Planescape: "An unnammed project" for Warcraft3

Well thanks for the replies! I am glad to see there is some interest here. Xanxost will eat those who does not have interest! Just kidding. But he might nibble a little bit. I mean, you humans don't have any use for that appendix, do you?

As stated before, I have pretty much fleshed out most of the races' units, that being what type of PS creature will fill what role in the strategy game. There are a few exceptions where creatures don't translate so well.... and i'll post these in time.

First off, the Modrons (since they'll be the first campaign anyway, if i get that far, hehe) In the campaign, the storyline shadows the events of the Great Modron March adventure anthology. I say shadows, not follows directly. A nonaton Rogue Hunter (one of the hero units i've created) is sent to retrieve a hexton Marshall, who has tumbled to the dark of the true ruler of Mechanus, the undead Tenebrous. the nonaton is eventually swayed over to the hexton's side, and the Septon who ordered the rogue hunter in the first place, sends his emissary, a kolyarut Record Keeper, to track HIM down. this is where the idea gets fuzzy, but eventually they realize the Hexton was right to begin with, and begin a rogue assault against the Modron Cathedral itself, only to find everything in perfect working order... They were too late, in fact the only reason they got so far was due to the confusion involved in reselecting Primus, and the Abyssal Lord has fled to Thanatos to rebuild his kingdom.

Needless to say, the traitors were disposed of properly

There's some definate fleshing out needed, but that's the basic gist. Yes, I'm familiar with how modrons communicate, so there would have to be "translators" available....

Now onto the Unit ideas for the Modron Procession.

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Heroes: (4)
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Oath Binder (Kolyarut Inevitable)
- Melee Cunning Hero.
- Hold Monster: Paralyzes(stuns) a small group of enemy units for a short period of time.
- Enervation Ray: Fires a bolt of pure black energy that deals harsh damage to the enemy and severely weakening its attack power for a short period of time.
- Vampiric Blade: Empowers the blade of the Kolyarut to steal health, and grants a damage bonus, both for a short period of time. While intended for use against the enemy, this ability also works on friendly units, in case the hero finds itself in a bind and on the brink of death.
- Ultimate - Judgement: The Oathbinder summons in the most feared of all the Inevitables, the Marut, to aid against his foes. Ideas for the Marut are discussed below.

Rogue Hunter (Nonaton Hierarch)
- Melee Cunning Hero. their abilities are not yet decided, but they will deal with tracking down and capturing rogue units in some capacity.
- Otiluke's Sphere: This spell creates a globe of energy that can gobble up one non heroic unit. While inside the sphere, the unit is immune to damage and cannot act at all, but allows the sphere to be seen no matter where it is. On higher levels, the sphere can move about. On the highest level, the sphere can attack with a powerful frosty gout that slows enemies. The Sphere can gobble up either friendly or villainous enemies.
-Static Web: Splatters an area with a sticky filament web that slows movement to a crawl while in it. In addition, the area is charged with electrical current, which deals damage for as long as the targets remain in the area.
- Refocusing(passive): Improves the movement speed and weapon damage of the Rogue Hunter.
- Ultimate - Serpent Form: Allows the Rogue Hunter to merge with its spheres, thus elongating into its "other" form, the pearl bead type. It cannot complete this ultimate unless there is an Otiluke's sphere floating around to merge with. In this form, attack and move speed improve, and a bonus to health is applied. Also, attacks become ranged and deal splash damage.

Chief Inspector (Septon Hierarch)
- Ranged Mystical Hero. Unconfirmed, but some abilities will include Summon Gear Spirit and Summon Spectator (Ultimate).
- Spell Crystals: The Chief Inspector can summon in little objects that orbit around the Septon's body and attack nearby units independent of the Chief Inspector. On higher levels, the damage is splash!
- Summon Gear Spirit: Summons a little gear spirit to aid you. Only one is summoned at a time, up to 3 can be in existence at once, due to cooldown limitations. With their Meld ability, gear spirits are able to take control of other mechanical units. They also deal damage to enemy armor when attacking.
- Reworked Functionality(passive): This ability improves the effects of the Chief Inspector's other abilities. It increases the range and splash of Spell Crystals. It improves the hit points and damage of summoned gear spirits. Finally It grants a passive Armor bonus to the Chief Inspector.
- Ultimate - Summon Spectator: Calls an Advanced Spectator beholder to guard a region.

Field Marshall (Hexton Hierarch)
- Melee Warrior Hero.
- Shocking Grasp: The Field Marshall can channel electricity through their body, discharging it in a potent shock that stuns and damages a single nearby unit.
- Six Bladed Strike: Releases 6 blades in all directions, dealing damage to 6 units nearby. If more than 6 units are in the area of effect, 6 units are chosen randomly to damage, and the rest recieve no damage.
- Aura of Efficiency(passive): Increases Damage potential by percent for all friendly units under its effects.
- Ultimate - Blade Barrier: the Hexton eminates a powerful barrier that not only deals heavy damage to units nearby, but prevents spells from affecting him for a period of time.

