Shattered Kingdoms

Spell scripts are antithetical to trip and bash. As such, all spell scripts should be banished. All area creators who even suggest such a script should be reprimanded. It is ridiculous to bash a NPC and receive 2 harms while the NPC is bashed. Immstaff: Using scripts to get around skills is like the players using skills to get around intended parameters of the game. Both require a RL alignment that is a far cry from lightie, dogmatic or aberrant. And both require a mindset antithetical toward the greater good of the game.

You might want to dab a bit at the froth coming out of your mouth there, p40.

You noticed?

Oh, I'm astute.

One solution to this would be to make blindness/deafness concentration spells.. just like sleep.

lol...WOW I havent been blinded and had to sit it out in a long time

Maybe cause i have a priest right now, or maybe cause i always keep my armor and stuff enchanted...*shrugs*

Maybe it's because I play a delf, and would need to enchant like Yotbol before I could take one, unless I want to fill my gear with Magic Resistance. Personally, I don't think it's very fun having to rem all every time I want to cast a spell on myself. Maybe I should have made this about magic resistance instead of blindness.
Make a spell with short casting time that deactivates magic resistance !

Fortitude is your friend.

On another note, spell scripts are one of the few means available to make a difficult PvE encounter. While it's not always perfect, NPCs like the Vaerlsarlak, or Stephanos wouldn't be any challenge at all if they did not have their scripts.

I had this long retort/flame for this post before I realized it was sarcastic. Hilarious.

You can't make most malediction spells concentration because then the victim can just relog and make the spells go away. I'm pretty sure sleep only works because you can't quit while under magical sleep.