Sif Muna memorization


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Slime Squisher

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Post Thursday, 8th November 2018, 17:29

Sif Muna memorization

***** ability, instantly memorize a spell from the library at the cost of nutrition and piety.

Sif Muna worshipers are especially likely to hit the hard caps on spell memorization, meaning that the choice of which spells to memorize for any particular location become quite important. While these decisions are interesting, they can also be a significant burden, especially for new players. To make these decisions optimally requires knowledge of what threats the player might be faced with, which heavily rewards use of spoilers.

This proposal would reward experienced players for being able to skillfully choose which spells to memorize for which locations by expending less piety, while allowing newer players the option to memorize in reaction to unknown threats. The choice of how many levels to keep available itself is interesting, even for experienced players, as by allocating multiple situational spells as swap-ins, more levels can be used to expand their core strategies without sacrificing flexibility.

Ziggurat Zagger

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Post Thursday, 8th November 2018, 18:18

Re: Sif Muna memorization

Sif already has invocable amnesia for exactly this.

Tartarus Sorceror

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Post Thursday, 8th November 2018, 18:44

Re: Sif Muna memorization

FR, give Sif Muna a "cast from library" ability, expensive piety cost of course.

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Slime Squisher

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Post Thursday, 8th November 2018, 19:05

Re: Sif Muna memorization

Sif's amnesia ability is useful for changing your selected spells before entering a new area, but does nothing to allow a player react to a situation in progress (unless spell memorization was recently adjusted to no longer be a several turn, interruptable process).

Rast wrote:FR, give Sif Muna a "cast from library" ability, expensive piety cost of course.


Seems like a good ****** ability to compliment my instant memorization proposal, for those situations where even using amnesia and instant memorization to reconfigure would be too slow. Definitely expensive piety, though.

Zot Zealot

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Post Thursday, 8th November 2018, 22:35

Re: Sif Muna memorization

Rast wrote:FR, give Sif Muna a "cast from library" ability, expensive piety cost of course.


This feature would finally allow me to find out what Yara's Violent Unravelling does, as well as other spells which don't seem worth memorizing. :D

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