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+~~~~~03|Magic
+#####R === ToME Magic system ===
+
+*****magic.txt*02[Wands and Staves]
+
+For the basics of how to use skills, please see *****skills.txt*0[Using Skills].
+
+In ToME you have a basic *****skills.txt*21[Magic] skill. This skill is one of the most
+important ones for a spellcaster, since it is responsible for how much mana you
+have. You can never have too much of it. If you like magical devices, the
+Magical Device skill is also important, since it controls the Magical
+Device ability of your character. This ability again dictates the fail rates
+of use of wands/rods/staffs and activation of random-artifacts/artifacts, and
+it will also increase the power of these items.
+~~~~~01|Magic|Schools
+ToME uses skills to define the various schools of magic. There are 11 primary
+schools:
+     *****m_mana.txt*0[Mana]           *****m_fire.txt*0[Fire]            *****m_water.txt*0[Water]
+     *****m_air.txt*0[Air]            *****m_earth.txt*0[Earth]           *****m_meta.txt*0[Meta]
+     *****m_convey.txt*0[Conveyance]     *****m_divin.txt*0[Divination]      *****m_tempo.txt*0[Temporal]
+     *****m_mind.txt*0[Mind]           *****m_nature.txt*0[Nature]
+
+Other magical skills, generally being used primarily by characters of a
+specific class, are:
+     *****m_demono.txt*0[Demonology]     *****m_necrom.txt*0[Necromancy]      *****skills.txt*36[Runecraft]
+     *****m_thaum.txt*0[Thaumaturgy]    *****skills.txt*49[Alchemy]         *****m_geoman.txt*0[Geomancy]
+
+The *****m_demono.txt*0[Demonology] skill is primarily used by *****c_demono.txt*0[Demonologists] for their special
+spells, whereas the *****m_necrom.txt*0[Necromancy] skill is used by *****c_necro.txt*0[Necromancers] for their own set
+of special spells.
+The same goes for *****skills.txt*36[Runecraft], which is used by *****c_runecr.txt*0[Runecrafters] to allow use of more
+difficult runes or rune-combinations. *****m_thaum.txt*0[Thaumaturgy] gives you randomly chosen
+attack spells, and as such each game with it will be different. *****c_geoman.txt*0[Geomancers]
+harness the powers of the elements using *****m_geoman.txt*0[Geomancy]. Lastly we have
+*****skills.txt*49[Alchemy], which is used by *****c_alchem.txt*0[Alchemists].
+
+In addition to the schools of magic, you can get access to special sets of
+spells if you worship a God. There are currently four good Gods,
+*****g_eru.txt*0[Eru Iluvatar], *****g_manwe.txt*0[Manwe Sulimo], *****g_yavann.txt*0[Yavanna Kementari] and *****g_tulkas.txt*0[Tulkas]. There is also an evil
+god, *****g_melkor.txt*0[Melkor]. Each of them gives you access to different types of spells.
+
+*****c_pr_drk.txt*0[Worshippers of Melkor] also have access to the special *****m_udun.txt*0[Udun] school of magic,
+whereas other *****c_priest.txt*0[Priests] and *****c_mindcr.txt*0[Mindcrafters] can use *****m_mindcr.txt*0[Mindcrafting Powers].
+
+*****c_symbia.txt*0[Symbiants] have access to their own special brand of *****m_symbio.txt*0[magic powers], and *****c_bard.txt*0[Bards] have
+access to *****m_music.txt*0[Songs], which affect creatures in ways that can appear to be magical.
+
+The 11 different primary schools give you access to different spells of
+variable usefulness. The way they work is that adding skill points to a
+specific school will enable you to get higher level spells for that specific
+school. By level requirements for a specific spell you could actually say skill
+requirement, since they correlate exactly. Let's take a simple example:
+If you have the *****m_mana.txt*0[Mana] school skill at level 24.000, it means you can use any
+spell in the mana school up to and including those requiring level 24. [[[[[BThere are]
+[[[[[Balso some spells requiring a certain skill level in two schools, and there is a]
+[[[[[Bpossibility of spells requiring three or more. For this kind of spells the ]
+[[[[[Bspell level is determined by taking an average of the necessary skills. ]
+When calculating spell level for spells which require more than one school, 
+sorcery (or god-granted access) can be used in place of the primary schools in 
+the normal way. Once the average has been calculated, any bonus from the 
+spell-power skill can also be applied as normal. If one of the schools required 
+is the Udun school, then the appropriate bonus from character level will be 
+applied. Lastly, if you look at a spell, and the spell level reads -2 or some 
+other negative value while it's also grayed out, that means you need to 
+increase the corresponding school's skill level by 3, since only 2 will have 
+it end up on spell level 0, where it still is unusable. If it reads n/a, you 
+currently have no skill points in that school.