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Standard Units:
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Moigno
- Primary Units responsible for construction and repair of Modron Structures. Not much else to these guys. For Gameplay balance (and game engine functionality) they will move about by normal locomotion and not the teleportation effect described in the Planes of Law supplement. But they will be fast.

Monodrone
- Multipurpose, single use units. Duodrones will be responsible for turning them into more useful things. Some purposes include Harvesting Lumber, Gold, Reconnaisance (as a winged monodrone messenger).

Duodrone Tasker
- Two purpose unit responsible for tasking the Monodrones. Their second purpose is beyond me right now. They'll probably be able to fly upon an upgrade/transformative ability... I'm thinkin of making them something of a tank while on the ground... but unsure.

Tridrone Myrmidon
- Basic Melee Unit. They are 3 purpose beings. 1) melee function. 2) Limited count Javalin thrower. Unsure what effect this will have when it hits, but it will have SOME purpose other than just damage. 3) Living Trap (new ability). The Tridone will bury itself, so that it remains unseen by the living units. Whether or not it should attack in this form is still up in the air.

Quadrone Archer
- Basic Ranged Unit. The quadrones can fire two bows worth of arrows at once. Unsure if this will allow it to hit 2 targets or not, or just fire twice as fast as normal. They will have an upgrade that allows them to go aerial, at the cost of bow power becoming halved.

Pentadrone Commander
- Heavy Melee Unit. The pentadrones have a bevy of abilities at their disposal. They can utilize their paralysis gas to disable living opponents. They can turn that gas into a lift that allows them to levitate. They can also engage a spinning form (new ability) that allows them to rotate their head-plates around at blinding speeds to cut into ribbons those who come near. They will either be rooted to the spot when this occurs, or move about more slowly. This ability will probably disable their standard melee attacks, but that is still uncertain as of now.

Decaton Caretaker
- Primary Spellcaster. Warcraft 3 spellcasters typically have 3 spells available to them, and I've tried to keep with the spirit of this in the mod. The three spells i've chosen thus far are
- Healing Aura (gives a small amount of health to units in a moderate radius from the decaton, but easily recastable)
- Damage Link (Since Modron units are more frail than most other races, this helps keep those "focused fired" on alive longer.)
- Dispel Magic (Dispels all magic in a large radius around the Decaton.)
In addition, Decatons will share the levitate upgrade available to Pentadrones. The Main difference between Levitation and the Winged form upgrades of the Monodrones, Quadrones and possibly duodrones is that attacks can occur with winged forms, but not from levitation. Levitation also doesn't provide forward locomotion, but i might override this to allow -very- slow forward momentum. Also, Decatons will be considerably more healthy than most spellcasters, as they will have to be involved in the thick of combat to become effective.

Paraii
- Supportive Spellcaster. While the Decaton is a big, hearty thing, the Paraii is quite frail, and must be kept away from direct combat. Their spell repertoire includes:
- Slow, as per the spell, one target only.
- Life Tap.... unsure how to make this work. Giving Vampiric ability to the paraii seems pointless if she is not going to be a counter for melee units. What might happen is she gets this as a passive upgrade, and get a new, different spell to use instead. Any ideas here would be greatly appreciated.
- Meld (a bit different than the ability described in Planes of Law, they will paralyze the victim and provide greater weakness to damage to themselves while they countdown towards possession of the victim, which will destroy the paraii)

Zelekhut
- Light Air unit. The Zelekhuts are useful in tracking down aerial targets and bringing justice to them via their electric chains. They can cast Dimensional Shackles, which prevents teleporters from escaping their enchained folds.

Mechanus Cannon
- Long Range Siege unit. Useful for taking out those pesky towering fools who obsess over base defense. Must be manned by Monodrones to be effective. With each new Monodrone manning it, the Mechanus Cannon can perform that much faster. As such, it individually ranks amongst the best siege weaponry in the planes. It will probably learn an additional upgrade, something passive, but i'm at a loss as to what that should be.

Demarax
- Anticaster unit. These beings swallow summons and magic in a radius and turn them into mana that they can use to power their Magic Missiles ability. If you're familiar with Frozen Throne at all, think of them as land based Destroyers.

Rust Monster
- Support Siege/Anti-Mechanical Unit. while the Pentadrones excel at choppin up living beings, The rust monsters, herded from their stygian mining operation on Ocanthus, deal damage to their mechanical counterparts. Rust monsters completely obliterate Mechanical units and structures with their melee attack. They disable Base Towers and Natural Defense from attacking back. Also, they deal corruption damage to living target's armor, but deal little direct damage themselves. Finally the Rust Monster can be force-evolved into...

Rust Dragon
- Aerial Siege/Heavy Air unit. At first, the Rust Dragon only possesses an acidic spray which greatly damages mostly living targets. They can be later upgraded with Rusting Breath to hit Structures quite hard.

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Summoned Units:
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The Summoned units include Gear Spirits, Spectator Beholders, and Maruts.

