More Strategic Spells

[ampoliros]

These are MoM Strategic spells not previously suggested I'd like to see in WoM.


Astral Gate
? / ?
City Enchantment
Create a gate to another plane of existence located permanently in a city as long as upkeep is paid.


Consecration
Life / ?
City Enchantment
Target city gets +X (a lot) of resist vs Negative Energy effects and all corruption in the city's radius is removed.


Endurance (?Forced March?)
Biomancy / ?
Unit Enchantment
Target unit gains +1 movement.


Herosim
Life? / Augmentation?
Unit Enchantment
Target unit becomes max level while upkeep is paid. Automatically dispels when the unit earns enough XP to naturally be max level.


Planar Travel
? / Augmentation
Unit Enchantment
Target unit gains Planar Shift ability.


Planar Shift
? / ?
Instant
Target stack travels to another plane.


Prosperity
? / ?
City Enchantment
Target city gains +X% gold production.


Resurrection
Life / ?
Instant
Target dead Hero is brought back to life at the caster's summoning circle.


True Sight
Life / Augmentation
Unit Enchantment
Target unit gains Illusion Immunity.


Cloud of Shadow
Death / ?
City Enchantment
All battles in target city are under the effect of Darkness.


Cruel Unminding
Death / ?
Instant
Target enemy Sorcerer Lord loses X% (1-10) of his casting skill.


Cursed Lands
Death / ?
City Enchantment
Target city has it's production reduced by X%.


Famine
Death / ?
City Enchantment
Target city's food production is reduced by X%.


Pestilence
Death / Biomancy
City Enchantment
Target city loses a population each turn if it is above X pop.


Subversion
Death / ?
Instant
Target Sorcerer Lord has diplomatic relations with all other Lords reduced by X to Y amount.


Warp Fount (formerly Warp Node)
Death / ?
Instant
Target Fount reduces mana income rather than generating mana income. Warped Founts cannot change owner.


Wraith Form
Death / Augmentation
Unit Enchantment
Target unit gains Non-Corporeal ability.


Change Terrain
? / ?
Instant
Change the terrain type of one tile. (MoM changed most tiles one step closer to grassland. The WoM version could be a random change?)


Earth Lore
Earth / ?
Instant
Reveal an area of the Strategic map. An Earth version of Far Sight.


Earthquake
Earth / Destruction
Instant
Target city has random units and buldings destroyed.


Gaia's Blessing
Earth / ?
City Enchantment
Increase the Growth stat of the surrounding tiles, thus increasing the max pop of the target city.


Giant Strength
? / Augmentation
Unit Enchantment
Increase the attack value of the target unit by 1.


Ice Storm
Water / Destruction
Instatnt
Hit each unit in target enemy stack with a strong cold attack.


Move Fortress
Earth? / ?
Instant
Move your Fortress to the target city.


Nature's Cures
Earth? / Biomancy
Instant
Restores all units in a targeted stack to full health.


Nature's Eye
Earth? / ?
City Enchantment
Increase the scouting radius of target city.


Pathfinding
Earth / Augmentation
Unit Enchantment
Target unit gains Pathfinding ability.


Regeneration
Earth? / Augmentation
Unit Enchantment
Target unit gains +1 Regeneration.
(MoM regeneration was +1 HP each round of combat and full heal at end of combat.)


Resist Elements
? / Augmentation
Unit Enchantment
Target unit gains +3 to all saves vs any elemental effect.


Wall of Stone
Earth / ?
City Enchantment
Magically erect the Stone version of City Wall for target city.


Water Walking
Water / Augmentation
Unit Enchantment
Target unit gains Swimming.


Enchant Roads
? / ?
Instant
All roads in a 5x5 area of tiles become Enchanted Roads.


Flight
Air / Augmentation
Unit Enchantment
Target unit gains Flying.


Floating Island
Water? / Summoning
Instant
Summon a non-combat unit capable of transporting a full stack of units across the water.


Flying Fortress
Air / ?
City Enchantment
During battle at the enchanted city, non-Flying units may not enter or leave the city area, nor make Melee Attacks across its boundaries.


Guardian Wind
Air / Protection
Unit Enchantment
Target unit gains Missile Immunity.


Haste
Air / Augmentation
Unit Enchantment
Target unit gains double movement and may make 2 attacks in combat.
(That's the MoM version. I'm assuming D20 has a definition for Haste.)


Invisibility
Air / Augmentation
Unit Enchantment
Target unit gains Invisibility.


Resit Magic
? / Protection
Unit Enchantment
Target unit gains +X to all saves. Mana slider to determine bonus.


MoM spell was Spell Ward... I propose 6 versions...
Life Ward / Death Ward / etc...
<Opposite Element> / Protection
City Enchantment
Summoned units of named Element cannot enter target city.


