(TFT) TFT: Magic Item Creation

["Dave Seagraves" <dseagraves@austin.rr.com>]

Michael writes . . .

>Though this does remind me. The TFT magic item creation system seems
>to be the most jumbled and illogical mess in an otherwise amazingly
>elegant and straightforward system. Has anyone found anything better?
>Or does the benefit listed above *require* the magic-item creation
>system to be so disorganized?

   Hey!  Dem's fightin' werds!
   Mike, what problems do you have with the magic item creation system in
Advanced Wizard?  Seems pretty okay to me.  I imagine it could stand some
improvement but I wouldn't know where to start.
   Now the range modifier system in Advanced Melee -- /that's/ messed up.
/Four/ different mechanics to determine a DX penalty due to range: One for
Missile Weapons/Spells, one for Thrown Weapons, one for Lobbing Molotails
and Gas Bombs, and one for Long-Distance Missile Weapons.  Pretty clumsy,
but this was back in the days before unified logarithmic range scales.  (See
my solution here . . .)

http://tft.brainiac.com/cgi-bin/wilma_hiliter/tft/9907/msg00297.html?line=12
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>Create Gate will let you cast spells through the gate (IMHO). You
>can set up ANY rules you want when you create the gate. If you can
>create it so that it only activates when something living comes
>through AND you can stick your head through the gate and pull it
>back it seems to be flexible enough to all the rule "Always Activate
>and allows Spells To Go Through it."

   Sounds good to me.  Might as well make gates see-through as well, which
by extension could make them /invisible/ -- walk right through a gate
without realizing it.  This opens up some possibilities, like a virtual
tunnel that has one entrance in Dran and another in some far-off place.  A
Spellsniffer spell would have to be used to find out exactly where the gate
is along the "tunnel."

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