Jump to content

Retooling/Fixing Wizard Item: Bestiarum


Kaed

Recommended Posts

This item appears in the Standard, Battlemage, and Druid's spellbooks. It costs 2 spell slots for everyone except the druid, whom it costs 1 spell slot for.


It lets you summon one of a small list of familiars, which are essentially special simple mobs inhabited by players that get a single spell. There's a mouse that can hear, a cat that can use the drunk spell (subjugate), a space shark pike that can forcewall, a goat that can make smoke clouds, a 'horror' that can use the 'torment' spell (which sprays gibs everywhere and makes someone take pain damage), and a crab that doesn't have any powers but does about 6-10 damage per pinch and has 200 health, allowing it to do some harm if it wants to.


It's a little underwhelming, though. I feel like it could be improved with a couple small tweaks.


-Give the book 2 charges instead of 1. Having two pets for your two spell slots you spent feels like it makes sense, and Druids with the ability to have a small swarm of animal friends just feels right.

-Add some new options, including 2-charge pets that have more robust abilities, like some 'vampire bats' with the Siphon Life spell, a 'basilisk' (slightly resprited, bigger lizard) that can Flesh to Stone people, just as examples. Feel free to pitch in ideas, I'm a little tired to come up with them right now.

-Might want to place a cap (Probably 1, maybe 2) on the 'big', 2-charge familiars to prevent duplicate spam, because having a druid posse of 5 basilisks/vampire bats that just go around stoning the whole station or succ-spamming everyone to death in seconds would be pretty stupid.

Link to comment
  • 3 weeks later...
  • Gem locked this topic
Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.
×
×
  • Create New...