Revisiting Runes

[jdoleary]

• Runes should be reversible (maybe you can buy and sell them)

Runes can be simple:

• All summoned units deteriorate after 3 turns
• Every dead unit drops a stamina potion
• Movement spells are 2x cheaper to cast
• Curses are 2x more likely to appear
• SneakyMinion — a rune could make all spells cost half as much but doubles the cost-ramping. Ideas from Vinnick: Faustian Pact: gain 2 mana every level, +1 to casting range, -1 to health and stamina. You have sacrificed your wellbeing for power. Was it worth it? Divine Guardian: Every round you start with an ally clone. Carrion Mage: For every curse and stack thereof that you are afflicted by, (poison 2 plus debilitate 1 would count as 3) you recieve an additional 10% mana at the start of your turn. Blood Mage: whenever you cast a spell that costs health, you spawn a blood golem (mobile decoy with bloat 1) Lich: you gain a phylactery, an item that will spawn randomly on every map. When you die, you respawn at your phylatery after three turns. The phylactery has half your health, and can only be targeted while you are dead. Thorns: When you are attacked, you retaliate with damage equal to half the level (rounded up) times the number of blessings and stacks thereof you are effected by.

Rune Types / Implementation Group

• effectFn on event such as endTurn or onDeath (global or unique to players)
• effectFn one time impact such as changing unit or monster stats
• spell mana impact
• spell chance to appear impact

[jdoleary]

All upgrades (stats, classes) are available at all tiems in a tab of the spellbook for purchase with a new currency. Like AutoChess some will randomly be on "Discount" to encourage variety of player but all are always available. This can also make it so you can choose to forgo a "class" upgrade (more expensive) for the sake of more runes or more stats.

Also all pickups should be allowed to be capture soul'd Any time a player character's unit is destroyed (merge, polymorph) it should allow them to respawn. Then we don't have to handle each time specially.

[jdoleary]

Spells could have types that transcend categories and then types could be impacted by runes: https://discord.com/channels/1032294536640200766/1032294537235812404/1245492301854150738 Credit to Recoalescence

[jdoleary]

Runes can apply to a player object or the underworld. They should just be something anywhere in the game code can query to execute special logic

[jdoleary]

Take inspiration from Slay the Spire's Relics: https://slay-the-spire.fandom.com/wiki/Relics#Uncommon_Relics

Research: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WrOYUulT5AWF-fniyNFF1OcMwIpFayQeDJTm8u2YlTA/edit?gid=1371933487#gid=1371933487

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Ideas: Game_Ideas-from-Arivia.txt

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More relic ideas: arivia-relic-ideas.txt

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arivia-relics-3.txt