1. Spell Name: Vampirism
2. Strategic
3. Arcane Knowledge: 25
4. Mana required to cast: 10
5. No.
6. Target friendly normal unit gains vampiric traits, i.e: bonus str, hp, life stealing melee attacks, takes bonus damage from fire/whatever passes for holy
7. Spell Book: Book of Necromancy
8. Note: Has chance to fail (The game rolls a number between 1 and 10 and the player rolls a number between 1 and the Caster’s intelligence. If their INT roll exceeds the game roll, the spell is cast) or has some other non mana cost.

1. Spell Name: Wraithblade
2. Tactical or Strategic
3. Arcane Knowledge: 18
4. Mana required to cast: 4/8
5. Tactical No, Strategic Air.
6. Target units melee attacks ignore armour (or half armour)
7. Spell Book: Book of Necromancy
8. Note: Cast as a strategic spell is becomes an enchantment, however they are handled.

1/id like to see a cyclone/hurricane spell or a tornado/waterspout spell that could have a chance of backfiring on the caster,

2/stategic

3/dont know, but it should be in the middle to later part of a game i think

4/a fair bit id say

5/air shard, maybe more than 1 to increase probability of sucess

6/damage to cities/ ships caravans even armies, maybe a loss of movement for a turn too

7/ dont know

I haven't played the beta simply because I can't manage pain too well so I've just lived vicarously through the posting of everyone else here. So here are some interesting ideas I just came up with for spells I'd like to see implemented.  Sorry they are not broken down by the Gang of 8 fields as many I simply have no idea about yet.  Sorry for that but thought some might be fun to see in the game when it does go 1.01.  Oh and yes, I do spend my days buried in C code for a living.  Sigh...

Otto's Irresistable Dance-Well you should know this one already if you played the early D&D in the late 70's early 80's. Strategic. Something similar in battle. Rename it for copyright reasons and let's get it implemented.  A jig is good stuff.  How can you not implement this?

Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field-Strategic - Appear much stronger than you appear to be. Discourages monsters from attacking.Possibly increases the likelihood an NPC would join.

Ballmer's Chair FrenzyTactical - Summons an army of animated chairs to appear and get strewn about as in a bar brawl or when someone defects from the sovereign's camp(or an NPC defects).

Why The Lucky Stiff's Fadeaway - Cast an illusion of one's persona as an automaton that allows you to withdraw/retreatfrom the field of battle.

Zed's Dead Ghetto - Undoes land areas of "revival."

CEE's Malloc Disaster - Every Nth round, the monster is paralyzed for a round due to limited computing brainpower thus inhibiting the ability to move onto the next action in battle.

Basic's GOTO Hell - Unleash a a number of enlivened ropes that intertwine among the enemy thus creating an effective battlefied of SPAGHETTI.

Guido's Garbage Collector - Collects the "remains " of monsters killed in the last round and any currently alive creatures that are under 15% of hitpoints and "glues" them together into an abomination.  Small percentage of the abomination  turning on the caster.

Procipinee's Porcupine - A rain of darts appears from the northern sky.  Not damage causing but severely irritating/distracting for N rounds.

Kroxir's Bane - Attempts to banish creatures to the dungeon of Ithyrl thus removing them from the field of battle.

Smarag's Tooth - Creates wall of defense around giving immunity to a certain effect such as fire,acid,poison.

Ventir's Menace - Increases the scale/size of everyone in the sovereigns party and reduces all in the opposing party for N rounds.  Abilities also affected for everyone depending on the effect of the spell? eg. grow 1.5 times the size and grow 1.5 times the stats or reduce 1.5 times the opponent...etc.

Nepenthe - Forgetfulness for a short duration of time.  Forget 1-2 levels of recent achievements for a short duration.

Hero Reborn - Recover the skill of a hero you slay in battle.  Must be cast when opponent is within 10% of death? Very low chance to of success.

My Sovereign's Little Rootkit - Throw seeds that quickly grow into roots to tangle an opponent

My Sovereign's Rootkit All Grown Up - Strategic forest of vines to create a barrier.

Gift of Tourettes - Causes spellcasters to lose focus for 1-2 turns therby eliminating their ability to cast spells.

Window of Fate - Cast before an impending battle temporarily pauses all action. The impending battle is illusioned and the outcome has wildly varying results causing simple morale change in some and utter fear/retreat in others.  There is a chance that this could backfire and affect one's own troops.  Could possibly result in a battle not even needing to be fought.

Overlord for a Day - "Maxes" out a hero for a N turns.  Essentially the hero becomes a god. Can only be cast once per game?  Perhaps found scroll.