Gear spirits are mechanical summons that mirror the effects of the Chaos Imp summon, by the Slaad Green Artificer Hero (i'll give more info on them when i post Slaad ideas). Both basically are meant to be Mechanical possessors, in that you sacrifice control of your summon to gain permanent control of a mechanical unit of the enemy. Both will probably possess another passive ability to distinctify themselves from one another, and the Gear spirit attack's work like the Yugoloth Vaporighu's, and lower the targets armor as well as their health.

Spectators are immoveable Ultimate summons. I've not looked too heavily into these unit's abilities yet, but they will be guardians in style and deed.

Maruts were originally designed as a heavy melee/support siege unit, but looking at their abilities, I quickly realized they would be too powerful in mass numbers. So they maintain this functionality but only as an ultimate summon, so there can only be 1 in existence at a time. As an ultimate summon, they are unaffected by upgrades, so they come fully loaded with all their abilities. They possess Fists of Thunder and Lightning (still trying to get a good deafness effect in War3), they also will have Chain Lightning, and some form of disease spreading.

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So what about the Octons, Quartons, Quintons, and up?

Well, the Octons/Quartons/Secundi are the leaders of the regions/sectors/quarters, and this will probably be represented in the town hall structure. Little direct involvement will occur though, perhaps the Octons will be shown in the campaign to act as liason between septon and nonaton, but that's probably it.

A Quinton leads the march, and might be shown in the campaign. But they are not creatures of war, as far as PS is concerned and will stay out of the direct fray.

Tertians are responsible for judgements and carrying down the orders of the secundi. Since the campaign turns the heroes into rogues, these will eventually become the enemy, and i think one mission might have you trying to avoid capture by the Tertians. But otherwise, they are like the Quintons, and not beasts of war.

Primus itself will be seen at the end of the Modron Campaign... once Tenebrous has left. Obviously, it will seek to make right what the player had made so very wrong in the eyes of the Modrons, insubordination. Since Primus never leaves the plane of Mechanus, it will never be involved in the outer planar war effort.

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So thats it for the Modrons. Any feedback/suggestions/ideas are welcome. Primus, I read your ideas, and I'm quite curious as to what a "coggle brigade" is. Is that a 3rd edition creature? I've got most of the planar/good/evil books for 3E, but never heard of a coggle.

I like your magic resistance idea, I think i could base it off Elune's Grace (gives % dmg reduction vs. magic damage), and give the Modrons higher armor totals, so they can stand longer against the standard units from the hardier races (slaad and yugoloths in particular)

Is that so? I'll have to look more into that. I don't distinctly remember Paraii and Modrons having a "communication problem" so to speak. Well then, what would you suggest as the 2nd spellcaster? On a side note, just about all the races will have at least 2 spellcasters. I'm leaning towards either putting in Keepers, or taking the Kolyarut out and using it for spellcasting (hey, they're both vampiric, right?) and putting the Marut in as the non-modron hero... Oh, and what about that "coggle brigade" idea you had? I'm still not certain what a coggle is.

And Center of All, for the most part, I put things exactly as you had them with the Rilmani. Plumachs are the workers and siege artillerists, Ferrumachs form the melee, Argenachs are casters, Cuprilachs are ranged, Aurumach forms a hero, and the Abiorachs fill in the blanks. One question though, how do you envision their cities? As mentioned above, I thought it would be pretty cool to give them walking castles, which, when in mobile form, would look more like great lumbering golems in-game than the chicken-legged-baba-yaga-hut-on-crack that diTerlizzi popularized But I do want continuity, so if you've already thought of something good, I'll probably stick with that, given the lack of Rilmani architecture in PS.

And here we are with the Archons (finally)

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Heroes
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Noctral Sage-Emeritus
- Ranged Mystical Hero. The scholars and elders of their dignified race, the Sages-Emeritus have taken a personal role in the tutelage of the Mount's new arrivals. Their vast expanse of knowledge and planar lore has found themselves an honored place in the glittering halls of Celestia. Note, as the name implies, these noctrals aren't able to fly, swoop, and rend foes with their talons, that responsibility falls upon the "younger" and more capable owl archons. These noctrals have seen better days, and aren't quite the young whippersnappers they used to be.
- Holy Light: Pretty much the WC3 classic. Only difference is that it deals damage to enemy evil creatures, as opposed to just undead, and heals friendly celestial creatures.
- Invisibility: Not sure yet how to implement this one. It will probably work only on the Sage-Emeritus, but i'm not sure how to really work that in.
- Tongues: Not quite the same ability as before, this spell causes the enemy to speak IN toungues, preventing them from casting spells or commanding their army efficiently. It's designed to strike harder on hero units but an enemy spellcaster unit is just as prone to suffer its ill effects.
- Ultimate - Legend Lore: Grants intimate knowledge about a region. In game terms, this gives sight of a large region until the cooldown comes back, whereupon the spell effect is removed and can be cast again. Any invisible or burrowed units will be revealed during the spell's duration. Also, any hostile unit or structure in the area will find they suffer from significantly lower armor totals.

