A new class?

[dvorack]

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!

[One]

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.

[Brother Aravis]

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.

[dvorack]

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.

[dread]

Copy/paste from ravenMud is NOT cool

[dvorack]

dread said:

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

[dread]

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"

[vegeta1395]

not only ravens, most of the skills he mentioned are from twilights dawning to.

[One]

I believe it is one of the classes in stock smaug. I could be wrong, but it something along those lines.