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System Work

Framework for illusion spells with these notes:

• Fires the (fire original spell script with an illusion parameter and illusion strength parameter set
  • This affects one aspect; the metamagic is filtered. You can't apply Extend to spells that don't allow it for instance.
• The illusion parameter causes anyone targeted with SignalSpellCastAt to get a saving throw
  • This is not perfect but it is "good enough for now":
    • The Saving Throw is vs. Will and SAVING_THROW_TYPE_ILLUSION which is a new saving throw type and clarifies what the save is for.
    • Save has to be redone each time in AOE scripts, but per-round stuff with DelayCommand(6.0, FurtherEffects()) we might need to figure something out (maybe a local variable to store it? or a json array stored in memory).
    • It takes into account situations like Cure spells having variants depending on the target, plus Charm spells which are signalled as non-hostile due to their resulting effects
    • However it fires the saving throw very early (before immunities and other "valid target" checks even)
• There are 3 potential consequences of passing the saving throw (for hostile spells only):
  • 1. The random dice roll, or static amount, for damage is modified by the percentage (eg 10 damage, with 20% strength, does 2 damage). Some other hostile variables might be also affected by this (eg amount of penalty to speed), but not save DCs, ability checks etc.
  • 2. The duration of effects is modified by the percentage (eg 10 rounds, with 20% strength, becomes 2 rounds)
  • 3. There is a chance for no effect to take place (eg 20% strength, you roll a d100, 21 and over and you don't take any effect) this is for instance effects like EffectDeath for instance and things that don't fit into the above two situations.
• What we can't do:
  • We cannot have effects like Mage Armor or Fire Shield selectively apply to attackers, so these are a little more powerful (but you're using a higher level spell slot for not much gain - not even metamagic - except possibly casting spells from a restricted school as a Wizard)
  • We cannot have a "can" aspect to the saving throw. If you wanted to take damage (for some reason) tough you might save
    • However we can allow "good" effects through uncontested.
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  • Saving throws take into account illusion if one is called (does a Will save as well)
  • This saving throw affects the dice rolls done
  • Need to add scripting in to alter some other aspects, eg the amount of "strength" of the illusion
  • Cannot do much about, say, applying Mage Armor - it'll just be in effect

Total Shadow Spell Revamp

Going down a more serious route for Illusion to have Shadow spells help their school a lot, is to have the spells act more like their PnP 3.5E counterparts.

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Technical Implementation

The problem with the current method of 8 set spells is figuring out what a good set of spells to use for those 8 slots are. It becomes also redundant when you can have nice NUI spell selectors and more spells are added later!

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• Before the effect is applied alter the duration/damage amounts based on a will save result. Only need to call this will save once the save-or-negate, SR etc. parts of the spell are done of course
  • Easiest to do it successful or not in the usual save throw function (With a global for it to track).
  • Dice roll and duration functions take it into account
  • Other "effects" like amount of Attack Damage or whatever if a spell had it, might be nice to change, but not sure...

Original Ideas

3 spells in this range:

• Shadow Conjuration - level 4
• Greater Shadow Conjuration - level 5
• Shades - level 6

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Some ideas on what to do. We can at least expand them by 3 with more subdial options. The spells are considered pretty weak, and I'd agree, with the levels of the spells allowed quite a lot lower then the spell slot - I mean who would want to cast a random Magic Missile in a 4th level spell slot? Bioware may have done this to avoid the "20% power" stuff however, but then again you get access to Cone of Cold for Shades, one a level lower and thus could be considerably more useful (and gains a save DC bonus).

Existing Defaults

Keeping the originals would keep both some backwards compatibility, some sensible things for AI's to use, and doesn't mess with things too much.

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3 New Subradial Options

Options here:

• Add 3 more set spells per version
• Allow a choice of any spells the player sets up

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