Throne Archon Justiciar
- Melee Strength Hero. While most Thrones are content to spread good will with the stroke of a pen, these champions of justice seek to bring the righteous fury of the heavens upon any would-be interlopers into their glorious domains. Knowing that evil thrives in the shadows unseen, the Justiciar brings the entwined lights of order and goodness to all corners of the Seven Mountains.
- Combat Tactics(Passive): Grants a chance of a critical strike with each hit, and grants a passive chance to avoid nonmagical assault at them.
- Penitentiary Gaze: A bolt of powerful light emits from the Justiciar's eyes, dealing moderate damage to 3 targets at level 1, 5 at level 2, and 7 at level 3. Does not work against friendly or allied opponents.
- Righteous Smite: The Justiciar summons holy energy to blast the wrongdoers, instantly dealing damage to all units in a radius and blinding them as they remain in the area over time.
- Ultimate - Power of the Paragon: This ability makes all allied units invincible as the justiciar channels the might of the Celestial Hebdomad, save the Justiciar itself.

Warden Archon Gatekeeper
- Melee Strength Hero. Standing with an iron clad vigil over the many gateways into the Mount, Gatekeepers watch over the comings and goings of their charges, following evil through their own gates to their fell domains if needs be.
- Rend(Autocast): Like Searing Arrows, with a cooldown. Also doesn't boost attack range.
- Runic Plates (Passive): Grants increasing damage reduction with each level. Only magical attacks are unaffected.
- Empower: Grants the Gatekeeper a mighty damage bonus on its next hit. Until it makes the attack however, the speed of the Gatekeeper is significantly boosted.
- Ultimate - Gates of Chronias: Opens a portal to the Illuminated Heaven, whereupon the sheer goodness and law flow out in concentrated orbs of power. If the orbs intersect with any non-allied unit or structure, the orb explodes and damages each unit struck.

Trumpet Archon Divine Herald
- Melee Cunning Hero. Bearing the honor of ushering the souls of great kings and heroes, Divine Heralds risk the dangers of oblivion to see their protected ones make it home. With their silvery trumpets, they herald the second coming of their charges and the awakening of new eras of light.
- Redemption: Cast over the fallen enemy dead, this spell turns the dead units into plentiful mana for the archons. Any archon nearby a redeemed corpse gains a healthy boost of mana over a short period of time. At higher levels, the Redeemed unit's soul is brought back to the conflict, and fights alongside the Divine Herald's army.
- Trumpet: Produces a resounding peal that stuns and even damages units in a radius around the Divine Herald.
- Aura of Vengeance(Passive): Projects an aura that damages melee attackers back by percent of their damage inflicted.
- Ultimate: True Ressurection: Raises the bodies of up to 8 fallen non-hero friendly living ground units in a large radius around the Archon. Raised units possess full health and ability from the moment they are raised.

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Units
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Lantern Neophytes
- Basic Workers. The newest arrivals to the mount, Lanterns work diligently by bring buildings into existence by the sheer power of their goodness and faith. They will be able to team build. They can also be called away by Hounds to turn into Martyrs, which possess light rays that are especially good at singing extraplanar(i.e, summoned) entities.

Hound Templar
- Light Melee Presence for the Archons. Templars are lightly, if at all, armored, and wield greatswords to great effect. They can Call nearby neophytes to become Martyrs. They can also transform into Silver Wolf form, which grants greater speed and nighttime vision, and the ability to counter ranged units better, for the exchange of being unable to attack mechanical units and loss of damage and armor.

Ramadeen Yeomen
- Ranged Unit for the Archons. A Simple, no strings attached unit. Wields longbows to bring down foes from the skies and afar. The Smite Evil upgrade they can make use of simply allows more damage versus fiends.

Hound Cantors
- Primary Spellcasting Unit for the Archons. Can initially cast Crown of Flame, which enshrouds the target in a wreath of fire that damages any nearby units, including other Archons. Can also learn Music of the Spheres, which generates a harmonic weave that blocks harmful spell energy from damaging the targetted unit, and Unearthly Choir, which besieges an area, causing units to be slowed while in its area of effect, and damaging any buildings surrounding it. Cantors *may* also be able to Call Lanterns to them in a fashion similar to Templars/Silver Wolves.

Warden Prophets
- Support Spellcasting Unit. Can initially cast Blessed Vision, allowing them to see afar for a period of time. Any hidden units, whether invisible or buried, are revealed as long as the vision lasts. Can also cast Armor of Insight, which provides additional armor for a target unit, and Shield of the Archons, which provides to all friendly units in a large radius a one time spell resistance versus any spell.

Owl Archon Watcher
- Light Aerial unit for the Archons. Uses its talons to tear both ground based and aerial targets apart. Possesses Stony Gaze, which holds fast any aerial unit for as long as the owl holds its gaze to them. The Watcher cannot move or the effect will be disrupted. Also uses Charm animal, which allows sight through the eyes of a hapless critter. Uses Neutralize Magic, which allows the Archon to automatically stop any negative spell effect on a player unit, or any beneficial effect on an enemy unit.

