Stat Sheet - Chapter 49
Added 2024-10-15 00:00:08 +0000 UTCValues should now be fixed
Some values may be slightly off. I'll go through and verify them all in a few hours
Comments
Well as for combining or upgrading or evolving skills. "Vicious Bloom" combined with "Ensnaring Roots" would make a great skill combination. ;-) Anyway I suggested Elise evolution's for skill clean up as that would be the easiest solution. Leap is currently a dead skill, because of flight. But since you work with skill levels, having a skill reach level 100 could also be an option to give Elise a choice. For example if Arcane Missile reaches level 100 Elise could have the choice to upgrade the skill into Arcane Blade (the skill that Emilia used) or chose to combine the skill with another skill and have it become an "evolved" skill. As an example "Arcane Missile" could be combined with "Ensnaring Roots" and become the evolved skill: "Nature Missile" which is a projectile spell that does damage and have roots sprouting from the place of impact that try to ensnare the target. Anyway I m just spouting some ideas here, it's not like you have to follow any of them, but just to remind you that nothing is solid until you've actually wrote it into the story. (And even then things can be changed as you've done so)
Peter Adams
2024-10-17 23:29:26 +0000 UTCI think that the way I've set up the underlying magic system doesn't lend itself well to skill combinations. That's not to say I won't do them, but I'm planning a bit of a deeper dive into the system in the future, and I'd have to seriously consider how combinations would work before committing to anything. However, I think I will remove the skill descriptions from these screenshots going forward, as it is getting cluttered. I may also move the skills to their own sheet entirely. It is definitely getting to be a lot, but there is a hard cap on how many skill she can get every tier, so hopefully it won't get too out of hand? I'll have to mentally revisit this later. By the way, I updated the stat sheet. It should be correct now
Bedivere the Mad
2024-10-17 21:39:29 +0000 UTCSome combining would be good
Sardionysius
2024-10-17 18:54:17 +0000 UTCI dunno about that, it also means that should she meet some obscure race like let's say the undeath, she can instantly have a nice conversation with them, even though everyone else in her party only hear the rattling of bones... On a side note should "Fey Bargaining" not be higher than 1? On another note, the list of skills is getting long, while at the same time some are very similar. Like: "Ensnaring Roots" & "Prehensile Vines", this could be compressed into a single "stronger" skill I would say. Same goes with: "Dart" & "leap" booth involve movement, and leap has become kind of useless ever since she got the ability to fly. Or "Nature Magic Affinity" & "Sudden Growth", I mean Sudden Growth could just be part of Nature Magic. And you've added "Mimic" but why not make it part of the "Lesser Transformation"? You've already stated that transforming in her previous evolution's doesn't involve the cooldown, so the same could go for "voice mimicking". (Also the first time I read: "mimic" I thought she could transform into objects, like those mimic chests with teeth...) Anyway it doesn't need to be fixed now, but next evolution this list is only going to grow bigger, so that might be a good moment to just compress a bunch of these skills as "part of the evolution", this way everything on it stays relevant and interesting. "Skill eater web novels" kind of suffer for ending up with huge skill lists, and Elise only has gone through 3 evolution's so far, and this list is already quite big for just 3 evolution's. Edit: Something that's often done to avoid this problem is to have skills evolve and take in 2 or more previous existing skills. "Leap" & "Dart" would for example become "accelerated movement". Or "Suggest" & "Charm" would evolve into: "mind manipulation".
Peter Adams
2024-10-17 18:35:23 +0000 UTCHaving learnt two languages now, I think it is good (for you) that you don’t have to do anymore language learning arcs
Sardionysius
2024-10-15 16:03:32 +0000 UTCOh shoot. I just noticed I released the wrong version of chapter 48. The {Sense Emotions} skill got changed to {Tongues} after I scheduled the post
Bedivere the Mad
2024-10-15 15:47:27 +0000 UTCIs tongues something new? She won’t have to learn another language
Sardionysius
2024-10-15 09:23:42 +0000 UTC
