Questions..

[Lyman R. Hampton]

Hey!

        The way it works when you create a mage is you add all the MEP's he
receives from the different magic paths he has and that gives you his single
trained MEL. That affects all of his magic casting, other than innate spells which
each have their own MEL. Of course, you will be limited to what paths you can take
by the alignments chosen. I would think it would be hard to play a wizard shaman,
as the shaman is against Law & Chaos leaving only Balance. But, I guess there are
always exceptions....
        You can reference the Shadow Magic rules in Heroes mag. Vol II number 2.
It lists that you would add the MEP together.
        My biggest question about the magic system was always the game mechanics
of the "Elder Wizard". Would have liked to have seen a writeup for the specifics
of a Druid for the P&P system.
        Let me know what you think about the way I've always veiwed this question.

                                                        Peace!

Scott Adams wrote:

> At 12:26 AM 2/16/00 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >I think we have only one trained MEL, and all MEP gain from either
> >Wizard or Shaman would get thrown together on one pile. We never even
> >considered other options.
>
> So you agree that the casting ability bonus per increase is just one time like
> me?
> Ie if person has shaman and wizard for sake of simplicity MEL4 both.
> Then becomes MEL5 in shaman and gains say 20 More mana...that's fine
> but if Wizard goes to MEL5 then I don't see ANOTHER 20 on top of it..seems a
> bit
> huge in the end :)
>
> >I have ported Wout's original treasure generator to Linux, but its code
> >is hell, as Wout will confirm (my port was only in the interface, so it
> >was doable). I am interested in any thoughts you might have on how to
> >create such a thing in a 'neat' fashion. I am less interested in a
> >windows exe file. I'm very interested in anything anyone has typed op
> >from book 3 and 4, since we are now seriously considering striving for a
> >paper-less P&P, meaning computer based sheets, books and DM tools.
>
> As to clean code not sure I might work on my own quick and dirty one like the
> encounter
> program .... Doubt it'll be windoze probably dos based like the others
> (runnable in windoze).
> As to book 4 I have alot of that type dup in my own shorthand :)...messy
> but if
> you want it
> email me longshot at darktech.org and I'll send it...just sent it to wout if he
> thinks its worth
> it he can put it on the site...but its mianly for my use so I figure if anyone
> can get some use
> of it..all the better :).  Book 3 I have some creatures (that I use at the
> time
> ) into a growing
> monster file so i can reference those monsters later if need be...about all i
> have from 3.
> Its probably about 12 monsters/animals so far though.
>
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