Sunday, November 05, 2023

Proposal: The Hard Stuff

Timed out. Fails 3-5 (two DEF votes break in favor of the Battle Master)—Clucky

Adminned at 07 Nov 2023 07:00:41 UTC

In the rule “Style”, directly after “Knobbed,” add “Obsidian,”.

In the subrule “Special Styles”, add the following to the list of Special Styles:

Obsidian
Benefit: When you cast a spell as part of a Duel, that spell has a Cost of 1 additional Star to power the magic of this Staff. If an effect that would be applied to you is from a spell originally cast by a Wizard without an Obsidian staff, that spell has no effect on you, otherwise the effect is applied to you, but it automatically costs the Wizard who originally cast that spell 1 additional Star (for a given casting of a spell, this is only 1 additional Star for the entire Duel regardless of how many affected Wizards have an Obsidian staff).

Comments

Clucky: he/him

05-11-2023 08:15:45 UTC

Is the intent that the spell would cost an additional 2 (one from casting a spell with the Obsidian staff, and the another one for targeting someone else with an Obsidian staff) or only +1? Unclear from the wording which it would be

I’m also not really sure I’m a fan of the idea as a whole. The only way to counter it is with itself. Which I guess is kinda interesting, but also feels like it could get rather boring idk

Kevan: he/him

05-11-2023 13:05:40 UTC

for

JonathanDark: he/him

05-11-2023 16:42:58 UTC

Yes, if you have an Obsidian staff and you cast a spell against another Wizard with an Obsidian staff, it will cost you 2 extra stars.

At some point if a lot of Wizards have Obsidian staves we could tinker with this. Right now my thought is that with the Disarm spell I suspect that Wizards won’t be able to hold on to their Obsidian staves for very long.

Clucky: he/him

05-11-2023 16:52:50 UTC

but you would need to switch to an Obsidian staff in order to disarm a person with an Obsidian staff. This takes two rounds, one to switch and one to disarm, so is slow enough that I’m not sure anyone would even bother trying.

against

Zack: he/him

06-11-2023 01:25:33 UTC

imperial

Raven1207: he/they

06-11-2023 03:40:10 UTC

for

lendunistus: he/him

06-11-2023 05:46:25 UTC

imperial

would still prefer something else, this just feels too OP if you’re going for a defensive playstyle

Bucky:

06-11-2023 05:49:03 UTC

against per Clucky, with the additional problem that it might leave a holder with no stars unable to use any spell including Fizzle.

Snisbo: she/they

06-11-2023 10:53:13 UTC

against