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[H4X]

Aye, trying to make this work with only two people doing the back and forth means we'll probably have a warped idea by the standards of others. So even if you can't get a character going feedback would be useful. sweatdrop since it seems we're back down to me and Nar, with Ishi in and out though that means we're back to 3 people. 4 depending on Tut's opinion when recovered.

Guessing we lost Fen and Ooka's friend with the dice and that's that?


Anyway, back to dealing with the wolf's binding in the testbed. Wolf has 0 magic, meaning binding resistance is non existent. +2 chance to hit is something I can't tell you how to factor in with the hit/miss system besides rolling from 0-3 on the first turn of that spell and being able to hit on 1-3. Said spell is stacking/channeled meaning +1 per turn it's being cast, and it reapplies. The wolf becomes more resistant to it as the spell goes on however 0 on first turn 1 resist on the second turn, 2 resist on third turn, and so on.

The wolf can still move, still has a chance to dodge, it's just thinking it's weighed down or tangled in the roots and has to make a mental effort to fight past that false thought.

How long that spell lasts is the problem since again we're talking about something with no magic at all. H4x logic on illusion breaking is either something has to break the illusion, or it has to run for a length based off your magic resist (which is your magic score for illusions I guess) and probably would use strength if the roots were real.

Again, H4x logic based off our earlier talks about dispelling illusions requiring something. The active dispel being a spell that would cost a turn, or mana (not sure how much yet). In the case of the dispel listed below caster is one's self if they're alone which is what I figured the wolf would deal with. (Given Still casting spell this whole time, not to lasting effect turn on roots)

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Passive Dispel - 100% chance to remove level 0 lasting MENTAL effects.
Caster Magic * Turns of Lasting Effect against Opponent Magic(Does not use Turn action)

Passive Resist - 100% chance to remove level 1 lasting PHYSICAL effects.
Caster Strength * Turns of Lasting Effect against Opponent Magic (Does not use Turn action)

 

[H4X]

Each time my character rolled the effect refreshed. I edited your posts about it to make more sense since once it figures out the 'roots' are another trick it would be able to move, but it's mind would be telling it that it can't move.

So next turn again would use this if we're claiming the wolf can break free.

(Status: Slowed for 3 posts including this one) (Dodge Chance Down)

More or less I'm not sure how we're going to handle people attacking it or other things under that spell's effect though since it's very broken if we use binary accuracy rolls.

Could treat it as dex down per turn, but that's not the right way either.  

[H4X]

Sort-of. The idea is that (at least for this one being mental based) is that you take the Magic stat of the opponent, and that's the number you have to beat to start with. Each turn you keep the channeling going you have to roll 1 higher.

So with the wolf it would be beat 0 the first post, 1 the second post, 2 the third post, and so on till either you fail the roll, or you stop channeling and do something else.  

[H4X]

Again, anyone's welcome to contribute attack ideas. I'm trying to think in terms of templates. Water attack, earth attack, avoiding type is the ideal if we want to let people have freedom to do what they want in the system. sweatdrop

To some extent I'm trying to keep these templates vague enough to where someone could even have a non 'magic' character substitute the MC stat for ninja-tool use. (The channeled dodge-reduction being turns taken to set up a wire trap being one example)  

[H4X]

Honestly just was a shot in the dark. You said how the hit/miss was 0 or 1 for normal attacks, figured this was a normal attack but with the wolf rooted, or at least slowed making it have a slightly higher chance.  

[H4X]

sweatdrop Right now we're still working that out. When I started thinking of the magic system I've been posting templates and ideas for the ideas was that we'd have similar 'weaknesses' in place for people who play characters with a 0 in any stat. The idea being that if you have even something in a stat you're infinitely better off then someone with nothing at all. (More or less built around that idea you had of everyone should have one point in a stat to start with, but saying someone's free to choose the burden that comes with none of those stats)

I kinda need to see Nar's template for 'basic combat' spelled out more to know how overpowered this is going to be since I've gotten some mixed messages in the test thread on top of causing them.

Short version Ishi is that I'm trying to make it so are meant to hinder someone, not hurt as they are so far. Likewise that means a caster shouldn't deal too much damage without some kind of combo-attack with a non caster (sort-of what I was trying to simulate with the sword grab since Nar mentioned it) or without the use of Mana which is a limited resource and will use some kind of hit check.

It's better to say that the starting spells are nearly useless against a stronger caster, so being too magic dependent could be your downfall. Also tossed a footnote in the magic book, but tool use could fall under the 'magic' stat as well to do more ninja-like tricks.

If someone else wants to revise, or make a different magic system then feel free to go ahead. I just sort of wanted this out there with the idea that we have some written reference for current working combat systems since I kept digging back through the thread and sometimes mixed up with what we changed our minds on.




@Nar: If you have 1 point in magic, then the first post would auto-dispel a basic spell by an opponent with 1 in magic. If you had 2 points in magic, then the second post would auto-dispel any basic spell cast someone with 4 in magic. ( As it is currently, some issues with this obviously, and it's a bit more specific to illusions as compared to something that realistically a person could endure through, or break loose from with strength alone )

If you mean an active cleanse... I'm going to say we call it a level 0 effect, meaning for some mana later on you could cast it over a group all at once. My idea is it just takes a post to dispel on others if your magic is high enough ( half? 1/3rd? that of the one who cast something) and the one using it isn't using it on themselves. Probably will want to make it require a roll on one's self for success. I haven't put anything down yet because I want to see if anyone else has any ideas for making it 'fair' on how we handle it.