Combat, on the other hand, appears to be a much more gratifying experience in The Witcher 3. Skyrim felt like more of a hack 'n slash with some light strategy when needed. When I'm fighting with Geralt, I feel like I'm playing as a more experienced swordsman. Geralt is better at parrying, dodging, and attacking with magic than the Dragonborn was, or at least it felt that way when I played Skyrim.
Steve Watts: Since you brought up the combat, Daniel, I think we have to recognize some of the differences there as well. The Witcher 3 (and in fact the entireWitcher series) has a refined combat system that encourages a specific playstyle. You're supposed to be using melee attacks augmented with the occasional blast of magic. The tools are designed around that style, and the tutorial section teaches you pretty explicitly how to handle yourself.
imo the world of magic hack tool
Steven Wong: I'm probably in the minority here, but I have a stronger preference for Skyrim's combat. As Steve pointed out, it's much more flexible. Despite its use of parries, dodging, and blocking, the combat in Witcher 3 feels very hack'n'slash to me. There aren't any stealth options for sneaking in and eliminating a few enemies before engaging in open fighting. In Skyrim, I could hide in the shadows, summon a magic bow, and pick off a few enemies before hitting the rest of the group with a burst of chain lightning. Geralt isn't really a sorcerer, so he doesn't get to do that, but that's no excuse for giving players no choice other than sword fighting.
Josh H: "Geralt isn't really a sorcerer, so he doesn't get to do that, but that's no excuse for giving players no choice other than sword fighting. " This is a great point Steven, however, there is actually a completely FINE excuse with giving players no choice other than sword fighting. Witcher's don't use bows. They don't summon magical beings to fight for them, and they aren't technically used to sneaking around and assassinating people from the shadows. The witchers have a set of rules they must follow, and this rule set dictates that their weapons are to be a Steel Sword for men, and a Silver Sword for beasts brought into the world by magic.
It always drives me nuts when open world games treat obvious solutions as out of the box thinking. For example, there's one side quest where I had to kill a werewolf, but it repeatedly kicked my ass. So, I figured I'd camp outside it lair until sunrise and kill it while it's in its human form. But instead of an vulnerable unarmed human, I found a daytime werewolf. With Skyrim, I was allowed to think strategically. Vampires are weak during the day, werewolves revert back to humans, etc., which is partly why I still think The Witcher 3 combat feels very hack'n'slash to me.
I still consider one of the major dividing lines between "major" and "minor" shardworlds (other than Shard residence) to be in strength of access to the magic, and control over it. I intend the minor shard worlds to involve interactions with the magic as setting--coming back to spren, you could have a minor shardworld with people who use, befriend, even bond spren. (Or the local equivalent--Seon, Aviar, etc.) But you'd never see power on the level of the city of Elantris, the actions of a Bondsmith, or even the broad power suite of a mistborn.
One of the 'basics' of the magic in all of the worlds is that the energy of Shards can fuel all kinds of interactions, not just interactions based on their personality/role. I did this because otherwise, the Magics would all be extremely limited.
On every world, when the magic system develops and the focus is decided, it can do multiple things in multiple magic systems. Take any single variety of metal in Scadrial and it does something distinct in all three systems. In fact, tin is the only metal that has anything linking the effects together across all three systems.
Scadrial is unique in what we've seen, in that the world was created and had no preexisting magic system created by Adonalsium. Feruchemy as the balance system between the two Shards is a direct result of the magic suffusing the world so heavily with no preexisting system to direct their power.
The planet. We have been told multiple times that the focus of Scadrial is metal. The focus of Sel is forms. The focus of Nalthis is commands. These are the only confirmed foci, but in every case the focus has been attributed to the world, and not the Shard. Once a magic system is developed between that world and shard, I believe the focus will carry outward to wherever the system is used, as we've seen with Allomancy, but it's determination is a product of the interaction of the Shards investment, and the world where the system develops.
Your pathway system seems to be trying to take the focus of magic systems and attribute them to the Shards instead of the world's on which the systems developed. I don't see a fundamental difference between the means of access and the rate at which the power flows, as from what we've seen that's determined by factors if the user, be it sDNA providing a higher capacity, or the depth/progression of a bond.
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The Legend of Zelda is an Action-Adventure, Role-playing, and Single-player video game by Nintendo. It serves as the first in the series of The Legend of Zelda, released on February 21, 1986. The game takes place in the fantasy world, known as Hyrule full of enemies and NPCs. The story casts the player in the role of Link, who starts his adventure to find the fragments of Triforce of Wisdom to save the Zelda Princess. According to the story, one day the Prince of Darkness reaches the Hyrule land to steal the power of Triforce (a part of magical artifact strength) and abduct the princess of Zelda.
This game world is full of powerful enemy creatures, and the game allows the player to use his magical power and sword weapons to kill the enemy creatures. FATE: The Traitor Soul offers multiple new mission with new objectives which the player must complete. The game offers core features such as three different races, different tasks, lots of upgrades, unlockable achievements, improved visual details, enhanced game mechanics, and a well-written storyline.
Autopilot: It should exist in the world, it might be useful on a spell gem, but unless you're running magical uber without investing real autopilots in your cars or you have a bunch of cheap car bombs to send out you aren't learning this.
