It's fine i guess if anything it's the speed that bothers me.
I just don't get why she's fast.
Maybe i just don't like generalist much, but it's k i guess.
Iryhor said
The way I see it, magic is hard to learn, harder to control, and not everyone has a knack for it. Sure, you could go learn to fly a helicopter and get around much faster; but most people tend to go by car. Why? Because 1) helicopters are super expensive, 2) helicopters are very complicated to fly, and 3) it's not very appropriate to land in a parking lot with a helicopter.In my opinion, it's the same with magic. Let's say you want to light a torch in the middle of town, because it's dark. You have fire magic, but using it to simply light a torch would take a lot of finesse. Still, you try it. You end up incinerating the whole torch; wasting a lot of your "mana" while you're at it, and the town guards come to arrest you for putting the lives of those around you in danger by recklessly using magic.And what happens if you aren't trying to kill someone? You just want a quick sparring match. with swords, it's easy. Just get a dull-edged sword and boom, no lethality. It'll hurt, but you don't have to fear for your life. With magic, it's trickier. You could accidentally vaporize your best friend, or transform him into a slug with no knowledge of how to transform him back.Magic is scary and unpredictable. That's why I think there's effort in learning it.
Dubwarlock said
Sorry I really haven't been able to post anything yet, I've been asleep ^^I'd like to point out a few things, though I'm fairly open to many concepts otherwise. @PinkFlower, I think you're keeping everything too restricted when it comes to combat. You think of the combat in fantasy like some MMO, but it's much different. I wish that, at this time, I could state the issues of limiting the types of weapons and abilities that characters can use, but I literally just woke up so I won't be looking into things in-depth for a while. If you need an idea on what I mean, just think that fighters of all types will use what they're proficient and comfortable with, not what some invisible guidelines say.
Bell said
I had the idea for a rune system where runes give magical attributes to anything they are put on such as runes of fire, ice or protection. The runes are drawn up in midair to create spells such as a fireball rune or anlghtning bolt rune. The more intricate the design of the rune, the more powerful such as Lightning bolt being simple, but Lightning Bolt Chain Jump is more complicated. As such it not only takes longer to produce, but drains more of the caster's life force. Life force is returned through rest, but they can easily ware themselves out.That would limit magic use while also giving swords and bows magic capabilities.