I hate self targeting!

[Gwai]

A typo when I am tired and I lost my best character (so close to having completed the starting quest!)

Is there any reason that offensive abilities can target oneself? I doubt it's even possible to shoot a steady shot at oneself and it is a really frustrating way to die. I don't do tricks to cheat death, but man if I had known that was coming, I wouldn't have felt bad cheating to avoid that one!

[Gwai]

Oh yes, that's the character that had finally almost finished the apprentice mage's quest too.

[Shoob]

It would be difficult to shoot yourself with full force with a bow and arrow yes, but is still is possible to shoot yourself yes

that said, not sure why dg has it in like this

[Gwai]

If self targeting effectively shot yourself in the foot -- painful but not 100 damage -- it wouldn't be quite such a slap in the face.

Also, I really doubt that someone with the equivalent of almost 30 dex would shoot themselves by accident with a bow!

[Jaorin]

I lost a very promising mage in the sandworm lair to a self-manathrust.

[darkgod]

Eww :<

I'll add a prompt I think, because sometimes you do want to target yourself.

[Shoob]

maybe add a field/tag to each spell listing it as Offensive/neutral/defensive, and only have neutral spells with a prompt.

the only really neutral spell I can think of is dispel magic atm though.

ball spells could have a prompt though too, hmmm.

[Gwai]

Thanks DG! Just in case it isn't clear, I really appreciate that you do listen to feedback.

[Jaorin]

I hope the prompt isn't for every spell cast. That could get really tedious. I do like the idea of different types of spells having different lists of possible targets. You would never want to cast a single target damage spell on yourself.

[Gwai]

I think the prompt would only be when you target yourself.

[bio_hazard]

This shoud include being in the radius of an area of effect spell as well.

[darkgod]

Hum no you are supposed to be careful with area spells, but yes single target spells will prompt you if you self target

[bio_hazard]

Just had an amusing self-targeting mishap (not fatal, luckily). I finally finished the mage quest with my fighter, and took a detour to try out the mage. Died with the first mage, so went back to the fighter who was on L1 of the Maze. I resized the window to make it bigger, and noticed my @ was surrounded by thieves (blue p). I shield-bashed, and got the message that I was stunned. Turns out the p's were an graphical artifact of screen resizing and not actual monsters- there were p's everywhere there was supposed to be visible floor. The only thing I had to bash was myself! Save &exit and reloading the game removed all the p's...

[Shoob]

facepalm with shield in hand

[darkgod]

Lol !