Lammasu Wind Lion
- Light Aerial unit for the Archon Chosen. Uses powerful claws to rip the skins off aerial units. Wind Lions are naturally invisible, and relinquish this only when attacking or spellcasting, and for a short period of time thereafter. Wind Lions also can heal friendly units. When the Pounce Upgrade is researched, the first attack of a wind lion can deal considerably more damage, but a certain time must pass before the unit can make use of it again.

Couatl Judicants
- Anticaster unit for the Chosen. As with all anticasters, they possess Magical immunity. Their primary ability, Splendor of Ouroboros, involves the couatl coiling itself into a ball and shedding the purest of light, providing amazing armor protection and punishing enemy spellcasters by flinging a bolt towards them that deals damage based on how much mana they put into a spell. Judicants can also slow down any unit they attack with their powerful envenomed stingers. Lastly, they can render themselves ethereal for a short period of time to escape. In this form, they are quicker and immune to non-magic attack(with the magic immunity, that means -any- attack, but they cannot cast spells of any sort or attack in any way.

Ramadeen Battering Rams
- Long Range Siege Unit. The Militiant Ramadeens utilize these great monstrosities, and have lent them to the archons. They are able to level most structures in minutes. Like all long range siege units, they cannot attack air, and possess a minimum range, to allow melee an opportunity to counter them.

Ramadeen Dreadnoughts
- Mechanical support siege unit. These heavily armored constructs will bear a cross between Starcraft's Siege Tank and Warcraft's Steam Engines. While in mobile form, they can attack aerial units only, blasting many units out of the sky at once with powerful explosives. When they render themselves immobile, they can bring about their short range weaponry, a powerful battering ram, which can dish out a high degree of damage towards a single, nearby structure.

Hound Outriders
- Heavy melee unit for the Chosen. With an upgrade, Hound Templars and those in silver wolf forms can merge together, turning into a heavy melee unit that combines the best of both worlds, with excellent night vision, speed, damage and the ability to call lanterns to their aid to become Martyrs.

Sword Archon Avengers
- Heavy Aerial Unit for the Chosen. Sword Archons possess flaming longblades that grow out of their arms,which they use to dive into crowds of enemies. Swords can also utilize the Discorporating Dive ability, which banishes an enemy unit, rendering them ethereal and paralyzing their movement for a period of time. As with all etherial units, magic damage recieves a significant bonus when striking them, and they cannot attack with anything other than magical spells.

Lammasu Wind Charger
- Aerial Siege unit. Now this is a unit I need help on. Basically, my ideas for this unit is one of three. (1) is that one of the Ramadeen units mounts the Lamassu and uses their tools and weaponry to accomplish the siege effect, or (2) the unit is a "greater" lammasu upgraded from the normal windlions, and they possess some form of aerial siege ability with their spellpower, or (3) the Hound Cantors use their 3rd level spell, Unearthly Choir, from the backs of the Lammasu and destroy island citadels that way. Which do you think I should focus on?

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Summoned
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The Archons really don't summon much, most of the units are trained or upgraded from another. Only Martyrs would count in this field, and those simply deal low range attacks at a modest damage total, The real benefit being that they provide mana to those around them. I thought on including the Ki-Rin, but that's a very oriental unit, and it would look out of place. Any ideas on bringing it into a more western world view would be appreciated, as I could probably replace an ultimate to slip it in somehow.

So that's it for the Chosen. I'm wondering if anyone has looked over the 4th tanar'ri hero issue, and which spellcaster combo I should use for the Damned... For the hero issue, I'm still leaning toward the Cambion shadowdancer, but nothing solid in my mind pops up for either that or the spellcaster issues.. Any ideas there?

Rest assured that this project is -not- dead. I'm working on it practically every minute that I'm not working on eating, sleeping, or testing games at work Mostly now i'm working on finalizing units to go in game, as most of the basic storyline has been fleshed out. Anticasters in particular have been a bit difficult to not only conceptualize, but to actually execute, as there is very few actual anticasting abilities present in warcraft 3. Trying to fit creatures and constructs designed for an RPG game into an RTS is -very- time consuming.

For some good news, the Slaad are nearly finished and will be the next race I post for review. All the units have been finalized as far as who they are and what their purpose is, I'm just working on the heroes and spellcasters specific abilities now. Also of concern is how exactly to execute the Slaad's specific style of breeding in game, without being terrifically overpowered. Once again, any ideas here would be appreciated, particularly if you have knowledge of how the WC3 World Editor functions.

Lastly, I want to make sure people don't confuse my modification, which consists of all the 9 exemplar races, with Project Darkspawn, located here: http://www.wc3campaigns.com/forumdisplay.php?f=488 which is turning out to be more and more like another PS tc for warcraft 3. My project is unnammed right now, and that's mostly because I don't want to spoil too much so far ahead of its release. Its also unhosted, but I'll be more confident about putting it on an actual game site once I've got something concrete to show for it.

