Rogue Ideas

[bio_hazard]

That'd be great as soon as there are more useful spells in each realm than there are learnable spells, and as soon as there aren't spells that become obsolete with time.

(The latter is a problem because it penalizes players who didn't realize there would be better spells down the road. Raise your hand if the first time you played, say, Diablo 2, you spent each skillpoint as soon as you got it, only to discover you were supposed to have been saving them for the level-24 and level-30 skills...)

It is a problem, but only if you assume a new, unspoiled player should realistically be expected to get far enough that this is an issue. This is pretty far from how Angband works though...

I agree this definitely would require more spells (as would adding additional caster classes). Just thought this might be a another way to go without having to worry as much about balancing new and existing classes.

[Antoine]

Maybe rather than make every mage or priest spell available by the end of the game, place some limit that forces the character to choose their balance of attack types/defense/debuff, etc.

Try the Sage in Quickband. He can learn mage, priest and druid spells, but he hasn't anywhere near enough spell slots to learn them all, so he has some interesting choices.

(There's also a decision to be made about which books to carry)

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