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Thanks for testing that G!

Re: Idea thread: special provinces, unique defende
 

These have been done. I'll release them later today with whatever else I manage to do.

The Camelot is pretty good, but still lacking the castle. Unless something goes wrong, I should have it done today.

These three I will do. They'll all add a little something into an existing province.
* site:Forest of Truffles, (1) Great Boar of Carnutes, (15) Great Boars/ (15)Iron Boars (sacred versions), (1) Fay Boar, 3 Druids, 1 Druid with N2, H3, Moonvine Bracelet, Treelord's Staff
* site:Mammoth Forest, and a Mammoth commander with a Horn of Valor leading 4 Mammoths set as bodyguards.
* site:Forest of Delights, a Pan with a pair of Endless Bags of Wine leading a group of 40 Maenads.

These three I'd like to do, but where I'd like to get a bit of help:

*Lair of the kraken - pretender-sized octopus with items (there is an octopus pretender)
*Transylvania with a vampire count leading an army of infartry, peasants, villans and wolves.(LA Ulm)
* Village defended by seven samurai. (MA Bakemono)

For the Kraken - what items?
For vampires - how many commanders, how many items, how tough? also, site suggestions are velcome
For the seven samurai, their names and what weapon they should have. I'm going to add them as unique additions to any one province's defenders.

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Here are 12 new .gan files from me.

ENDO2 - Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, in Domverse
ENDO3 - Queen of Clouds / Doom Cloud
ENDO4 - Visitor and Things of Many Eyes / Endless Field of Cubes
ENDO5 - Horse Brothers / their vale and Totem Collection
ENDO6 - Sunken city - mechanical men, golems and other inanimates
ENDO7 - Innsmouth with cultists and fishmen
ENDO8 - Robin Hood & his merry men, from the first post
ENDO9 - Camelot, with common knights outside and King Arthur inside
ENDO10 - Druids and pigs / Forest of Truffles
ENDO11 - Pan and maenads / Forest of Delights
ENDO12 - Mammoths / Mammoth Forest
ENDO13 - Krakens / Kraken Pit

Re: Idea thread: special provinces, unique defende
 

For the Kraken:Pendant of Luck, Amulet of Antimagic and Champions Skull(if it works for indies)
The idea being that it's only one octopus, but it's hellishly tough.

Transylvania:
1xVampire Count 'Vlad the Impaler' with: Piercer,Black Steel Plate, Dragon Helmet, Girdle of Might, 20 blood slaves and 10 death gems
1xVampire Lord 'Vlad Mircea' with Flesheater,5 blood slaves and 1 death gem
1xIndie priest
2xIndie mounted commander
8xVampire
30xHeavy infartry(wish spears)
30xVillain
30xThrall
(Site:Field of the impaled - 3 death gems)

Seven Samurai:
1xSamurai 'Kambei' - mega experience, old age, Weightless Scale Mail, Longbow of Accuracy
1xSamurai 'Gorobei'- big experience, Weightless Scale Mail,Longbow of Accuracy, Horn of valour,
1xSamurai 'Shichiroji' - big experience, Weightless Scale Mail, Bow of War
1xSamurai Archer 'Minoru' - some experience, Lucky Charm
1xSamurai 'Isao' - big experience, Weightless Scale Mail, Longbow of Accuracy
1xSohei 'Kyuzo' - Mega experience, Weightless Scale Mail, Ring of the Warrior, Longbow of Accuracy
1xGo-Hatamoto 'Kikuchiyo' - big experience
10xAshigaru
10xPeasant

Is it possible to give the 7 Samurai invulnerability and/or berserk without magical items?

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Looks great Endoperez! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Just a few things...
************************************************** ********
When you want a deep sea province, you need to include the "_SEA_" tag as well as the "_DEP_" tag. "_DEP_" has a value of 2048 and "_SEA_" has a value of 4.

Rename ENDO6 & ENDO13 as follows to fix:
ENDO6_U_R_SEA_DEP_.gan
ENDO13_U_R_SEA_DEP_.gan

Note that the last line in ENDO6 (the description) is missing a comment marker "-".

Oh, and in ENDO9, the first line:
#landname "Camelot"
will not work because the map command requires a province number.