And as far as the mounted lammasu goes, the orcish wind rider (the mounted one in the multiplayer) is the temporary model i'm using right now. There's both a mounted and unmounted version for that too But I plan to have a brand spankin' new model for that character most likely anyway.

And now, for the Slaad. You'll notice that the hero and unit descriptions below are far more detailed than the previous efforts. In describing the units, I am providing a some information on how the unit came to be a part of the fighting force it belongs to.

Slaad: The Myriad Broods

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Heroes
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Warrior of the Stone
- Warrior Melee Hero. These mighty warriors are tasked by the Slaad Lords to mind the defense of the Brood's valuable rookeries. Over the millenia, they have come to be ruthlessly efficient at keeping their charges thriving, sacrificing the acquiescence of personal power for the benefit of the myriad broods. Fully knowing the root instincts of the Death Slaadi, the Lords smile upon their most loyal and tested of subjects, granting them additional abilities beyond even a Taker's wildest imagination.
- Light of Chaos: A surge of restorative energies springs forth from the Warrior's Hand, healing friendly units. The first unit gets the full brunt of the effect, and each unit healed in the chain gets a slightly smaller amount than the preceeding unit.
- Shatter: Warriors of the Stone can project a cone of powerful sonic energies, damaging and stunning units caught in the way and harming mechanical units/structures even more. This ability needs to be channeled over time to enable the maximum effect.
- Parasitic Aura (Passive) The Warrior of the Stone creates a passive aura at all times, allowing friendly melee units to heal themselves with each damaging attack.
- Ultimate - Implosion: The Warrior can remove powerful singular enemy or structure from the battlefield, instantly killing them and dealing powerful damage to units and structures in a large surrounding area. This ability does not work on heroes.

Artificer
- Mystical Ranged Hero. Upon returning from the Great Retreat, some Green Slaadi develop a knack for technical instead of the conventional wizardry, using their various inventions to great effect. The Slaad Lords, once spiteful of this utter defiance to their plans for the Slaad race, began to see other ways these self-exiled beings could be used to harness themselves even greater power. Thus, the Artificers were born, a rare but useful commodity in the wars against the oppressing grip of Order.
- Chaos Imps: In their isolation, the Artificers came to master the Chaos Imp, once the greatest hindrance to their research. Chaos Imps are summonable units that can possess mechanical units. When none are available, they aid the Artificer by hurling bolts of half shaped Limbo matter at their enemies. Oftentimes, the churning slag splashes onto nearby foes, damaging them as well.
- Delayed Blast Fireball: The Artificer can toss an orb of unstable energy into the throngs of the enemy, which will detonate a short time later, damaging those in the vicinity. Any area effect ability will also ignite the powerful energies contained inside the churning orb.
- Ward of Chaos: The Artificer uses Limbomatter to enscribe powerful protective energies onto this. Any enemy melee unit cannot attack while in the area of effect. In addition, all others have a 25% chance to miss while in the restricted area. The area grows with level of the caster, and must be channelled to be maintained.
- Ultimate - Experimental Device: Used as a last resort, the Artificer can use an experimental device to save their allies and punish their foes. The exact nature of the Device is unknown, but it aids or punishes seemingly at its own will. The Device will be indestructable, and moves about randomly for a time before slipping the planar walls and dissappearing completely.
(in Game, it will have a passive and active benefit towards the player's units and allies, and a passive and active debuff towards foes. the exact nature is somewhat beyond me right now.)

Gray Executioner
- Cunning Melee Hero. While most of the Gray try to improve their standing by hoarding potent magical artifacts, there remains an elite few who hone their bodies and spirits to become efficient killing machines. These Gray answer the call of the Slaad Lords by elimination powerful high-ups in the opposition, weaking and demoralizing the enemy troops.
- Wind Walk: Executioners must be focused, deadly, and swift. This ability renders the Executioner invisible to natural detection means, and grants a boost to their speed as well, allowing the Executioner the ability to track down the most flightly of targets.
- Power Word, Blind: With an utterance, the Executioner can remove of a handful of targets' eyesight, lowering their chance to hit drastically, and forcing them to creep along slowly until they get their bearings once more.
- Chaos Hammer: This ability slams a wave of chaotic energies directly into the targets. This ability damages those who are further from chaotic alignment moreso than those who are more close, so a Modron would be hit hardest of all, while a Rilmani would take severe damage, but probably survive, and another Slaad would be relatively unaffected.
- Ultimate - Effigy: The most final of the Executioner's tactics, the Gray will summon a burning pillar of energy from the sky, dousing enemies instantly and burning them over a short period of time. While alight, the enemies can do nothing but stand in the flame and be charred, skin and bone.

