Conquest of Elysium 5

Conquest of Elysium 5

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This is the first in a series of mods I have planned to tell a story, Rather than make a huge mod that tells the whole story and adds several classes I decided to split them up by classes, the classes will work stand alone and you can pick and choose which classes you like and want to add to your game.

This class is one of a pair of classes that are parodies of the Arch Mage class that is in the vanilla game but reserved for just the CPU players unless you unlock it with a mod. The idea being that the one class Magister would represent the heads of various sections of a fictional Mages guild I am making for the story called "The violet robes Mages Guild." The Magisters would operate much like the arch mages already do except they would only be able to get goodly apprentices from the other magical classes. Additionally they will have their own Ritual list unique to them as opposed to just getting several ritual lists to use.

This is the companion class to the Magister "The Mad Mage" where you would very much be like playing the arch mage class except that only evil or insane or easily influenced apprentices come to learn from you. See a Mad Mage is also called a Dark Magister, They are in short a Magister who has betrayed the goodness represented by the Magister class. Originally I was going to pair these two classes into one mod and call it "Wizard Wars" But then I got very inspired about how the Mad Magister would work.

My vision of the Mad Mage class is based very much in the old school AD&D setting Dark Sun. In which the evil mage kings are able to rip the life force from the very world around them to use incredibly powerful magic, which is why just one evil mage could fight several good mages of equal skill who wouldn't use so much magic that it would destroy the world around them. Additionally I decided I wanted the Mad Mage to be an evil overlord, Like the cartoonishly evil overlords of old school fantasy or BBEG's from someones D&D game. The sort with minions and insanity, the sort who never get directly involved because they are so incredibly powerful they would make the story not fun and just kill the hero early on. The ones who go "You have failed me for the last time" to their minions who return after losing to the heroes. To make the Mad Mage feel like this they start with insanity that slowly goes down with their insanity healing ability. So the Mad Mage them self has incredibly powerful abilities but their rituals are costly, destroy whatever tiles are needed to do them and add insanity to the Mad Mage making them harder and harder to use at least without giving them time to calm down with their insanity healing attribute.

All of that is the basic's of how it feels to play the Mad Mage class but coming back around to the Dark Sun setting. In the Dark Sun setting the most powerful of all evil mage kings would become dragons, beings of immense god like power. And so I decided to make the Mad Mage capable of the same. One of the mad mages third tier rituals is entitled Be Reborn As Dragon. Which will turn them into a Dark Dragon Lord. Or More specifically a Dark Dragon Lord Hatchling. A little baby dragon. This actually makes them much weaker than they already were esepecially if you had unlocked all of their rituals. But Dark Dragon Lords are not subject to the same sort of insanity or need for destrcution. And so if you choose to go down this route it will be difficult in the short and mid and honestly long term. But in the Super long term have incredible rewards. The Dark Dragon Lord has 8 stages of age each one more powerful than the last, so over time you will age up into more powerful forms and regain your spell like abilities as well as access to higher tier Rituals unique to the Dark Dragon Lord.

The Levels of Dark Dragon Lord are "Dark Dragon Lord Hatchling" "Dark Dragon Lord Wyrmling" "Young Dark Dragon Lord" "Young Adult Dark Dragon Lord" "Adult Dark Dragon Lord" "Old Dark Dragon Lord" "Ancient Dark Dragon Lord" and "Dark Dragon Lord Wyrm". The reason there are 8 stages of growth is inline with 1st edition AD&D. The First three forms of Dark Dragon Lord only have access to 1st tier Dark Dragon Lord Rituals. Form 4-6 have access to 2nd tier dark dragon lord Rituals and the 7th and 8th form of Dark Dragon Lord have access to 3rd tier Dark Dragon Lord Rituals.

To make the Dark Dragon Lord feel more like a dragon as well as balance its incredible power as best I can they time between ageing into new forms is very long.
Dark Dragon Lord Hatchling > Dark Dragon Lord Wyrmling = 1/4 year
Dark Dragon Lord Wyrmling > Young Dark Dragon Lord = 1/2 years
Young Dark Dragon Lord > Young Adult Dark Dragon Lord = 1 years
Young Adult Dark Dragon Lord > Adult Dark Dragon Lord = 1 years
Adult Dark Dragon Lord > Old Dark Dragon Lord = 2 years
Old Dark Dragon Lord > Ancient Dark Dragon Lord = 2 years
Ancient Dark Dragon Lord > Dark Dragon Lord Wyrm = 4 years

