[crossfire] Ice melting spell

[Mark Wedel]

On 05/ 1/13 12:27 AM, Nicolas Weeger wrote:
> Hello.
>
>
>> One thing I've been thinking would be nice is a pyro spell for melting ice,
>> a bit like there is a "earth to dust" spell. Messing around with flints
>> (specially the humorous bit about mistakenly lighting the flint with
>> itself, and burning it completely up) seems somewhat, er, medieval.
>
> Maybe a "warm" spell? Which wouldn't give any experience, probably, to avoid
> abusing it :)
>
> And with a probability of warming too much and destroying items in the ice.

  One can already sort of do this with things like burning hands or other fire 
spells - just be sure to put the ice cubes at the edge so they get a minimal 
amount of fire, which the reduces chance of burning up.

  Of course, there is still a fairly high chance of them burning up even in that 
case (just like with flint & steel).

  Ice cubes could in theory melt on their own - give each a speed, and some 
amount of hit points or the like (perhaps based on how much damage resulted in 
them being put in ice in the first place, eg, a dragon breath is going to be 
pretty big block of ice), and when it runs out of hit points, it is melted.  So 
if players want to wait, they could do so.

  One problem there is that some items should basically get ruined even in that 
case - while the scroll may not burn up and turn to ashes, it getting soaked 
with water would likely ruin any writing on it.