ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Hi all, I've been toying around with the idea of programming an addon for ToME. I'd really appreciate your feedback and ideas on what I have in mind right now:

The Raccoonian race
Raccoonians are timid creatures with keen senses and agile bodies. They also have no talent for magic whatsoever.

Life per level: 10
Dex: +2
Mag: -4
Cun: +5
PX penalty: +15%

Talents
Raccoonian senses: Sustained. Focus on the smells and noises of your surroundings, granting vision in a radius of X but slightly slowing you while active (resourceless track with a small twist).
Raccoonian rage: Passively grant attack/mind speed scaling with your % of life lost.
Raccoonian musk: Mark an 3 radius area with your musk glands for X turns, granting you large bonus to mental, physical and magic resist while in it.
Raccoonian instincts: Whenever you are hit for X% of your total life you have a Y% chance of gaining ~500% move speed for a turn.

So these are my first ideas, all of them are drafts (I basically copied the code from Track ) and I am sure they will change in the future.
I'd really appreciate your feedback Thanks in advance!

hmm

some suggestions

stats
if they are mad with magic, shouldn't they be bad with mind as well?
also, from the sound of they name i think it would be appropriate to give them +2 or +3 to con

-Racconian senses
should be a sustain.
also, over time it apply a stacking debuff lowering your defences, and increasing damage from recieved crits.
debuff should go away as soon as you turn off the sustain.

-Racconian rage
is deffinitely something i would expect.
if they are c**p with magic, why do they have increased casting speed? not to mention rage would make it even more difficult to focus on casting a spell.

-Racconian musk
... no.

-Racconian instincts
... or maybe defence instead of speed?


but thats just my opinion.

Hey, thanks for your post, really appreciate it

Radon26 wrote:hmm
stats
if they are mad with magic, shouldn't they be bad with mind as well?
also, from the sound of they name i think it would be appropriate to give them +2 or +3 to con

What I wanted to say it's that, as creatures with strong bonds with nature, they suck at arcane magic. I feel they should be allowed to be decent wilders, e.g. summonners. I will change the text.

Radon26 wrote: -Racconian senses
should be a sustain.
also, over time it apply a stacking debuff lowering your defences, and increasing damage from recieved crits.
debuff should go away as soon as you turn off the sustain.

I agree on the sustain thing, I think it's a good idea. I will stick to slow effect for the debuff for the moment 'cause I like the fluff and it's easier to implement.

Radon26 wrote: -Racconian rage
is deffinitely something i would expect.
if they are c**p with magic, why do they have increased casting speed? not to mention rage would make it even more difficult to focus on casting a spell.

You are right, but again I want them to be capable of both physical and mind actions. Will be rephrased to "attack/mental speed".

Radon26 wrote: -Racconian musk
... no.

Constructive feedback is welcome

Radon26 wrote: -Racconian instincts
... or maybe defence instead of speed?

I feel the move speed gives a lot of utility to the little Raccoonian (gap closer, escaping) but raising defense makes sense too. I will consider that as an option.

Radon26 wrote:but thats just my opinion.

Much appreciated