i think the concept will work, but the way you i,plemeneted it will need to be tweaked. I'm just thinking this through without looking at the code atm, but the code for the potions seem more in line with what you want.

Take the fire blast potion for example, just add in some cooldown option so the affected unit can "breath fire" several times during the battle.

I'm currently pulling the code apart so i can pull together effects like this in order to make new things.

I got the effect to work. Turns out I just needed to set the autounlock flag in the spell I wanted to unlock during combat.

Another question:

Has anyone tried to change things in elementaldefs.xml with <gamemodifier>? I tried a few different things for <modtype>, <attribute> and <value> but nothing seemed to do anything.

I think I remember Frogboy posting about that. . . I wonder if they ever plugged it in.

Time to mess around with it. I'll post something here if I get anything to work. Thanks for the idea Heavenfall!

I attempted to pull the Gold amount from our nice little accountant, and failed. I believe that only mana can be pulled in such a fashion, at this time.

I think you can make a work around, though. Creating a hidden value, whos amount is based on the amount of gilder, and taking it.

Heavenfall is way more proficient than I am at this, though, so him confirming it will be good.