Hi Dark,
Right. I've noticed that. Entombed simply doesn't give the magician,
necro, etc much chance to miss or fizzle where in Sryth your success is
really a roll of the dice. You either hit the target and do no damage,
your magic fails causing you to lose a turn, or it hits the target
delivering a lot of damage. In that way Sryth's magical combat tends to
be more balanced.
When I get around to developing my own RPG adventure I'm strongly
planning on using proven d20 rules in order to balance combat. Having a
magical talent will be no insurence that you will freeze, shrink, grow,
or do anything else to the intended target every single time. There will
be times when the spell will fail or miss. Ditto for standard combat
using swords, knives, daggers, spears, etc.
On 5/20/2012 5:26 AM, dark wrote:
One of the intrinsic imbalances in entombed is the fact that magic
never misses. At most, you'll hit a body part that you weren't
intending to. With fighters, barbarians etc, while they can do great
damage, the damage is always contingent on them actually hitting the
targit which they don't always do.
Add to this the fact that the further down the dungeon you go, the
more well armoured creatures' are and the less damage physical attacks
do, (especially ranged weapons, most of which are made of very soft
wood or pretty feeble stone), and the magic jobs really have a
distinct advantage. again, this is something that's been discussed on
list.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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