Wizard Spell Concept

[Frank_Stein]

With the original list that's 72 different spell effects. Seventy-two spell effects to come up with. Seventy-two spell effects to code. Seventy-two spell effects to balance. The idea you had is super neat, I love it, but it sounds like a nightmare on the back end.

"...but vita" you say, "imcoder and am willing to code all seventy-two effects!" Great, now balance them. You can't have them on the same reset as people would just use the most useful version. Making prefix and suffix power standardized isn't really an option either. The only option I can think of is to make prefix power so minor that it basically amounts to flavor with little difference between full spells.

Ugh. I hate being downer-dude. :saddowns:

I really don't see that as being an impossible task, especially if you can somehow incorporate the already existing spells into this system.

The more daunting task is settling on the right list of Prefixes and Suffixes to do this without giving yourself a ton of extra work. Some are obvious, like Magic Missile, Fireball, and Ice burst being "Missile" "Fire Missile" and "Ice Missile" respectively but then you gotta think about how Bull's Charge or Empower fit into this system without adding more suffixes or prefixes which you then gotta come up with more effects for.

Which means either dropping some spells for new ones, limiting spell combos into valid combinations, or having bad combinations do something else