Re: A stranger walks into town...

Posted by seanpatrick on
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I have heard of MageKnight but I think it was discontinued before I started plotting my dungeon game ideas.  From what I saw of MK it looked like it was still very much a Team VS Team game like Heroclix.  I want to create something where you are either solo or co-op (although maybe Deathmatch/Team games could be tried too).

One thing I'm doing differently in my game is creating "mooks" for the general baddies.  Heroes will probably have a nice neat 10 hit points.  Monsters will have around 3hp on average.  Orcs or tough guys may have 4.  Big monsters & bosses will have many hp but then they are for the party to take on as a team.

I mention Heroclix/MK a lot but I'm not using a click-base system.  You get hp as you would with most adventure games and your special powers are useable anytime (although you can use them all up - I'm either implementing pips or cards to represent them).  

I really just liked the simple stats in Heroclix - plus I thought the 2D6 attack rolls offered more varied in-game results than rolling a single D6 as you would in WHQ or many other games.

I'm struggling to think of a cool way to implement magic though.  I love Warhammer's magic dice & dispel dice system so I may do a small-scale vesion of that.