Smaug's Lair - Game Thread - Puzzles and Other Games Forum

Welcome to the game thread of Smaug's Lair - a turn based adventure game.

Let's start with the most important rule of this thread: players may not post game-relevant information in here. Not even a deadpost, because other players are not entitled to that knowing that you got got.

This thread is for modposts, general banter, complaining about mod incompetence, Q&A (please don't ask questions itt that might reveal anything about your role, items, status or intentions), trashtalking, etc.

This game starts when you have received you role (hopefully later today, if IRL allows)

GL and HF!

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09-07-2021 , 08:09 AM

Gabethebabe

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Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 27,387

These are the characters potentially in the game. Smaug is a NPC and his movements are handled by mod. Bolg isn't in the game. There are 16 players, so some characters will not be in the game, as decided semi-randomly by the mod. Example: if Gollum is in the game, Bilbo will be as well. This is the only example you will be getting.

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Smaug. Maniac. This is a non-playing character that dwells in the Lonely Mountain. Smaug will attack all players, except his spawn and Radagast, that are stupid enough to enter his location. If there are none, he will move randomly, if there is nobody in the Lonely Mountain or to whichever character is closest to him in the Lonely Mountain. Smaug is bound to the four Lonely Mountain squares.

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Bilbo. Hobbit. Burglar. Defensive. Your item: The Ring of Power. Your character actions: Put on ring and Take off ring. The ring makes you invisible, but you will be outed to Gollum, if he is in your location. Every action you take when invisible, other than taking off the Ring, loses you one health. Your quest: find the Mithril mail shirt (in the Lonely Mountain) and return safely to the house of Elrond (NOTE: if you are invisible in Rivendell, Elrond will not allow you in).

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Gollum. Evil. Aggressive. You will recognize Bilbo when invisible or find his buried body. Your character action: Sniff Ring. You will learn in which of 9 directions Bilbo can be found (N, E, S, W, NE, NW, SE, SW, Here). Your quest: recover Bilbo's Ring and return safely to the house of Elrond.

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Thorin Oakenshield. Dwarf. Burglar. Defensive. Your item: Fireproof Shield. Your quest: Find the Arkenstone (in the Lonely Mountain) and return safely to the house of Elrond.

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Bard the Bowman. Human. Defensive. Your item: Black Crossbow Dart. Your quest: slay Smaug and return safely to the house of Elrond.

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The Necromancer. Evil. Maniac. You have a powerful ranged magic attack. Your quest: kill all players.

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The Goblin Chieftain. Evil. Maniac. If you die, Bolg will enter the game on a empty map location and you continue playing as him, with the same win condition. Your items: 3 Goblin bombs. Your character action: Drop bomb and move. The next turn, the bomb will explode and kill all players in the location you just left (Note: if you are Detained while doing this action, you will die from your own bomb). Your quest: kill all players.

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Bolg. Evil. Maniac. You spawn when the Goblin Chieftain dies. Your item: Spear. Your quest: kill all players.

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The Elvenking. Elf. Aggressive. Your items: Bow and two arrows. Your quest: kill a Dwarf and return safely to the house of Elrond. If you attack and kill an Elf, Hobbit or Human, you lose the game (If you kill them, defending against their attack, **** them and nothing happens).

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Galadriel. Pacifist. Elf. Your character actions: Peek [Player in your location]. You will learn the role of the named player. Join [Player in your location]. Use this once in the game. If that player wins while you live, you win too.

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Kíli. Dwarf. Defensive. Your items: a dwarven axe and a helm. Your quest: find Tauriel, your lover and return safely to the house of Elrond. You will lose the game when she dies.

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Tauriel. Elf. Defensive. Your item: Bow and one arrow. Your quest: find Kíli, your lover and return safely to the house of Elrond. You will lose the game when he dies.

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William, Tom and Bert. Troll. Evil. Maniac. Tom item: Club. William item: Club. Bert item: Net and a character action: Catch [playername]. This will not end well if your victim has a knife, axe or sword. Team action (can be executed by any number of trolls): Eat [playername]. Only possible if Bert has caught a player. All trolls that eat will return to full health. Your team quest: kill all other players.

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Radagast the Brown. Human. Aggressive. When you submit your daily action, you may also send a message to Smaug's Spawn. Your character action, (1/game): Summon dragon @ [playername]. That player will be killed. Your quest: kill Bard the Bowman and all burglars and escape safely to the house of Elrond.

