[crossfire] Spellcasting skills definition

[Ruben Safir]

what?
On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 04:53:04PM +1000, David Hurst wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm working on improving the messages that players get in general. Today I
> was working on spell messages which are provided when learning spells (new)
> and viewing learnt spells via the spell menu (commit #20501).
> 
> While working on this I noticed some odd places for spells such as ball
> lightning in evocation (all other lightning is in pyromancy) and large
> bullet in evocation while bullet is in sorcery. These may simply be typos
> but I noticed that we don't appear to have defined what these skills
> actually represent anywhere server side (there might be some definitions
> client side I haven't noticed?). I also notice that the current information
> on our website is very out of date and doesn't include skills like
> pyromancy.
> 
> I am thinking about adding these definitions to the skills and presenting
> them to players when they learn the skills and updating all relevant
> documentation (in game, wiki, website).
> 
> Based on the way spells are currently classified, and without getting too
> academic, I thought the following broad definitions might work:
> 
> Evocation - Spells that remove energy (cold spells, poison, draining?,
> depletion?)

That is not what the word means...

> Sorcery - Spells that create things (physical damage, food, strengthening)
.... Um what?  That is the definition of the work Evoke and in
Evocation.

> Pyromancy - Spells that add energy (fire, lightning, light)
> Summoning - Spells that call and control monsters (golems, pets, etc)
> Praying - Spells gifted by channeling your gods wishes through prayer
> 
> Thoughts?

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