Here are my quibbles and questions:- I have a philosophical problem with IQ7 spells, in general. Magic is supposed to be hard, and IQ7, in real world terms, is what they used to call "retarded", and now refer to by some more politically correct term like "learning disability". If you're intellectually challenged to the point where you can't even learn to read, then sorry, no spells for you. Maybe as a GM, you want your less intelligent races to be able to cast spells, but personally I'd rather handle that by giving them intrinsic magical abilities that don't have to be learned.
- Most times, doubling fST cost doubles radius (thus quadrupling area of effect), but with Shape Growth, doubling fST doubles *area*. Is this intentional? If so, why is this particular spell different?
- The Quietude categories only make sense from a game-mechanics perspective. Why would a spell differentiate between an arrow shot from a bow, and a spear thrown from a hand? Why would it differentiate between a dagger and a claw, or a club and a fist? I'd probably have just two Quietude spells: one for melee/unarmed attacks, one for thrown/missile weapons. Then a separate spell that vastly weakens missile spells passing through its area of effect, or causes them to fizzle entirely. Also in the Quietude spell description: " Each doubling of the cost doubles the radius. Each doubling of the cost increases by one, the amount of protection given. So x4 cost would stop 3 hits, and x16 cost would stop 5 hits." So if you double the base 1-minute cost, spending 20 fST on the spell, does it cover a radius of 12 MH, AND stop 2 points of damage, or do you have to choose? What if you want it to be radius 6 MH but stop 4 points of damage?
- If I ran a campaign with Tindempt's Hex, I'd probably describe it as arcing electrical currents dancing over the wizard's skin, doing damage, just because it's a cool image and seems less random somehow than an invisible giant hammer. 1 die of damage, doesn't increase or decrease (less record-keeping), cloth and leather armor protects, as do Stone/Iron Flesh, metal armor and Spell Shield don't.
One thing I expected to see, and didn't, is a "zone of sleep", which would make any character sitting still/lying down very likely to accidentally fall asleep, and once asleep, very difficult to wake up. Wouldn't affect combat, but if someone made camp there... A neat trap for GM's to set, but I can also see players getting good use out of it, by casting it on a sentry post they know they'll have to sneak past later.
- MegP.S. In the description for the zone of lingering, you mention a "torturing table", implying you've got detailed rules for torturing information out of characters?!
On 3/5/16 4:30 PM, David Bofinger wrote:
These environmental spells are mostly anti-magic in nature. Unfortunately that means they tend to be a couple of steps removed from on-map effects. As Andreas points out, they would be a lot more useful to NPCs than PCs.None of that sounds like a lot of fun. It seems like natural magical abilities, like the ability of a demon to teleport, or of a gargoyle or dragon to fly, should be affected. To me the most interesting spells are those that actually affect people - the zone of lingering, for instance. I would like to see more spells like that: a spell that makes the atmosphere resistant to missiles so that range penalties are increased and/or damage reduced by range; a spell that reduces or increases everyone's MA; a spell that affects pain and hence knockdowns and DX mods due to damage; spells that make melee attacks more difficult; spells that make some or all damage inflicted of the non-lethal kind; spells that once a turn move everyone one hex in a random direction and change their facing one hexside. -- David On 6 March 2016 at 07:35, Rick Smith <rick_ww@lightspeed.ca> wrote:Hi all, Here is my long delayed article on Environmental magics in TFT. This is a new class of spells like Thrown Spells and Creation Spells, etc. http://tft.brainiac.com/RicksTFT/SpellsTFT/Environmental_Magics_TFT.html If you have ideas for your own Environmental spells, I would be interested in knowing them. I would not mind adding a few more to my campaign. Comments are welcome of course. I was sorry no one had anything to say on my gnome article. I rather liked the special abilities given in that article. Warm regards, Rick. ===== Post to the entire list by writing to tft@brainiac.com. Unsubscribe by mailing to majordomo@brainiac.com with the message body "unsubscribe tft"===== Post to the entire list by writing to tft@brainiac.com. Unsubscribe by mailing to majordomo@brainiac.com with the message body "unsubscribe tft"
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