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jaxy15

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Re: Games with DIY magic?
« Reply #30 on: June 25, 2012, 08:17:06 am »

The Mage Guild roguelike is purely based on the idea of DIY magical items (you can mix any two objects and they create something new. For example adding a wolf hair to a polymorph potion transforms you into a wolf)
While you don't create spells themselves, you can create objects which cast spells
Tried it out. It's quite an interesting and simple game.
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Re: Games with DIY magic?
« Reply #31 on: June 25, 2012, 09:49:30 am »

Magicka is great.  Death is a slap on the wrist (unless you lose your only staff of war  >:() and there are so many combos that are effective.  Do I go for a water quake and then frost nova to turn everyone into a popsicle.  Or do I throw steam rocks and frost rocks to do the same thing at a longer range?  Should I just throw up an earth shield and then kill every living thing with a super steam electric nova?  Maybe I should use beam version instead.  There are so many possibilities.  But then again your buddy accidentally (on purpose :P) got you wet and now you've killed yourself because you were trying to use electricity while wet.
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Re: Games with DIY magic?
« Reply #32 on: June 25, 2012, 06:12:25 pm »

Lost Magic for the DS, as mentioned, is cool. The basic is you can pick from six elements and three levels from those, and can cast a spell using a combination of up to three symbols. There is a pre-made spell list, which covers all two symbol combinations and a few three symbol combinations, but it was pretty intuitive. 396 spells in all. Great sign recognition, too.
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« Reply #33 on: June 25, 2012, 06:32:42 pm »

Just a note- the name of the game is Slash'em, not chained blitz, and it's a mod for nethack.

It isn't really DIY, but Fall from Heaven II, a civ 4 mod, offers quite a bit of available magic, and you can stack spells and enchantments on units basically however you like onto basically any unit, making for some interesting combinations.
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