Ideas for 1001 Arabian Nights-themed nations

[Aezeal]

Dont'some background searching made me scratch the no-water mages
marids are definately tied to water...

BTW astral is strong end-game true
but also in the levels most mages get?? is astral 3 considered strong for end game?

[Endoperez]

Aezeal said:
Dont'some background searching made me scratch the no-water mages
marids are definately tied to water...

Marids actually aren't tied to water as far as mythology goes. They were linked to water sometime in the 80s or so, probably in some Dungeons & Dragons monster manual. It probably comes from latin 'mare', sea, which has nothing to do with the etymology of Marid...

If you read it from the Wikipedia article, check out the discussion page.

P.S. I only know this because I was already corrected once in these forums.

[Aezeal]

and on my astral question can you help me there?

[Renojustin]

Imo Astral 3 is right up there, even in EA.

[Endoperez]

Sorry, but I'm not that good when it comes to balancing, so don't take these as word of god or anything.


Being able to mass S3 mages would be very powerful, at least (Starshine Skullcap + Light of the Northern star == mass soul slay/enslave mind).

I think the other big use for astral is Ring of Sorcery/Wizardry, which need S5 and S6.
Having access to Starshine Skullcap and Crystal Coin, I doubt the nation needs too high Astral to start with, as long as one of the Earth mages has access to Astral 1 via randoms. Nomad Wazirs can forge them Starshine Skullcap, then the Earth/Astral mage forges Crystal Coin, and then even empowerment would probably be worth it.

I just realized that Marid Wazir with Air random can forge two Air boosters, and Efriti Sultan with Fire random can forge Flaming Helmet, and Efriti Sultan with Air random with those boosters has F4A4 required to forge the Magic Lamp and get the Jinn. Nice work there!

[Aezeal]

Well I kinda think the Grand-Wazirs should eb able to preform wishes.. they are genies... maybe give them 6x 10% S random

it's a SMALL chance of getting one able to cast wish.. but still..

avarage grand wazir would have S 5 though.. so I guess that is.... way to overpowered

[Aezeal]

how about these for efriti and efriti sultans?

[Endoperez]

Aezeal said:
how about these for efriti and efriti sultans?

Not bad, but I'd suggest that the sultan raises the sword and the sword-arm instead of lowering. Now the movement is all in the wrist; if you raise the whole arm it gives an illusion of greater movement.

Dominions also supports normal transparency in targa files, so you can actually make the sparks and/or the flames slightly transparent. You don't have to use it, of course, but I found it useful when I did a silhouette of a phoenix inside a fire.

[Aezeal]

Hmm of course there already is a djinn so I need to get my base troops another name.. which is a shame really bur the summons is still stronger than my most powerfull ones so fits in nicely really

[Aezeal]

I'm trying to run this DM file and it says there is something worng with armor.. but I can't see it.

Help with this (and any other errors encountered would be appreciated.