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---BOTW spoilers---

I have not finished BOTW. There will be no BOTW content in this game, unless I say so. Anyone spoiling something will see all their characters meet with a random permadeath. And I don't actually plan permadeath for this game.

---Type of characters---

Explorers are characters which explore the world to fight monsters and find treasures. They all start with a Melee weapon. Anything from BOTW is acceptable as long as it's not a spoiler weapon. They also start with one item from the Zelda series. Stasis is available.

Merchants are well... Merchants. They are characters built for social interactions and shouldn't be thrown into combat. Upon sign-up, you must choose 5 products your characters sells. It can be anything from the Zelda series. In case the Merchant ever has to defend himself, he has an infinite number of these 5 products.

Other social characters are ordinary people. They probably never leave their town and are built for social interactions. This doesn't mean they can't travel if they want to. They start with an Emergency Weapon, in case they have to defend themselves. This should be something weak.

Sages are special characters. You can choose their abilities yourself. They can decide wether to be an explorer or a social character. Note that whenever a sage is KO'd means that his town will be attackable by monsters for an in-game week. There can only be one sage per town.

---Combat---

Enemies are scaled down for 1V1 combat. Which means every character can only fight 1 opponent at once. The number of enemies during each combat will be equal to the number of explorers travelling togethers, wether player or NPC. Sages count as explorers.

Merchants and Other social characters can decide to fight instead of one explorer travelling with them.

The NPCs will always win their battle, unless it's a special event.

Example: 1 player explorer and 3 NPC explorer are walking in Hyrule Field and meet 2 Bokoblins and 2 Lizalfos. The player has to decide which of the 4 enemy he wants to fight. The other 3 will be fought by the NPCs.

---Bosses---

Boss Battles are different. They are scaled to fight 4 explorers at once, but there is no limit to how many characters can fight a boss at once.

---Death---

There is no Player Death in this game. You get KO'd instead. Being KO'd will always have consequences, like losing an item or some rupees.

NPCs can die during special events.

---Hometown---

In sign-ups, you are asked to pick an hometown. You can decide to be a nomad, living in a tent. Note that this means you have no home, no safe place.

---Playable races---

All humanoid races from the Zelda series are playable.

Note that if you pick a race which is usually a monster, it's important to specify in your backstory how you got accepted by society and your description also requires a specific trait which allows people to differentiate you from a monster.

---Sages---

Because there can be only 1 sage per town, it's important to warn me you want to play as a Sage ASAP. Once the game starts in two or three weeks (will explain that delay on another date), every town will have a Sage, which means no one can sign-up as a sage anymore.

---Playable characters---

This game is built for you to join as an original character. Note that the following 6 characters can be signed-up as though:

Link
Zelda
Impa
Beedle
Tingle
Ganondorf (No access to Ganon. The game doesn't support evil characters.)







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Kakariko Village's sage has been reserved.

Hmmm... Can't decide wether I start the game with an empty bestiary or put 3 entries in each area so you know what kind of monsters would be there...

You can indeed get good reputations, but I probably won't fill them in your character informations, cause good reputations are more intertwined with specific characters than an entire town's ideology like the bad reputation

Whatd I miss

Eh, he's got an NPC helping him and if things get too dangerous (like if he doesn't find any other adventurers inside the Living Dungeon and winds up struggling to do a thing to a boss designed to fight twice as many people as his party consists of) he can always get the hell out of there. Even if he doesn't run into trouble I don't intend on him going very far into it before leaving, just enough to help make exploring the whole thing a major goal of his for the game.

I'd be fine either way. As a character who primarily fights from a distance being able to choose whichever target works best on a turn while my allies cover me might be a bit more advantageous, but if someone else prefers 1v1 fights then I'm good with that too.