[llamabeast]

No no no. Read it again. The point is that you shouldn't have the CB mod enabled since it's not a CB game. I could have said "make sure you have no mods enabled", but that would be mildly misinformative since no other mods that I know of make any difference to pretender costs. Creating a pretender while you've got the CB mod enabled is pretty much the only thing you can do to screw the process up (the server will accept the pretender, but once the game starts Dominions will accuse you of cheating and turn your pretender into a pointless magicless archmage), so I thought I had better mention it.