drow changes

Death Dealer1 · Post by **Death Dealer1** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:51 pm

nice job guys...i have 1 or 2 drow and i like the idea of bright lights blinding them. i just have one thing to ask though. can firestorm be taken off this list? if its a spell that you cast...how effective is it when you blind and daze yourself from casting a spell? it can't be aimed at anything and is cast from you....so....that basically means that your screwing yourself over everytime you try it.

JesterOI · Post by **JesterOI** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:54 pm

Make it so that a drows spells don't affect itself (they know when to close their eyes

).
Easy enough.

Death Dealer1 · Post by **Death Dealer1** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:30 pm

yeah..thats good too, i just really hate to think that as a drow you can't use some spells because the target is always you.

Post by **Metis** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:36 pm

The drow life isn't an easy one....

Kromix · Post by **Kromix** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:57 pm

wacca wacca wacca...

what was the name of that bear guy... gonzo's friend...

well think obout it like casting ice storm... arround your friends

the spell dont give a pie...

mgrjebbo · Post by **mgrjebbo** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:03 pm

I agree fully, if a spell is targeted on the caster then it shoulndt effect the caster. I dont disgree with firestorm blinding drow but if it is to be left like this then change the spell so it is ranged. There is no reason a spell should effect its caster unless the caster intends it to. I dont think a clerics god intended to harm his subject when granting him divine spells each day. That is like little green hands flying back at the mage that cast them, although slightly humoris, it has no place in the game.

Kromix · Post by **Kromix** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:08 pm

well the divine are evil (drow) then like lloth, it might be a whoopsies and it dont mind fixing it...

mr jigga who?

by the way... what happens when you cast light on a drow?????

lordvan52681 · Post by **lordvan52681** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:11 pm

Kromix wrote:wacca wacca wacca... what was the name of that bear guy... gonzo's friend...

well think obout it like casting ice storm... arround your friends the spell dont give a pie...

/me slaps Kromix with a rubber chicken.

It was Fozzie, ya goof =P

As for the subject at hand, i believe that they should eith be A) affected by their own spells or B) lose DC for not being able to see because they closed their eyes.

Lets face it, for all the griping everone does about how hard drow are to level, there are ALOT of them on this server. with the addition of the new SR system, i think these arent unreasonable as a balance.

Death Dealer1 · Post by **Death Dealer1** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:32 pm

ok...did anyone see where i said i liked this change? seriously...does anyone ever read a post?

a drow casting firestorm and blinding himself is like a mage casting meteor storm and it killing him...i don't think anyone wants that to happen. i do think that blinding flashes of light are awesome for disabling drow. i just think if a drow is going to cast firestorm then...why would he anyway..why not have SoV stun the cleric that casts it?

and casting light on a drow doesn't do anything.

Post by **Flailer** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:45 pm

For the record, spells shouldn't be affecting the caster (for the reason that was mentioned - closing their eyes or something). I must have put the call inside the bracket instead of outside.

Next step is giving a penalty on transition from dark to light areas. A little more involved, but doable.

JesterOI · Post by **JesterOI** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:55 pm

Then there is the fact that a cleric shoudn't be hit by their own spells since the spells are divine and it makes no sense for the spells to hit them. Unless Lloth is in a bitchy mood or something.

Post by **Yonwe** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:58 pm

Oh, I'm more or less in a low-level bitchy mood all the time, but I'm not so bitchy that I'd want Drow to be affected by their own spells... most of the time

Death Dealer1 · Post by **Death Dealer1** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:15 pm

ok...the only cleric casted spell that hurts the caster is flamestrike...be wary it will mess you up if its close range. firestorm and sunbeam don't do anything even when casted on your own feet. looks good....since i found a way to make myself immune to all effects to this new change...can i keep it my own little secret?

Silver Lady · Post by **Silver Lady** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:14 am

Flailer wrote:For the record, spells shouldn't be affecting the caster (for the reason that was mentioned - closing their eyes or something). I must have put the call inside the bracket instead of outside.

Next step is giving a penalty on transition from dark to light areas. A little more involved, but doable.

ok, and what about humans and other races from a surface? So drows will go on the surface and will be blind? And vice versa the ppl from the surface must be blind in Menzo. The Underdark is very dark place.

Wanna do something good? Remove HIPS from 1 lvl of SD and move it on 6 lvl of SD. I was wondering to be same like all ppl from this server. But no.

Meteor swarm - how can u cast this spell in a cave or in a house? Heh. Can u do something with this spell?

So other clerics can cast Fire storm and drow's cleric cann't? Hm, can drows get something? I don't know but is alwas same. I do something but u should do something to balance it.

Death Dealer1 · Post by **Death Dealer1** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:20 am

i was wrong about self casting spells....flamestrike is the only one you can cast that hurts you with the new changes...all others are as they were before.