A thousand years ago, The dark Lord ruled supreme. His shadow covered the lands, and in the endless foul mists his creatures lurked. The Good nations of the Earth tried to resist, but they were defeated. The Dwarves, chosing death before defeat, collapsed their mountain Halls onto themselves. The elves, seeking recluse in their endless woods burned with their forests. The humans managed to unite themselves and raised the largest army ever seen. However, steel was not the only weapon in the Dark Lord's armory. What brute force could not accomplish, deceit and treason did. In the end, when all hope seemed lost Seven valiant knights rode forth and managed to defeat the Dark Lord by sheer cunning and loads upon loads of luck.
At least, that's the story you all heard. While some of you might not have not believed it, you do now. In some way or another you managed to procure a dark artefact. A completely black gem, not unlike the crystal used to magical power. These crystals whisper to you, and have revealed to you the secrets of magic. However, you are not alone, you have sensed the presence of others, at least five of them. With great concentration, you can speak to them, but not for long. Nevertheless, you are certain these crystals will be the key to deciphering the secrets of magic, and to accomplish your goals.
Name:
Archetype:
Race: (Note: in the beginning, all minions will be of your race. I had a list of races written up, but the forum ate them, so just suggest some.)
Infamy:
Money: 5000
Resources: 100
Minions: (0/5)
Base:
Description: (Base shape, and it's location, both are important.)
Traits: (Based on money invested. Either 0,1000, 2000 or 3000)
Wizard
Starts with 2 regular minions and 1 apprentice
Can research on your own
Overlord
Can go over the max minion limit, but at the risk of desertion. (Desertion risk increases with every minion over the limit.)
Starts with 5 regular minions
Criminal leader
Can gain basic information about the forces of good, but also other players, bonus to spying.
Starts with a bandit minion and 2 regulars
Hero
Decreases the chances of being attacked by the forces of good.
Starts with a bard and 2 regulars
Werecreature
Gives a rather large bonus to all personal actions every 4 weeks (Starting at week 4, then 8, ...)
Starts with 4 regulars
Merchant
Starts with double money, and gets a bonus to setting up illegal businesses
Start with 2 regulars and 1 trader
Feel free to suggest your own
Money is required to buy things, and hire minions.
Resources are used in construction. Standard price for resources is 50 for one unit, and they can be sold back for 40.
Infamy:
Infamy increases your minion cap and the chances of being attacked by the forces of good.
Regular (Can procure funds and resources and cause random destruction as well as gathering information). Recruitment cost: 500
Apprentice (Can do research and cast spells)
Brigand (Can procure funds, resources, pillage things and cause random as well as targetted(sabotage) destruction)
Bard (Can gather information, and spread tales(Increasing or decreasing infamy)as well as spying)
Trader (Can gather information, bribe targets, and try to start slightly illegal but profitable businesses.)
Estimated recruitment cost: 800-1000 depending your luck
Tier 2 minions (Recruitment cost:2000(seriously reduced chance), can be kidnapped and forced to teach their secrets)
Junior wizard
Bandit
Spy
Merchant
...
Constructing things requires time (mesured in minions*weeks(Ie, a thing can require one minion for 4 weeks, or 2 minions for two)) and resources.
-Scriptorium+ library: Where else do you plan on keeping those magical spells? (Ie, needed for learning things about magic) (Cost: 100 resources, 1 minion.week)
-Training room (2 weeks, 50 resources. Allows you to train regulars to Tier 1 minions)
-Cell. An excellent spot to hold captives. (Cost: 25 resources, 1 minion/week )
-Tower cell. Gives a defensive bonus and a bonus against spying (Cost: 25 resources, 1 minion/week) Note(this is a sidegrade with the Underground cell)
-Underground cell. Decreases escape chances. (Cost 10 resources. 4 minions/ week)
-Treasury (A great place to hide money) (Cost 30 resouces, 2 minions/week)
-Dungeon (A great place to lock up a variety of deadly animals) (Cost 30 resources, 2 minions/week)
-Stone Walls (20 resources, 2 weeks.minion. Gives a minor(+2) bonus to defence. Wall is a priority target for all non magical/ranged troops)
-Watchtowers (25 resources) 2 weeks. Gives a larger(+4) bonus to defence and a small(+1) bonus against spies.
Traps
-Magma trap (20 resources, 2 minion.weeks to build. Slow, but a certain kill(Ie, dead or escaped, no wounded)) (Requires research)
-Pitfall trap (15 resources, 2 minion. week to build) Captures the unlucky victims.
Magic consists of the manipulation of our world through the use of the mind. The power for these actions is derived from ambient magical fields in the ground or from crystalized deposits, or from an internal reserve. These magical fields are abudant, though sustained useage can deplete them. The power in the ground is refilled through a series of different sources from deep in the ground. Magical fields will automatically try to equalize themselves over time. When an exceptionally powerfull spell is cast, the very nature of the field can change.
Every magical spell creates a sort of different, activated magical energy. Almost always in very small amounts. When a spell fails, the amount of random background magic can quickly change. Background magic should be rapidly contained and properly deposited of, for in large amounts it will result in random magical effects happening.
-The shools of life and death
-Life (Healing, but also things like mindcontrol)
-Death(Post mortem communications)
-Animation
-The manipulation of space
-Moving of objects (Teleportation, magical gates, ...)
-Summoning
-Conjuring
- The manipulation of the elements
-Weather manipulation
-Manipulation of the four elements
-Manipulation of forces
-Engineering
- Mundane engineering (walls,towers...)
- Magical engineering (Interesting stuff here)
- Warfare engineering
Might look similiar to Evil Genius, but that was unintentional. The games mechanics are actually based on The Space Race.
Also, the forum ate my post, this is simply the short version
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