+
+Another thing that should be explained about the skills and schools of magic
+right now, is that the skill doesn't stop being useful only for gaining spells.
+The higher the skill level, the higher the spell level will be, and the more
+powerful your spells will be. For instance, say you have the *****m_mana.txt*0[Mana] skill at
+level 24. Now, the Manathrust spell is one of the spells for that school
+that only requires skill level 1, but since you've got skill at level 24, the
+power of the spell is increased as well. For comparison, a level 1
+Manathrust costs 1 mana and does 4d2 damage, while at level 24 it costs 12
+mana and does a whopping 27d10 damage.
+
+The *****skills.txt*23[Sorcery] skill is a nice skill, since it gives you
+access to all the 11 primary schools of magic, just as if you'd spent an equal
+amount of skill points in all the skills. It's available to any mage character,
+but only a *****c_sorcer.txt*0[Sorceror] will be able to be proficient in it. Also, having this
+skill at level 1 will give you a hitpoint-penalty of 1%, all the way up to
+skill level 50, with a hitpoint-penalty of 50%. There are also ToHit and ToDam
+penalties for sorcery, so don't choose sorcery if you plan to do much fighting.
+
+There is also the *****skills.txt*22[Spell Power] skill. This skill is rather nice, since it
+will augment the power of spells you already know. The distinction between this
+and the others, is that it will not grant you new spells, but instead increases
+the levels of spells. At level 50 it grants 20 extra spell levels. [[[[[BThis skill ]
+[[[[[Bonly affects the 11 primary schools] (Mana, Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Meta, 
+Mind, Temporal, Conveyance, Divination and Nature) as well as Geomancy and the
+spells granted by the Gods.
+
+There is also the Magic-Device skill which affects your ability to use wands,
+staves, rods and to activate special objects. It also affects the spell-levels
+of the staff and wand spells, as explained below.
+~~~~~02|Wands
+~~~~~04|Magic|Wands and Staves
+~~~~~05|Staves
+#####GWands and Staves
+
+Wands and staves (sticks) operate in a similar fashion, and in fact most of
+them use the same spells with the same effects. When you pick up a stick, you'll
+see it has two numbers in the format [x|y] in addition to the number of charges
+it holds. By increasing your magic-device skill you can increase the level (and
+hence the power) of the spell in that stick. The x value are skill level
+bonuses which the staff itself holds, and these are added onto your existing
+magic-device skill for the purpose of using the staff. The y value is the
+maximum possible skill level for that stick. Things are balanced by the use of a
+"minimum magic-device skill level required to raise spell level". Here's an
+example:
+A Staff of Sense Hidden [1|10]. Your magic device skill is at 6. If you were to
+identify the staff and then 'I'nspect it, you would see the following
+information:
+
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+
+The Spell level is the level at which the spell will actually be cast.
+Spell fail is the spell fail percentage. The spell info may contain the radius
+of effect, amount of damage, or duration the spell might last.
+The Minimum Magic Device level to increase your spell level is just that. If
+your magic device skill was less than this level, then the staff would be
+casting the spell at level one. Our magic device skill is 6. Therefore we are
+casting at level 2 (at skill level 5, we should be casting the spell at level 
+1). Then we add the bonus from the staff of 1, which gives us our spell level 
+of 3. If our magic device in this example had been 14, this would have given us 
+a spell level of 1 + (14 - 5 + 1) = 11. This is calculated from the formula:
+spell level = staff bonus + (magic device - minimum magic device + 1)).
+However given that the maximum spell level with this staff is 10, you'll be
+casting with a spell level of 10.
+As you get deeper into the dungeons, you will find sticks with higher bonuses
+and maximum spell levels.
+
+                                     Written by: vrak AKA Per-Arne Holtmon Akoe
+                                  Wands and Staves section added by fearoffours