New Wizard Spells

[Cnaym]

Heya. I thought about making a new community pitch in project. Everyone give some cool spell ideas, maybe someone wants to code them, maybe some of them will be awesome enough for their own spell book. Be creative ?

• Familiar Soul: Can controle other people for a short duration to open doors, pretty much how borer does now, you enter a body for a minute and have like a two to three minute cooldown. On it. Maybe work like the imaginary friend in between. It's a spirit bound to the wiz.
• Recall. Allows you to walk into the medbay when the doors are open, runs off a timer, if it's over you get zoomed back to the starting point. A bit like Tracer from Overwatch. Could make for some hilarious memes, sneaky gimmiks, spoopy stuff, you name it.
• You shall not pass. Same as open doors, just the other way around. Bend the airlocks to your will, bolting all around you and giving it a 30 second timer before the doors accept their original master (AI, Borgs) again. A spell to slow down those pesky followers, isolate someone for RP, just have a door between  you and that trigger happy officer. Maybe make them auto unbolt after a minute or two, since lowpop sometimes does not have AI and it would be a pain for engineering.
• Reshape. Either like a chameleon projector, letting you  hide as mundane objects, or maybe change objects around you. Is that a chair or a supermatter in the brig lobby? Only the wizard knows. Maybe you could run into maint and hide as a rat for a duration, fun stuff.
• Fire Arrow. A little fireball, does not explode, can be caught if you are quick, but it might just burn your hand because it's hot hot hot. Higher levels making it a shotgun like multi arrow?
• Frostwall. Freezes a tile in front of you, making it a barrier for balistics while the tiles around it become really slippery. It's ice after all. Higher levels summon more walls around you or increase the freeze effect range.
• Phase. A bit like the small teleport right now, except you just become a bit transparent and can phase through walls and doors. Bullets and melee weapons might phase through you, maybe lasers do not?

Shoot some cool stuff. This community has creative heads, I am sure you folks come up with better ideas.

 

[Pratepresidenten]

I love all of these apart from fire arrow. Something about it just makes me thonk

I put up a suggestion like this somewhere, but I unno what happened to it. But a sneaky spell I would love is "Steal". Lets you steal a non-organ thing off of a target in range! Steal their bag, steal something in their bag, steal their ID or maybe a lethal weapon trained at you!

[niennab]

17 hours ago, Cnaym said:

Reshape. Either like a chameleon projector, letting you  hide as mundane objects, or maybe change objects around you. Is that a chair or a supermatter in the brig lobby? Only the wizard knows. Maybe you could run into maint and hide as a rat for a duration, fun stuff.

I REALLY like this one in that you can either successfully disguise yourself or confuse the hell out of the crew members when they go walking through maintenance and wonder how an entire wardrobe got there. Or, it effectively turns into Prop Hunt: Wizard vs Crew. 

[NerdyVampire]

I like more wizard spells and they do seem good.

[Carver]

On 18/02/2020 at 09:13, Cnaym said:

Familiar Soul: Can controle other people for a short duration to open doors, pretty much how borer does now, you enter a body for a minute and have like a two to three minute cooldown. On it. Maybe work like the imaginary friend in between. It's a spirit bound to the wiz.

Going to go with a hard no on this one because it will just be used to make people kill themselves.

On 18/02/2020 at 09:13, Cnaym said:

Recall. Allows you to walk into the medbay when the doors are open, runs off a timer, if it's over you get zoomed back to the starting point. A bit like Tracer from Overwatch. Could make for some hilarious memes, sneaky gimmiks, spoopy stuff, you name it.

Why not take the Elder Scrolls approach of Mark/Recall spells? Casting mark 'saves' a location, and casting recall teleports you back to said location. Obviously unable to mark on the centcomm z-level, or any area where that device that disrupts teleportation is present.

On 18/02/2020 at 09:13, Cnaym said:

You shall not pass. Same as open doors, just the other way around. Bend the airlocks to your will, bolting all around you and giving it a 30 second timer before the doors accept their original master (AI, Borgs) again. A spell to slow down those pesky followers, isolate someone for RP, just have a door between  you and that trigger happy officer. Maybe make them auto unbolt after a minute or two, since lowpop sometimes does not have AI and it would be a pain for engineering.

Interesting. I had thought there was a force wall spell, but I suppose that spell was never too effective since the mappers here are fond of double/triple doors in entrances. I had thought Destroy Technology sometimes triggered bolts but perhaps I'm mistaken.

On 18/02/2020 at 09:13, Cnaym said:

Reshape. Either like a chameleon projector, letting you  hide as mundane objects, or maybe change objects around you. Is that a chair or a supermatter in the brig lobby? Only the wizard knows. Maybe you could run into maint and hide as a rat for a duration, fun stuff.

Two major conditions; your sprite should never be able to be hidden behind something, and there should be some form of timer on the spell for it to run out after which the spell's cooldown starts. A considerably annoying tactic for antagonists in the past was disguising as a cigarette butt and hiding behind a chair facing north, where it was entirely impossible to find them unless you were a ghost.

On 18/02/2020 at 09:13, Cnaym said:

Fire Arrow. A little fireball, does not explode, can be caught if you are quick, but it might just burn your hand because it's hot hot hot. Higher levels making it a shotgun like multi arrow?

Remove the catching (If it can be caught, it's useless versus anyone who sets up a macro to do so) and sure. A magical bolt sounds useful, might be very strong if it sets things on fire but if it's not absurdly spammable then that's not a problem.

On 18/02/2020 at 09:13, Cnaym said:

Frostwall. Freezes a tile in front of you, making it a barrier for balistics while the tiles around it become really slippery. It's ice after all. Higher levels summon more walls around you or increase the freeze effect range.

I don't get this one, is it a variation on the force wall? I've seen ice spells elsewhere, they're ok.

On 18/02/2020 at 09:13, Cnaym said:

Phase. A bit like the small teleport right now, except you just become a bit transparent and can phase through walls and doors. Bullets and melee weapons might phase through you, maybe lasers do not?

Now I might be a tad retarded here, but I'm entirely certain this exact spell already exists - exactly how you described it, sans the being hit by lasers.

[GreenBoi]

On 26/02/2020 at 07:53, Carver said:

Why not take the Elder Scrolls approach of Mark/Recall spells? Casting mark 'saves' a location, and casting recall teleports you back to said location. Obviously unable to mark on the centcomm z-level, or any area where that device that disrupts teleportation is present.

This already exists in the form of Wizard's aptly-named Mark/Recall. Also, wizard spells aren't affected by bluespace inhibitors because they're magic instead of tech.

 

On 18/02/2020 at 14:13, Cnaym said:

 

• Phase. A bit like the small teleport right now, except you just become a bit transparent and can phase through walls and doors. Bullets and melee weapons might phase through you, maybe lasers do not?

This is just jaunt, except you aren't invincible.

[kyres1]

Will be taking suggestions for this to toss into a rework later down the line. Ping me in code dungeon if you want the doc