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Hi Everyone, Hi George! =)

I'am a game-developer from germany and first of all, I want to say "Very good job!" about the whole RTC project. RESPECT!
How about adding one or two new spells in RTC...

1) TRUE VIEW (disable fake-walls in gameview for a time)
2) LEVITATE (don't falling into a pit, when entering it - for a time)

If you know the game Bloodwych, you know what I mean.
It's just a suggestion - don't hit me =))

Keep on...
ciao, joerg.

Actually, if there were to ever be an expandsion of the spell system, these two sound harmless and doable, don't they...

hey..short question for a fellow bloodwycher: do you remember the spell alchemy? i'm trying to remember what it does...

while we are at the add-interesting-spells-from-bloodwych-topic: how about the missle spell called something like confuse, as it spins around the opposing monster for a split second, so it ends up facing another direction and has to spend time turning back to you, while the heroes have more time preparing attacks, drinking a quick potion or something else. sure would make situation being cornered in a dead end not as desperate. Sort of another option apart from freezing with the magic boxes.

EDIT: i see there's a nice description of every Bloodwych spell on the Bloodwych 3D project page a.k.a. Unofficial Bloodwych Page.

Hi.

The spell "alchemy" transformed any object into gold and the amount depends on the skill of the caster. Bloodwych had a very mighty spell-system with cool ideas like "firepath" or "summon" ... oh yeah, the good old times... =)

ciao, joerg.

hey, fast answer.. so kinda the spell you want in real life ..guess i'd put levitate & vivify ( resurrect the dead ) on that list too!

j.tobergte wrote: 2) LEVITATE (don't falling into a pit, when entering it - for a time)

The problem is that this spell would break many puzzles in DM and CSB.

That's right...BUT...with the spell book and missing runes you can prevent the player from having the required runes for levitate.
Or..how about "no magic shall enter here"-zones?

i assume non-DM spells would be blocked by the engine with a 'restrict enhanced'
the rune limit wouldnt' work, as too many spells are inter-dependant unless you picked somethign with GOR for the various new spells, and they most likely woulnd't make sense from a 'feel' point of view

Done levitate and resurrect for V0.38 (and alchemy can already be done with existing mechanics).

Levitate can too!

Clone a fake pit and call it LEVITATED_OVER_PIT

SWAP_GLOBAL all pits for LEVITATED_OVER_PIT

After a time delay (a cloned torch with an expiring action would probably work best) then swap 'em all back.

But hey, your way is easier.

...but monsters then wouldn't fall down (unless you had more triggers to turn it back to a pit, or activate a teleporter, when stepped on by a monster)...and it also means you can float over opby_on triggers.

Yes, true... neat!

Though you could have compensated for ropes by having a rope convert the pit back again... : )

Er, does this change mean that the LEVITATE spell will be castable by default or does the designer have to enable it?

Would have to enable it, I assume by assigning runes, or else DM dungeon and CSB dungeon would be knacked

You'll have to assign runes to it (as with all the new actions) before it can be used in a dungeon - as Beowuuf says, it would cause all sorts of problems if it was a default spell.