[CF-Devel] some spells weirdness

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      > 	-the charm monsters spell shouldnt give xp in the moment you charm a monster
     
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      > too instead of just turning the monsters your pets and wait for them to kill a
     
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      > monster to give you some xp? i think it should at least give a fraction of the
     
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      > total monster's xp, but that's just my thought abput it :)
     
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        I take it you mean to say that the charm monster spell should give xp the 
     
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      moment the monster is charmed?
     
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        This could be done, but is a bit different in that the model for most all 
     
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      spells is you get exp when it causes death.  Eg, we don't give exp for 
     
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      successfully casting a cure wounds spell for example.
     
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        One problem I see with giving some amount of monster exp when spell is cast is 
     
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      abusiveness - Probably much easier/faster to charm a bunch of monsters and not 
     
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      have them kill anything vs having to charm them and then finding them something 
     
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      to kill (eg, go into room full of monsters, cast a bunch of charms, get exp, and 
     
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      just leave)
     
     
I would expect charm monster to be the spell equivalent of oratory,
which, last I checked, does give xp when you charm the monster.  Unless
it really is a problem, it would be nice to keep that parallel.

--PC



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