Wanted: Member Input!

Hallo my friends and family! 'Tis I.

The staff team is trying to condense and consolidate rules to hopefully make it so the magic rules can be in one post instead of two huge ones. We also recognize the issue of long magics being tedious and rather muse-crushing to produce.

To remedy this, Tak and the staff have been looking into removing secondary and tertiary magics and instead allowing 3 standalone, fully functional magics. These magics will be smaller than the primary as the total amount of spells you can have between primary and secondary will be split up among these three magics.

The system idea brainstormed thus far is the following, written up by TAK:

Total of 20 normal spells per magic, 15 free (3 per rank up to S) and 5 purchased.
1 Advanced spell per rank (up to H)
3 Signature spells (of any rank up to S), 1 at C, B, S
1 standard H rank spell at H rank.
Total 30 spells, 20 normal, 10 H/special
Spells can be applied in the format below; the magic can have up to the right number of normal spells of that rank.
0-20 D rank
0-15 C rank
0-10 B rank
0-5 A rank
0-3 S rank
1 H rank
Advanced Spells can be applied in the format below; the magic can have up to the right number of Advanced spells of that rank.
0-2 D+
0-2 C+
0-2 B+
0-2 A+
0-1 S+
1 H+

We are still fine-tuning everything and writing up the idea more formally to be added to the Magic Rules.


What we want from you are requests for clarifications of things that are already in the rules (except for what we are replacing) along with mentions of any typos you currently see in the rules. Any and all opinions are welcome-- we only ask that suggestions regarding creating completely new systems and ideas be taken to your own suggestions board topic. (:
Newbie opinions are appreciated too!

If I can throw in my two cents, something that's been on my mind is the initial starting set for Secondary magic. I think that there should be two spells up to A rank at first given with the initial set.

Luceam wrote:If I can throw in my two cents, something that's been on my mind is the initial starting set for Secondary magic. I think that there should be two spells up to A rank at first given with the initial set.

This is not about the magic we currently have, with what we're talking about there won't be a "secondary" magic. Just three magics that act the same as stated in the starting post.

Since you're looking for suggested clarifications of things that are already in the rules I have a couple of things at the top of my head.

1. AoE and Multi-target spells generally are 50% and 75% effective when compared to single target and burst. We know this as far as damage goes. However, I often see inconsistency about whether the buffs/debuffs from these spells are also less effective. This should be cleared up since I see magics get graded and approved both ways, and even I don't know how to write my spell effects correctly anymore due to this.

2. In the summon magic template summons have a portion that ask for range and speed, not for their abilities but for the actual summon itself. There are no set rules on what summons follow for these categories and I have left it blank every time because of this. I see some summoners get told to put burst numbers, but I have also seen many people get approved putting single target numbers on there. This should be cleared up so everyone is on the same page on this.

I'll update whenever I think of more.

How would this change affect Hybrid and Third Gen Slayers?

Given that currently Hybrid and Third Gen take up the Primary and Secondary, would it consume two slots with the third left open for something else or would Hybrid/Third Gen require all three the magic slots?

Just a small one, less about the system but more about the purchases made by members regarding their magic (spells, siggies, etc); will they be refunded for them if/once this system were to be implemented?

Could we change character speed from miles per hour (I can only assume it's miles and not meters, mph ?) to meters per second ? Would make calculating speeds and comparing them to spell speeds much easier :>

Just a smol typo under the magic and spell rules section with the update. ^-^