Y Dont Pretenders Have Holy Powers?

[Theonlystd]

Y cant the god smite?!?!??!





Always bugged meh

[Agrajag]

Because the powers of holyness stem from the belief in the almighty god.
The god, being the god himself, doesn't have much cause to believe in himself as a god, especially since he knows he is not yet a true god.

[PDF]

Yeah, that's kind of funny and struck me as odd when I started playing ..Dom:PPP more than 3 years ago !
Now I 'm gotten accustomed : pretenders can't even heal themselves ...
Maybe it's a philosiphical/religious message : Gods are powerless because they don't have faith !

[Amos]

Mod it in. I do .

[Endoperez]

The sacred powers, or the ability to heal themselves?

[Twan]

If a pretender is modded to have holy magic, the game crash after 1 turn (seen in the bug thread), but they can be made sacred I think (or at least become sacred during the game by giving them a Shroud of the Battle Saint).

About the heal ability it looks like it affects all units except the user, it's the same for arco/EA ermor healers.

[B0rsuk]

Oh, come on. I know that's not the point, but pretenders are already buff enough.
- pretender bonus ! (MR, morale etc, hp)
- significant bonuses for typically HIGH magic skills
- can be essentially resurrected with prayers
- probably some spells will never work on pretenders, like charm, enslavement... althrough it could be cool to enslave your competition !
- things I forgot
- things I was never aware of

[Amos]

I have a pretender with Holy magic and it didnt crash my game. All you need to do is give it holiness as well (thats #holy).
If you want him to self heal give him #heal command.