The God Design Initiative

[Nerfix]

Back in the days of Dominions: PPP, even before I had joined, there was a competition of sorts. A competition to create pretender gods that could be used as predesigned pretenders.

Dominions I didn't support multiple pretender designs per nation, so they went to Illwinter's site. This had a strong impact on me, a new player, who payed heed to the given example strategies.

Therefore I would like to do something along these lines again.

I would ask you to create a pretender design and then share it in this thread. Having a little story attached to the Pretender is apreciated, as is giving a couple of pointers of what sort of strategy to use with the pretender.

If it is possible, if pretender designs are saved into separate files, I would like you to upload the file. I would like to create a section for pretender designs in Dom3minions.com and from what I gathered Gandalf agreed to give me server space for this.

So, fellow dominions fanatics, let your creativity loose.

[Thilock_Dominus]

Heh, I don't even have my copy of dom3 yet. But count me in.

[silhouette]

I vote six tentacles up! [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Teddy.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Teddy.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Teddy.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Teddy.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Teddy.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Teddy.gif[/img] (eldritch tentacles disguised as plush toys to preserve silly humans' sanity).

I'm disappointed I couldn't make time to followup my own suggestion thread for a similar idea. Also my home internet has been down quite a while, and work posting is ick.

Sill

[Caduceus]

Nerfix said:
So, fellow dominions fanatics, let your creativity loose.

In my case it would be let my creativity lose

[Nerfix]

Welcome in. How many of you have the game already?

[Boron]

I love the oracle/fob and the dragons in Dom3.

For magically versatile nations i just use such supporter gods with good scales.

For early era maverni is such an example, for late era argartha.

Example dragon:
Blue dragon, dom6
Awake
3 order 3 productivity, 1 growth, 1 heat, 3 misfortune, 1 magic

Unfortunately there are 35 points then left, with those i buy 2 further picks of water magic.

If productivity is not important for my nation i take growth 3 productivity 1 instead.

The dragon's sole purpose is to speed up the initial expansion and then to raid the enemy a bit.

Once he dies calling him back is not too important, only if you are lucky and have many priestmages. Otherwise you do not need to worry neither though and can just leave him dead. By the time your dragon dies he normally already fulfilled his purpose.

Such a dragon normally survives the indies but gets eventually killed by your opponent.

[Nerfix]

Interesting design Boron. Cold would be more suitable for a Blue dragon, and that Misfortune is quite steep...but ah, perhaps the Dragon stole some powerful but cursed fire artifacet?

[Boron]

Nerfix said:
Interesting design Boron. Cold would be more suitable for a Blue dragon, and that Misfortune is quite steep...but ah, perhaps the Dragon stole some powerful but cursed fire artifacet?

Hm yeah, but the dragon is not cold blooded. But BoW would work a little better with cold 1 hm.
Next time i probably take cold 1 .
But Heat 1 on the other hand messes up jotunheim and caelum slightly, so imho heat 1 is usually better .

[Nerfix]

BTW, is there a special reason you use Blue dragon and not one of the others?

[Endoperez]

Nerfix said:
BTW, is there a special reason you use Blue dragon and not one of the others?

Perhaps the fact that Water increases defense now?