Pretender Immunity

If a pretender design is much more vulnerable; then perhaps as a player you need to compensate for that in some fashion. I don't believe that Illwinter intended for *Every* possible type of pretender to be equal in terms of survivability. Otherwise they are trying to combat player stupidity.

"Players use their Frost Father to attack provinces solo, with no picks in any sphere or spells researched; there has to be a way we can implement a way for them to do this otherwise it might hurt the pretender design."

[Johan K]

All pretender design are not intended to be equally vulenrable, just like Zen pointed out. Taking 2 astral picks is great for slaughtering independents early or to find astral sites which are useful for all nations. So it's only fair that there are some drawbacks too.

The pretender gods will not get any special spell resistances (they already have 18+ MR) so you should see enslave/charm as the single necessary exception not as a precedent for more exceptions to the spell rules.

[ November 26, 2003, 14:36: Message edited by: Johan K ]