The Legend of Dev Diary: The Diary Begins

I probably am. This is my thought:



Three moves, on the blue 'allowed' dots. Straight across the front of Brer Kobold. Then you get your free two or three squares movement and you could be away in the distance before Brer Kobold gets a swing. Even worse you could get an attack as you pass, potentially, if you can pivot.

However:



If the 'Stop On Contact' applies, the red dots should put an end to your movement. You get your blow(s) in, but you get counter-attacked as you're pinned.

But:



I'm still thinking I could do this, bash the Kobold and not be counter-attacked in the same turn. If it's 'free move' then play cards, I could move into position, use an attack card, then a movement card to withdraw out of range, if Kobolds only move 1 or 2 squares.

 

I appreciate the preceding several Jon-posts. On the subject of appreciation, I notice that secran is on a "like" spree. Because of the linguistic similarity between "liking" and "licking," I now have a mental picture of secran slurping the last page of posts. (At least there are mushrooms to improve flavor.)

And skip_intro, thank you for providing graphics. Let me state:

My understanding is that this is possible for Scamper, but impossible for Escaping Run. The key is that the blue dots do not indicate "you may step here DURING your move," but rather "you may END your move here." Observe that you could arc around to the lower right and still end on dot 2 or dot 3, without going through dot 1 to get there. This is consistent with the idea that a single step adjacent to the Kobold ends your move in Escaping Run. Also consistent is the fact that the tile diagonally above dot 2 (directly above in this isometric view) is not a viable target: there is no path which would get you to this location without stepping adjacent to the Kobold first.

Thus, the chart/rules can be interpreted in two possible ways, but I think this way is simpler and more effective.

Also, your font is awesome.

 

Sir Knight.

I think we're at the same point on the page. I did think that a jink diagonally right is the first move to get you to 2 or jink right, forward, jink left to get you to 3.

Scamper plus Escaping Run for the win, though, especially if there's a 'play attack as interrupt if you become adjacent to enemy'. Run, Hack/Slash, Run Away! Dungeon Drive-By...

The Fonts are free ones from BlamBot, kudos to them for excellent design.

 

And all was well.

 

What I want to know is how are they going to balance out the other races? I mean from the 3rd developer's diary this is the first mention of races actually being more than just being cosmetic with default movement cards, and it seems Elves have the advantage so far. So how will they balance this out? With HP perhaps?

 

And will it differentiate between Scamper and Escaping Run as in our example to show if you can cross a ZoC to mitigate confusion for the likes of me?

 

Hey, this could probably be implemented by something like the examples you drew. If the "dots" are literally what appears in the game (and I think they should be, as they are attractive and simple), then color-coding would explain much. Something like green for "valid endpoint of move," blue for "valid endpoint, but you're stopping because of the Kobold," maybe red for "valid endpoint, but this is dangerous terrain and will hurt you" or whatever else is possible.

I would have said red for the Kobold-case, but red is mentally reserved for "warning, don't go here" things.

I'm probably just misreading again, but are you under the impression that there is a movement deck? There isn't.

As to encouraging customization, maybe the default movement card could pop up only when your normal draw does not give a movement card. Or maybe you have one and exactly one default card per game, and it stays there (ignoring all discard rules) until you use it.

 

From that quote, I think you drop an unused Default Movement Card (DefMov) at the end of turn and you get a new DefMov along with the two normal draws at the start of the next turn.

 

To me, a system where diagonal movement cost 1.5 dosen't sound to complex (It isn't hard math and the computer takes care of that anyways). And its pretty close to reality. Some movement cards culd still have an ability that make diagonal movement cost 1.

Im curous on yor take on what the drawbacks are in that kind of system.

 

Thats a good philosophy to have.

But (for shooting at least) I have a harder time with 1 (or 2) on diagonal systems, because units that are closer can be out of range at the same time as units further away can be in range. The "every other" thing you had in your old design does seem to add complexity though.

If it isnt too much trouble, I wuld like to know where it becomes a problem with area of effects? Im making a game myself that uses 1.5 on diagonals when you count distances, and I haven't had a problem so far.

 

Mushrooms, blech. But seriously, I hadn't realized likes were visible one, and two I do like the fact that he is responding to our comments. As stated, transparency = win. ^_^

As for racial differences, it would be interesting to see combat cards that are racial restricted "Kneecapping shot" for dwarves, etc.

Movement cost makes sense, considering it's supposed to be more like a board games take on an rpg as opposed to an out and out rpg (known for complex rules and sqwabbles there in related).

Thanks for taking the time to respond to us Jon!