[Ability Concept] Board Game Ultimate

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Board Game Ultimate.


Aimed to be an impactful macro-based spell.

Inspired by Moba Board game, Onward and other moba board games.

(I've never actually played Onward, just inspired me for a hero's ultimate ability).






sample how to of Onward moba:

4 - Ultimate Artifact

This will activate the spell and causes the player to channel.

This will open the current game as a board for the player to take the next step.

If the player gets interrupted during channeling, the ability goes on cooldown.




Actions & Steps that a player may take:

- siege objectives
- damage areas
- teleport to areas
- farm souls
- update area (respawn sinners/jungle/boxes)
- consume area (take sinners/jungle/boxes)



There's a lot of potential with this but its kind of stupid.

 

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hero throws a bunch of different numbered dice as an attack:

- a normal dice representing damage multiplier
- a d10 representing damage base
- a d20 representing a damage type randomizer, how its throw, how many dice in a throw, if the dice deals spirit damage, etc

 

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(extreme meme territory)

alt-cast ability vs regular casting ability


normal casting: Artifact Classic, only 1 lane and targets the closest lane - offers lane macro abilities

- fortify tower
- heal tower
- damage objective in lane
- clear troopers
- change zipline colour


alt-casting: Artifact Foundry, opens the board and affects all or areas in a lne - offers game/map macro abilities

- reset resources spawns
- all trooper spawn
- midboss death extender
- transform all boxes to golden buddhas
- community chest
- chance

 

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Board game hero Ultimate ability concept

 

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Moba, a professional Ixian prodigy girl was taught Deadlock, a traditional board game from Ixia, from a very young age. She comes to the ritual to play these games as she has played millions before this one.

 

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potential ixian features design v2

 

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(more meme territory)

in the board game if the hero assembles the letter cards: D, E, A, D, L, O, C, K they win the match, just like Exodia in Yugioh.

but assembling it requires an enemy weakend patron and also allied weakend patron.


or Fiber Jar from Yugioh which respawns all objectives (but doesnt reset networth or items)

 

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Hero voicelines:

(for fun)


"They are all playing with Patrons while I'm gonna be playing Deadlock." (they are playing checkers i'm playing chess)

"Ritual Summoning strategy? I'm more of a burn strategy."

"Earthlings never enjoyed Ixian games, they were too insufficient in intellectual capacity inorder to play it."

"E4, midboss, Patron... hold on, I am playing another 6 other Deadlock games in my head."

"Rush B or not... its always meta like center square in Chess."

"Looks like we found ourselves a stalemate and I never stalemate."

"Long have wondered what Deadlock means... In Ixian it literally translates to Death spot, probably because you die on the spot from waiting for the game to end"

The Patrons to the hero: "You've played hundreds of these games before, yet now you are now playing the real one."

Apollo to the hero: "I played Deadlock since I was a child too and I take pride on my mmr, although it doesn't stand close to yours."

Abrams to the hero: "I've had my fair share with Deadlock, I bet I could at least take a guardian before you checkmate me".

Infernus to the hero: "Never played a game of Deadlock but let's play a game after the Ritual."

Infernus to the hero: "Never learned Deadlock as a kid, sure as hell not gonna learn now."

Sinclair to the hero: "I love playing Deadlock! I always Obliterate!"

Sinclair to the hero: "Savannah and I are huge fans of Deadlock! Speak for yourself Henry, I like Artifact!" (Artifact being the human equivalent board game clone)

Rem to the hero: "Oooooh GAME! Can I play?"

Rem to the hero: "Do you have any games in your pocket?"

Pocket to the hero: "We share a fate with a mystical case..." (headcannon** Pocket's briefcase is a fantastic beast pocket universe to the dota universe)

 

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(very dumb idea - lone druid wannabe)


Main Hero Abilities:


1 - Mount/unmount Ixian bear -
teleport onto or off the Ixian bear

1 - alt-cast - Summon Ixian Bear
Summons an Ixian Bear.

1 -alt-cast while mounted - toggle between perspective/control of the Bear


2 - draw a community chest card


2 - alt-cast - draw a chance card


3 - weighted die roll

throws a bunch of big weighted dice that are bullets


4 - Artifact Classic

Opens game board of game state with cards on current lane.


4 - alt-cast - Artifact Foundry

Opens whole game board of the game state with cards.





Ixian Bear abilities:

Bear is melee like Silver Wolf Ultimate


1 - unmount bear

1 - alt-cast - change control/perspective

2 - lone druid share regen passive with hero

3 - ixian bear attack modifier passive

4 - Itali lo sahn

Bear version of Itali lo sahn

 

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Having Deadlock being the name of a classic Ixian game is honestly genius