This class has many incredibly powerful possibilities but is resource hungry both in actual funds and the various tiles you can find. Without the resources you need to fuel its power it can be incredibly difficult to say its worth using over a more specialized class but I hope you have fun being the Evil Over Lords I know you can be. Personally Whilst Playing this class I recommend listening to "APAB (All Paladins Are Bastards)" on youtube on teh channel "burialgoods"
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Loverboy821  [作者] 10 月 13 日 下午 7:05 
@gladiosanctus I was busy with other stuff and not checking the comments on workshop, I generally try to be good about feedback. Though if you read through the other comments you will see that a lot of them are talking about how people think I set the dragon growth time too long and how/why I disagree with the sentiment. Though I am starting to think you guys all just play like single session long games or something because my games often go for decades of in game time, are things me and my friends save and then come back too as we try to outmaneuver each other.
PAXCOlord23 10 月 11 日 下午 8:48 
You can actually edit the value of how long it takes for the Dragon to evolve if you want by directly editing the mod file. It's called <growtime> in the Mad Mage.c5m file, just edit it with Notepad and search for growtime and it'll show how many turns it takes for each transformation, edit it to however long you'd like.
GladioSanctus 10 月 11 日 上午 1:25 
i guess you dont do feedback huh. second playthrough for me, i have a young dragon and i have 2 enemies to go to finish the game. going through the dragon ritual and all the wait is a complete waste. ill just stay a mad mage and cope with the insanity.
GladioSanctus 10 月 5 日 下午 7:48 
bro...you have to make becoming a dragon and on top of that growing to adult dragon way shorter than this... by the time we're full grown the game is literally over... what fun is that?
Loverboy821  [作者] 10 月 4 日 下午 4:12 
The Dragon Transformation is one of the level 3 rituals and you can unlock it via using the grand mastery ritual
GladioSanctus 10 月 3 日 下午 5:05 
How do I get that ritual to show up? Are there some kind of requirements I’m not aware of? Because all I see is the ritual for grand mastery or something.. and the invoke abbadon one
Devily 9 月 21 日 上午 3:15 
No problems with multiple comments.
I wanted to try to do a "dragon run", cheated myself the necessary gems, sacrifices and gold to get minions, after a few months (around 4 or so) I got the ritual to become a dragon and I went ahead and did it, this was on a huge map with all AI enemies set to Count.
The rituals to summon "minor" armies are pretty strong at all times, even when you get some "bad" rolls (soulless for necro, single succubus for demon, brass horror for void) the ritual only cost 100 and you can often get some army setup.
Towards the end of the game I ended up being a full fledged adult I believe but by then I had already managed to conquer half the map, with necros, witches and a single goblin terraforming the world into troll woods.
Ultimately, this class will always win, so giving a ritual (maybe eating a few hundred expendable units?) to see everything it has to offer would allow everyone to fully see everything that's there.
Loverboy821  [作者] 9 月 21 日 上午 2:45 
Also sorry for the multiple comments it didn't let me comment all of that into one comment. I'd like to say i'm not saying your opinions are wrong either or anything, I have been mulling over in my head if I should lower the times or make them rituals since reading your feed back, I was just trying to explain my reasoning in detail for currently disagreeing with your opinions.
Loverboy821  [作者] 9 月 21 日 上午 2:44 
I appreciate that it is bizarre to play a class in which you are not expected to make full use of their powers available every game when you play them but this was made as a way to sort of balance it as having reliable access to the older dragons would make the class utterly unplayable, even as is, its incredibly powerful outclassing pretty much any vanilla class and most mod classes. Not to mention that story wise it does specifically mention of the 8 or so mad mages/ Fallen Magisters there have been only 2 have tried to become dark dragon lords implying that doing so is at a level of difficulty that even insane borderline immortal arch mages wouldn't normally attempt.
Loverboy821  [作者] 9 月 21 日 上午 2:44 
2 - Getting to Old, Ancient or Wyrm level Dark Dragon Lord is essentially you win the game, It is a level of power far, far beyond anything else with an Old Dark Dragon lord being able to 1v1 any god or elder dragon in the game and the two ages above that being double the power and double the power. If the game has gone on long enough for you to have not won by the time that you become a Dark Dragon Lord Wyrm then you are either messing around or having the game of your life because its not the supposed to be the reasonable end game of the class its more of a fun achievement or a level of power to go against other incredibly over powered mod classes.