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Game Magic
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Game Magic

by Jeff Howard
April 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
376 pages
10h 41m
English
A K Peters/CRC Press
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together, while others (such as Venus, the goddess of love) help to ease the
combination of otherwise opposed gods.
3.8 THE INCANTATIONS OF WIZARDRY
Early CRPGs tended to have in common with the Enchanter trilogy the
use of text parsers, with an accompanying incantatory method of spell-
casting. e Wizardry series featured its own invented language of spells,
with its own etymology involving root words and prexes. Certain root
words signied common spell eects, like “halito” for re and “dios” for
heal. Other prexes indicated the target or intensity of the spell, such as
“ma” for “big” or “ba” for negation. us, the “
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ISBN: 9781466567870