r/HoMM

The main idea is to debuff the hero on pickup and at the beginning of the next day give that hero a bonus.

I am aware of the "Variables" thing and how I can put event objects around the PB and just let the hero walk on it the next day. But I want to prevent cheesing the encounter with meta-gaming and/or teleporting out of the "reward zone" - DD and Fly are banned but ppl/AI can still use TP.

Ideally all would be made with Hero Events since the buff I want to give is stat-specific - as shown on the 2nd pic. Unless I can somehow assign the hero who picked up the PB to the event that will be stepped on the next day.

No, I can't assign a specific hero to the event since this is just a normal scenario where you can pick any color/faction you like and play it normally. All of this is just flavor and hints of story.

The angel luck moraled in EVERY SINGLE turn. The game started with all wraiths and 20 dread knights dying, and guess what lil bro easily won with just spamming 25+ resurections on the warriors:D Anyone who protect this game or says the devs are not fanboying factions is a loser nerd.

Have you ever watched a movie or TV show and noticed surprising similarities to one of your favorite video games? I certainly have, and I doubt any of you have encountered one quite as striking as this. In this post, I'll explore an interesting parallel I found between the Heroes IV Academy campaign (The Price of Peace) and the Apple TV series Pluribus. Before we continue, be warned that there will be spoilers ahead for both The Price of Peace and Pluribus. But if you don't mind, keep reading!

In the campaign, King Gavin Magnus of Great Arcan builds a device called the Crystal Pendulum, activated by a crystal capable of enslaving the mind of any being to his will. Tired of constant war and mass destruction, he tries to bring world peace to Axeoth by stripping the whole population of their free will. Thanks to the efforts of his former genie servant Solmyr and Queen Emilia Nighthaven, the crystal is destroyed, freeing everyone under his control.

But what if Magnus had succeeded in his plan? What if the heroes weren't able to stop him and joined the rest of the world as his mindless slaves? Then Axeoth would end up in the same state as Earth in Pluribus, in which an alien virus has turned almost all of humanity into an invariably happy and peaceful hive mind, or the "Others" as they are called. The difference is that in Pluribus the Others share a consciousness and want the remaining population to join them, while in Heroes IV they are forced under Magnus' mind control. Though Magnus would rule the world with an iron fist, we can't rule out the possibility that one day someone might come to Axeoth and become the Carol Sturka of this story.

Both stories present the same question: is a world without conflict worth having if achieving it means giving up our freedom and individuality? Perhaps the real price of peace is not the absence of war, but the loss of our ability to choose whether to fight for it.

Title is self-explanatory. Michael Wolf is currently live on Facebook, where he is talking about his experience working at NWC, on H3, and answering questions!
https://www.facebook.com/778944532/videos/meet-michael-wolf-level-deisgner-on-the-original-heroes-of-might-and-magic-team/1429837179192940

‘Did You Know?’ is a collection of small bits of information, interesting facts, and bugs from Heroes of Might and Magic III. All entries are valid for the Shadow of Death and Complete edition of the game.

The Third Upgrades Mod makes them even more powerful.

To preserve the original game for the purists, I made a mod menu and tucked it away in the control panel. You can:

• Toggle spellcasting on or off during autobattle
• Toggle the ability to split creature stacks within a garrison or a hero's army (2 stacks side by side vs forced into a single stack - some people think this is an unfair advantage)
• Toggle alternate structure art for the hydra (from the 1994/95 CES DEMO)
• Toggle an indicator on the castle that visualizes if you have already built a structure that turn
• Toggle the battlefield hex grid view

I always find bugs when I make demonstration videos, I need to fix the Hydra art in the actual buy dialog window too!

I am currently working on a headless battle resolver - similar to what was done in fheroes2, and that will be another option, as well as some kind of trading post / marketplace - both will be toggles so that purists can turn them off.