Thread: Idle mage time
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Old October 23rd, 2008, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Adept View Post
Put away those sarcastic quotation marks. If I was making a guess, I would have phrased it as a guess. I know the game has AM inspiration since Kristoffer told me so.

Isn't it referred to in the manual too?
The manual does mention Ars Magic as one source of inspiration, so "partly inspired" is defensible. "Largely inspired by Ars Magica" as a justification for adding in the Ars Magica feature of mage-created gems is pushing it; it seems clear to me that gems as natural resource (vs. artificial resource a la electricity) is a deliberate feature of the Dominions magic system.

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