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The Master of Lake-Town. Evil. Human. Aggressive. Your item: Knife. Your quest: loot a dead burglar that completed his quest or kill Bard the Bowman and escape safely to the house of Elrond.

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Beorn. Defensive. Human. Your character action: Transform. You become a formidable black bear and aggressive instead of defensive. In bear form you cannot wield weapons and the only actions you are able to perform are Move, Attack and Transform. Your quest: Eliminate all evil characters and return safely to the house of Elrond.

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Gandalf. Defensive. Human. Your items: 3 Flaming pinecones (ranged attack, increased damage to evil characters). Your quest: Eliminate all evil characters and return safely to the house of Elrond.

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The Lord of the Eagles. Aggressive. Three times in the game you may submit a double move. You are quite resistant to melee attacks, but vulnerable to ranged attacks. Your character action: Find [charactername]. You will learn the location of that character. Your quest: Eliminate all evil characters and return safely to the house of Elrond.

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Balin. Dwarf. Burglar. Aggressive. Your item: Helmet and two Decoys. Your character action: Search and drop decoy. Smaug will not attack you that round. Your quest: loot diamonds and gold in the Lonely Mountain and return safely to the house of Elrond.

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Smaug's Spawn. Dragon. Maniac. You have a strong ranged fire attack that will affect all players in your location. Your quest: eliminate Bard the Bowman and all burglars and return safely to the house of Elrond

Character traits

Pacifist. Diplomacy and fleeing are your best weapons.
Defensive. You can attack, but are better at defending.
Aggressive. You attack well, and defend admirably
Maniac. Attack them, before they attack you, duh

Last edited by Gabethebabe; 09-07-2021 at 08:19 AM.

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09-07-2021 , 08:18 AM

Gabethebabe

Malware Jedi

Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 27,387

You are expected to submit an action within 20 hours of receiving my reply to your previous action
If my modding does not suck, the moves of all players will be handled simultaneously, once per 24h
Anytime you fail to submit an action, you are either modkilled or the mod will pick a legal action in the following order of preference: Search - Search again - Rest.

Move [direction]. This is your standard movement. You can move NESW, not diagonally.
Run [direction]. Move, that cannot be detained. In your next location you will search better (100%). Cons: Bigger risk to run into a natural trap in the location you move to.
Flee [direction]. Move and prevent damage when you are attacked. You will also not return damage.
Accompany [Playername]. Choose a player and if that player moves, move to the same location, if you are able. If the player doesn't move, you are idle. This action makes you immune to natural traps in the location you move to.
Follow trail of [Playername]. Choose a player and if that player was in your current location one of the previous two turns, you move to the location that player moved to.
Search. Use this to search your location. You are 60% to find something. If you ran into this location on the previous turn, your search will 100% find something. You cannot search a location where you already found something.
Search again. Use this if your first Search failed to find anything. You are 100% to find something.
Hide. When hidden, most characters will not note your presence in the location, unless they search and some even not then. If you attack while hidden, you receive an ambush bonus.
Attack [Playername] [Weapon]. Attack anyone in your location. Additionally, state the weapon you wish to use. You may attack multiple opponents, if you dare. Attacking is not safe: your target may fight back and fiercely!
Backstab [Playername] [Weapon]. Attack anyone in your location. Additionally, state the weapon you wish to use. You may attack multiple opponents, if you dare. Backstab avoids the target's defense and counterattack, but it only works when the attacked player moves out of the location that same turn. If the backstabbed player does not move, his defense will actually improve
Rest. Improve +1 Health. If you are in a location with access to water, 50% probability to recover another Health.
Detain [playername]. If that player uses a movement that is not Run, you stop this movement.
Inspect [corpse]. Find out the role of a dead player. If you killed the player and (s)he was part of your win condition or your death was part of their win condition, gain +1 Health.
Loot [corpse]. Recover objects that were carried by a dead player. Some character specific items might not be lootable for you.
Bury [corpse]. Hide the body of a dead player, so that nobody else will be able to find it. The exercise and the general feeling of doing something not barbarian will gain you 1 Health.
Brace [Weapon]. Prepare for being attacked. If you are not attacked, you are idle.
Give [Item] to [Playername]. Allows you to trade items you don't need.
Build rudimentary shield. Only available to you in Forest area. a weak defensive item
Build rudimentary club. Only available to you in Forest area. A weak offensive item

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09-07-2021 , 08:24 AM

Gabethebabe

Malware Jedi

Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 27,387

When you move, you can indicate direction or move to [name of adjacent location]. I will understand both.

