Aragon Online: Empire-building Medieval Fantasy Game:

Aragon Online is an interactive, empire-building medieval fantasy game that blends economics, diplomacy, trade, role-playing and tactical battles into a strategic multi-player online experience unlike any other out there. It is a world of PCs and NPCs, potentially dangerous or advantageous politically, economically and militarily. Player interaction can be adversarial or cooperative.

The war-game battle system has standard battle elements and fantasy-style magic. The system emphasises combined-arms battles, and will appeal to serious fantasy (war) gamers.

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The player character takes the role of the ruler of a small village in a vast world. There are 6 player races (Human, Elf, Dwarf, Orc, Goblin, Ogre) and 5 classes (Warrior, Knight, Ranger, Priest and Mage) that the player can choose to be. He starts out with a follower character (henchman) and a small army of 75 soldiers from 5 unit types (Infantry, Mtd. Infantry, Cavalry, Bowmen, Mtd. Bowmen). Each of the cities vies with the others to attempt to increase their power and influence in the world through Diplomacy, Intrigue and Battle.

The role-playing aspects of the game are implemented with a script system that presents messages to the player, and sometimes presents him with choices that will lead to other messages and consequences good or bad, depending on many possible factors.

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Player Races

There are six Races that the player may choose. Each of these Races has varying attributes and combat ability.

The DATA column shows the basic data, such as weight, hits and carrying capacity for the race. DEFENSE shows the combat adjustment against the various type of weapons. ATTACK shows the adjustment for hand-to-hand attacks, THROW for thrown weapon attacks, MISSILE for missile attacks and SPELL for magical attacks for this race. The Attack value modifies your chance to hit, Dam Base and Dam Rand are the base damage and random variation. Rng Base is the short range distance, which is at the base attack value, and Rng Max is the maximum attack range. The Attack value is adjusted down for distance beyond Rng Base by -10 for each distance increment of the base range.

Interested players can find more information about Aragon Online here.