Winter Holidays mod Thread - Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension

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Silly? Definetely. But why not? I felt like releasing something small and (to me)funny, so here is it.

It adds 4 pretenders available to all land nation - the Bringer of Gifts in two versions(one has a magical sled), the Punisher of the Wicked(based on the Krampus), and the Giant Snowman. Sprites are still fairly rough(as are descriptions) but they should not be too horrible, except for the lack of attack ones.

Not a serious project, but if other people want to help or take over, they are welcome. I did think of some other related concepts that could be used in this(Snowmen army, gift-giving broom flying crones...)

Edited by: TheZonk

Why do you call it "winter holidays" mod when the only holiday included is Xmas>?

Fenryder wrote: Why do you call it "winter holidays" mod when the only holiday included is Xmas>?

It's a sketch/first draft(again not a serious project) hence other things are meant to be included, such as non-Christmas specific stuff, although I'm not too familiar with them so if people want to add...

Also seemed odd to mention Christ-mas specifically since there's no Christ-related pretender. Dominions wise, one could do something with the Prophet of Ermor actually, who has returned to protest against the other winter-holiday prophet as he says the holiday was originally about him? ... Prophetshroudedinwhitemas doesn't sound as cool.

I suspect some people would be offended but Dominions as a game doesn't seem toy care much real-world religious beliefs so it doesn't really matter.

Actually, might be interesting expand or change this include other holidays, like Halloween(Pumpkin King pretender!), Easter, and of course non western festivals.
Some might end up working as 'serious'pretender concepts(I'm thinking the Krampus for example could be changed a bit and used in a serious dom mod)...
As I said though, it's not a project I want to spend too much time on, so if other people find this fun enough to help it could be cool.

Edited by: TheZonk

Seasonal heroes would be a great idea! Random chance of appearing to any nation would be best in my opinion.

For spring, I could imagine a huge berserking vorpal rabbit! He could increase the income and growth of the province he's in due to random eggs appearing whenever he is nearby. During battle, he could summon smaller vorpal rabbits as support.

A Pumpkin King hero, who has a chance to appear during the fall would be amazing!
I could just imagine him randomly summoning halloween type monsters per month such as werewolves, vampires, mummies, shamblers etc
Even better if his name was specifically Jack Skellington!

For winter, perhaps some kind of Priest in Red!
He'd avert bad events in a province, increase income and generally have amazing steward-type abilities. He'd obviously have flying and high map movement and during battles he could have a horde of pygmies dressed in red/green appear!

Edited by: DariusFF

Can't really mod heroes that can appear for any nation BUT could add them to nations that fit particularly. Can't make them appear in one seaso nonly, though.

I do like the idea of serious seasonal spirits, but can't really think of something for summer.

By the way, spring could get the cupid, a small angel(mini-virtue)with arrows of love(enslave, MR resist) stealth and assassination

And I did think of a Jack Skellington guy, but I'd have him separate from the pumpkin king.

So I made a mini-mod where one gets a spell to summon a "Pumpkin King" (I copied the sprite of a hoburg militia) who summons 5 random monsters per month!
I made a #montag list for the summons which consists of famous movie / mythic monster types:
1) Vampire
2) Werewolf
3) Shambler
4) Mummy
5) Corpse Man
6) Soulless
7) Longdead
8] Spectre
9) Ghoul
10) Troll
11) Ogre
Obviously its a joke mod, but the hilarity of it is amazing to me!
I'm hoping to expand this list even further with other monsters just for the fun of it! Imagine random dragons, mindflayers, wyrms etc just showing up all because of a hoburg!

Edited by: DariusFF

That's pretty awesome actually, seems a good list of Halloween monsters(well, Troll and Ogres don't seem so 'iconic' but they can stay).
Balance-wise you might want to make the more powerful monsters in the list rarer(summon1 or perhaps raredom?)

Maybe when I have more time we should join forces and put our mini-mods together . I also had considered a spell to summon snowmen(as in, actual men made of snow).
A whole Halloween-themed nation could be fun - Death magic with some Nature and just a bit of Blood perhaps.

Also, Pumpkin King should have an awesome giant sprite with a pumpkin head and the Fallpower ability
Edit: Also, Pumpkin lanterns as an immobile summon troop that causes fear and has a banefire shield?:P

As I said, bonus points if these things can be made semi-serious enough to fit into an actual dominions game. It shouldn't be too hard considering how Halloween was an important a Celtic festival.

Edited by: TheZonk

The problem with the #montag command is that its completely random! The only way to make powerful monsters appear less often is to expand the list.

I'd absolutely love to see your ideas! Some of the nation mods presented here are a little too serious! we need some nations made for FUN!

What I meant about #montag - you could make different montags/lists of members, and summon 5 'weak ones', 3 'average' ones', 1 'strong one', assuming summon allies works like it should.

Anyway, as I I have other mods and stuff and this isn't very priority but as we said it WOULD be very fun.
When I have more time though I'll definetely finish what's inside that alpha(the snowman will definetely get a 'serious' sprite, I think I made a good one) and maybe do one spirit pretender per season.

The whole concept of a Halloween/horror mod would really fit best as a full nation btw. It could be something like 'monster town' or the like, with vampires living side by side with weresolves, trolls and various horrible creatures.

Agreed! Hopefully the developers release the death-related commands soon! I'd love to work on a halloween-type nation.
Heck, I can already think of a few heroes and nation-summons!

Imagine Buffy or Van Helsing in Dominions!!
Going the other side of the spectrum, Freddy and Jason!

Edited by: DariusFF

The Alucard mod. You have Alucard as pretender, and you cannot recruit anything else. Good luck to your opponent, they will need it.

(reference to the Hellsing anime)

What are the "death-related commands" we don't have yet?

So far we don't have death scale versions of:
#chaosrec
#chaospower

I'd honestly love to see other scale versions of #iceprot too!