[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by apoger:
Yes, however the problem I see now is players spending everything on their god instead of wasting points on scales.

I don't see this as a problem at all. The pretender is supposed to be powerful, not a mediocre mage that an average human can hope to surpass. I'd like to see archmages running around with at least four in every path so that they can actually have truly major effects.

It's my feeling that this makes choices hard on the players. No easy picks like order-misfortune. No picking two 9s in magics at the cost of death-3 sloth-3 for that unimpressive 6% income hit.

The picks are really easy. Either take an oracle with astral 3 and a massive economy, or a titan with air three and no gold boost. There's no way that points spent on a pretender can compete with that kind of economy.

My goal is not to spite gods. It's to make all choices viable and interesting. No matter what you choose, you aren't getting something else valuable, whether it's god magic or luck scale. That's what I want. Hard choices because everything is good.

Except of course, that they aren't hard choices, because there is no way for a rainbow mage to be worth the points you spent on him.

Try the mod once it's available. I think you'll find it more balanced than you think. At the least, luck is now a useable scale.

Sure it's balanced, but only because it removes the element of variability from race design, and reduces them to their national units and mages. It turns it from a game of fantasy combat where the pretender can have a major impact to one where your ability to crank out mundane troops is more important. That's a standard problem with most fantasy strategy games, and standard Dom2 avoids it fairly well.