Difference between revisions of "Magic systems"

From RogueBasin
Jump to navigation Jump to search
m (link update)
Line 1: Line 1:
; Slot-based
The actual exercise http://www.acheteruggboots.com/pas-cher-ugg-bottes.html of sporting decorative http://www.acheteruggboots.com/ugg-france.html pendants, bracelets or other diamond jewelry for beneficial good luck or other this form of thinking is probably http://www.acheteruggboots.com/ugg-bailey-button-bottes.html to have got begun http://www.acheteruggboots.com/ugg-kids-bottes.html good just before Greco-Roman times, even nonetheless that precise period broadly demonstrates the http://www.acheteruggboots.com/ugg-classic-short-bottes.html phenomenon. during most cultures and time, you can anticipate to uncover varied illustrations with this particular form of jewelry.
: [[Spell]]s are prepared in advance, and once prepared a spell can be cast at anytime with little or no chance of failure, but once cast the spell is consumed; to cast a spell twice it has to be prepared twice, and so on.
: Typically the maximum number of spells that can be prepared is finite, either with an explicit cap (i.e. 'Slots'), or by requiring a finite resource (i.e. Material components).
: Variations include: more powerful spells require more slots/resources; [[D&D]]-style leveled slots; pre-requisite spells to implicitly consume extra slots for powerful spells.
 
; [[Mana]]-Based
: [[Spell]]s consume a quantity of spell points (i.e. [[Mana]]) when cast, otherwise spellcasting is unrestricted.
: Variants are: '[[Aspected Mana]]' (Fire mana, water, defensive, aggressive, etc., and other more unusual divisions); [[spell]]s consuming things other things instead of mana ([[hit points]], material components, food, etc.), and spells consume more then one type of thing/aspect of mana (e.g. 3 fire mana and a stick of charcoal))
 
; Chance-Based
: [[Spellcasting]] is essentially free, but has a chance of failure, probably a very large chance.
: A variant is to have the chance of failure be affected by some combination [[stat]]s, skill, or environment.
 
It is quite common to combine more than one of these methods.
 
A Slot/[[Mana]] system might let you memorize a shortlist of [[spell]]s, which are then cast as a mana system. [[Crawl]] does this.
A Mana/Chance system might allow skill to reduce the mana cost of casting spells. The [[Pen and Paper]] [[GURPS]] does this.
 
== Related links ==
* [http://roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com/2008/05/unangband-magic-system-part-one.html Designing a Magic System] - article on [[Ascii Dreams]]
 
[[Category:Magic]]

Revision as of 04:03, 27 April 2011

The actual exercise http://www.acheteruggboots.com/pas-cher-ugg-bottes.html of sporting decorative http://www.acheteruggboots.com/ugg-france.html pendants, bracelets or other diamond jewelry for beneficial good luck or other this form of thinking is probably http://www.acheteruggboots.com/ugg-bailey-button-bottes.html to have got begun http://www.acheteruggboots.com/ugg-kids-bottes.html good just before Greco-Roman times, even nonetheless that precise period broadly demonstrates the http://www.acheteruggboots.com/ugg-classic-short-bottes.html phenomenon. during most cultures and time, you can anticipate to uncover varied illustrations with this particular form of jewelry.

Retrieved from "http://roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Magic_systems&oldid=24510"