Instead use:
@1 landname
"Camelot"

Also in ENDO9, looks like some italic switches found their way into the gan file from your text editor "[ i ]...[ /i ]" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

ENDO7 & ENDO2 have a similar problem with #landname as ENDO9.
Instead use:
@8 landname
"Innsmouth"
"Innsmouth"
"Kingsport"
"Kingsport"
"Arkham"
"Newburyport"
"Devils' Reef"
"Devils' Reef"

The drawback is that you can't use "-empty" as the 9th option when the command requires a province number.

ENDO7 also has several issues with magic sites missing the command and the quotes.

For example:
@8
Gorge of Mystery
Seventh House
Strange House in the Mist
Entrance
Nexus
Distortion
The Crater
-empty

should be:
@8 feature
"Gorge of Mystery"
"Seventh House on the Left"
"Strange House in the Mist"
"Entrance"
"Nexus"
"Distortion"
"The Crater"
--no site

************************************************** ********

If you are able to use it on your system, I would recommend trying the Province Editor (see my sig). It should save you a lot of time and limit syntax errors. You can still manually adjust the final output to suit your style.

Thanks again for all of your hard work!

Re: Idea thread: special provinces, unique defende
 

Tried the province tool, really like it. Makes it WAY easier.

review:

Jutetrea3_CLD_U_A_N_MNT_FS_ES_DS_BS_

@1 landname
"Crom's Mountain"
#population 7000
#poptype 25 --Barbarians
#knownfeature "The Temple of the Raging God"
#knownfeature "Chamber of Changes"
#knownfeature "Flesh Garden of Mortal Remains"
#knownfeature "The Mountain of Power"
#commander 1561 --Father of Winters
#comname "Crom"
@7 additem
"Horned Helmet"
"Rime Hauberk"
"Boots of Quickness"
"Bear Claw Talisman"
"Blood Stone"
"Sun Sword"
"Shield of the Accursed"
#clearmagic
#clearmagic
@4
#mag_fire 4
#mag_earth 4
#mag_death 4
#mag_blood 4
#xp 900
@7 units
50 140 --Barbarian
50 938 --Barbarian Horseman
50 140 --Barbarian
15 1541 --Ghost Champion
25 619 --Longdead Warrior
1 945 --Shade King
#bodyguards 5 624 --Old King

Re: Idea thread: special provinces, unique defende
 

er, another quick review... doesn't seem right somehow

Jutetrea6_TMP_VL_U_A_S_FS_AS_WS_ES_

@1 landname
"Dragon Sanctuary"
#lab
#population 10000
#poptype 88 --NO RECRUITABLES
#knownfeature "Dragon Jaws"
#knownfeature "The Great Mirror of Maaki"
#knownfeature "Dragon Cliff"
#knownfeature "Dragon Forest"


@10 commander

1026 --Carrion Dragon
@RANDOM additem MISCITEM
@RANDOM additem MISCITEM
644 --Dracolich
@RANDOM additem HELMET
@RANDOM additem MISCITEM
@RANDOM additem MISCITEM
216 --Dragon
@RANDOM additem HELMET
@RANDOM additem MISCITEM
@RANDOM additem MISCITEM
265 --Dragon
@RANDOM additem HELMET
@RANDOM additem MISCITEM
@RANDOM additem MISCITEM
266 --Dragon
@RANDOM additem HELMET
@RANDOM additem MISCITEM
@RANDOM additem MISCITEM
637 --Draco Lion
@RANDOM additem MISCITEM
@RANDOM additem MISCITEM
531 --Iron Dragon
@RANDOM additem MISCITEM
@RANDOM additem MISCITEM
1347 --Sirrush
@RANDOM additem MISCITEM
@RANDOM additem MISCITEM
925 --Tarrasque
@RANDOM additem MISCITEM
@RANDOM additem MISCITEM
269 --Wyrm
@RANDOM additem MISCITEM
@RANDOM additem MISCITEM
@2 additem
"Winged Helmet"
"Flame Helmet"
#xp 900

Re: Idea thread: special provinces, unique defende
 

Crom's Mountain looks cool. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

The only problems that I see are (potentially) the double "#clearmagic" entries and somehow you ended up with only 6 unit lines with an "@7". Looks like you removed one manually without updating the count to "@6".

Also, "_FS_ES_DS_BS_" would require the province to have it's terrain flagged as fire, earth, death AND blood site locations, which I believe will never occur in a Dom3 generated random map.

I might also suggest making a 2nd version of the file so that folks who use the border mountains option in Dom3 are able to get this province.

