Newbies and Confused People - Look Here!

[Gandalf Parker]

Im beginning to think that we need more FAQ's. This one is getting large and we could support seperate ones play, mods, maps, hosting
(and 17 more, one for each nation?)

In the process of molding and putting together threads in order to make more information immediately availiable to newbies I have taken all the information from the "Acronyms and Abbreviations" thread and reposted them here.

Credit due to Saber Cherry, Arryn, Kristoffer,

GoR: Gift of Reason.
RB: Rainbow Pretender, a human with a couple points in most magic paths.
JMC: Just Man's Cross
HfH: Horde from Hell / Heat from Hell
KoEF / KoEE: King of Elemental Fire / Earth.
PD: Province Defense
PBEM: Play by email
SoS: Staff of Storms
AD: Arch Devil
FA: Fallen Angel
IW: Illwinter
*: Open ended, like "oe", for dice rolls. Sometimes it also means a random elemental magic pick
?: Random magic pick
$: Random sorcery pick
FAWESDNBHU: Fire Air Water Earth Astral Death Nature Blood Holy Unholy
AE/LAE: Air Elemental/Lesser Air Elemental
BVC: Bane Venom Charm
BoT: Burden of Time
BoH: Blood of Humans (Abysia theme)
MW: Murdering Winter
FFTS: Flames from the Sky
GoH: Gift of Health
CotW: Call of the Wild / Call of the Winds
SDR: Sanguine Dousing Rod
BoB: Boots of the Behemoth
KO - Kristoffer O.
JO - Johan O.
JK - Johan K.
AFAIK - As far as I know
IIRC - If I recall correctly
oe - Open Ended
SC - Supercombatant/Saber Cherry
FoD - Fiend of Darkness
PoD - Prince of Death
PD - Province Defence
ID - Ice Devil/Iron Dragon
IW - Illwinter (not the spell)
FoB - Fountain of Blood
LotN - Lord of the Night
VotD - Vengeance of the Dead
MD - Magic Duel
TT - Taurotyrannos (not seen this since the days of Dom I)
AW - Abysian Warlock (I'm not sure if this was the actual name used in that thread)
BH - Blood Hunt
BS - Blood Slave
AAR = After Action Report, a description of a game that has been played.

[Inigo Montoya]

How do I make my mages more powerful in magic? There are only 5 ways.
1) Empowerment - infusing the commander with gems at a laboratory - permanently increases his level by one in that path.
2) Forging a magic item like Earth Boots and giving it to the commander increases his level, but only if he already has magic in that path. In other words, giving Earth boots to an Earth-1 mage makes him an Earth-2 mage, but giving them to a Fire-1, Earth-0 mage does nothing.
3) Casting a spell at the beginning of combat like "Summon Earthpower" will increase the mage's Earth level for the entire battle. Communion or Sabbath Master can also boost magic levels. All enhancing spells cast in combat are temporary, and none have any effect after the end of combat.
4) Putting gems in the mage's gembox allows them to use gems during battle. Some spells require gems, but even "free" spells can use gems... specifically, if an Earth-2 mage wants to cast the Earth-3 spell Blade Wind, he can use an Earth gem from his gembox to boost his level to 3 for that one casting only. Mages run out of gems fast, though, because the AI uses them whether it needs to or not.
5) Holy and unholy "magic" can be increased by making the priest into your prophet.
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Actually, there is a 6th -- Wishing for Magic Power.

[Saber Cherry]

Hmmm, that's true. To clarify, it increases power in all paths except holy and unholy, whether you start with the path or not, but can only be done once per mage.

[Gateway103]

Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
Hmmm, that's true. To clarify, it increases power in all paths except holy and unholy, whether you start with the path or not, but can only be done once per mage.

You mean Wish for "Magic Power"? I didn't know there is a limit. In fact, I am positive such a limit doesn't exist, or that it doesn't apply to Pretenders. I regularly Wish my Pretender to full fluency in all magic via repeated rituals in SP games, if just for the fun of it.

-Gateway103

[ March 26, 2004, 05:30: Message edited by: Gateway103 ]

[Saber Cherry]

Might have been changed in a patch... I'm fairly certain that when I tried wishing for magic power with my pretender in a trial game, I was able to do so only once, and after that I got some sort of message saying it wouldn't work.

[Inigo Montoya]

You can wish for "Magic Power" repeatedly, but there IS a limit. The maximum is 10 (before items) for all non-holy/unholy magic.