[MUD-Dev] Focus on Hocus Pocus

[azeraab]

By request the Four Crystals of Trazere magic system.

  Runes:
    There are 16 runes you start with 3, the rest must be found
    during the game

  Directors:
    Forward - effects the tile ahead
    Surround - effects the 8 tiles around the caster
    Missile - effects are aimed at a particular location.  If
      missile is the first component you need to aim it, if it's not
      first it will just shoot in a straight line.
    Continuous - effects continue until dispelled or the party
      leaves the rooms.  Effects "recast" every 4 seconds.

  Effectors:
    Damage
    Heal
    Dispel - stops continuous or removes magical protections
    Speed
    Paralize
    Antimagic - protects from magic
    Thrall(charm)
    Make Weapon
    Teleport - gives ability to teleport
    Regeneration
    Disrupt - death spell
    Vivify - raise dead

  Reagents:
    There are 8 reagents, each rune needs one.  eg Missile uses wing
    of Bat.
      Wing of Bat
      Brimstone
      Mandrake
      Crystal
      Dragon Tooth
      Hedghog Venom
      Nightshade
      Phoenix Claw

  Rules:

    1 forward, surround and surround, forward are not permissable
      unless separated by missile.
    2 No more than 2 missile in any spell
    3 The sequence surround, missile, continuous is not allowed even
      if padded by other runes.

Sample complex spell:

  heal, anitmagic, surround, paralize, continuous, damage, missile,
  damage Effects

    Heals the caster, makes the caster immune to magic, anything in
    the 8 squares around the caster are paralized, every 4 seconds
    those 8 squares will be hit by damage (starting instantly) and
    they will shoot out missiles in all 8 directions, directly away
    from the casters location, which will damage anything they hit.

Notes:  

  I dont think there is a limit on how complex a spell can be
  outside the 3 rules.

  But each director or effector used a reagent, and some (such as
  vivify and continuous) were much more expensive than others (such
  as forward).


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