Something like:
Jutetrea3_CLD_U_A_N_MNT_FS_.gan
and
Jutetrea3_CLD_U_A_N_EMT_FS_.gan

(Thanks for trying out the editor!)

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Should be something like:
<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>
@10 commander
1026 --Carrion Dragon
644 --Dracolich
216 --Dragon
265 --Dragon
266 --Dragon
637 --Draco Lion
531 --Iron Dragon
1347 --Sirrush
925 --Tarrasque
269 --Wyrm

@RANDOM additem HELMET
@2 additem
"Winged Helmet"
"Flame Helmet"
@RANDOM additem MISCITEM
@RANDOM additem MISCITEM
</pre><hr />

Commanders that don't have a head slot (for example), won't receive a helmet. It will just go *poof*. But commanders that happen to have 2 heads will receive a random helmet from the HELMET list and either the winged or flame helmet along with 2 miscellaneous items from the MISCITEM list. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I love all of these. They look like they would be great to stumble onto on a map. But most of them need to be something that is rare. Not on every map.

We need MORE people to put in some ideas. They dont have to be great or huge. We need lots of "interesting but not a big deal" province ideas for the big rare ones to get lost in.

Do we have a werewolve village yet? Shire? Vikings seaport? Abyssian rebels colonizing a volcano? Harvester trying to become a pretender by taking over an undead village?

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If nobody else has tackled these yet, I might give it a go later tonight. I am in the process of building a Greyhawk set and I bet that I can find a home for these. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Currently finished:
Amedio Jungle
Savages
Bone March
Loftwood
Flinty Hills
Horned Society
Bandit Kingdoms
Keoland

The majority of these are fairly complex provinces with some challenging defenders and rewarding finds, but many simple, (hopefully interesting) provinces are in the pipe. I have also finished a few more "ZIGGY" provinces for addition with the next round of releases.

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Ok, this is my first muddled attempt, and I'm sure there's a lot wrong with it, so be gentle. If there is anything you feel is not thematic or seems off, let me know. If I utilized the tools in some incorrect way, please correct me and let me know how to do it right. Thanks!

--Description:
--First try at a unique province. Basically the idea is a powerfull enchantress has used her magic and beauty to lull a bunch of guys into her servitude so she can live like a queen. I don't know if the Ancient Oaks is the right place, but since she's so enchanting I wanted there to be an enchantment bonus there.

#lab
#population 5000
#poptype 50 --Militia, Lt Inf, Hvy Inf, Scout
#feature "Hall of Ancient Oaks"
#feature "Forest of Delights"

#commander 485 --Great Enchantress
#comname "Bella"

@7 additem
"Vine Shield"
"Ivy Crown"
"Robe of Missile Protection"
"Birch Boots"
"Barkskin Amulet"
"Thistle Mace"
"Cat Charm"
@2
#mag_nature 3
#mag_astral 1
#xp 500
#bodyguards 3 22 --Knight
@3 units
20 29 --Light Infantry
15 39 --Heavy Infantry
15 33 --Archer

Re: Idea thread: special provinces, unique defende
 

Everything looks good.
Was it intentional to have random magic paths?
The current code will give Bella a 50% chance of having N3 or S1. (That may have been your intention.)

Be sure to include the file name for your creations so that users know what to name the file. The file name tells SemiRandom how to handle the province.

Re: Idea thread: special provinces, unique defende
 

The @ sign is saying "Im going to make a list of items to be randomly selected". You have "1 of 7 items" and "1 of 2 magics" and "1 of 3 different possible unit types". Was that what you wanted?

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Now that I have my eyes open (thank you coffee!), I can see what appears to have happened. Be sure to hit the Submit button for each individual entry/item. If you add multiple items to the list and then submit, the province editor treats your entries as a random selection. To remove an item from the list, simply double click on it in the list box.

(I might suggest that future 'province editor' created provinces be posted in the Province Editor thread or in the RanDom thread so as not to hijack Endo's idea thread. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif )

Re: Idea thread: special provinces, unique defende
 

Yup, random was not the intention. Thanks for the help.

Sorry, I thought this was the thread to compile special areas. All future items will be posted in the other thread. I didn't mean to hijack.

It's funny...coming up with ideas for "simple" provinces is harder than coming up with bi elaborate ones.

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I didn't mind this thread being "caught" for the use of discussing other people's provinces.

I'm home for few days again, but don't have time for any extensive Dom-related stuff. I'm going to try out D&amp;D with a friend's family. I've never gotten a chance to really try roleplaying, so this should be fun.

