These special inks work similar to your regular ink but will reveal parts of the map in different patterns. Each battle will also reward you with one pot of special ink. When you win a battle you will get some gold as well as one or more other rewards including new cards, items, or gems. When you use ink to reveal more of the map you may find all kinds of things, such as Monsters to battle, Gold sitting on the ground, Vaults of Wisdom that let you trade a small amount of gold for a new card (you get three random cards to pick from), Wandering Merchants that let you buy cards, Items and Gems Stones which provide Gems (more about those in a bit), Towers that reveal a large area of the map areas around them, Runes of Sight that show you some interesting item somewhere that hasn’t been revealed yet on the map, Alchemists that let you transform your cards (The only way to replace your original cards with better ones), and Hearts that heal your characters. You start the game with five pots of ink which can be used to draw in the hexes surrounding your character. A big part of this exploration system is using ink to reveal the map. The entire idea here is that you are exploring a book and you are playing the game in the book.
Note I said draws, this is where the whole “book” part of the theme comes in. You get to see the starting area and then after the gate is opened the game draws the path to a tower and the first boss monsters. The world you are exploring in Roguebook is made up of a hex map, only part of which you can see. You then go recruit a companion to journey with (in this demo you are limited to one specific hero and companion combo) you unlock the main gates on the map and start exploring. You start off each game at level one with your chosen hero. Roguebook bills itself as a deck-building Roguelike and that’s exactly what it is. The demo version limits you to one specific hero pair, doesn’t allow persistent progression through the skill tree, and limits everything to the first six levels. If you pre-order now you’ll get access to the demo version of the game which is what I’ve been playing.
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Roguebook is currently up for preorder at Humble Bundle and is expected to enter full release in April. Okay, maybe that’s just me? Where most people are probably going to know Richard Garfield from is as the man behind Magic the Gathering. Now Richard Garfield is a name that all hobby board game fans should recognize as the man behind Robo Rally and The Great Dalmuti, two of my all-time favourite games. Roguebook was developed by Abrakam Entertainment, the team behind Faeria, who paired up with Richard Garfield to create this game. What is Roguebook, the digital card game?
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