire path.

I don't have a big chart like cryo does.. as I don't think I'm ready to even
think about assigning values to each skill yet, however under my idea, I would
basically have to sit down and look at each spell path:

1) Paths that have no method of gaining experience, would either have to be
combined with other paths, or dealt with in some other manner.

2) Some paths have only 2-3 spells in them.  These paths are likely going to
need to be combined with other paths, to keep them from being totally worthless
vs the cost to purchase.

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