My next holiday won't be before July 21st or so. I have more freedom in asking for free days now, but I'm going to save up to get longer holidays.

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You lost me Endoperez. I missed something... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

Sometimes I really miss my D&amp;D days... Have a good time Endo!

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'I didn't mind this thread being "caught" for the use of discussing other people's provinces.'

Is that better?

Re: Idea thread: special provinces, unique defende
 

caught, snagged, stolen, hijacked, etc.

I cant seem to do Gandalf's Grove. The party province would have been good. Maybe I can do something later but everything I do now seems either to be bragging, or too blah.

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Endoperez,
I spent some time tonight cleaning up the few errors that I found in your Gans and tweaked the file names slightly. (Mostly to make use of the _OR_ tag on provinces that I suspected that you wanted to appear across a wider variety of terrains.)

The following provinces are now added to the next release:

ENDO2 - Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, in Domverse
ENDO3 - Queen of Clouds / Doom Cloud
ENDO4 - Visitor and Things of Many Eyes / Endless Field of Cubes
ENDO5 - Horse Brothers / their vale and Totem Collection
ENDO6 - Sunken city - mechanical men, golems and other inanimates
ENDO7 - Innsmouth with cultists and fishmen
ENDO8 - Robin Hood &amp; his merry men, from the first post
ENDO9 - Camelot, with common knights outside and King Arthur inside
ENDO10 - Druids and pigs / Forest of Truffles
ENDO11 - Pan and maenads / Forest of Delights
ENDO12 - Mammoths / Mammoth Forest
ENDO13 - Krakens / Kraken Pit

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Toad tribe gathering:

Poptype 83

Commanders: King of the Deep with blue dragon mail, boots of quickness, sea king's goblet, ice pebble staff; two toad tribe shamen each with a water braclet and bottle of living water.

Troops: 50 Toad Tribe Warriors, 15 Shamblers

Sites: Wormwood Marsh, The Water Sphere
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Lost colony of the pale ones:

Poptype 81

Commanders: Oracle of the Dead with staff of elemental mastery, earth boots, blood stone, stone idol; pale one commander with halberd of might, marble armor, boots of gaint strength, champion's skull, bracers of protection.

Troops: 50 pale ones, 15 ancient (no armor) stone hurlers.

Sites: Cave of the Pale Ones, Endless Caverns, Great Gold Mine.
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Revenge of the Asmegs:

Poptype 69

Commanders: Five Asmeg jarls; one with staff of storms and robe of the magi; one with bag of winds and spirit helm; one with winged helmet and wall shaker; one with staff of storms , chain mail of displacement and winged helmet; and one with lightning spear, scutata volturnus, boots of flying, spirit helm, stone bird, and dancing trident.

Troops: 100 Asmegs.

Sites: Tempest Hall, Cracked Tower
---------------------------

City of Guilds:

Commanders: One assassin with two serpent kryss, robe of the shadows, cat charm, pendant of luck; two sages with spell foci, starshine skullcaps; one navigator with bottle of living water; one alchemist with elixir of life, stone sphere, earth boots.

Troops: 50 Light Infantry (nbr 29), 25 archers (nbr 33), 25 heavy infantry (nbr 40).

Sites: Sages Guild, Assassins Guild, Alchemist's Guild, Navigator's Guild.

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****************HOT*****************
PLAIN-----------------------------
Pasturia
Herbest
Flaxen Fields
Bluegrass
Hellcat Flats
Bee Flats
Dus Bowl
Battle Grounds
Main Lyonthe Plains

FARM------------------------------
Fertile Dreams
Lush Lands
Plowed Under
Plowed Over
Totally Plowed
GemShire
Croplands
Cherry Glen

FOREST----------------------------
Four Rest
Forewarned Forest
Ember Timbers
Whimper Woods
Trees Awn
Drift Wood
Fruity Forest

MOUNTAIN--------------------------
Headstone Hills
Fire Wall
Stone Wall
Stay Sharp
Para Mounts
Slippery Slopes
Mountains Waist

WASTE-----------------------------
Merc Murks
Salted Wells

SWAMP-----------------------------
Rice Paddys
Rattty Swamp
Salt Marsh
Fog Bottom

