Folks,

I've been sitting on doing any mods waiting for SD to stabilize the game and possibly up the mod support, but I have some questions about how/if to do a few things. I'll say from the start I'm not a big fan of the spell nerfing on costs and I'd really like to see the game have dozens if not a few hundred cool and varied spells to use. It is a War of Magic or so the title goes. Right now being a caster has the following problems:

1. A slow rate of growth on the global mana pool. Basically taking "years" of game time to get some points.
   1. Hence a teleport at 40 points is about a once every ten years kind of thing. Not feeling overly awesome as a mage with that.
2. I can only cast one spell per combat turn.
   1. But yet I can swing my warspear 4 time for 4 times the damage of a costly fireball. Again not feeling too Merlin like.
3. Very limited number of spells and levels.
4. Spells all appear to be hitting for full value again. What happened to random value and defendable damage?
5. Why do all spells auto hit? I would think directed attack spells should have accuracies based on the intelligence of the caster.

Things I need help figuring out to make things better.

1. Is there a way to set a useful casting time? I want to be able to cast more then one spell in a combat turn.
2. Is there a way to get the random damage back? Do we need SD to fix this again?
3. Is there a way to make certain spells "roll" to hit like weapons?
4. Is there a way to make items (armour, weapons, mounts) granted via spell, have a cost per turn and then dispell when the enchantment is canceled? I have a spell now that grants an item, costs initial mana, has a cost per turn, but does not remove the item once the spell is terminated. I have also tried duration to no avail as well. This is close to a summon, but the object can be equipped by a Sov or NPC.

Things I can do.

1. I can recost spells and up the mana generation rate to support more casting.
2. I can comb the listing of close to 1000 spells from an RPG I was part of designing for useable material.
3. I can wait for SD to make adjustment to the code to allow for better effects and range of spells.
   1. Like being able to target squares in Tac combat (1 to x number for effect).
   2. Target more then one individual in the strat map.
   3. Create a separate pool of hit points for a target to act as a sheild.
   4. Have effects that are persistant and move with a target if tagged (like a shield effect on a caster).

I'm sure there are other things as well that will come to mind. This game has so much potential to really be a fun and replayable. The mods already done by folks here really shows how far the engine can be pushed. I just hope we get some more support from the Devs in the near future to really open this thing up.

Thanks.