Huge makeover

[Arekusanderu]

Okay, I have a suggestion here for various *MASSIVE* changes to the code. They should be simple and easy to implement; some of them at least, most DEFINITELY the skill mods.

First off: Dragons starting off with Evoker? No. Give them a new skill, "Breathweapon". Breathweapon can learn spells with attacktype matching the dragon's current focus, as well as those learned naturally. Also, according to Breathweapon, all spells are castable at level one. You just can't learn a higher level spell than your Breathweapon skill.

Also, Quetzals and Fireborns need a slight modification. Pyromancy is a natural ability for them; it shouldn't be treated as magic. Thus, the "Firebreathing" skill. All fire-based (NOT all pyromantic - they don't get lightningbreath!) spells that can be learned from books or naturally (table in a minute here) can be learned for Firebreathing.

Firebreathing natural spells (UPDATED):

Burning Hands (Level 1/comes with skill)
Small Fireball (Level 2)
Firebolt (Level 3)
Medium Fireball (Level 5)
Large Fireball (Level 10)
Dragonbreath (Level 15)
Meteor (Level 40)

Firebreathing and Breathweapon will still consume the appropriate amount of mana. They are NOT blocked by antimagic ground or by gods that deny magic usage (listen for my Valriel "update"). Only weapons affect their encumbrance, nothing else (shouldn't have a problem with that anyway). Failed spells do NOT simply fail, they blow up in your face:

Cone spells go every which way in bolt shapes
Bolt spells start on your square (thereby hurting you) and go a random direction
Ball spells do the same thing as stay-fire.

Valriel makeover:

He's based off an omnipotent god, so let's make him one. But, he's got a lotta laws to follow.

Bad things:

Godpower -100
NO_MAGIC

That should be more than enough to make up for a few more special prayers (non-exclusive), Godpower attacktype and poison, fear, DDD +100.

Extra special:

Peace
Staff to snake

Oh yeah. Holy artifact: Longinus' Spear. Slaying demon and cleric, attacktype godpower, DDD +100.

If Valriel's unbalanced as above, go ahead and heap on denied summoning. That should make things better. And if you HAVE to, take away the spear.

[cavesomething]

interesting ideas, although your new skill would cause a problem, allowing the casting of spells on no_magic ground /will/ break lots of quests, I don't see how to get around this without checking through ~500000 map squares.

[Arekusanderu]

Hmm, perhaps an anti-breath thingy. Like anti-magic but not.

[Rowfo]

when you say meteor? do you mean meteor swarm? or comet? ether way i think level 30 is a bit too low for such a good spell, considering it would not require a spellbook

[Aaron]

dragon breath would come in there inbetween comet and large fireball. push comet to 40ish add MS at 60? and dragon breath at 15. that shouldnt break stuff too bad.

[Arekusanderu]

dragon breath would come in there inbetween comet and large fireball. push comet to 40ish add MS at 60? and dragon breath at 15. that shouldnt break stuff too bad.

I was thinking not have MS at all; MAYBE put it at 110. I personally think it's too powerful to learn naturally, with no book.

[Aaron]

hmm, MS at 110 would defeat the purpose a bit. what level to people generally get MS at?

[Arekusanderu]

hmm, MS at 110 would defeat the purpose a bit. what level to people generally get MS at?

70 or 80, I think...

[bort]

I got MS at level 20..
C'mon kids,
dont neuter MS.
They did that to ColorSpray, and now CS is back to usable status, after many months.

[Arekusanderu]

I got MS at level 20..
C'mon kids,
dont neuter MS.
They did that to ColorSpray, and now CS is back to usable status, after many months.

Oh, it's still learnable by book, just like always. Just not naturally.