[crossfire] [IDEA] Reagents for cast magic

[Mitch Obrian]

Please don't make the magic system less complex.
Please.

We can add witchcraft if it is desired, new spells
will be needed (turn to frog, etc).

Also in some areas witchcraft may land a person in
jail :) 

--- Brendan Lally <
     brenlally at gmail.com
     > wrote:

>
      I'll try to only post to the list once this
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      time.....
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      On 10/14/05, ERACC <
      eracclists at bellsouth.net
      > wrote:
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      > He's not random. I chose him specifically because
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      I agree with his
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      > fantasy ideas on "witchcraft" vs. "sorcery" and
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      his writing that down
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      > in his novels keeps me from having to reiterate it
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      here.
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      It might do if it was someone I had heard of.....
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      > As for "game
     >
      > balance" ... well, I've not ever been fond of that
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      term as it
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      > usually means nerfing or disabling something I
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      have found fun to use
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      > in the game.
     >
     
     >
      If by 'fun' you mean unequivocably superior to all
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      other options to
     >
      solve the same problem, then yes. Almost all games,
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      from a simple game
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      of draughts to more sophistacated games like risk or
     >
      D&D are based
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      around making interesting choices, when the best
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      choice to make is
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      unclear and requires some combination of skill,
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      luck, experience and
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      planning. A choice that has an obvious or trivial
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      best solution is
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      null. It doesn't matter in game terms and is merely
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      an impediment to
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      the enjoyment of the game. I am not convinced that
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      currently choice of
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      spells (particularly in combat) is an interesting
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      choice most of the
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      time (it tends to be meteor swarm, if that doesn't
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      work icestorm or
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      banisment (if undead or the right race). Only very
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      rarely are any
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      other spells used, at least IME.
     >
     
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      > Same goes for "game economy". It's a fantasy game,
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      it
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      > *should* be easy to get insanely "wealthy" once
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      one knows how. If I
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      > want things to be difficult and to have little
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      money I have that in
     >
      > real life.
     >
     
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      Maybe but you shouldn't get that at level 1. It
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      should rather be
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      something that is gradually accumulated, and
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      requires a degree of
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      challenge, at least initially. If that is absent,
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      then money is made
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      worthless.
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      > I'm reading "game balance" but thinking "game
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      complexity". I think
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      > this will just make the game more complex. It is
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      already quite
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      > complex now and takes plenty of time to learn to
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      play well enough to
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      > survive to a high level
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      This doesn't neccessarily have to make the game more
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      complex. It would
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      be quite possible to remove spell points at the same
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      time, and with it
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      the complexity of power crystals, power potions, and
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      magic stats.
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      Especially if the amount of each ingredient it was
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      possible to
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      stockpile was limited (to go back to my previous
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      idea about
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      incorporating it into food, a point at which you are
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      told 'your body
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      is incapable of holding any more of this'
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      likewise paths could be removed, rather have
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      attunements to the
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      individual ingredients (so that you need twice as
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      much, or half the
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      number for certain spells).
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     >
      To my mind that would be a /simpler/ magic system
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      than the one that
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      exists currently. The question then would be whether
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      it is worth
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      changing to. That is a difficult question to resolve
     >
      (which is why it
     >
      is a topic of discussion here).
     >
     
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