[crossfire] [IDEA] Reagents for cast magic

[Mitch Obrian]

Wouldn't regents just be like talismands?

Perhapse if one doesn't have the regent the spell
should be only be 1/2 or 1/3rd as powerfull then with
the regent (for spells that 'need' regents)?

--- Mark Wedel <
     mwedel at sonic.net
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        My personal thoughts:
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        doing this should be based on gameplay, not
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      sorcery vs witchcraft or any of 
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      that type of things.
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      I'm a little reluctant to do it food based - for
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      some characters, it is enough a 
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      pain just to find enough food on some maps, if I now
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      have to worry that I'm 
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      eating the right type of food, that just adds a lot
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      of hassle.
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        However, having continued consumption of some food
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      times giving bonuses seems 
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      reasonable.  At the same time, if a character stops
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      eating those foods, those 
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      bonuses should go away.  This could perhaps be done
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      by very long lived forces - 
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      eating the corresponding food creates the force, and
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      each time you eat it, the 
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      duration of the force is increased (to some
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      maximum).
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        But to me, that is seperate from the reagants.
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        Doing reagants probably wouldn't be hard.  But if
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      done, I think the following 
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      should be considered:
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      1) Prepared reagants for most (all?) spells shoud be
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      available in shops.  That 
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      said, you may not get reagants for destruction in
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      scorn, but in brest perhaps. 
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      It shouldn't be a requirement that I be an alchemist
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      as a spell caster.  That 
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      said, a caster could make them if he wanted to (and
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      save money).
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      (following from economics, if there is demand,
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      people would make it).
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      2) PRices for reagants, especially for high level
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      spells, could be quite costly. 
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        1000 pp to cast comet?
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      3) Reagants should be quite light, so that you can
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      carry a bunch of them without 
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      much effect on weight (or perhaps give players a
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      reagant pouch that reduces 
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      weight quite a bit).
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      4) Not all spells should necessarily require
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      reagants.  Most lower level spells 
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      perhaps shouldn't, with more requirement for higher
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      level spells.
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      5) Use of reagants should be similar to arrows, eg,
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      happens automatically. 
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      Player shouldn't have to be fumbling through their
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      inventory for them.
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      6) Could perhaps be interesting to have alternate
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      reagants for spells with 
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      different effects (less or more powerful, etc).
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        The basic gist of this is don't want to make it
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      such a pain to play 
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      spellcasters that no one does so.  If I can only
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      carry 50 reagants and have to 
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      keep popping back to town, what fun is that? 
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      Likewise, if I have to be hunting 
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      through the forest looking for some herb for a
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      spell, I'd not consider that 
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      especially fun either.
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      That said, pricey reagants could certainly make
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      using some spells less appealing.
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