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[adwarf]

Want me to PM you it, or just post it here? (While you answer this I will dig it up)

[Taricus]

PM please.

[Darvi]

So, I kept working on that Magicka RTD.

First thing I did was removing Stats. Magicka doesn't have them and individuality gets determined solely by looks and equipment. (Happy, derm?)

Now, the biggest problem was transcribing a realtime game to a dice and turn-based game.

So I decided to divide turns into actions.



Every person has 5 actions per round. Moving, for instance, takes an action for, say, every two squares? If you have prepared more than one element, then your speed will be modified accordingly. So having all 5 slots prepared slows you down to 5 actions per 3 squares - a severe penalty.

Next, casting.

Casting a spell takes an action per element used.

So self-healing (which doesn't get modified by the amount of life elements used, and thus is best used as spam) takes only 1 action, and you can self-heal 5 times per round.

Another example would be casting magic missiles - Ice and 3 force for instance.
Now, Ice is a combined element, made up of cold and water. Combined elements will take up 1.5 actions, rounded up.
This particular spell-combo would then take 4.5, rounded up to 5, actions to cast, and will hence take the entire turn to cast.

This means that some game-breaking combinations like the Super Lightning Steam Beam will take more than a turn to prepare, but hoo boy do they hurt.

Beams are a special case. They hit, if I understood the wiki correctly, 8 times per charge. After they have been cast, they will hit twice per action (so up to 10 hits per action, and up to 4 turns per beam). This damage does not increase unless crossed with a different beam - something that Ghostbusters fans know you should never do.

Some elements, namely the projectiles, can be charged. A wizard can decide to charge those spells, doubling casting time, but also greatly increasing effectivity.
So a rock projectile will fly faster, and further, while Icicle Shotgun will be a lot more focused, dealing more damage on a single target.

Melee was more difficult.

So I decided that, for starters, I'd divide the weapons in 3 categories: fast, medium, and slow.

Fast weapons get +1 to hit and take one action to swing.
Medium weapons get no modifier to hit and take 2 actions to swing.
You can guess the slow weapon modifiers.

The problem there is that I'm still trying to balance damage. If I made it 1d4, 1d6, and 1d12 respectively, everybody'd use only fast weapons for increased damage and versatility.
1d4, 1d8, and 1d20 maybe?


Aaaand... did I forget something? Posting before something eats my post, either way.

[Dermonster]

what about Spellbook magicks?

Lookin at haste.

[Darvi]

Oh, right.

Those will be cast like regular spells, however, with a higher difficulty because the order of elements matter. Also, failing them won't do anything bad like, for instance, failing an Earth spell (hitting yourself with a rock? Duuude!). At least, not directly. However, succeeding might.

[Dermonster]

Lookin' good so far, Darvi.

I look forward to the accidental mass team killing.

[Darvi]

Heheh. AoE's will of course work wonderfully if I use a map. +2 to radius per additional element would work I believe.

[Dermonster]

asasa Shift-rightclick spam! Solves most everything in the early parts of the game.

[Darvi]

Including your allies.

Heheheh.

And QFASSS is more powerful.

[Dermonster]

well, yes, but holding down shift and rapidly hitting saassaassasasass while clicking like mad pretty much stunlocks most things in the radius.

Damnit now I want to go play it.

[kilakan]

just a minor FYI I've started a new, mid-apocalyptic RTD centralized around completely human (at the start anyways) characters, a mutagen weapon, and something called AGENT-P that everyone seems to want.
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=86882.0

[IronyOwl]

@Darvi: How does hitting someone with a weapon work? Opposed d6 rolls?

[ExKirby]

I had another idea-ULTIMATE DEATHMATCH MODE. 8 players spawn in x locaction with 3 weapons and 10Hp. They must then FIGHT TO THE DEATH. The winner gets a point. Then we add the losers to the waiting list in positional order and have the winner take on another 7. Ad nauseum.

[Darvi]

I just figured rolling a d8 would be enough for both dodges and hits. The AI is too dumb to move out of harms way anyway so I think they don't need a roll.

[kilakan]

I had another idea-ULTIMATE DEATHMATCH MODE. 8 players spawn in x locaction with 3 weapons and 10Hp. They must then FIGHT TO THE DEATH. The winner gets a point. Then we add the losers to the waiting list in positional order and have the winner take on another 7. Ad nauseum.

Hum sounds like a good-idea, the random locations would mean planning would be pointless, since every battle could be wildly different.  One problem is that with 8 people no one would last long, be a bit of a bullet storm, 10 HP wouldn't work well with this though, maybe a base of 10 that can be modified with stats bought and sold between battles.