1. Raise Skeleton
2. Strategic
3. Arcane Knowledge: 10
4. Mana: 3
5. None
6. Sacrifices 1 population for a skeleton soldier
7. Book: Necromancy
8. Note: must be cast in a city or graveyard

1. Raise Skeleton Army
2. Strategic
3. Arcane Knowledge: 15
4. Mana: 8
5. None
6. Sacrifices 10 population for a Unit of 10 Skeletons
7. Book: Necromancy
8. Note: must be cast in a city or graveyard

1. Raise Skeleton Hoard
2. Strategic
3. Arcane Knowledge: 20
4. Mana: 12
5. None
6. Sacrifices 20 population for a Unit of 20 Skeletons
7. Book: Necromancy
8. Note: Must be cast in a city or graveyard

1. Seize Soul
2. Tactical
3. Arcane Knowledge: 18
4. Mana: 10
5. None
6. Targets enemy unit, when unit is destroyed, becomes an undead unit under your control at 2/3 Max HP.
7. Book: Necromancy
8. Note: Caster's Int rolls against Target's Wisdom. If the Caster's roll is equal or higher, spell is successful. Only lasts for duration of the battle, yet any undead units created are added to the Caster's forces.

1. Wither
2. Tactical
3. Arcane Knowledge: 20
4. Mana: 12
5. None
6. Enemy Unit recieves curse of -30% Max HP and -50% stats
7. Book: Necromancy
8. Uses an enchantment slot

1. Ghoulish Aura
2. Strategic
3. Arcane Knowledge: 20
4. Mana: 15
5. None
6. Friendly Unit/Champion gains +5 poison damage and drains 30% damage dealt for health
7. Book: Necromancy
8. Uses an Enchantment slot

1. Infeeble
2. Tactical
3. Arcane Knowledge 18
4. Mana: 10
5. None
6. Enemy unit receives cures of -1 to all stats, -25% attack, and -30% combat speed
7. Book: Necromancy
8. Uses an Enchantment slot

1. Poison Land
2. Strategic
3. Arcane Knowledge: 25
4. Mana: 15
5. None
6. Radius of 1, range of 2. Poisons the land, affecting food -75% and causing 1 poison damage per turn to all units.
7. Book: Necromancy
8. Uses an Enchantment slot

One thing that made Master of Magic so good is that the spell books were so different from one another.  Chaos kicked butt in battle, but life had the best army buffs.  Earth was a defensive juggernaught, but sorcery could mess with other peoples magic.  So far the spell book for Elemental is basically the same exact spell over and over.  Electrical damage, Fire damage, earth (blunt) damage.  Same spell (dam = int/3), only different names.  There is nothing wrong with just copying the Master of Magic spell book, infact I think many of us would cheer.  Please! make the spell spheres differ from one another otherwise who cares if you pick fire or earth or whatever.

1. Fire Portal
2. Strategic
3. Knowledge to learn = 22
4. Mana to Cast = 20, uses enchantment slot
5. Fire Shard, Earth Shard
6. Create a burning portal, Placing a unit in it allows duplicates to be created.
7. Book of Fire
8. The duplicates die instantly from fire damage (even 1 dmg), but in all other aspects are copies of the unit left inside the portal.  The unit must not leave the portal.  Individual units only (no squads, parties etc).  Could do Air, earth and water versions of this spell.  Or shift it to which ever element you want.

Is it possible to create spells that interact with the surroundings; for example, to hurl water at the enemy, if there is a source of water?

1. Water Throw

2. Strategic

3. I would need a reference frame, sorry.

4. I would need a reference frame, sorry.

5. Water Shard

6. Select a water source, and then an enemy to attack

7. Book of Water?

8. Extra damage vs. fire enemies... With the combo idea, this would let you throw nifty effects together. (First soak, and then freeze an enemy?)

1. Troglydite Swamp
2. Strategic
3. Knowledge to learn = 15
4. Mana to Cast = 10
5. No
6. Turn a swamp into a festering troglydite breeding ground.  Allows the reqruiting of Troglydites.
7. Book of Ruin
8. Troglydites are blind and rely on hearing.  Carry only a spear, have no armour.  (basically peasants with pointy sticks).  Being blind, they are immune to visual effect type spells (summon horror etc as they cannot see the scary images).  Allows the automatic dispelling of weak illusions (the illusion made no sound )  You should be able to train armies of these thingies if you have the gildars!!

1. Greater Proection from Arrows
2. Tactical
3. Knowledge to learn = 18
4. mana cost = 4
5. Air Shard
6. Target Stack is immune from non elemental range attacks for the duration of the tactical battle
7. Book of Air
8. fire, earth, water, lightning, death, range attacks are not hindered by this spell.

1. Undead Ruling
2. Strategic
3. Knowledge to learn = 20
4. Mana Cost = 25
5. Death Shard, Earth Shard
6. All units currently controlled by the player are sacrificed and in their place their skeletons rise.  Units are exact copies with 75% of the original HP.  Skeletons do not have a maintenance cost.
7. Book of Death
8. Can only be cast once per game.  Why summon skeletens when you can just rend the flesh from your own minions?

1. Summon Pheonix
2. Tactical
3. Knowledge to learn = 18
4. Mana Cost = 5
5. Life Shard
6. Summon a powerful pheonix to fight for yuo for this tactical battle.  If it is killed it has a chance of INT*2 to come back to life.   It can only revive once.
7. Book of Summoning

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...... YES!!!!