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[Remuluson]

mostly i would like a healing spell so you could cure these pesky motor nerve injuries

[Untrustedlife]

Its actually pretty easy to mod more spells in.
 I do that anyway, have 4 totally different schools of magic at this point, very fun.
I could share my mod eventually, I do believe it is some where in my post history actually, specifically the school of water magic, of which i posted an entire story..

[Omniao]

It could have a element based system like "magicka" (the video game), you can cast infinite elements to create a spell, but each element takes one turn/frame/blip/etc to add to a spell for balance. Each element could have buffs or debuffs, for example, a lightning element could stun enemies, a healing element could heal enemies but hurt undead, etc. Each sphere/aspect a creature has could affect how a creature reacts to certain element in the spells.

Also, explosion/splash attack/area knockback spell effects.

[ZM5]

To be fair, regarding balance there's a ton of stuff that's unbalanced to begin with (and IMO it's what makes this game really fun), so I don't think that'd be much of a concern when adding more types of magic.
It's not really like magic users are easy to get in either adventure mode in fort mode, so I think that by itself balances it out.
I personally have 3 schools of magic in my worlds including necromancy.
Kinda sucks how spellcasters need some kind of "animate" spell to actually make towers and make their books and slabs available to read. Hope that changes whenever new spellcasters are officially added.

[Untrustedlife]

You should read this:

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/story/tt_journey.html

[quekwoambojish]

@Remuluson- Necromancy is in game.

[hatesdigimon]

i like that this game will be going for an unknown armies-ish magic. the power to change the world... for a price. no silly magic meters. keep regular weapons more readily available and viable.

[miauw62]

fantasy worlds dont neccesarily have magic.

[Calidovi]

fantasy worlds dont neccesarily have magic.

That does not mean that all fantasy words need not have magic. The only issue I see with this, given the presence of necromancy, is probably just balance. Sadly, that's the biggest issue possible for a suggestion.

[Evil One]

fantasy worlds dont neccesarily have magic.

That does not mean that all fantasy words need not have magic. The only issue I see with this, given the presence of necromancy, is probably just balance. Sadly, that's the biggest issue possible for a suggestion.

The only ways I can see to balance something as incredibly powerful as magic is one or more of the following:

1) Make it so that magic isn't incredibly powerful, but that would kind of defeat the point.

2a) Make it so that magic is incredibly costly to the caster, costing blood to cast for example, too much casting would kill the caster (perhaps resulting in a unique state, spellhusk perhaps?).

2b) Make it so that magic is just costly, requiring certain items, plants, wands, stones, runes, ETC before you are able to cast, meaning that a powerful wizard would end up carrying around a lot of stuff.

3) Make it so that magic is not guaranteed to work, or not guaranteed to work right... Spell failure chances aren't too hard to do.

Personally I prefer having a chance that not only will a spell fail but can fail disastrously: spells affecting the wrong target or even harming the caster, summoning enemies instead of allies, undead monsters going out of control if you have too many... That sort of thing (obviously for fortress mode, a caster would have to be on player command only, so you don't have a wizard trying out their summoning skills and filling your fortress with armok knows what).

It is possible to balance magic, depending on how powerful it is.

[Calidovi]

fantasy worlds dont neccesarily have magic.

That does not mean that all fantasy words need not have magic. The only issue I see with this, given the presence of necromancy, is probably just balance. Sadly, that's the biggest issue possible for a suggestion.

That sort of thing (obviously for fortress mode, a caster would have to be on player command only, so you don't have a wizard trying out their summoning skills and filling your fortress with armok knows what).

So would all wizards on your fortress operate like an squad but with a more in-depth UI? Or will there be magic specialization?

[vjmdhzgr]

To be fair, regarding balance there's a ton of stuff that's unbalanced to begin with (and IMO it's what makes this game really fun), so I don't think that'd be much of a concern when adding more types of magic.
It's not really like magic users are easy to get in either adventure mode in fort mode, so I think that by itself balances it out.
I personally have 3 schools of magic in my worlds including necromancy.
Kinda sucks how spellcasters need some kind of "animate" spell to actually make towers and make their books and slabs available to read. Hope that changes whenever new spellcasters are officially added.

You can find slabs without them building towers. If you look in legends you'll see that the owner probably stored the slab somewhere, and that somewhere was probably a town you can go to and look through all the buildings to find the slab. If it's one of the small settlements it's pretty easy. Just go into all the houses/trees/holes/towers and look for a slab on the floor. If it's a big settlement, I recommend just not. I've been looking for a slab for an in game day and haven't even searched all the buildings outside the walls yet.

[ZM5]

You can find slabs without them building towers. If you look in legends you'll see that the owner probably stored the slab somewhere, and that somewhere was probably a town you can go to and look through all the buildings to find the slab. If it's one of the small settlements it's pretty easy. Just go into all the houses/trees/holes/towers and look for a slab on the floor. If it's a big settlement, I recommend just not. I've been looking for a slab for an in game day and haven't even searched all the buildings outside the walls yet.

Really? Before I added minions for my spellcasters I looked in various hamlets and couldn't find neither slabs nor books, despite searching all houses.

[Evil One]

fantasy worlds dont neccesarily have magic.

That does not mean that all fantasy words need not have magic. The only issue I see with this, given the presence of necromancy, is probably just balance. Sadly, that's the biggest issue possible for a suggestion.

That sort of thing (obviously for fortress mode, a caster would have to be on player command only, so you don't have a wizard trying out their summoning skills and filling your fortress with armok knows what).

So would all wizards on your fortress operate like an squad but with a more in-depth UI? Or will there be magic specialization?

I'd imagine they'd function like a squad (that way they could perform their magic in any location, plus it'd tie into the army arc later down the line), I'd also make it so that wizards are meant to be VERY rare as I find if you have D&D's magic absolutely everywhere, I feel it kind of ruins it, plus with the sheer scarcity of wizards any form of specialization would leave them VERY limited unless magic was insanely powerful (which in turn would screw up adventure mode).

[Eric Blank]

You can find slabs without them building towers. If you look in legends you'll see that the owner probably stored the slab somewhere, and that somewhere was probably a town you can go to and look through all the buildings to find the slab. If it's one of the small settlements it's pretty easy. Just go into all the houses/trees/holes/towers and look for a slab on the floor. If it's a big settlement, I recommend just not. I've been looking for a slab for an in game day and haven't even searched all the buildings outside the walls yet.

Really? Before I added minions for my spellcasters I looked in various hamlets and couldn't find neither slabs nor books, despite searching all houses.

They'd be making bandit camps and pretending to be bandits, more likely.