COAST-----------------------------
Pessy Mists


OCEAN-----------------------------

LAKE------------------------------

CAVE------------------------------
Deep Praved

VOLCANO---------------------------
Brimstone
Boiler Bluff
Broiler
Kilns Keep
Incinerator
Crematorium

PENINSULA-------------------------

VALLEY----------------------------
Valley of the Dolls
Express Way

ISLAND----------------------------
Imp Portent

LOST------------------------------
Holinthe Wall

****************COLD****************
PLAIN-----------------------------
Mastadonia
River Dale
Gelded Range
Out Fields
In Fields
Mine Fields
Battle Fields
Gar Fields

FARM------------------------------
Charmed Farms
Shielded Fields
Hotwater Springs
Farrowed Fields
Bitter Tiers
Trinquettes
CrossRoads

FOREST----------------------------
Parka Pines
Pole R Pines
Knot Here
Were Wood
Wedge Wood
Lostinthe Woods
Lumber Land

MOUNTAIN--------------------------
Chill Hills
Snowy Peaks
Hard Corners
Giant Steppes
Baby Steppes
Frostbite Falls

WASTE-----------------------------
Tusked Tundra
Waste Basket
Minion Murks

SWAMP-----------------------------
Borsht Bogs
Sludge Fens
Bogzilla
Goo D'Nuff

COAST-----------------------------
Wave Wall
Fishin Fiends

OCEAN-----------------------------
Sea of Storms
Water Gate
Dark Waters
Black Pool
Pleroma
Tehom

LAKE------------------------------
Lake Okeechobee
Lake Teguayo

CAVE------------------------------
Dead Ends

VOLCANO---------------------------
Old Smokey
Hot Tub Mountain

PENINSULA-------------------------

VALLEY----------------------------
Troll Bridge
Splyt Ends
Gate Way
Thru Way

ISLAND----------------------------

LOST------------------------------
Dev Null
Foo
Fubar

***************NEUTRAL**************
PLAIN-----------------------------
Rainin Spayn Plain
Plae Grounds
Grain Plains
Open Range
Honey Fields
Sweet Pastures
Kom Plains
Outter Foxxen
BroadWay

FARM------------------------------
Old MacDonald's
Green Acres
Strawberry Fields
Pagan Place
Park Place
Marvin Gardens
Gilderland
Farther Afield

FOREST----------------------------
Teddybear Woods
Why Woods
WayThru Woods
Twilligs Grove
Hackers Grove
Yew Are Here
Holly Wood
Nested Woods

MOUNTAIN--------------------------
Mayhem Mountains
Foundations
Quarry Mount
High Way
Rokina Hardplace
Base Mount

WASTE-----------------------------
Watta Waste
Wasteland
Wasted Land
Dead Dale

SWAMP-----------------------------
Bogged Downs
Bootsuck Bogs
Kom Post
Bogey Bogs
Boggled

COAST-----------------------------
Lifes'a Beach
Daemon Port
Serfs Up

OCEAN-----------------------------

LAKE------------------------------
Lady Ofthe Lake

CAVE------------------------------
Back Pocket
Kornur
DenDig
Dig Dug

VOLCANO---------------------------
Parched Mount
Oven Mount
Barb Equeue

PENINSULA-------------------------
Water Watch
Position Point
Check Point

VALLEY----------------------------
Valley of the Dolls
Slyp Thru
CutemOff Pass
Funnel Mounts
Ally Alley
Warpath

ISLAND----------------------------
Island of Dr. Moreau
Aqua Marine

LOST------------------------------
Conundrum
Blind Luck
Lack Land

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Thanks. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Quantum - nice work there.
Gandalf - didn't read through all of it, but a Lake province named 'Lake of the Lady', with a sorceress named 'Lady of the Lake', and the water site 'Forest of the Lake' would do a pretty nice themed province. Perhaps she should be wielding a random sword from Constr. 6.

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Maybe a water-based sorceress such as a naiad? I dont remember all the different ones.

Would you consider doing a Gandalfs Grove? I like the idea of something that mixes guru (human based) with Druid but everything I come up with is either bland or sounds too bragging for me to do for myself.

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Then maybe someone can do Endo's xxxxxxx
(replace xxxxxx with any of...)
earthworks
echoes
eerie
effigy
egoism
empire
encampment
encoding
enigma
enrichment
enticement
entomb
entrapment
envy
errata
errors
esteem
evoke
exiles
exotic
extras
eyefull
eyrie

(I particularly like Endo's Enigma altho some of the others really spark a feel also)