Broodmaster
- Warrior Melee Hero. Dissatisfied with the ill-spawned progeny of their bloodlust, some Reds have taken to augmenting their bodies such to prevent more of the hated Blue hatching from their victims. Now in control of their own reproduction than ever before, they seek to create and rule over entirely new subspecies and broods, to rival that of the Lords themselves.
- Stunning Croak: The Broodmaster unleashes a powerful blast of sonic energy from their deep gullets, stunning those for a short time in a radius surrounding the slaad and interrupting channeled spellcasting.
- Deep Implant: The Broodmaster implants its eggs in a different fashion than the regular slaad, penetrating deeper to feed off of the core of the host being, causing additional damage with each strike and leaving the rapidly growing tadpole inside to mature at an accelerated rate inside the victim. However, this new method of breeding is highly unstable, and thus the victim must be killed to emerge the baby tadpole.
- Heighten Chaos (Passive) The Broodmaster increases its sheer willpower over its own form, granting additional damage and move speed increases. In addition, the Broodmaster augments the effects of its other abilities, causing the Stunning Croak to cause damage, and the Implants to spawn more than one unit per killing.
- Ultimate - Corporeal Instability: The ultimate domination of will, the Broodmaster destabilizes the form of another being, turning them into a potent but short-lived chaos beast, bringing them to the side of the caster, and allowing any hit by the beast to turn into a random critter for a short period of time. After a period of time, the unstable Chaos Beast will dissipitate.

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Units
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Mud Shaper
- Worker Unit. The first subspecies of the new brood created by the Broodmasters, Muds were created to be docile and subservient creatures used to harvest resources and generate structures from the chaos stuff of Limbo. In addition, the shapers can play dead for a period of time, convincing others that they have been killed, but able to pop back in to work once the threat has passed.

Red Rockbiters
- Basic Ranged Unit. While Red Slaadi normally engage enemies in melee, under the command of the Lords in massive scale combat, they let the Blues take care of the enemy close up while they pelt the enemy with powerful ranged spray of their spike encrusted fists. They are adept at hitting enemies both on the ground and in the air. They can also implant those hit with the larvae of Slaadlings, causing the creatures to grow inside them until they erupt from the surface, killing the creature from the inside out.

Blue Maraduers
- Basic Melee Unit. The main fighting force of any Slaad front, Marauders possess great bony spikes on each fist that rend and tear through any resistance. They too can create other Slaadlings by clamping down on enemies with their narrow jaws and infecting them with their diseased saliva, slowly turning them into more of the Brood over time.

Limbo Thing
- Basic Siege Unit. As the ravages of the Iron Shadow besieged the miasmas of Limbo, the tentacled, nameless Limbo Things seemed to spill out of both everywhere and nowhere, flushed out of their hiding spots by the encroaching disease. Now, the Lords have dominated this species, binding them to their foul wills. Their touch is caustic, and they seem to relish the task of breaking down matter into its elemental components. Unlike other siege units, this creature must close within Tower Range to attack, but their acid nullifies the ability of others to repair the structure under attack, and also neutralizes any offensive capability of the structure while they continue to break it down.

Howlers
- Support Siege Unit. Often favored by the Slaad Lords for their ruthless efficiency, these canine-like beasts originally hail from the Screaming Plane of Pandemonium. Bred for war, the howlers are used to penetrate enemy defenses with their Frill Barding, allowing them to charge full on into enemy fire zones while taking minimal damage from most forms of ranged attack, at the cost of a reduced attack rate. In addition, these creatures live up to their namesake, producing a screaming howl that redirects all attack towards themselves, staving off damage of the more important Brood units.

Wild Mages
- Primary Spellcaster for the Brood. Unlike other Slaad, the Green are born from the ranks of mortal spellcasters. Like their progenitors, these creatures flock to the arcane arts, and with their specialized heritage they gain dominion over the churning, unstable energies of Wild Magic.
- Wild Surge: This spell differs on who it is cast upon. If cast upon a friendly unit, it dispells all harmful magic, if cast on an opponent, it dispells all beneficient magic, and damages enemy summons. In either incarnation, the spell drains mana from those who are targetted by the spell, and then jumps to the next nearby friend or foe, depending on who was originally targetted.
- Dispatch: This spell banishes those targetted to the Etherial Plane, preventing all attacks save spellcasting and temporarily interrupting any channeled effects at the time of casting. Only magic can be used to assault etherial foes, and it damages them greater to compensate. Finally, the unit moves much quicker while under the effects of a Dispatch. This spell can be cast on either friend or foe.
- Unluck: The Wild Mage enhances the misfortune of the enemy targetted, causing a decrease in regeneration, armor class and attack damage.

Gray Savant
- Support Spellcaster for the Brood. While their lessers warp and weave magical energies to harm their foes, Savants spend their arcane skill on augmenting the broods themselves, providing them with additional abilities by use of the arcane forehead tattoos(called the True Mark) present on every Slaad. When sorely pressed, the Gray Savant can use lightning bolts to defend themselves.
- Healing Weave: The easiest of the manipulations of the True Mark, the Savant coerces the body of the targetted unit to heal itself at an accelerated rate. Should the unit be targetted and damaged for any reason, the Healing effect ends abruptly.
- Unknown 2nd skill. Suggestions are welcome.
- Mating Frenzy: Savants can excite the natural blood lust of the race, creating a state in the recipients of excitement. This bolsters their movement speed and attack rate considerably.

