The treasure can be gold, mana, or even items to give your heros (yes, there are heros as well for your army). On the map, there are a ton of 'dungeons', places you can fight npcs and get a treasure from that spot. Lizardmen can walk on water but are weaker to magic, etc. Halflings get bonus research and better integration of other races, while the opposite is like the Klackon which do not accept other races but they grow faster than other race. Be halflings, orcs, trolls, draconians, nomads, high elves, dark elves, and more. Then you pick a race, that is right, there are multiple races and they aren't tied to any one wizard. Different in spells and different in traits. What this means is each caster, each game, is vastly different. You sacrifice higher level spells to get the traits because both take points to buy. Did you notice I said character traits? there are like 20 to pick from each having a major impact on play. You get 13 points, so you can be like 5 death magic and 3 life and the rest of the points on character traits. There are 5 schools of magic (2 evil, 2 good, and 1 neutral) and you pick how much of each school your guy has.

You pick a wizard and can customize them. In short, it is a sort of dnd / fantasy version of civ (like civ 2 more than more recent versions). What is Master of Magic? Besides the best turned based strategy ever made?

Recently the expansion / mod (caster of magic) got approved or something, so you can pick up the game plus the mod for like 8 bucks on steam, maybe cheaper on GOG. I think this game is going to be one of the older games that I highly recommend to anyone who enjoys good turn based strategy.

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