A long long time ago in a Irc channel far far away,
polyveg asked for a Mage model, but "as usual" i forgot all about it. So
after some whining from polyveg i started to make one.
But there are a lot of different mages Thats why this poll.

What kind of mage should there be in daimonin?

Mages that can only wear robes:
So no heavy armor, no heavy weapons. only small weapons and staffs etc

Mages that CAN wear Heavy armor. and heavy weapons
but it would reduce the magic capability

No mages at all.
Just a male or female character that you can shape to your own
desire, so if you want a mage, you'll just lvl more with mage spells.
and if you want to be a fighter you'll only use melee weapons.


Anyways here is the model.

http://www.redace.nl/Daimonin/Gallery/Human/Mage_full2.avi
* Red robe, black clothes.
* braces

Hey red, again

Well, i am thinking that there are 2 main types of mages in this subject of armor: Battle Mages and normal Mages.

Battle Mages: They need to go into "battle" so, they can wear rather heavy armor. As with all mages, armor does have an effect on casting and regeneration, so they can't be in... say full platemail (helm, shield, armor, boots, gloves) but they could be in field plate. Generally, because they are in battle, they use offensive magic (fireball, lightning, frost--nothing really tricky, but just outright forceful).

Mages: These are the mages that i think of when you say mage or wizard; some sort of cloth hat (hood, wizard's hat), robe, and sandals or light boots, no gloves. Obviously they can cast more easily because they are not hampered by nearly any clothing, and they seem to be more agile than any human in full platemail. These mages can cast all magics that fall under their field. So, not only could they cast things as the battlemage does (but perhaps not as strong), but support and the more "tricky" magic (ie: poison, confuse, the status stuff).

This help? I am voting for mages CAN, because of the battlemage

Cheers,
Unislash

I think that mages should be able to wear armour, its not like they are allergic to it or something.

Now, there are several possible reasons to why heavy armour should reduce the spellcasting ability. Since we don't have any background info about the way magic works in the Daimonin universe, we can only guess for now:
- It makes it hard to do the necessary gestures
- it blocks the mana flow
- you get really warm from doing magic, so with heavy armour you overheat
- robes are just more comfortable and help concentration

One possibility is that some spell paths are more affected by armour than others, which would make Unislash's idea somewhat easier. I reckon most offensive spells are elemental spells, so lets say those aren't affected much by armour. The more subtle paths like abjuration, transformation etc can then require lighter armour.

In some games, mages aren't allowed to wear metal armor because the magic is said to work sort've like electricity or magnetism or whatnot, thus they would absorb much of the magic (or some crazy pseudo-science like that).

Some other games, they specifically do things like lower magic resistance (especially electricity), and make it difficult or impossible to cast electrical spells.

The nice thing though is that this is a new game and can (and to some extent, SHOULD) be different from others... I'm personally not interested in a clone of other games.

so the mage with armor posibility it is.
anyway, my hd has given up, and lost a couple of file including the textures of the mage model
so i remade them, somtimes it gets better if you redo something, and sometimes not.
i think its kinda stayed the same.

here is the model.
http://www.redace.nl/Daimonin/Gallery/Human/Mage_full3.avi


Greets red