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Monday, 29th September 2014, 21:47
Why no more auto-memorized starting spells?
With a recent commit (https://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/commit/a30a7c4be0532642112772baf4946f1531a7ab5c), it seems that book backgrounds no longer start with the first spell of their starting book memorized. What's the rationale?
The only thing I can think of is leaving the option to save that one spell level and memorize a different spell first after you've gained an XL or two. This seems like an edge case, though, because it's hard to survive many D:1 encounters without any spells, nor a weapon, nor weapon skill. And it seems like a great way to screw newbs, who may not realize they are starting without a spell at the ready.
(I'm doubly annoyed because I just added a bit of script to my rc file that opens the skill training menu automatically at the start of the game -- but with a book background, usually the only skill I want to focus is my primary spell school, except now I can't because I haven't memorized anything yet, so the mod is useless.)
Please enlighten me!
The only thing I can think of is leaving the option to save that one spell level and memorize a different spell first after you've gained an XL or two. This seems like an edge case, though, because it's hard to survive many D:1 encounters without any spells, nor a weapon, nor weapon skill. And it seems like a great way to screw newbs, who may not realize they are starting without a spell at the ready.
(I'm doubly annoyed because I just added a bit of script to my rc file that opens the skill training menu automatically at the start of the game -- but with a book background, usually the only skill I want to focus is my primary spell school, except now I can't because I haven't memorized anything yet, so the mod is useless.)
Please enlighten me!
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