Lukos Software

Najor, I sure hope that the new black magic spell is a corpse explosion spell that lets you target a corpse for explosion. I've been wanting one of those for a long time now.

Think about it:
Body bits are a very important commodity in this game. They can be raised as allies and they are very important for item creation. I think being able to trade an item for a moderately low mp cost and a 5x5 AOE, maybe for acid damage, would let the player make some thoughtful resource trade choices.

I would reccomend using a tile selection targeting mechanic where you dont have to have line of effect. You should get some indirect targeting benefit for wasting an item and it would help differentiate it from the million and a half ways the game already has to bolt or line down enemies.

Plus I love the idea of death feeding off of death and I think this would certainly strengthen that theme.

I think the life draining spell should do extra damage on-kill to tie it in with that sort of theme as well. Right now its not terribly useful and giving it that sort of bonus would certainly make it seem more like an evil spell instead of just a way to build a tank character possibly in conjunction with the armor spell. Possibly make the healing bonus much more significant and consume any corpse.