Posted by Isildur on November 28, 2000 at 08:01:56:
In Reply to: Re: pen skill (little idea) posted by Excited about Scrolls on November 28, 2000 at 07:42:04:
If this ever did come to pass, it would have to be severely limited. If not, you'd have the same problems as when the Masters could brew potions. Imagine getting slept by a Necromancer, then getting slow, soften and fumble cast you in addition to all the Necro maledictions, then your attacker begins the fight with a Hero-ranked Nova spell (or some other attack that hits the vulnerability of your character). Or how 'bout the trannie who holds you, then uses word of death? Not to mention all the enhancements people would be casting on themselves...haste (which is already available), spiderhands, stoneskin (also already available), invoker shields (this would be huge). I would suggest the following restrictions if this is ever implemented: 1) A given pen/paper combo can only be used to create scrolls for spells whose level (for the creator's class) is lower than that of the *lesser* of the pen and paper's levels. 2) A created scroll can only be used by a player whose rank is equal to or greater than that of the creator. This would prevent heros from cooking up really nasty scrolls and giving them to young folks. They can already dole out nasty eq, though, so maybe this isn't an issue. 3) Can only create if pen/scrolls are both at 100%, plus the spell to be scribed also at 100%. 4) It should take a huge amount of mana to create a scroll, and the success rate shouldn't be that high.