Shattered Kingdoms

It's a joke, silly!

That's great. I approve.

I feel that IC is the most important aspect of this game, and as such agree with this statement whole-heartedly. IMO It should not be possible to 'concentrate' while trying to follow somebody who is moving at all, much less running around the city at top speed. I believe that this should apply to all spells, from cure light all the way up to holy word. Movement and casting should be as incompatible as oil and water. I would like to further back this statement up by mentioning that characters already cannot use defensive skills while casting; block/dodge/parry all don't work when concentrating as you are unable to focus on -anything- else while invoking magic/prayer, so it makes just as much sense that you couldn't focus on a spell while trying to follow someone about, dodging pedestrians or trees, etc.

Also, I'd like to say: "Thank you so very much for these awesome improvements!!!!!!!!!111oneon"

Seriously, I am extremely excited about them

I accept and agree with all prayers/spells that have a higher casting time to be cut off when moving. However, quick prayers such as refresh or cure light I honestly don't see how the "realism" this adds outweights the enormous additional time sink it would imply.

In my mind, when I envision Thyki casting something like a refresh it is short, to the point and done on the fly. Should she be able to cast resurrection while moving at top speed? No, that just seems ridiculous and with very few exceptions as a matter of RP I don't do it. But if a paladin/hellion can cast while fighting, a priest who has been doing this for 150 years can sure as hell offer up a quick prayer to refresh her legs while following people around, or pray to heal some lighter wounds while running for their life.

And really guys...this is a game. A FANTASY, roleplaying game for FUN!!! Do we really need this to make it even less enjoyable? Jesus, ask for shovels why don't you!

That's a good comment about concentration. If we do make a change, perhaps it should be integrated with the concentration system. Moving would have a concentration cost and if you go over, then you lose it. It makes so much sense, that I'm not sure why it never occurred to me before. On the downside, it would be harder to balance and it wouldn't discriminate between aggressive vs non-aggressive spells.

I agree with this in theory.. but wouldn't adding concentration to movement affect all casters adversely? For example, races that can charm two NPCs at once would now lose concentration on one the second they walked anywhere, or holding as many spells as you can would only be viable if you never planned on moving, which doesn't seem quite right. I feel like the only real way to make this work properly is for movement to cancel an in-progress spell cast.

What Nokuro said. Doing that would make it far too hard on sorcs or necros. Instead, it should really work like the damage system. As it stands now, if you take a really hard hit your concentration is disrupted. It should really be like that.

Having to move while holding a bunch of spells (as often times most classes do. MI, charm, charm2 etc. would be severely limited in this aspect. I could see where it is difficult to do so..But how do you make it small enough to where it stops massive spells like resurrection / holy word but not stop spells like charm without borkin over sorcs?

This is what I was proposing, but as I said, it could be tough to balance it, especially to meet the specified goal of making it impossible to do walk-in final strike or holy word, yet not interfere with lesser spells.

How about adding a "movement casting" skill which only affected certain spells?

+1

Make it limited to spells of say, journeyman level?

Limit the skill to pure magical classes (sorc, priest, necro)?