Spell modding

[chrispedersen]

dr. p
(and others).

I like the banquet of the dead effect. Any chance you could dump a new list of spells, so we could study that. Or alternately, tell us how you did it (if its within the possibility of casual execution.

thanks

[llamabeast]

Remind me what the effect is. Is the special part the killing of your own mage? If so you can just do a #nextspell of some brutal damage with yourself as the target.

[Burnsaber]

Originally Posted by llamabeast

Remind me what the effect is. Is the special part the killing of your own mage? If so you can just do a #nextspell of some brutal damage with yourself as the target.

Remember that #nextspell takes effect on the square where the mainspell lands. So the maineffect should be something the caster throws on himself. So if you want to make a battlefield spell that summons something awesome while killing the caster, I'd do it by this:
Gem-costing personal buff -nextspell-> massive damage on caster -nextspell-> Summon

If you want the banquet effect for a ritual spell, perhaps you just should copyspell it and change damage (summon different creature)?

[Stavis_L]

Originally Posted by llamabeast

Remind me what the effect is. Is the special part the killing of your own mage? If so you can just do a #nextspell of some brutal damage with yourself as the target.

Banquet for the dead is an Ashdod ritual spell, Death + Holy, requiring death gems. It:

A) Summons a Malik commander
B) Summons a cohort of Ditani for him (4)
C) Kills the caster.

(No idea what order those happen in the spell code.)

NB: You can greatly soften the blow of the last effect by casting Twiceborn (before) or Ritual of Rebirth (after.)

OT: I've always thought thought that the blood spell "Life for a Life" should be a suicide spell for the caster...

[chrispedersen]

Originally Posted by llamabeast

Remind me what the effect is. Is the special part the killing of your own mage? If so you can just do a #nextspell of some brutal damage with yourself as the target.

Well, I'm still learning things.. I've been having problems with the... target yourself with damage.

[lch]

Originally Posted by Burnsaber

if you want to make a battlefield spell that summons something awesome while killing the caster, I'd do it by this:
Gem-costing personal buff -nextspell-> massive damage on caster -nextspell-> Summon

It's easier than that. Spell number 90 is named "Kill Caster". Try that one.

[Burnsaber]

Did you succeed in modding this spell? I'd like to hear about your results.

[chrispedersen]

Originally Posted by Burnsaber

Did you succeed in modding this spell? I'd like to hear about your results.

Yeah, I succeeded; however it was only an intermediate spell toward my final 2 goals.

The first goal was, I was trying to create a spell called
"reincarnate" which would be a blood version of rebirth - however, after rebirth it would chain a transformation.

The problem is that the caster affected by the transformation is the original caster, not the HOF member.

The other spell I am still working with I call
"Promises of life" the idea is to seduce an enemy member of the hall of fame back to life.

To start with, I tried chaining rebirth to a remote independent summons- no go - even if there were independents in the Hof.

Tis a puzzlement...