[crawl] YAN(?)I draconian dragon form

[Ru]

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i thought it would be fun if draconians that cast dragon form turned
into their colour dragon.

i got halfway to writing a patch to change the resistances & breath
weapon, but i then hit a quandry i couldn't surmount: dragon form is
fire/transmutation, which is a bit of a ah heck if you're a white
draconian turning into an ice dragon.

any ideas for how to get around this?


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[Loonie]

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ru .-- .-. --- - . ---...

> i thought it would be fun if draconians that cast dragon form turned
> into their colour dragon.
>
> i got halfway to writing a patch to change the resistances & breath
> weapon, but i then hit a quandry i couldn't surmount: dragon form is
> fire/transmutation, which is a bit of a ah heck if you're a white
> draconian turning into an ice dragon.
>
> any ideas for how to get around this?

If you are writing patches then simply turn Dragon Form spell into
(Transmutation) or resign from spell and introduce ability instead.

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[Ru]

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In article <1bmp5l1mjazbq.dlg@Loonie.pl.fr>, Loonie wrote:
> ru .-- .-. --- - . ---...
>
>> i thought it would be fun if draconians that cast dragon form turned
>> into their colour dragon.
>>
>> i got halfway to writing a patch to change the resistances & breath
>> weapon, but i then hit a quandry i couldn't surmount: dragon form is
>> fire/transmutation, which is a bit of a ah heck if you're a white
>> draconian turning into an ice dragon.
>>
>> any ideas for how to get around this?
>
> If you are writing patches then simply turn Dragon Form spell into
> (Transmutation) or resign from spell and introduce ability instead.

the problem is that both of those have balance considerations; having to
learn fire magic is an effort if pure transmuters wish to learn dragon
form, so changing the spell to pure transmutation would make other
transmuters more powerful.

similarly, adding a "turn into dragon" qability makes draconians in
general more powerful.

it's a conundrum..


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ru

 

[Loonie]

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ru .-- .-. --- - . ---...

>> If you are writing patches then simply turn Dragon Form spell into
>> (Transmutation) or resign from spell and introduce ability instead.
>
> the problem is that both of those have balance considerations; having to
> learn fire magic is an effort if pure transmuters wish to learn dragon
> form, so changing the spell to pure transmutation would make other
> transmuters more powerful.
>
> similarly, adding a "turn into dragon" qability makes draconians in
> general more powerful.
>
> it's a conundrum..

In depends on the chances of using of this ability - if it's possible to
make it dependant on Transmigration skill, make this very difficult and
last only a while without high Transmigration skill, then it will be
equivalent to non-existent for ordinary - non-transmuters dragonians.

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