Dominate Person

Post by **Rary** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:44 am

Lovely spell, isn't it?

Well I'm testing a new script for it as we speak, need to test it on someone. What happens is, if a player fails the save, they get dominated, become the masters henchmen and the master can have the dominated player protect them, killing his own teammates.

Xianio · Post by **Xianio** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:27 am

Won't that cause problems with cowing and couldn't mouse clicking from the person dominated cause problems?

Post by **Rary** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:55 am

They would cow, yes. That can be changed if needed.
Also, when dominated, the player can't do anything. All they can do it sit and watch themself under control.

Casas · Post by **Casas** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:41 pm

Turning them over to the NPC controller as an extension of the opposite team?

Yea removing the cow isn't hard, just have a check, if dominated, NO COWZ.

Post by **Rary** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:53 pm

Casas wrote:Turning them over to the NPC controller as an extension of the opposite team?

Yes.

If you understand scripting or whatnot, basically I'll have the real PC in cutscrene mode. I DM invis real PC. I make a copy of their character, (basically is now an NPC). The PC copy will become casters henchmen.

When duration is done. Copy PC gets destroyed. Real PC gets what HP's left the copy has. Then real PC gets uninvis'd and cutscrene gets removed.

When players are in cutscrene they can't control the game basically.

Protoss119 · Post by **Protoss119** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:16 pm

The master has limited to no control over the dominated guy, though. Dominated could attack imps, effies, whoever the A.I. wants to attack. Plus, isn't confusion devilish enough?

Post by **Rary** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:43 pm

Dominate person is a higher level spell. Confusion attacks whoever is near and sometime just doesn't attack.

A95 · Post by **A95** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:45 pm

Dominate person is a L9 spell and one of the few that are good.

AntiChristMofo · Post by **AntiChristMofo** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:08 pm

ok so if the caster vtake sontrol of someone all the opposite side have to do is kill the caster........

and would it be considered that if an imp casts dominate person on an effy an attack?

Protoss119 · Post by **Protoss119** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:02 pm

No, Dominate PERSON is a L5 spell. Dominate MONSTER is a L9 spell.

Casas · Post by **Casas** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:59 pm

Yes, but both will work. One just has a higher DC. Their durations, well all durations of ANY coup de grace, as I always preach, should be no longer than 1 turn.

However, since this one has a different application. Shall we assume that as the d-PC scores kills, he can obtain XP for the points he gets for the other team? If that's the case, then.. hell, keep it's duration.

Terpeh · Post by **Terpeh** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:25 am

Ooooo very nice idea

Post by **Rary** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:40 am

The caster gets a copy of the dominated PC. This copy acts as though its an NPC henchman. Just that, he will be treated as a henchman, similar to companions on there. If you kill the henchman, you get no xp/gold. If you kill the caster, he gets destroyed and real PC gets restored back to normal. If the henchman kills you, caster gets credit.

Real PC does not get credit and that is due because the copy and real PC aren't tied to each other anymore, makes the script much harder to make that possible.

As always the copy PC (henchman) in this case is very stupid compared to players, well some players

. The caster can't make it fight any smarter.

As always, I'm testing the spell, if it doesn't work, then I'm scraping it.

Terpeh · Post by **Terpeh** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:55 am

Hope it works

Protoss119 · Post by **Protoss119** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:10 pm

Well, the copy and the real PC are two separate individuals. What are you going to do with the real PC? Stick 'im in some void area (akin to jail)? I'd be pretty phr33ked if I saw another Dredoc...