Meta spell question

[logan9a]

Easy Spell (credit: Scott)

Casting time: free action
Range: Self
Duration: 1 round
MP cost: 2
You concentrate on the target spell as free action for 1 round. If you fail this spell, you break concentration on the target spell.



Prolong Spell (credit: Scott)

Casting time: Free action (only as part of casting another spell)
Range: Self
Duration: Instant
MP cost: 2
You extend the duration of a non-concentration spell by concentrating on it. Once you break concentration, the spell's normal duration starts counting down. This does not work on instant duration spells.


What is the difference between these two? Also, I think I'm confused on the effects of 'easy spell'.

[Scott]

Prolong spell makes a spell last longer. Say there you know a fight is going to break out or there is a lull in combat. You can cast a prolonged spell and sit there concentrating on it, so you know it won't run out of time before the action starts even if it is shortish duration. Or any other time you know you are going to need a spell up but not exactly when. So the value is preparation. Players that aren't good at anticipating events and preparing for them may not see much use for this one, or waste MP prolonging the wrong spell or at the wrong time/place. (Do we need an upper limit on how long you can "wait for it"? IDK. Player boredom should suffice IMO [cut to: nothing happens] and your character would start nodding off or succumbing to other bodily needs eventually, but if we want hard limits of the sake of limits, I would say an hour or three.)


Easy spell is for when you're already concentrating on a spell, but you need to do something else, but you don't want to break concentration. Basically it lets you take some other action for one round without breaking concentration.

[logan9a]

Concentrating on a spell (to keep it consistent with all other concentration spells) though is a full action.

[Scott]

So it's kind of like a haste that you can only use to concentrate, except it can screw over the spell you're trying to maintain.

[logan9a]

Aug 5, 2018 19:59:22 GMT Scott said:

So it's kind of like a haste that you can only use to concentrate, except it can screw over the spell you're trying to maintain.

I'd rather find a way to rewrite it that keeps more consistent.

[Scott]

Easy Spell (credit: Scott)

Casting time: free action
Range: Self
Duration: 1 round
MP cost: 2
You can only cast this spell while you are already concentrating on a different spell. While still concentrating on the target spell as full action you attempt to do something else as a free action. If you fail this spell, you break concentration on the target spell.

[logan9a]

I'm disliking changing up concentration spells. You can't do another spell while doing a concentration spell.


Idea for different spell entirely will be put in different thread.