NEW GAME CREATION

In the first screen you must choice :

Difficulty (Intro/easy/normal/hard/impossible) i.e change starting gold reserve and in hard level enemies have 13 picks and in impossible level 15 and more
Opponents (from one to four) number o of enemies wizard
Land size (small/medium/large) is the proportion of land on water
Magic (Weak/normal/powerful) This identifiy the power generated when a spirit meld in a magic node of Chaos, Nature or Sorcery this is respectively 0.5 / 1 / 1.5 mana for each square covered, in Myrror node produce double power.

After this you must choice your wizard from 14 pre-made or custom yours, not available in Intro level, if you choice Custom select a wizards pictures and name

then procede to pick distribution screen, you have 11 picks to choice book (1 pick --> 1 book) and skills.

After choice the initial spells (see book in wizard section) you must select one races, each races have strong point and weakness (see Units and Races section), after this choice your flag and color and start play.

FAME

Wizard gain fame winning a major battle (enemy stack of 4 or more unit ), Famous skill (start with 10 fame), with heròs Legendary skill or with Just Cause life spell.
Each fame point reduce by 1 the total of gold mantainance of unit, more famous is a wizard and more powerful heroes ask to join.

TERRAIN

Terrain is an important factor of Master of Magic, city production, population depend from the type of terrain in surrounding area, with more grassland may become very large, but with little production, build on a mountain or hills prevent raise of volcanoes.
Use the Terrain Surveyor [F1] to see city max population or bonus of different terrain.

 

Terrain bonus	Found in	Description
Wild game	Grasslands	+2 food
Silver	Mountains and hills	+2 gold
Gold	Mountains and hills	+3 gold
Gems	Mountains	+5 gold
Iron	Mountains and hills	Reduce unit cost of 5% (except shamans, priests, magicians and warlocks)
Coal	Mountain and hills	Reduce unit cost of 10% (except shamans, priests, magicians and warlocks)
Mithril	Mountains and hills	+1 power, when an Alchemist guild is build all normal unit produced in this city gain Mithril weapon  (gain +1 melee, missile ranged attack, defense, resistance for figure of unit and can hit unit with weapon immunity)
Adamantium	Mountain in Myrror	+2 power, when an Alchemist guild is build all unit produced in this city gain Adamantium weapon ( +2 melee, missile ranged attack, defense, resistance for figure of unit and can hit unit with weapon immunity)
Quork crystals	Deserts	+3 power
Crysx crystalk	Desert in Myrror	+5 power
Nightshade	Swamp	Protect city from spell, all enemy city spell must overcome a 100 strength dispel magic

Note:

Terrain bonus are cumulative, not effect, i.e. if a city have two coal mine have unit cost reduced of 20%, but if a city have two mithril mine gain +2 power, but when Alchemist guild is build in city unit don't gain double bonus.

RANDOM EVENTS

Random events is and option that can be turned on in Game settings, when activated each turn there is a chance  that one of this random events occur:

 

Chaos/Nature/Sorcery Conjunction:

power from specific node is double the other halved each turn have 5% chance to end.

Pestilence:

One city at Random is struck by Pestilence,  each turn have 5% chance to end.

Earthquake:

One city at Random is struck by an Earthquake.

Disjunction:

All Global Enchantment are dispelled.

Mana short:

All wizards power sources are shorted out,  each turn have 5% chance to end.

Good Moon:

doubles power from good temples (wizard with life spell books) and halves power from evil temples (wizards with Death spell books)

Evil Moon :

doubles power from evil temples and halves power from good temples

Depletion:

a mineral deposit is depleted and disappear.

Diplomatic Marriage:

A neutral city offer to  join.

Donation:

A merchant donate some gold to a random wizard

Gift:

A god offer an item.

Meteor:

A meteor strike a city at random, with effect similar to Call the Void chaos spell.

New Mineral:

A new mineral deposit is discovered near a city.

Population Boom:

Population Growth of target city is double, 5% each turn to end.

Rebellion:

a city with some unrest may rebell and become neutral, fantastic creatures in city are banished.

Pirates:

Pirates steal between 30% and 50% of  target wizard gold reserve.

MAGIC SCREEN

this is one of the more important screen of Master of Magic and it is build as follow:

• In the upper of the screen there is the portrait of the other wizard (you must encounter them before the portrait become available), up the portrait you see the spell that wizard is casting (this is available by Detect Magic enchantment), at right the portrait may be three tipe of symbol a scroll (wizard's pact), peace symbol (alliance) and 2 crossing sword (war) that represent the relation with the wizard of that color, under the portrait there is your level of relation with other wizard.
• in the right part yoe see the list of Global enchantment, the color identify the owner wizard.
• in the left there are three column (scepter) where you distribure the magic power obtained from city and magic node melded to you (this amount is the power base) and under this there are the total point gived to each:
  • the first is for the amount of mana that you put in reserve and from this you subtract the upkeep of enchantment (if it is insufficent the remainig upkeep is taked grom magic reserve if reserve goes to zero some spell was deleted)
  • the second is used for spell research, spell have a research cost each turn this amount is subtracted from research cost and when goes to zero, spell is added to wizard's book (the 85 research point of the image came from cities research point production, so you may divide the magic power from the other two scepter
  • the last scepter is to raise the casting skill (needed to cast more and more powerful spell in combat and in main window) to raise casting skill of 1 you may spend the current casting skill double. i.e starting casting skill is 20 to raise it to 21 you must spend (assign) 40 mana in this scepter if you assign 5 mana to this you need 4 turn to go to 21 and so on (if wizard is Archmage the amount of mana spent to this scepter is raised by 50%).
• under the column there two text column :
  • in the first there are the casting skill, the amount of mana in reserve, the power base that is the amount of magic power, produced each turn
  • the second dentify the spell in casting, the spell actually in research, and the city where there is the Summoning Circle.
• the button [OK] is to return to main window
• [Alchemy] recall the alchemy scree that is used to convert gold to power or power to gold tha ratio 2:1, i.if you convert 200 gold/power you obtain only 100 power/gold, the conversion is rounde down, to have conversion 1:1 you must take the Alchemy wizard's skil

You may raise or decrease the mana in the scepter by click on it and mana level goes to pointer level or after going with the mouse pointer on one scepter adjust level pressing + or - key