So I was playing chess with my brother Last night (and losing pretty badly) and I said in desperation that my king defeats his king by force of dominion... then that got me thinking, what if you DID combine chess with Dominions?
So the king would be the Pretender, of course... he could be captured like any other piece, and could be called back to his home square by bishops (priests) or any piece appointed as a prophet... you'd only win by either eliminating the opponent's entire army or eliminating his dominion... dominion would be represented by placing a checker (draughtsman) of your color on a square (only 3 levels of dominion: +1, 0, -1 for simplicity & to avoid running out of checkers
)... kings, bishops, and prophets would spread dominion to the square they are in and any adjacent square - or maybe any square they could move to, to spice things up a bit... bishops and prophets could preach to extend their radius of influence... you could even make the knights blood mages and let them sacrifice an adjacent pawn or sacrifice several to summon back a dead piece... anyone interested in developing this further?
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