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Originally Posted by Endoperez
Stone Soup, or some variation thereof, would be a fine name.
I think it's worthwhile to have at least the old age mod independent of the rest of your mod, because that's something that some people might want to use with normal CB even if they disagreed with your other changes. It does not compete with Quantum's CB on mechanical level.
It might be worthwhile to mention the whys of your changes as well as the whats in your readme.
- Great Bull bugfix (remove Son of Fenris stats)
- LA Agartha Blindfighter bugfix (remove Air magic)
- Seeking Arrow, Fires from Afar made cheaper (to make rituals more useful in the strategic level)
... and so on.
I am wary of your change to Seeking Arrow, but I like your reasons for changing it. I wouldn't mind seeing more arcane bombardment-style magics in the game. What about making Fires From Afar scale with caster level? Basically, anything that has a good chance of taking out mages is useful, but things that mostly target units are more rare. Spells that cause unrest are used to lock research centers and Wolven Winter is a staple for Cold nations, but Melancholy could use a boost, and Ravens' Feast...
Can Ravens' Feast be given a nice #secondspell effect? Undead reanimation, additional gem generation, second Ravens' Feast, summoning some ethereal hawks (like the Jomon summons, what are they called... I guess they're in the progress page list, WHOA! I'll have to post THAT somewhere...)
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Thanks endo, will do (on the why's).
I am currently working on a spell called:
Call Jack Thaum 3. 2e1s
"Jack never got over his dislike of giants - and never figured out the mage that sold him the magic beans was a member of the Shadow Seer league."
What Call Jack does, is summon a remote indepentent commander (Jack). Jack comes equipped with a magic harp (giant sleep), and three magic beans. He's lucky and stealthy.
Jack when he enters combat casts Gift of Heavens (1). Which chains to Gift of Heavens (2). Which chains "kill caster".
Sadly, so far its killing the guy who summons jack - which I haven't figured out *at all*. And has the chance of leaving a harp. Soo my next test was adding ritual of returning, and then kill caster. Thats what I'm working on now. It has a chance of giving you a harp, I guess... so the next attempt will be sending him to the inferno, if I can figure out how to copy that effect.
But the idea is to have a bombardment spell that actually *can* kill giants. I couldn't figure a way to create the remote effect I wanted directly, I invented Jack.
I guess you really could say I don't know Jack = ). Sides, I like the opportunities for puns.
The other thing I'm working on is Assassins!
I find the current assassins almost completely pointless. Sooo I've come up with a bunch of thematic assassins.
LA Ermor is shade that can move through the shadow plane and hence has a huge move. Ctis has a skelly spammer. Bandar log has recruitable everywhere monkeys with pearls of vengeance. Mictlan gets special sacred summons, in battle. Ulm gets a bunch of antimagic weapons etc. Tien chi gets an ancestor vessel assassin... etc. Someone else comes equipped with bane venom charms.
Again the idea is to make assassination a more useful tool, and again provide a boost to some of the weaker nations