"Bearing the joined blood of a mighty conjuror and an alligator, you are Gaeto'kiin, Gatorborn. Frankly, you don't want to think too much about exactly how that happened." Adds the "Conjugator" skill tree, a wizard skill with mostly defensive and utility spells (and terrible puns). Intended to be most useful as a support skill for characters who use ranged or melee weapons a lot, rather than those who specialise in magic. Feedback welcome! (Skill ID: 3143) Skills:Lizard Wizard"Your cold blood, scaly hide, and knowledge of acid-base theory make you a force to be reckoned with. Except in winter, when you tend to lie in the sun and fall asleep a lot."+1 +2 +1 -1 Conjugation Conjuration+1"You read a spell from your grimoire of grammar, and create a stack of bolts and darts."Cooldown ability which creates a few decent-but-not-great darts and bolts for your throwing pleasure. See You Later, Conjugator"Oh my will you look at my wrist gotta go bye! Blurt out an implausible excuse and hastily teleport away, leaving a damaging aura behind. Good for both dungeons and family reunions!"Spell. Randomly teleports you, leaves a mine in the place you were standing which lasts three turns and does damage to enemies that step on it. Scale Maille+1"By channeling the arcane blood and scaly hide of your gator ancestors, you can resist damage and encourage plovers to clean your teeth. Unfortunately plovers don't live in underground dungeons, so you'll have to settle for the damage resistance."A castable buff that gives +3 +2 +1 +1; costs mana to maintain. Complex Conjugation"You imagine a difference in the squares in front of you, and it becomes real. Creates a line of runes which paralyze the first creature to stand on them."Spell which does pretty much what it says on the box: creates three runes in a line adjacent to you, inflicts paralysis and damage when something stands on them. Gators of Aetherius+1 "By uttering a word of power using the art of the Tu'uth, you open a door to the Elemental Plane of Gators. You are briefly imbued with the power of gators, and nearby enemies take aethereal damage."Expensive spell. Deals in a wide area centred on you; also gives a powerful buff for ten turns (+4 +2 +2 +4 +1 +2 +2 +2). Doesn't require absorbing gator souls or activating Doomstones to unlock. ---- Version 1.0.0: Horrible balance editionInitial release. Everything should be working; it doesn't seem to explode when I try it out in debug mode, anyway. Since this is the first release I fully expect that it isn't properly balanced... I've done a little testing myself, but I figure releasing it is the quickest way to discover the many ways I have screwed up.
Oh, I'm terribly sorry. Don't know how I missed that. Bit of selective blindness there. Can't see a way to move it myself - though apparently my vision isn't terribly good! - so I'm assuming it's up to a moderator?
Done, and no big deal. welcome to the forums, by the way! Will take a look at the mod when I have the time.
It is, Ruigi. Except it's just one pun, and not exactly a great one. Not really sure why being a lizard gives me . I'm not sure any damage resistance is appropriate for alligators with exceptional English skills. Unless this is meant to be some kind of Truespeach mod. In which case the alligator theme is... odd. Other than serving to advance the primary pun.
There are several puns based on different meanings of the word "conjugate", some of which are not immediately obvious without actually playing the mod and/or having a science degree. There are also a bunch of terrible, terrible reptile puns, for which I apologize, and some references to the Elder Scrolls series. For the curious: - The mention of "acid-base theory" in the first skill is a reference to the formation of conjugate acid-base pairs. - The bolts/darts created by the second spell are named "bolting" and "darted", which are conjugated forms of the verbs "bolt"/"dart". - Complex conjugation is a reference to complex conjugation in mathematics; the symbol used for the rune, z bar, is the symbol used for a complex conjugate. The description refers to conjugates being used to factor a difference of squares, and a complex number (ie. one with an imaginary component) becoming real when multiplied by its conjugate. - Pretty much everything to do with the last skill is a reference to various things from the Elder Scrolls series, combined with horrible alligator puns. Gates of Aetherius is a power you can gain in Oblivion, which buffs you by opening a gate to the magical plane of Atherius; the Thu'um is a form of true naming most prominent in Skyrim; the buff is called Jaws of Oblivion, which is a pun on alligator's large jaws as well the tagline from Oblivion, "close shut the jaws of Oblivion". The tree gives transmutative resistance because that's the main type of damage it deals; other magic skills which deal damage of a particular element typically give some resistance to that element (Astrology / aethereal, Promethean / confragratory, etc.).
Drop Lizard Wizard. There is no good reason to have it really. Give a supportive power right from the beginning if this is meant to be a support skill.