Stasis
? / ?
Instant
All units in target enemy stack must make a ??? save at -3 or lose their movement until they make the save.


Wind Walking
Air / Augmentation
Target unit gains Flying and can move at at least 3. This unit can bring any stacked units with it. (More powerful version of Flight.)


Call the Void
Fire? / Destruction
Instant
Target enemy city (units and buildings) and surrounding tiles take massive damage.


Chaos Channels
? / Augmentation
Target unit receives a random augmentation. (Flying / Fire Breath / Defense). Warps the target into a magical unit and has no upkeep.


Chaos Rift
Fire? / Destruction
City Enchantment
Target enemy city take damage each turn. (Buildings and units)


Eldritch Weapon
? / Augmentation
Unit Enchantment
Target unit's weapons are enchanted so they count as magic weapons. Reduces the effectiveness of target-enemy armor by 10%.


Fire Storm
Fire / Destruction
Instant
Each figure in target enemy stack is immolated by strong fire damage.


Immolation
Fire / Augmentation
Unit Enchantment
Target unit gains a touch attack delivering weak fire damage to each figure in the enemy unit.


Wall of Fire
Fire / ?
City Enchantment
On the battlefield target city will be surrounded by fire and any unit crossing the wall will have all figures hit by medium strength fire damage.

[ampoliros]

Illusory Raven
Water / Summoning
Instant
Summon a nearly invisible (+X to hide in shadows) Raven whose eyes are linked to a mirror in your Fortress.
Very weak flying scout unit.

[Troy_Costisick]

I'll add one:

Sabotage
Death or Earth/Destruction
Instant
Reset the current production on a project in target city to zero.

So if they are building a bank and have 25 production units into it, it goes back to 0.

[ampoliros]

I'm pulling non-global spell suggestions out of the spell discussions here...

Unbind
Mentalism / Water
Strategic Instant
Remove the owner's control of 1 summoned unit. The unit becomes neutral.


Compel
Mentalism / Death
Strategic Instant
Compel one summoned unit to follow you. Use on a neutral summon, or wrest control from another Lord. It is easier to Compel a neutral unit. The caster of Compel must pay the summoned unit's upkeep if successful.


Inspiration
Life / Augmentation
City Enchantment
Inspire the citizens of the city to provide a small increase in production and also lowers unrest by 1.


Insight (unless Insight becomes the name of Forsee Battle)
Water / Augmentation
Enchant one unit with the power to be insightful in battle.
The unit gets a magical do-over each combat round.

---------- Post added at 07:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:28 PM ----------

and here's another one...

Crimson Horror
Summoning / Death
Strategic only
The caster calls upon the negative energies to conjure up a shrieking blood-red abomination loosely resembling an 8 foot tall horse.

Nonchalance
Mentalism / Death
Strategic Bane spell
Target enemy stack in enchanted to half-heartedly perform their day-to-day duties.
All units in the stack lose 1/2 their movement points and sight radius. The effect lasts for 3 turns and may be dispelled.

This spell would be used both as invasion prep and as a run-away spell.

Just making sure these don't get forgotten...

[kilobug]

Ok let's see your porposals

- Unbind : I like it, but even better if there is a reverse spell, a Bind spell that takes control of a neutral summoned creature (be it a "raider" unit or the result of unbind, but see Compel) ;

- Compel : as said above I like the idea, but I'm sceptical about "Death" for that, I would more say Water or even Earth ("compel" sounds like strong calm authority, and that's associated with Earth to me) ;

- Inspiration : that was evocked in other threads, I like it; for many of those spells, it would even be good to have two versions : a version affecting only one city, and very high-level, expensive version affecting the whole empire ;

- Insight : I like the idea, but how to do it UI-wise without it being cumbersome or too complicated ?

- Crimson Horror : hum why not, but what would be the abilities of the abomination ?

- Nonchalance : I like the idea, but not losing sight radius. I would say more lose movement points and have a slight penalty to attack.

[ampoliros]

Moving this one here so it doesn't get lost.

