"Much like Magic: The Gathering, every element and character is simple, but what makes it interesting is the interactions between them." "The basic ingredients needed to make a cake can make many other things as well," says Fiske. Lords of Magic offers a staggering number of permutations, none of which is all that complex. While this is just the beginning, already you can see a trend. The magic types are many, including order, chaos, life, and death, and elemental types like air, water, fire, and earth.
You also choose the source of your magic. You choose from one of four races (good or bad humans or good or bad elves) to lead, and then select what type of leader to be: wizard, warrior, or thief. The object is to be on the conquering side at the end.
Your task is to unite with others to stop his reign of terror or join him in his conquests. Using that, he allies himself with the world's barbarians and once again rules the land. But there are also many differences that may set this game above that crowd.Ī once-vanquished dark lord has found a powerful ancient artifact. "It's sort of a combination of Masters of Magic, Civilization, and Heroes of Might & Magic," says codesigner Jeff Fiske, who designed and produced Robert E. It shares many characteristics of other empire builder games. Unlike Realm, which has a pseudo-historic, western European setting, Magic plays out in a fantasy world of dragons, fairies, and magicians. Like its namesake, Lords of the Realm, Lords of Magic is a turn-based strategy and exploration, real-time combat game.
That's the depth and variability one can expect from this game. While not the designers' stated purpose, Lords of Magic games played on the Internet may spawn a series of fantasy novels. Lords of Magic may be the one of the first games to exploit that.
One of the Internet's greatest potential strengths is as an interactive, multi-author, story creation medium.
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