They must grow their tongues back fast. Bash does trip the wait state which decreases execution of spell by 50%. You could modify that as well.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Whiting [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 5:20 PM > To: 'Sandi Fallon'; [email protected] > Subject: RE: Re[2]: Multi Casting for magic users (need some help > please) > > > >>One idea I had (but haven't considered fully, so caveat > emptor), is to > balance fight with Warriors a little bit by making Mages need an empty > hand to get the second cast. I.e., more elaborate gestures mean more > power, but darn, you gotta drop that second dagger or shield. > > > Another way to balance fights between Mages and the warrior types I've > implemented in DR: > A skill called cut: > If a warrior/thief is wielding a dagger and is in a fight > with a caster, > they can cut the caster's tongue out. Now, this doesn't > succeed 100% of > the time, and only lasts a few ticks, but that few ticks could easily > mean the life or death of the non caster. > > Of course my casters hate it, but it's a ballancing act. If it wasn't > in, nobody would fight a mage/cleric/etc, because casters are quite > powerful (as they should be). > > Just another thought of course. > ------------------------------------------- > TJW: Head tech, Dreamless Realms Mud > Personal: http://twhiting.kyndig.com > Mud: http://drealms.kyndig.com > Snippets http://drealms.kyndig.com/snippets > Telnet telnet://drealms.kyndig.com:9275 > The OLC2 Pages http://olc.kyndig.com > ------------------------------------------- > > > > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom >

