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19 (46.3%)

No

9 (22%)

It should be more than that

6 (14.6%)

It should be less than that

7 (17.1%)

Total Members Voted: 41

[H4zardZ1]

((I've thought things over, and I feel like fighting should be more about quick actions and spellcasting, rather than "kabam I kill you" spells all over.

Combat penalties would help, but if the opponent is unable to stop your amazing buffed spell, he's doomed. Imagine getting laser blasted from across a hex or two, and a homing modifier. No chance. Laser. FAL (fast as light). Even worse, the mage who did that to you simply blasted it out of nowhere with a 100% success rate cause he dumped a lot of essences in, as if there was no nerf at all.

Essence caps could fix that last part, though it would prevent anyone from attempting any particularly powerful spells on their own; alliances would become much more important, and then we get locked in a Cold War-type scenario. Doesn't sound like much fun.

Finally, there's the ritual magic thing. I imagine the old essences could be ejected into the world as usable trinkets for the rituals (so they don't just poof into nothing). Any cross-the-map instakill spells would require both time and resources, giving any potential targets time to prepare and increase chances of survival - or to attempt to mess up the ritual. In fights, the mages would be left with smaller spells and their items, leading to more strategy- and luck-driven battles.

My final vote is for rituals.

(And by the way, has anyone heard of Avatar: The Last Airbender TV series? You basically HAD to be good at fighting to do any good fire/earthbending.)))

((For light-speed projectiles(or just really fast), add a DEX roll only on the attacker's side(or any other kind of roll that affects one's perception). That simulates if the attacker doesn't turn their face(or eyes) fast enough to see their target, the target sees through the attack and dodge it before the light-speed projectile fired.
As for the ritual, you just need to place yourself a unknown thing that lasts for several turns(2?) and then BAM, someone's dead without them knowing what happened.))

[Sarrak]

((Poketwo got banned, which is unfortunate because he just woke up for his fight against Kahel and I wanted to see how that went.))

((Welp. So much for an epic duel between cruel mage-hunter and eversleeping chaos sorcerer...))

[star2wars3]

((Poketwo got banned, which is unfortunate because he just woke up for his fight against Kahel and I wanted to see how that went.))

((Welp. So much for an epic duel between cruel mage-hunter and eversleeping chaos sorcerer...))

((Also we may never see how he had planned to win the game))

[FallacyofUrist]

((I wantssss the font of magicssss in your foresssst ssssoooo badly....))

[Elephant Parade]

As for the ritual, you just need to place yourself a unknown thing that lasts for several turns(2?) and then BAM, someone's dead without them knowing what happened.))

((Thing is, you'd be spending multiple turns—more than 2, I'd imagine, assuming you want to hit someone from multiple tiles away—on a spell not even guaranteed to work; what if the target moves, or happens to go under cover? Personally, I'd be disinclined to burn several turns in hopes of maybe blasting a specific player.))

((Notably, more time spent on a stronger spell also means a higher chance of the target moving—that seems like a good balancer.))

[endlessblaze]

((lets start smaller, lets conquer that forest first. we can enslave the ents))

((Another name onto the list. I should write those names down somewhere before I forget them

((BRING IT NATURE BOY!))

[H4zardZ1]

As for the ritual, you just need to place yourself a unknown thing that lasts for several turns(2?) and then BAM, someone's dead without them knowing what happened.))

((Thing is, you'd be spending multiple turns—more than 2, I'd imagine, assuming you want to hit someone from multiple tiles away—on a spell not even guaranteed to work; what if the target moves, or happens to go under cover? Personally, I'd be disinclined to burn several turns in hopes of maybe blasting a specific player.))

((Notably, more time spent on a stronger spell also means a higher chance of the target moving—that seems like a good balancer.))

((Step 1: Go on a ritual for a touch-based instakill(pm it)
Step 2: Make the ritual go endless until someone disturbs
Step 3: Let the disturber touch you/touch them
You know what happens next.))

[Elephant Parade]

As for the ritual, you just need to place yourself a unknown thing that lasts for several turns(2?) and then BAM, someone's dead without them knowing what happened.))

((Thing is, you'd be spending multiple turns—more than 2, I'd imagine, assuming you want to hit someone from multiple tiles away—on a spell not even guaranteed to work; what if the target moves, or happens to go under cover? Personally, I'd be disinclined to burn several turns in hopes of maybe blasting a specific player.))

((Notably, more time spent on a stronger spell also means a higher chance of the target moving—that seems like a good balancer.))

((Step 1: Go on a ritual for a touch-based instakill(pm it)
Step 2: Make the ritual go endless until someone disturbs
Step 3: Let the disturber touch you/touch them
You know what happens next.))

((Isn't this also possible with essences, though? You could enchant your hand with death, or something. Also, if someone disturbed your ritual with a ranged attack, you'd have wasted a bunch of turns.))

[Beirus]

((What if we make rituals similar to channeled casting and make the essences into foci for the rituals. You could add up to a certain limit each turn to add to the CMP/POT of the ritual spell, along with other miscellaneous items that would add additional effects to the ritual or change the resulting spell in some way.))

[ATHATH]

See, the problem with the ritual system is that it encourages killing people from across the map, instead of in glorious combat.

[AoshimaMichio]

See, the problem with the ritual system is that it encourages killing people from across the map, instead of in glorious combat.

((And current system doesn't?))

[DreamerGhost]

See, the problem with the ritual system is that it encourages killing people from across the map, instead of in glorious combat.

((And current system doesn't?))

((There hasn't been a single not face-to-face murder yet. It is ratherr surprising.))

[endlessblaze]

Forgotten blaze and accelerator already?

[Sarrak]

See, the problem with the ritual system is that it encourages killing people from across the map, instead of in glorious combat.

((And current system doesn't?))

((There hasn't been a single not face-to-face murder yet. It is ratherr surprising.))

((Not every mage would follow an unspoken duel codex. There are some that would rather exploit presumed concepts for their own gains. First examples, such as Dwen and Marcus, already tried - and barely failed.))

[ATHATH]

See, the problem with the ritual system is that it encourages killing people from across the map, instead of in glorious combat.

((And current system doesn't?))

((There hasn't been a single not face-to-face murder yet. It is ratherr surprising.))

What I meant was that the Ritual system wouldn't fix that.