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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
Joined: Feb 01 2006
Location: Phyrexia
PostPosted: Jul 19 2011 03:06 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Does anyone play this? I stumbled upon it by accident and have become as hooked as my daily allotment of adventures will let me.

To explain: It's a humorous RPG illustrated entirely in stick figures and using some interesting mechanics. For instance, you can't play endlessly, you are granted X number of adventures a day. These adventures are used like turns sort of as it takes an adventure to travel in a place with monsters. Using one in such a place will lead to an encounter usually and once you beat the monster, you get an option to spend another adventure to fight again in the same place. You can gain more adventures by eating food and drinking booze, the amount of them depending on the quality of the food and drink. Eventually, you're too full to eat anymore and too drunk to adventure so you have to be careful, but there are items that net you more adventures per food and drink item. Plus one of the perks of joining a clan is additional adventures per day.

Then we come to currency, which is meat. Because monsters don't drop gold like most RPGs, but instead you hack chunks of flesh off them and buy stuff with that. Meat is also used in meat smithing which is the advanced crafting system.

There's a ton of things to do and places to explore in general and tons of items, food and cocktails you can make, I've been just randomly trying to combine everything I have and have gotten some weird results (Disembodied Smile anyone?)

There is some sort of multiplayer element (beyond a flea market that reminds me of FFXI's auction house), but I haven't been playing long and only recently joined a clan so I don't know how that works yet.

The best part though is humor, everything has a snarky description and some of the fight descriptors are just ridiculous. Like when fighting a giant spider, you sometimes get "You're faced with a giant spider! It promises not to hurt you, but you're not sure you can trust it." or when fighting a werewolf, it suggests you kick him in the nards then confirms to you "Yup, wolfman's got nards."

And the classes are an example of how silly it is: You have the Seal Clubber who can summon seals and then club them to death, the Turtle Tamer who has a mystic connection to turtles, mainly through wearing them as helmets and throwing them at enemies, the Pastamancer who summons various pasta dishes to fight for him, the Sauceror who employs hot and cold sauce spells, the Disco Bandit, known for his dancing as much his thievery and the Accordian Thief who seems to be a bard equivalent and steals all his starting gear judging from their descriptions.

If anybody plays, give me some tips man, I just started and I'm trying to figure out how to get the most adventures out of the day. Oh and if anyone's playing right NOW, give me your Ten Leaf Clovers before St. Sneaky Pete's Day is over!

Oh and because it might help to know what the hell I'm talking about:
http://www3.kingdomofloathing.com/login.php?loginid=541c13f083a2401bbde9584ba3c342c8


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Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
PostPosted: Jul 19 2011 03:52 pm Reply with quote Back to top

i used to play this a while ago. fun game. funny writing. might pick it up again sometime in the future.


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LordHuffnPuff
Title: Mahna Mahna
Joined: Jan 12 2009
Location: Fairyland
PostPosted: Jul 20 2011 07:46 am Reply with quote Back to top

I keep bringing this up in the IRC and nobody seems to care. It's got enough pop culture to choke all of Syd Lexia. I've been playing for six years and write the news and updates for the official fanpage.

It's one of the smartest, best-written games on the internet. Don't be deceived by the simplistic graphics, the writing is top-notch (though the art has a charm of its own) and there's a WoW-tier level of content, as the game has been perpetually updated since 2003. It's what these guys do for a living now.


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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
Joined: Feb 01 2006
Location: Phyrexia
PostPosted: Jul 20 2011 12:39 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I think it's awesome, I exhaust my adventures for the day right at midnight in like ten minutes.


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Joined: May 22 2008
Location: Goshen, VA
PostPosted: Jul 20 2011 01:59 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Black Zarak wrote:
I exhaust my adventures for the day right at midnight in like ten minutes.

I think that is the games biggest problem.


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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
Joined: Feb 01 2006
Location: Phyrexia
PostPosted: Jul 21 2011 01:54 am Reply with quote Back to top

Yeah, you can end up getting about double the amount through careful use of food and drink and clan bonuses, but it still goes too fast.


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LordHuffnPuff
Title: Mahna Mahna
Joined: Jan 12 2009
Location: Fairyland
PostPosted: Jul 21 2011 07:55 am Reply with quote Back to top

Black Zarak wrote:
Yeah, you can end up getting about double the amount through careful use of food and drink and clan bonuses, but it still goes too fast.


I could regularly play over 200 turns every day with little effort if I felt like it. Once you know what food/booze/spleen items are the best, and how to improve adventure returns, and how to remove fullness/drunkness/spleen damage, it's doable. I played over 1000 adventures in one day during the last world event.


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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
Joined: Feb 01 2006
Location: Phyrexia
PostPosted: Jul 21 2011 09:14 am Reply with quote Back to top

You can remove drunkeness?


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LordHuffnPuff
Title: Mahna Mahna
Joined: Jan 12 2009
Location: Fairyland
PostPosted: Jul 21 2011 07:03 pm Reply with quote Back to top

You can use a spice melange once per day to remove 3 drunkenness and three fullness, and a synthetic dog hair pill once per day to remove 1 point of drunkenness.


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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
Joined: Feb 01 2006
Location: Phyrexia
PostPosted: Jul 23 2011 10:35 pm Reply with quote Back to top

So items I can't make and nobody sells, great.


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LordHuffnPuff
Title: Mahna Mahna
Joined: Jan 12 2009
Location: Fairyland
PostPosted: Jul 24 2011 04:08 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Black Zarak wrote:
So items I can't make and nobody sells, great.


Searching for Spice Melange in the mall turns up over 200 items for sale under the 1 million mark. You can easily obtain dog-hair pills by buying a cheap Transporter Transponder and looking up how to navigate the moons.


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