[Gandalf Parker]

Hmmmm not bad.
I really like the thing about visiting certain sites. That would be really easy to do. And not allowing sneaks to do it would be easy. Have the pre-exec check the log each turn "watching" for combat results for certain provinces. It could even keep track of who visited so that you still got credit even if another player "visited" (took over) the province later. Visiting 5 ancient sites would "unlock" an item or a spell by having the 3rd-party-program rewrite the games mod file to give powers to them (they would have been in the game all along but with little or not powers). Hmmmm you could even have many sites, but have the powers granted depend on WHICH sites you visited. Or even have it be incremental as each site is visited. "You have visited City of Death and your pretender crown now allows the summoning of xxxxxxx".

And the thing about casting a spell to add time to a timer would be quite possible also. Another thought is that it could add a nice scenario feature to a multiplayer game. Ermor is going postal unless the xxxxxx global is cast and gems are used to maintain it. So now, do you let another player do it and trust them to maintain it, or do it yourself? I can even see a forum conversation charging the other players gems to help you maintain the shield.