OT: Stupid c++ (Roguelike development)

[Ed Kolis]

Here's another spellcasting idea, borrowed this time from UnAngband: Don't just use "intelligence" as the be-all and end-all of spellcasting stats! Split it up amongst several stats! Let intelligence determine how many spells you can memorize, because you have to be smart to remember them all. Let wisdom determine how powerful your spells are, because only wise men have true magical power. Let dexterity determine how likely your spells are to actually work, because if you do the hand-waving wrong it will really screw up your spell! You can even combine this with the runecraft idea: don't let the player use all of his myriad spells at once, but instead give him a limited number of memory slots, dependent on intelligence, in which he can place spells; in order to use a spell which is not in memory, he must have the two runes used to create it available to study from and either "copy" them (casting the spell immediately but perhaps using more game ticks since the character must concentrate both on reading the runes and moving his hands, or perhaps even destroying the inscribed runes which he is carrying) or memorize them (deleting one of his existing spells from memory if there are no more free slots).

[Caduceus]

Played around with Relentless. Good job early on... I can't tell if I am equipping items I pick up though...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

For magic, I'm thinking something simple, that will allow the player to build spells.

The readme has been updated with a sentence on equiping.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

The latest
Bugfixes, updates and name change.

Now that I'm coherent, instead of thematic runes, maybe purpose-based runes. Supposing you have the runes for Fire, Summon, Ray and Monster. You could make an explosion spell (Fire with no control rune), but it would damage your character. You could make a Ray of Fire, Summon Fire (Explosion at a square within your LOS), Summon a Monster, Summon a Monster where a Ray hits something solid, Summon a Fire-based Monster, Summon a Ray (Which would fire a Ray from a square you choose at a target you choose, but wouldn't do anything usefull), or Summon a Ray of Fire (Much more usefull.)

Simple, versitile, quick - What do you think?

[Ed Kolis]

Cool

[Ed Kolis]

Hey Narf, I made this attached pic for a modelling challenge over at the Wings forum, but I thought you might like to use it as an intro screen for your roguelike; besides, I just need a place to upload it to show it off at the Wings forum since I'm not at home to put it on my server

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Thanks, soon as I figure out how to put a picture on the screen.