Empathy - Goad

[PotatoJedi]

Goad

Casting Time: Instant
Range: 20m
Duration: 1 Round
MP Cost: 4

As you bellow a mighty challenge, all creatures within range who can hear you must succeed on a WILL vs WILL roll or they must attack you this round. If the creature is incapable of attacking you in any way this round, they may ignore the effect of this spell. Creatures with whom you are obviously friendly may also ignore this spell.

[logan9a]

Neutral creatures? I'm thinking that 'all hostile creatures' - then also, since this is empathy, we might want to have a standard 'does not work on constructs, undead, etc' thing that goes with it as that is a baked in weakness of this tree - which is good - every tree should have a baked in weakness.

Also, much smaller radius because only the ones that are with melee range should be affected - so maybe 3-5m.

[PotatoJedi]

Goad

Casting Time: Instant
Range: 20m
Duration: 1 Round
MP Cost: 4

As you bellow a mighty challenge, all hostile creatures within range who can hear you must succeed on a WILL vs WILL roll or they must attack you this round. If the creature is incapable of attacking you in any way this round, they may ignore the effect of this spell. Only works on creatures capable of experiencing emotion.



The reason for the 20m is because they may have ranged attacks, so I feel like that would be better.

[logan9a]

True, but I don't want the creatures to spend a round pulling out ranged stuff. Maybe we can work that in along with the standard 'no constructs' phrasing.

[PotatoJedi]

That's already worked in.

If the creature is incapable of attacking you in any way this round, they may ignore the effect of this spell

Spending a round to pull out a ranged weapon means they can't attack you this round.

[logan9a]

But if they have to spend their time pulling out a new weapon, it causes the unintended consequence of them having to miss their attack - and in a huge radius.

[PotatoJedi]

Goad

Casting Time: Instant
Range: 20m
Duration: 1 Round
MP Cost: 4

As you bellow a mighty challenge, all hostile creatures within range who can hear you must succeed on a WILL vs WILL roll or they must attack you this round. If the creature is incapable of attacking you in any way this round or if doing so would result in an illogical attack (such as throwing a melee weapon at you), they may ignore the effect of this spell. Only works on creatures capable of experiencing emotion.


Now they won't just throw their weapons at you if it means having to draw another one next round (unless that's something they would do anyway, so it's up to the creature).

[logan9a]

We should put in something about how if they don't have a missile weapon in hand, they don't have to miss an attack as a result of this spell.

Also, a max number of targets - 'the three closest' etc. I don't want any spells that don't have a max number of targets.

[PotatoJedi]

Goad

Casting Time: Instant
Range: 20m
Duration: 1 Round
MP Cost: 4

As you bellow a mighty challenge, the 3 closest hostile creatures within range who can hear you must succeed on a WILL vs WILL roll or they must attack you this round. If the creature is incapable of attacking you in any way this round, they may ignore the effect of this spell. They may also ignore it if they are not in melee range and have no missile weapons in hand or other immediate means of attacking from range (such as magic). If the creature has some sort of charge ability which allows them to close the gap in order to attack you in the same round, then they will do so (unless of course this involves running over the obvious pool of lava between you or whatever). Only works on creatures capable of experiencing emotion.

[logan9a]

Actually instead of "Only works on creatures capable of experiencing emotion." I want to have a list of creature examples that it doesn't affect (robots, constructs, etc). Reason: Do replicants experience emotion? That has been a multi season arc - yet they would be immune to this spell.

[PotatoJedi]

You would need to provide that list, then, as you have final say on what constitutes as "emotion".

[logan9a]

No constructs, robots, undead, elementals, etc.

[PotatoJedi]

Goad

Casting Time: Instant
Range: 20m
Duration: 1 Round
MP Cost: 4

As you bellow a mighty challenge, the 3 closest hostile creatures within range who can hear you must succeed on a WILL vs WILL roll or they must attack you this round. If the creature is incapable of attacking you in any way this round, they may ignore the effect of this spell. They may also ignore it if they are not in melee range and have no missile weapons in hand or other immediate means of attacking from range (such as magic). If the creature has some sort of charge ability which allows them to close the gap in order to attack you in the same round, then they will do so (unless of course this involves running over the obvious pool of lava between you or whatever). Only works on creatures capable of experiencing emotion (no constructs, robots, undead, elementals, etc).

[Scott]

Mar 9, 2020 14:43:57 GMT PotatoJedi said:

or they must attack you this round.

Wording it this way, technically the spell doesn't do anything if you go second in initiative.

They go first. You cast this spell. End of round. Spell expires. Next round, they are free to act as they want.

It is fixable though. You could word it "or they must attack you on their next turn" and change the duration to "until the targets finish their next turn (max 2 rounds)"

Goad

Casting Time: Instant
Range: 20m
Duration: until the targets finish their next turn (max 2 rounds)
MP Cost: 4

As you bellow a mighty challenge, the 3 closest hostile creatures within range who can hear you must succeed on a WILL vs WILL roll or they must attack you on their next turn. If the creature is incapable of attacking you in any way on their turn, they may ignore the effect of this spell. They may also ignore it if they are not in melee range and have no missile weapons in hand or other immediate means of attacking from range (such as magic). If the creature has some sort of charge ability which allows them to close the gap in order to attack you on its next turn, then they will do so (unless of course this involves running over the obvious pool of lava between you or whatever). Only works on creatures capable of experiencing emotion (no constructs, robots, undead, elementals, etc).

[PotatoJedi]

That's a good point actually. Nice catch.