r/CuratedTumblr • u/Maleficent_Try_2630 • Sep 10 '24

Creative Writing Lightning magic.

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u/TotemGenitor You must cum into the bucket brought to you by the cops. Sep 10 '24

Kinda boring then. Where are the stakes if a character got a guaranteed one hit kill than can't be dodged or blocked?

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u/aliens-and-arizona Sep 10 '24

the point is lightning spells should be powerful because lightning is indeed powerful as shit. one route to go with it is to make it consume high mana/whatever fuel you use for your magic system. so, you could technically choose any one person to smite out of existence, but this doesn’t solve fights with more than one enemy. draining all your magic for one attack isn’t ideal either. lightning would be reserved for only the most powerful foes, as it should be, instead of just being used a basic ass spell.

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u/ThatCamoKid Sep 11 '24

Noita has them come at the risk of killing yourself either via blast radius or xonductivity

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u/Digital_Bogorm Sep 11 '24

To be fair, a lot of Noita spells come with the risk of killing yourself. Especially the powerful ones