The Thirty One Lieutenants of Sorcerer Bedsui

The Thirty One Lieutenants of Sorcerer Bedsui
Stable game
Developer	Antumbrastation
Theme	Fantasy
Influences	ChessRogue, Hneftafl
Released	October 14th 2017 ({{{relver}}})
Updated	November 11th 2017 ({{{updver}}})
Licensing	Closed source
P. Language	Java
Platforms	Windows, Mac, Linux
Interface	Keyboard, ASCII
Game Length	10 hours
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The Thirty One Lieutenants of Sorcerer Bedsui is a turn based, squad combat roguelike.

Plot

Chaos blankets the world. From his tower in the southern marches, the illusionist Bedsui manipulates the minds of many great Kings and Emperors, sowing war and discord. But soon the madness ends! Steeling their resolve, a band of adventurers prepares to storm the tower and defeat the sorcerer. However, between them and their goal await Bedsui’s many servants…

Combat Mechanics

All combatants, monsters and player characters, move about the board like tafl pieces (or the rook from chess), only stopping when blocked by a wall, unit, or wandering into an enemy’s melee range. In most roguelikes, the melee range for units are the eight immediately adjacent squares. In T31LoSB different weapons provide different melee ranges specific to the weapon type.

Units, player and monster, are fragile. Any attack which rolls higher than a unit’s relevant defense stat is fatal. The intent is the create combat that focuses on maneuvering and coordinating a squad of various weapon types, and where trapping enemy units is the primary challenge of killing them instead of relying on more hit points and stronger attacks.

User Interface

Instead of key bindings, T31LoSB uses an in built command line for all player input; it’s typo tolerant and has predictive text features.