Ziggurat Zagger
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Joined: Friday, 6th July 2012, 12:48
Monster abjuration
Recently there's been a push in Crawl to make Summoning more balanced as a school. With all the changes to it, is that mechanic still necessary? Because I feel like Summoning is still a very powerful school, at least in normal game, and Dragon Call feels worthy of being a level 9 spell, being essentially a Tornado made of dragons. However, losing a lot of high-level summons makes it feel weaker than it is. I could add some half-baked proposal like making a monster HD/spellpower check, or making it work like player abjuration, by reducing your summons' duration, but the truth is that I don't know shit about how Crawl actually works and whether that change is even necessary. I would like to hear what people think about that, though.