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In the Box
10x Class Cards
50x Mob Cards
25x Boss Cards
200x Loot Cards

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In the Box
10x Class Cards
50x Mob Cards
25x Boss Cards
200x Loot Cards

Objective
Distill diku-methodology into an analog format.

Target Audience
Assholes.

Age Range
Do you have a fully formed brain? You may proceed.

How to Play (in 60 seconds)

Look. This is simple. When you begin the game, you start in the first town. Specifically, the tavern. If there’s only 2 players, the server deals one class card to the client. This is the class of your first character. He is level 1. He has no armor, a shitty weapon (his hands, info on class card), and no money. He sucks.

From there, you travel to your first questing zone. There aren’t really any quests because they all come down to the same thing anyway. Kill some shit. So what are you going to do? Kill some shit. The overworld map consists of the entire world. Zones are labeled with a name, the level range, and dice calls for the number of mobs and bosses. Extra Loot Potential is defined by the color of the zone on the map.

The client tells the server where he wants to go. For now, let’s just call the level 1 area “Shitty Forest.” The map says it has 3d3 mobs, and 1d3 bosses. The server will then roll those dice. Let’s say he rolls a combined 4 on the mob dice and a 1 on the boss dice. That zone has four mobs and a boss. If there were 2 bosses, the server would intersperse them as he sees fit. The server retains the right to fuck the client (player is the enemy, etc). So, you’re in Shitty Forest. The server will then choose four low-level mobs from the mob deck. I’d suggest rats. They’re level 1 and do shit for damage.

Battle: the player rolls the defined hit roll, let’s say he needs a 1 on a 1d3 to hit. He rolls a 1. Ok, he hit. Great, now roll 1d3 for damage with your pitiful fists. Grats, you did 3 damage. Way to go, Hero. This killed the rat. The client now gets 5 experience. He is 25% of the way to level 2. The rat’s loot table says 1 / 1 / 1d6 and there is a grey bar on the card. This basically means the rat can drop 1 item from the grey loot cards as long as a 1 is rolled on the 1d6. The servers roll for loot was a 2. You didn’t get any loot. Oh well, you suck.

Repeat until the area is cleared out. At the end of the area, the client will roll a d10. If he rolls a 10, he’ll get a special treasure chest with X items in it. X is defined by the color of the font. Anyway, the client rolled a 10. Since this area is grey, he rolls 1d3. The client rolls a 1. He gets 1 item from the special chest. The quality of the loot is +1 quality to the area. Therefore, he gets a pale dot-matrix green item. Grats. You don’t completely suck, almost.

Details will be explained later, but in short, if this continues through every area. Eventually the player will reach raid zones. This is where shit gets totally unbalanced. Why? Because it’s supposed to? Anyway, odds are you’ll never finish a game anyway. Though, admittedly, that’s probably because after finishing all the raid zones, there’s no more content, so we advise just starting up an alt. Save the old characters for the expansions.

Classes: Let's get something in there besides WoW standbys. How about a samurai class? A vampire? Ooh, maybe a Spanish Conquistador type with a big blunderbuss.

This would be an INCREDIBLE web game. >_<

I see what you did there.

You can't personalize a card like you can a video game character and it's easier for players to get into "Edmund, Lord of the Night" than "Level 3 assassin".

Can there be a rat for every level range?
Rat
Dire Rat
Plague Rat
Rat King
Swamp Rat
Rat Zombie
Wererat
Giant Rat
Abyss Rat
Rat God

Can there be a rat for every level range?
Rat
Dire Rat
Plague Rat
Rat King
Swamp Rat
Rat Zombie
Wererat
Giant Rat
Abyss Rat
Rat God

What about having a "monster system" where monsters can be modified by cards like "Tiny", "Harmless", "Dire", "Plague", "Were-", etc?  For an encounter/zone/etc, you draw a monster card, then perhaps based on a random factor you might draw one or two modifiers (which add flavor and make the monster harder / drop better loot / etc).

don't forget to add some kind of bullshit reputation system that just requires you to keep trolling and going around the board for something useless

Mobs: I wanna see old-school kobolds with dog heads come back.

kobolds

Where did all the Kobolds go? I miss them from my Worlds of Warcrafts.

The Bat Country edition is going to be totally, totally generic - most likely at least.

What do you need us for then? :cry:

Jack-off-all-trades/Hybrid Warrior (avg Def and melee Dam, some utility spells)

This would be an INCREDIBLE web game. >_<

PATCH DAY!

What is the server's goal? To defeat the clients?

KEYLOGGER

You have clicked on a keylogger and your account has been stolen.

Miss three turns until a GM restores your character. Additionally, if you are the party leader you must make a saving throw each turn to prevent the account thief from disbanding the guild.

I really don't want the server to have any abilities outside of minor, minor control over random behavior. I want to build in enough that the server is a caretaker, much like a real game.

Some mobs will have special abilities tied to them.

The server isn't just the DIKU engine, it's the development team trying to keep the players from reaching the level cap.

Besides, who just wants to play what is essentially just "the bank"?

Most games of this style these days include a 'win condition' for the non-team player (for example in Descent the "DM" is actually trying to kill you rather than tell a story, same for Sauron in the co-op LotR, etc) so there should probably be some kind of incentive for the Server player.

That's only because Monopoly was such a boring ass game.

That's only because Monopoly was such a boring ass game.

No "tank" ability? I thought DIKU expressly needed someone to take damage away from everybody else.

You differentiated between Thieves and Rogues? Nobody does that anymore! I HEART YOU 4EVER!!!

Now if you'd only realize that ranger != archer we'd be just about perfect.  :why_so_serious:

 :ye_gods:

Classes:
Meatshield (high D, lower melee Dam)

This is excellent.

That should be under equipment and look like a giant fucking tbone strapped to your arm.

Each character now starts with rags. It's a card that imparts 1 armor, because armor is based off of a scale starting at 1. You can't sell them. You just discard them once you get something better.


It wasn't a joke. This would be far better than most MMOGs. But that's neither here nor there. Making a board game. If someone wants to make it a web game, they can pay me and buy the idea.

Bosses will be personalized more, but lets worry about that later. Not like bosses in MMOGs are personalized to any meaningful degree anyway. Onyxia was BIG BLACK DRAGON. I mean who cares. You're practically larping if you really buy into that crap. Just saying.


This is excellent.

There probably isn't a way to get around the copyright infringement, but I have fond memories of smashing up Smurf village when I was mudding.

Ah, slaying smurfette in front of other smurfs, feeding her soul to my chaos blade and then making leather pants out of her corpse...Those were the days.

Heh, yea, that needs to be fixed. Though, maybe, not really. The Monk is going to have higher innate defense. I'll figure something out once I get to playtesting.

All those games that palette swap and add some crap to the front as a modifier are just BS anyhow.

I wish I could help with art, but I have the talent of a retarded sloth when it comes to that.