(TFT) Edward's Enhanced Staff & Lesser Enhanced Staff spells

[Rick Smith <rick_ww@lightspeed.ca>]

Hi Edward, 
  If you want people to be able to find your stuff in the list archives,
it is good to keep the subject line updated.  (Done above.)

  I (in general) like the idea of this spell.  I have two versions of
upgraded Staff spells my spell list (IQ 24 --> Staff or Mastery & 
IQ 32 --> Staff of Awe).  I may write them up for the list sometime.
The main reason I added my two spells is I wanted greater
versions of the staff spell at higher IQ levels.

  I agree with David Bofinger's comments.  Saying why you have
written the rules in a way (what problem you are trying to fix), is
a good idea when you make new rules for TFT.  If the reader 
says, "He is right.  TFT really WOULD be better if that was fixed."
people are more likely to look at your work carefully.  

  The rules of the Enhanced Staff should say cost is reduced by
10% rather than giving examples and hoping that the user 
correctly deduces the rules from the examples given.

  I do not think that the small magic items are overpowered 
except for the Flight ability (which I think should be removed). 
The ability to fly at all is a huge benefit.  If you wanted to keep
it at some level, allow the flight spell only to work when you
are going straight down which prevents fall damage.  If you
do NOT fix this, your speed MA says you get +1 MA including
Flight, and then later it gives you Flight.  So are you saying you
can actually fly 2 hexes per turn?  That is the way I read it.

  The armor enchantment should be given a name like "Thick
Flesh".  Then people would know automatically that it won't 
combine with the other flesh spells since no flesh spell combines
with any other.

  I might dump Mage Sight ability and change the Dark Vision
ability to say that it gives you +1 DX bonus to reduce penalties
due to Darkness (but does not help in total dark).  The reason 
for this is the other abilities do not cost fST, and I would rather
keep it that way for all of these abilities.

  If you make the changes I suggest, the IQ requirement could
be reduced to say 24 or so.  This would make it more likely that
people would ever be able to take it.  (Says the man who has
made an IQ 32 spell, "Staff of Awe", which no PC or NPC in his
campaign has ever taken.)

Warm regards, Rick.

On 2016-05-08, at 12:55 PM, Edward Villarreal wrote:

> What do you think of this Spell.
> 
> IQ 27
> 
> ENHANCE STAFF: (S) Must know the Staff of Power spell and Lesser Magic Item
> Creations spell, can only be cast on a Staff the wizard created.  The first
> part of this spell works just as the Lesser Enhance Staff (IQ 16) spell
> does.
> 
> Repeated Here:
> There are two levels to this spell the first reduces the cost of spells the
> wizard cast by one, but cannot reduce cost below one.  The second reduces
> the cost of spells the wizard casts by two but again cannot reduce costs to
> less than one.  The wizard must cast the spell alone. The only difference
> between the two levels of the spell is the cost to cast.  If cast on a
> Staff the first level costs 50 ST points, the second 100 ST points.  If
> cast on a Staff of Power the first level costs 60 ST points and the second
> level costs 120 ST points. The entire ST cost of the spell must be applied
> in one go.  There is no success roll; if the wizard knows the spell and
> expends the required ST it works.  Once cast on a staff the spell is
> permanent.  The wizard must be holding the staff for this spell to reduce
> the ST of other spells he casts.
> 
> The second part of the spell is that it allows lesser versions of magic
> items to be incorporated into the Staff of Power, with all of the additions
> being counted as part of the Enhance Staff spell, and not as separate
> spells against the rule of five.  Each part is cast separately and costs 10
> ST.  The wizard must know the spell, a Scroll will not work.  If he forgets
> the spell the enhancement will no longer work for him.
> 
> Only the following are allowed.
> 
> BLUR:   Subtracts 1 DX from all attacks against the staff wielder, has no
> ST cost. Does not combine with any other form of Blur.
> 
> SHOCK SHIELD:  Does one point of damage per turn to any enemy in the same
> hex, no ST cost.  The wizard has complete control over who suffers damage.
> Does not combine with any other form of Shock Shield.
> 
> SPEED MOVEMENT:  Adds one MA to the wizards speed, no ST cost, adds to
> other forms of Speed Movement.  Also adds to Flight speed.
> 
> EYES-BEHIND:  Makes the wizards rear hexes act as side hexes, his side
> hexes are still side hexes.  No ST cost.
> 
> FLIGHT:  Allows the wizard to move 1 MA in any open direction including
> up.  Because its so slow attackers suffer no additional DX penalty.  No ST
> cost.  Does not increase running speed.  If combined with other Flight
> spells or items it reduces their ST costs by 1.
> 
> ARMOR:  Reduces the damage of all attacks by one point.  No ST cost.  Must
> know Weapon/Armor Enhancement.  Does not combine with Stone or Iron Flesh.
> Does work with other Armor Enhancement.
> 
> DAMAGE:  Increases the damage of all the wizards attacks by 1 point.  No ST
> cost.  Must know Weapon/Armor Enhancement.
> 
> DARK VISION:  As per the spell but costs only 1 ST point per hour.
> 
> MAGE SIGHT:  As per the spell but only costs 3 ST for the first hour, and 1
> ST for each hour thereafter.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 12:19 AM, Rick Smith <rick_ww@lightspeed.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Joel,
>>  This is my page on the brainac TFT website:
>> 
>> http://tft.brainiac.com/RicksTFT/title.html
>> 
>>  And this is the link to the healing spell article:
>> 
>> http://tft.brainiac.com/RicksTFT/SpellsTFT/HealingSpellsInTFT.html
>> 
>>  I've put some effort into organizing my stuff so from the base
>> page it should not be too hard to find what you are looking for.
>> 
>>  Warm regards, Rick.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 2016-05-07, at 10:14 PM, Joel BoardgameRpger wrote:
>> 
>>> Rick, im looking for your healing spells mentioned below. Can you send a
>>> link?
>>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Rick Smith <rick_ww@lightspeed.ca>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> I've got around to tweaking the Healing Spells based on feedback.
>>>> 
>>>> For the top two spells, it is now explicit that the bonus point or two
>>>> of healing happens at once.  It also adds the phrase that the bonus
>>>> point healed must be done on the most recent wound and once per
>>>> wound.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for those who gave feedback.  Sorry it took so long to add
>>>> your changes to the website.
>>>> 
>>>> Warm regards, Rick.
>>>> 
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