Woo more spells! It's been a while since there was a solid influx of new magic to talk about, and now we've gotten a veritable bounty. Here's some of my thoughts on the first quarter or so, with spoilers to organize by spell. I think I mostly came to similar conclusions as you did Xenocrat.Accelerate Step: Exceedingly bad. Low duration means its limited to in-combat casting only. Only functions vs AoOs, more or less, and only grants 20% concealment. Even in the rare situations where you'd benefit, its not even close to a reliable defense.Acid Puddle: Agreed with Xenocrat's comments. Very solid alternative to explosive blast. Avoids SR. Sometimes deals way more damage due to foes not being able to leave it. Does the Reflex save apply to the ongoing damage each time? I'm guessing you save again every round. Note that damage amping class features like harmful spells don't work with it because its not instantaneous.Adamantine Shot: Somewhat unclearly written. The way I'm reading it, when you target only one creature, you still get three projectiles and you could send them all at that one creature. If this is right, the spell does very good single-target damage. However, the spell doesn't specify if this is a normal ranged attack or something else. If its a normal ranged attack, you'll fall far behind in accuracy at higher levels, so the effective damage ends up dropping off hard. I like it overall - piercing hardness and DR (even if they're uncommon) is good, and it has some utility to it as well. A particularly inflexible GM might point out that the breach property and "target: up to three creatures" don't work with one another.Adhere: A+ cantrip. Utility, trap making, and solid flavor. I assume the entangled creature is anchored to the adhered square, though it isn't stated specifically. Not excessively powerful, but I will definitely want to pick this up.Akashic Investigation: Seems very tame for a 6th level spell. Not being able to see specific people or hear what's spoken is rather restrictive. Also being limited to the past day narrows how often you'll make use of this. I'm surprised it isn't a couple levels lower.Anchor: Maybe I'm just not creative right now, but I don't see a good use for this beyond setting up cables to climb? Seems like cheap mundane equipment like a grappler + cable line should be just as effective, if not more so.Antimagic Burst: Super Dispel Magic! Not much to say here except that its an excellent upgrade to greater dispel and a really good "high level magic" example. Would be happy to have this in every campaign.Autopilot: A fixed piloting bonus means this spell won't be winning you any chase scenes. Seems like a fine narrative spell, but not one I'd be looking to pick up. Most campaigns will never get a chance to use this.Battle Sonata: In a system where AoOs hit often and easily disrupt spellcasting, being up close is a big risk. 15ft cone is really close. I can't imagine catching more than one or two foes in it most of the time. Thankfully, the damage, damage type, and bonus debuff here are all very solid. Definitely a neat thematic spell, at least.Biome Adaptation: I haven't encountered too much difficult terrain in adventures, but this low level spell does wonders to mitigate it while also granting some nice bonuses. I like the long duration as well. Seems like a good spell for a spell gem or four.Blessing of Youth: Healing stamina doesn't end encounters, but if you like this kind of support role, this spell does the job. That said, I think envoy or medic mystic are still far better for this kind of thing.Broadcast Message: This seems like it'd be extremely annoying in universe. The caster keeps telepathically repeating a message to everyone in range for up to several minutes, and there's no save or way to avoid it short of running away. Otherwise, a fine variant on telepathic message, but of pretty niche use. Probably a spell gem candidate.Bypass Password: Like Xenocrat mentioned, I have no idea how this interfaces with the normal rules for hacking.Calm the Storm: Fantastic self-buff. Lasts for a long time and stacks with most everything, plus lets you do a reroll. I can think of some APs where this would be very useful.Channel the Outer Sphere: As a 6th level spell, it deals damage that tickles, provides relatively minor debuffs, and hits only one target a round. Just very very underwhelming. Reminds me of call lightning storm from pathfinder - low damage and persistent.Cheat Time: Time stop, more or less. Being able to buff and prepare with 5 standard actions before letting loose a final offensive spell seems incredible. I can't imagine playing a high level precog that doesn't use this.Command Icon: +2 stackable bonus to intimidate? Don't mind if I do. Lots of classes and characters have neat builds that spend time demoralizing, and this makes them better at it. Everything else here is just gravy.Communal Bond: These are pretty minor bonuses, maybe too minor, but by higher levels the opportunity cost of this spell is very low and the duration is very long. It becomes a "you might as well add it" kind of buff. I'm not a big fan of these kinds of buffs, where they just stack with most everything else and there's little reason not to use them.Companion Bond: Really neat. Though not a particularly powerful spell for combat or adventuring, the roleplaying value is high for me. And if you have an intelligent enough creature, they can scout around and give you real-time information.Dampen Spell: I'm not sure if I would call it busted, but this seems incredibly good. It's natively a reaction, so you can use it without readying a dispel magic (note that technomancers DO have a magic hack that lets them dispel as a reaction, and its probably one of their best hacks) and the options can generally neuter the spell's effects quite severely if you're smart about it. Taking up 1st and 2nd level slots at higher levels means you'll almost always have a handful of these at the ready. The only downside is that enemy spellcasters are both relatively rare in Starfinder, and usually not the hardest of encounters to begin with. I'm looking forward to grabbing this on my next caster. 2ff7e9595c
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