Eidolons
- Anticaster Unit. These rogue idols, once created to venerate the ancient fell dieties of the Churning Plane, have long fallen into disuse. With the advent of the Slaad Lords, they have found a newer, darker purpose. Any summoned unit hit by the Eidolon's claws risks the chance of being turned towards the side of the Broods, overrunning their casters and former allies. Also, the Eidolon can spit a blood like secretion from the True Marks that dominate their face, which slowly drives a spellcaster insane, eating away at their mana supply. Lastly, the Eidolons can render themselves completely immobile, becoming as a statue. In this form, the Eidolons repair themselves at an unhealthy rate, can not be targetted by anything other than siege units, and cause spells to backfire upon their casters and benefit the wrong units.

Collectors
- Caster Support Unit. Adapted from strange, brain eating creatures from the Astral Plane, Collectors now serve the corrupt Slaad Lords by collecting the bodies of the dead into cocoons of ectoplasm and transporting them to where they might be needed most for impregnation. They also can turn these corpses into magical energy, broadcast over a considerable range to heal the magical supply of the Slaadi casters.

Red Spitfires
- Light Aerial Unit. Evolved from the lesser Reds by the corrupting touch of Navimas, Spitfires bear great fanlike wings from flaps under their arms, and their mouths continously drip with molten rock. They attack by breathing a cloud of burning gas from their great maws, damaging aerial units in a small radius. They can also spit down onto ground based targets as well, in a potent stream that burns any foe struck. Unfortunately, the evolution prevents the Reds from using their egg pellets, and thus cannot spawn lesser Slaadlings like the Rockbiters can.

Blue Goliaths
- Heavy Melee Unit. As the Red Slaad have advanced, so have the Blues. These massive, multilimbed monstrousities superficially resemble little to the original Marauder which they evolve from, but maintain all of the savage fury. Like the Spitfires, Goliaths lose the ability to create Slaadlings, but instead possess a chance of flinging opponents into the air when struck, interrupting channeled effects and removing the unit from play for a very short period of time.

Yrthrak
- Aerial Siege Unit. Resembling a cross between a unicorn and a wyvern, these great horned beasts attack those who threaten its charges by unleashing a potent sonic wail. The Slaad Lords have captured a handful of the beasts, finding them particularly useful versus enemy structures. They can be upgraded with their Reverberation upgrade, allowing their sonic wail to bounce from structure to structure, albeit dealing significantly less damage with each bounce.

Chaos Roc
- Heavy Aerial Unit. A creature so large it defies belief, the great Chaos Rocs of Limbo often act as destriers and messengers of the Lords' ill will towards their most hated of enemies. The great Rocs can swallow ground based opponents alive whole, often leaving armies splintered and decimated by this attack alone. The drawback is any unit swallowed by a Roc will be able to use the roc for sight, so the unit is never completely lost until the digestion finishes. In addition, Chaos rocs can be upgraded with Prismatic Spray, allowing them to strike multiple targets at once. These extra beams of light do not damage structures.

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Summons
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Chaos Imps, Chaos Beasts and Slaadlings make up the summonable roster for the Broods. Imps and Beasts have been described above.

Slaadlings on the other hand, are immature half-tadpole half slaad units. They act as canon fodder for the Broods, blindly rushing into combat at the behest of their betters. They erupt from cocoons made by the Collectors, and impregnated by the Slaad base units. Not fully formed, they can be dispelled as summonable units. They cannot impregnate others, as they have not yet reached the Slaadi equivalent of "Puberty" yet. To be honest, I'm not sure how to make these guys work, so the information on them is quite tentative.

Whew. that took longer than i thought. Questions,comments and concerns are welcome as always, particularly on ideas for that 2nd spell for the Gray Savant.

As far as the Molydeus is concerned, I think I will make them campaign heroes, but not heroes involved in the multiplayer aspect. Thus, they won't be mentioned as one of the 4 heroes. For the 4th hero, I'm pretty sure it's gonna be the Cambion Shadowdancer. It just fits in better with what I've got planned for the storyline. I'm still kind of leery for the anticaster issue, and i'm thinking maybe the retriever would work better than the cerebrilith, who could also work for a hero.... urgh, the mind wobbles.

Also, I've figured out the 2nd spellcaster, which will be none other than the Artaaglith Fellpriest from Ghostwalk. Since the Campaign forces will be led by Orcus, this should work out nicely... I will post their spells at a later date, I have been at this infernal contraption far too long!

This mod should run on any machine that will run Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne. I'm not certain if Campaign support has been enabled for Mac TFT users, but I can't imagine any reason why it shouldn't be supported.

And for Whitemage, I can be contacted at Logicusprime on AIM, if you wish to discuss more in depth ideas with me.