One of the great turn based tactics strategy games from the 90's.
You're a lich necromancer, getting rid of troublesome, oppressive rulers across the lands. You wield magic that costs mana to summon skeletal legions and magical attacks. All to reclaim what is reightful yours. In this wonderful game you begin with a limited pool of cards that represent different types of skeleton warriors that you can bring forth to fight for your cause. They have different costs, which you use a replenishing pool of mana to call upon your skeletal allies to fight at your behest. Once on the battefield they move on their own, you just choose where they deploy. Speaking of the battlefield, it consists of 4 different zones. Your skeletal companions fight to defeat all your foes, that appear in waves in a futile attempt to stop you. Sometimes you must confront the opposing despotic ruler of teh realm. These false kings appear at the end of zone 4, and your legion of skeletal warriors will have to beat back your foes to get to them. Regarding mana, you start with a modest pool of the source of your magical abilities, and it replenishes over time every turn. You may chance upon the wander swamp spirit while you venture forth across the lands. The swamp spirit can increase your mana abilites, as well as increase your starting hand size from 3 up to 5. Besides adding 1 card into your hand at teh beginning of every subsequent turn, you can also draw additional cards at the cost of mana, but you have a maximum hand size of 10 cards. There is another wandering spirit out there as well, the forest spirit, and this spirit can supply you with additional cards. You can also find addtional cards through battles, search forgotten graveyards and cemetaries. There are even burial mounds where you can unlock more powerful skeletal allies and magical spells. These mounds do require rare treatures to unlock these powerful allies, and great feats are required to delve deeping into even greater skeletal warriors.
Built upon classic cRPG's that came before and using the AD&D 2nd Ed. ruleset. Play the character with a mysterious past, and whom others seek to control or destroy. While this game is relatively binary in choices, it is a step in the direction that has given inspiration to cRPG's that came after, cheifly among the its sequel.
