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Post by dvorack on Nov 8, 2005 23:05:46 GMT -6
Shadow dancers, lemmie try to explain what i am thinking here. Shadow Dancers are some what akin to Mages and Thieves, yet they are neither. They are the masters of shadow magic and stealth, having many abilities which manipulate the darkness around them. Their minds are so tuned to operating in darkness that shadow dancers experience an increased their attributes in the shadows. Their speciallty would be of course not getting hit, i feel the need for another rogue class, i dont really see that many on this mud . In the shadows they would have certain automatic abilities such as shadowbox (basically a second or third attack in the shadows or at night) Shadow mist, where they can pass through doors, locked or not, (excluding gates and such) and of course they would get backstab seeing as how they are rogues. I'm going to cut myself off here because even I dont read things that go on this long, So please reply and tell me whatcha think!
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Post by One on Nov 9, 2005 12:44:04 GMT -6
Hmm. Shadowdancer, Spellblade. Assassins and Ninjas are already somewhat rogues with caster abilities. Truthfully we probably could use a non-casting rogue more than another casting type. I'd be interested to hear more of your ideas for it, though.
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Post by Brother Aravis on Nov 9, 2005 18:30:17 GMT -6
I think I will expand on that spellblade idea! I have always liked them in D&D they would be a really cool class in TA.
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Post by dvorack on Nov 9, 2005 20:34:37 GMT -6
some skill/spells i am thinking of for this lil' class of mine: This dance allows the Shadow Dancer to weave the substance of shadows into a concealing cloak. The basic spell provides a hide that will only break when the spell ends, or when the Dancer types 'vis'.
Shadow dancers of moderate level can cast this spell again to enter a deeper state of hiding. This form of hide will make them invisible to all mortals. However, this ability will last a short duration, and the shadow dancer will not be aware immediately that they are visible again. Furthermore, entering any command will cause the spell to break and the shadow dancer to become visible.
A Shadow Dancer who has reached the peak of its powers is allowed to learn the final deadly dance of his class. The dance of death is a rhythmic flurry of arm and hand movements that accompanies a backstab and can trigger an automatic second backstab after a first is attempted. This second backstab replaces the second attack, so the second attack must succeed, and the skill must succeed, and a 1/10 chance must succeed.
This spell causes a globe of magical darkness to surround the Shadow Dancer, the globe is fairly small, so does not darken the entire room the Shadow Dancer is in. How ever, this does make the Shadow Dancer impossible to see, unless the beholder has infravision(lights have no effect on the magical darkness). In addition, anyone striking at the Shadow Dancer will be enveloped by the sphere and thus be unable to see unless they haveinfravision.
NOTE: from the Shadow Dancers perspective, the area around them is always dark, thus the Shadow Dancer them self will be unable to see unless they have infravision. This does, how ever, give the Shadow Dancer the benefit of increased attributes recovery as described in the class description.
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dread
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Post by dread on Nov 9, 2005 23:09:49 GMT -6
Copy/paste from ravenMud is NOT cool
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Post by dvorack on Nov 10, 2005 20:05:21 GMT -6
Copy/paste from ravenMud is NOT cool It's not from ravenmud it's from a mud I am working on that my friends on trillion suggest to and normally if it makes sense i'll add it on. Acussing peole of copy and paste is not cool! Even if I did copy most of what I was suggested word for word
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dread
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Post by dread on Nov 17, 2005 18:54:49 GMT -6
Well, the problem lies in a near verbatim transcription from their helpfile to our boards. However, since you have admitted copy/past from somewhere, I rest my case...I like to see some originality in classes or concepts personally...I like how many of our stock classes have skills that take their strategies in new directions that other games don't think on, and allow for a variety of play styles. Shadowdancers already have a pseudo-existance here on TA.
Here's copy/paste from ravenmud website!!!
"Shadow Dancer - Shadow Dancers are some what akin to mages and thieves, yet they are neither. They are the masters of shadow magic and stealth, having many abilities which manipulate the darkness around them. Their minds are so tuned to operating in darkness that shadow dancers experience an increased mana recovery rate in dark areas"
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Post by vegeta1395 on Nov 24, 2005 8:03:46 GMT -6
not only ravens, most of the skills he mentioned are from twilights dawning to.
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Post by One on Nov 24, 2005 18:00:51 GMT -6
I believe it is one of the classes in stock smaug. I could be wrong, but it something along those lines.
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