At the start of the game, no players will be in the location of any other and also not in Lonely Mountain (other than a fire breathing vicious dragon)

You will learn when you share location with another player (unless (s))he is hidden) and you will have full chat with that player.

There are many items to be found in this game, so abuse your search action. Items might unlock new actions.

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09-07-2021 , 08:33 AM

Gabethebabe

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Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 27,387

All players start with 10 health
If you reach 0 health, you are dead. No surprises here.
If you attack a player, you try to deal damage = have that player lose that much health.
Your target will prevent damage and deal damage to you, depending on character, traits, items. Attacking is not safe!
You will be made aware of your health at any time
The amount of damage dealt by characters and/or items isn't public information and will include a rand(). But expect people to die easily in this game.
If you are being attacked, by default, you will automatically use your best melee item and not use one-shot ranged weapons (bow/arrow, Flaming Pinecone, for example). If you wish to act differently, you must inform me about it on any turn previous to you being attacked.
If a player is killed by a ranged attack, that player will not be able to inflict melee damage.

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09-07-2021 , 08:34 AM

Gabethebabe

Malware Jedi

Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 27,387

That's it!

Feel free to ask questions, starting now. Once you have received your role, you will have to be a little more careful with your questions (ask by PM in case of doubt).

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09-07-2021 , 08:42 AM

Gabethebabe

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Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 27,387

accobra_kid
ApocPS
Bloobird
confirmedtroll
Doctor Zeus
Dolby
Egix Ninetysix
Eric
FrogSC2
Gadarene
iraisetoomuch
Luckbox Inc
marknfw
VoraciousReader
Whysper
Zurvan

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09-07-2021 , 09:19 AM

iraisetoomuch

banned

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Subbing for the trashtalk

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09-07-2021 , 10:31 AM

Zurvan

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Do the rivers have any impact on movement?

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09-07-2021 , 10:32 AM

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ApocPS

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Here to avoid flaming pinecones

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09-07-2021 , 10:36 AM

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Gabethebabe

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Originally Posted by Zurvan

Do the rivers have any impact on movement?

Water does not inhibit movement

That is the politically correct reply

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09-07-2021 , 10:40 AM

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Eric

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Originally Posted by Zurvan

Do the rivers have any impact on movement?

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Originally Posted by Gabethebabe

You can move freely, whether there is water or there is not

I love this reply.

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09-07-2021 , 10:42 AM

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Gabethebabe

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Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 27,387

dammit Eric caught my edit

*throws flaming pinecone*

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09-07-2021 , 10:43 AM

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iraisetoomuch

banned

Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 37,493

Should we commence with the LolGabe now? Or just wait till the end out of respect?

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09-07-2021 , 10:43 AM

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Gabethebabe

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Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 27,387

I will be making up rules and stats as the game advances and **** starts happening

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09-07-2021 , 10:44 AM

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confirmedtroll

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https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...postcount=5201

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09-07-2021 , 10:46 AM

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Bloobird

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hello fellow burglars

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09-07-2021 , 10:50 AM

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Gabethebabe

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Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 27,387

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Originally Posted by iraisetoomuch

Should we commence with the LolGabe now? Or just wait till the end out of respect?

You can lolGabe any time you want your "Search" to 100% fail

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09-07-2021 , 10:52 AM

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Eric

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I like both responses for the same reason.

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09-07-2021 , 10:55 AM

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Egix Ninetysix

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Er, hi.

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09-07-2021 , 12:04 PM

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confirmedtroll

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randed Neville Longbottom

Let’s do this

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09-07-2021 , 12:39 PM

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VoraciousReader

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If you reach 0 health, you are dead. No surprises here.

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09-07-2021 , 12:40 PM

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VoraciousReader

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Originally Posted by Gabethebabe

Water does not inhibit movement

That is the politically correct reply

Some of us can swim. For lolZurvan, I guess there's a canoe. Or an inner tube.

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09-07-2021 , 12:47 PM

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marknfw

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I don't care what character I draw, I will be playing as an Ent.

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09-07-2021 , 02:31 PM

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ApocPS

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I just read the roles

This game is going to be a ****ing brawl xD

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