Unholy Pact
Death / Destruction
The Sorcerer Lord strikes a pact with a demon ceding control of one of his cities to the Demon. The Demon city will become an Independent Empire which is allied with the caster. The Demon city gets a Demonic Portal which has a chance to spawn a demon unit each turn.
(OK, so I guess this is more of a Strategic Instant spell)

[Troy_Costisick]

I think we could use some more movement spells since we do have 7 planes to conquer. Here's a few off the top of my head:

Endurance:
Life/Augmentation
+1 movement to ground units. (low level)

Quickfeet:
Fire/Augmentation
+2 movement to ground units. (mid level)

Pathfinding:
Earth/Augmentation
Unit ignores are movement penalties from terrain types except water, obviously. (very low level)

Waterwalking:
Water/Augmentation
Unit can walk on water squares. (low level)

Waterskating:
Water/Augmentation
Unit can walk on water squares and gets a +2 movemnt bonus while on water/river squares. (mid-high level)

Levitation:
Air/Biomancy
Target unit gains flying. (mid level)

Flight:
Air/Biomancy
Target unit gains flying and has +1 to its movement. (mid-high level)

Lesser Teleportation:
Air/Mentalism
Unit is tranported to any open square on the same plane. (mid-low level)

Greater Teleportation:
Air/Mentalism
Unit is transported to any open square on any plane. (mid level)

Lesser Mass Teleportation:
Air/Mentalism
All units in target stack are tranported to any open square on the same plane. (mid-high level)

Greater Mass Teleportation:
Air/Mentalism
All units in target stack are tranported to any open square on any same plane. (high level)

Recall:
Air/Mentalism
Brings a unit to capital city from anywhere. (mid level)

Mass Recall:
Brings all units in target stack back to capital city from anywhere. (very high level)

[kilobug]

I like those ideas, a few remarks :

1. I'm not sure we want to always link the "overland map" and the "strategic combat" movement, we could have spells affecting only one.

2. Fire shouldn't just be more bonus than life. It would more see the fire spell to be more powerful with a penalty, like "+2 movement to ground units but -1 penalty to defense" or "+2 movement to ground units, but everytime turn you use the extra movement point, each figure must do a fort save or loses 1hp".

3. For the teleportation spells, I would add a "open square outside the fog of war" condition, making scout units important.

4. I would put pathfinding at higher level (mid level), but make it affect the whole stack, not just the unit. How will the "pathfinding" feat of some units work ?

5. I think we should also have spells to help defend your domain, inflicting various penalties to movement to ennemy units within your domain.

[Troy_Costisick]

We'd better close these spell suggestion threads soon, or I'm going to accidentally keep coming up with more ideas! I'd like to see some more city enchantments. It seems like we don't have enough.

Defender's Resolve
Earth/Protection
Units defending in this city get +1 Defense, +1 to all Saves, and +3 hit points.

Farmer's Resolve
Earth/Biomancy
Increase the food production of enchanted city by 15%.

Builder's Resolve
Earth/Augmentation
Increase production of enchanted city by 15%.

Merchant's Resolve
Earth/Augmentation
Increase gold production of enchanted city by 15%.

Mother's Resolve
Life/Biomancy
Increase population growth of enchanted city by 15%.

-those are simple ones, bread and butter, here are some more complex ones-

Lesser Disaster Shield
Life or Earth/Protection
Enchanted city and its area of influence has its resistance to natural disasters (earthquakes, meteor showers, volcanos, etc.) increased by 50% [including those caused by spells].

Greater Disaster Shield
Life or Earth/Protection
Enchanted city and its area of influence are immune to natural disasters [including those caused by spells].

(the idea for the next few is that the sorcerer-lord is tying himself closer to the lands and gaining power from it)

Veins of Power
Earth/Mentalism or Biomancy
Enchanted city produces +1 mana point for each tile of mountain in its area of influence. (this spell has no upkeep cost)

Roots of Power
Earth/Mentalism or Biomancy
Enchanted city produces +1 mana point for each tile of forest in its area of influence. (this spell has no upkeep cost)

Stream of Power
Earth/Mentalism or Biomancy
Enchanted city produces +1 mana point for each tile of river in its area of influence. (this spell has no upkeep cost)

(I could also see some spells developed along these lines for unique terrain features on alternate planes like fire, water, etc. Moving on...)

Aura of Restoration
Life/Biomancy
The healing rate for units inside the city is increased by 50%.

Tendrils of the Sorcerer Lord
Earth/Augmentation
The area of influence for enchanted city is increased by one square (so if cities start off as a 3x3 square, this would make it a 5x5. This would also stack with the Wagoner's Guild if that building makes it in).

Spell Dome
Air/Protection
Other enchantments laid on this city cannot be dispelled (so they have to kill this enchantment first before getting the others).

Hardy Souls
Earth/Biomancy
Desert and Tundra tiles in enchanted city's area of influence produce +1 food and +1 production.

Mariner's Eye
Water/Augmentation
All friendly naval units within the enchanted city's area of influence get +1Atk, +1Def, and +3 Hit Points.

Placate the Masses
Earth/Mentalism
Unrest in enchanted city is reduced by 2 for each tile of Gemstones, Gold, Silver, or Pearls that are in its area of influence.

[kilobug]

Overall I like them. " Stream of Power" should be Water not Earth to me.