Air Bubble: A basic warding air spell. Reduces incoming elemental spells such as, Arc Light and Vertigo. (Add a new cantrip for the water breathing effect.)

OR

Air Bubble: A basic debilitation spell. Depending on if the user casts the spell in a room with water, the spell envelopes those in the immediate area in a bubble of air (think Fortress of Ice here).

Spell contest: (Spell vs. Stamina)

While inside the bubble, opponents are trapped at melee range with the mage. Impedes all 'death from above' spells.

OR

Air Bubble: A basic augmentation spell. Allows the mage to breath underwater (mechanism effect) and provides the caster with a moderate stamina boost.


Which would be worse? To live as a monster or to die as a good man?

Another proposal for Air bubble - Drop it from our spellbooks entirely and let us never speak of it again.

We commands the elements, and we suck at learning swimming. As rangers and other survival primary guilds get bigger and bigger, the places where we need insane amounts of climbing and swimming are going to get more numerous. Surefoot (I hope still) covers climbing, and we neeed one for swimming.

Call it Channel water. Or Current. Let it only be self cast if need be, in water that calls for swimming skill. The warrior mage simply creates or shifts the currents around them, allowing them to move through them more easily, I don't want to breath underwater for extended times, I want to get where I'm going with the air in my lungs lasting me until I do.

New summoning: Moses.

From the tenative 3.0 spell list:

>Sure Footing:
>An advanced Earth Augmentation spell. Pulsing balance improvement and parry buff.

Doesn't look likely we'll get an Athletics buff, and even if we did, it's not going to be a very strong one.

If combat penalties in water are going to remain, though, a minor spell to negate those would be nice.

There once was a spell on the planned spell list to change the current in a room/direction. But it'd be clunky and who would use that? I would, but I like clunky tools.

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>>If combat penalties in water are going to remain, though, a minor spell to negate those would be nice.

I could totally see a theoretical Water elemental transformation that ended up being Air Bubble+++.

The problem is a more setting based one. Why bother? Underwater areas are so rare as to be nearly pointless and I doubt they're going to become more prolific.

-Armifer
"In our days truth is taken to result from the effacing of the living man behind the mathematical structures that think themselves out in him, rather than he be thinking them." - Emmanuel Levinas

Underwater areas are rare, but areas with water in them still cause combat problems.

I ... think?

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>>I read this and my mind screamed that we need a spell that floods the room...

I support being able to raise the water level in rooms.

Lowering them, on the other hand, is just silly.

>>It certainly seems like there's some issues with watery areas, like the canals with bloodfish.

I haven't ever set out to specifically test it, but I don't think watery hunting areas share any particularly standardized mechanics.

For instance the canals on Mer'kresh impose large RT penalties for all melee attacks, while hunting sharks in the ocean off the coast of Surlaenis doesn't.

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Ogdaro
"Take chances and see what you can get away with, it only costs you a favor or two if you mess up." -Issus

>>I haven't ever set out to specifically test it, but I don't think watery hunting areas share any particularly standardized mechanics.

I think Team Survival tried to tackle it a while back, but they got as far as doing Climbing changes and making the Segoltha swimmable and ran out of time.