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[Servant Corps]

I think I have a solution to the tunneling crisis that is gripping the forum.

See the goblins lay siege to your fortress. The goblins want to go in, but the fortress is sealed up. So the goblin brings in their great mage. The great mage casts a spell, creating a "magic tunnel", a portal connecting the outside of the fortresss to the inside of the fortress. It takes time for the goblin mage to succed in casting the spell, allowing for the drawves to interrupt the spell, by killing the goblin mage.

If the goblin mage succeds, the goblins will rush through the magical tunnel. You have to blow the "magical tunnel"/portal up in order to stop the goblins from rushing into your fortress.

You get all the beniefts of tunneling without having to mess up the fortress' layout, since the "magical tunnels" don't actually do anything other than magically allow goblins to enter inside your fortress.

[Silverionmox]

Thereby completely invalidating the goal of having a fortress.

[Tormy]

This has nothing to do with tunneling. However as a possible feature of the magic arc...yeah it could work, even tho this sounds like an extremely powerful "spell" to me. 

[bjlong]

This, of course, should have a chance of backfiring, depending on hum much and what kind of materials the magic is going through.

[Tormy]

This, of course, should have a chance of backfiring, depending on hum much and what kind of materials the magic is going through.

Eh, "backfiring" is an interesting idea. The spell miscasted, and the invaders will walk into the the magma through the fake gate. 

[Granite26]

While I think the original idea is pointlessly convoluted...

Portal magic seems like a pretty neat way to fiddle with the physics engine.  Magma geysers anyone?

[Theoclymenus]

I am sure a fairly easy way to cause the 'magic door' spell to not be too overpowered would be to give it a limited number of travelers, like 10 for example.
Pathfinding with teleporting sounds hellish to the extreme.

[Granite26]

Pathfinding with teleporting sounds hellish to the extreme.

Why?  The only real problem would be dead reckoning distances..

[EverybodylovesTJ]

Now you're thinking with portals!

[Foa]

Phase tunnels, mage/thing casts tunnel, selected area becomes passable, though it still exists, it become a tunnel until despell or you kill that dick whose mantaining it.

[Caffienatedjedi]

hmmm... *pulls out D&D player handbook*

Passwall would basically be what is cast. Basically creating a magical passage through wood,plaster,or stone walls.Doesn't work with metal or harder materials(theres your counter  right there) Depending on the strength of the mage it can go through 10 ft plus 5 ft every lvl above spell requirement so thick walls also counter it as they require  repeated casting. It can also be dispelled and have duration. So if you are dwarven enough it can be countered by Steel.

[qwertyuiopas]

Also requiring multiple casters to start it and nearly as many(80%) to maintain it, allowing the dwarves to relatively easily stop it, if they can reach the source.

Additionally, the required number should be based on distance and rate of travel, and the power of them, as well as possibly penalizing groups with large power diffrences...

[Tormy]

Also requiring multiple casters to start it and nearly as many(80%) to maintain it, allowing the dwarves to relatively easily stop it, if they can reach the source.

Additionally, the required number should be based on distance and rate of travel, and the power of them, as well as possibly penalizing groups with large power diffrences...

Yeah, this must be a ritual spell. Well, if we will have anything like this at all.

[Lazer Bomb]

Hmm, a way to convert magic users' time into physical energy: Portal 1 at top of channel, Portal 2 at bottom of lake (connected to channel), water wheels the whole way down. Would be a perpetual motion machine except for the energy input from the magicians.

[Soralin]

It'd make waterfalls easy, portal in floor, portal in ceiling, designate as a pond, and dump a bucket of water in.