Freak Lord

[SelfishGene]

Has anyone used successfully, or at least ever enjoyed using, even in single player, the Freak Lord? I can't seem to make myself pick that fellow, he seems to be more a liability, and moreover, i find it hard to fit him into existing mythologies. He might go well with this new Lanka nation...

[Folket]

The freak lord is a powerful pretender, at least was in dominions 2. Ask QM for a build.

[B0rsuk]

GIVE HIM CHARCOAL SHIELD BURNING PEARL HORROR HELMET RAINBOW ARMOR LUCKY PENDANT ANT TRRRRAAMMPPPLE LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!111 GG GG KTHX WTF PWNED

[Shovah32]

He has trample, decent stats(well human but 17 base defence), fear and 10 cost paths so, with some buffs(misform, ethereal, luck, fireshield, quickness, mirror image, regen, prot buffs, reinvig, resistances ect are all cheaply avaliable to him) and of course you always could simply use him as a 3 mapmove site searcher

[HoneyBadger]

I think the Freak Lord's place in Dom3 mythology is connected to the spells Crossbreeding and Improved Crossbreeding. That's my take on it.

[zepath]

He could do with a graphical upgrade though... it's not a very attractive looking pretender.

[HoneyBadger]

I think it would be complimentary-and not overpowerful-if the freak-lord produced 1 result of crossbreeding per turn automatically. You might get some almost useless, freakish thing that has one claw attack and 5 hp. or you might get a basilisk. On the other hand, it would be nice if the freak-lord got a bonus to using the crossbreeding and improved crossbreeding spells-they're really fun, and I'd definitely use a Pretender who got a bonus. I wouldn't say he's unattractive as such, I mean he's a freak-lord who rides around on some weird humanoid mount like out of Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal. I don't think he's going to make the cover of GQ this year

[zepath]

Well I went ahead and made new Freak Lord graphics (now with a more stylish hideous rhino/monkey freak mount!) and posted the mod on the maps/mods sub-forum for all Freak Lord fans to enjoy. I agree with Honeybadger that some random crossbred generation per turn would be awesome with this pretender. Are there any existing monsters that randomly create crossbreeds/turn from which I could #copystats?

[B0rsuk]

HoneyBadger said:
I think it would be complimentary-and not overpowerful-if the freak-lord produced 1 result of crossbreeding per turn automatically.

On the other hand, it would give him away if he was sneaking. Is there any magic item granting stealth ? I know you can become an assasin, but can you gain stealth ?

[Endoperez]

No Stealth.