For the sake of tradition, and ease of implementation, I've decided to forsake originality and go for the spell book approach found in many other roguelikes. There are fifteen possible schools of magic, grouped thematically, with eight spells in each. I'm also implementing basic metamagic feats, to allow a bit more flexibility with spellcasting.
In the above screenshot, our '@' has access to five schools of magic, and in the she can cast four spells from the Tome of Aether (air/wind flavoured spells) with varying degrees of probability of success and mana cost (which in turn are calculated from various stats and skills). Eventually, I hope to add some sort of miscast/mutation mechanism.
Current plans are to finish implementing at least the basic schools of magic, then start work on the monsters and serialisation. Then Kharne should see an official (v0.1) release.
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