My Board Game Idea

[Willben20]

I got it in my head a long time ago that I wanted to make a board game based on FE8. I loved the game, and thought that it would be fun to be able to sit down with friends and play it together. Either in like a quick skirmish, or full campaign.

Since I don't plan on selling this idea, I'm going my own way with this idea, so it's not going to have a Fire Emblem story, because I've added a typical Fantasy Element, where when building a character, not only do you select your class, but you select a Race too, Dwarf, Elf, or Human. And I also made a new class (technically three, since there's a non-promoted and two options when you do promote) The Hunter, an archer that has slightly lower stats then the typical archer, but has the ability to tame and bond with an animal that will fight alongside you. Which means I also added a set of Animal classes, with their own weapon triangle. The Wolf, the Bear, and the Tiger.

The Animal Triangle: Wolf > Bear > Tiger > Wolf
The Wolf is like the Sword, the Bear like the Axe, and the Tiger like the Lance.

The different classes that these base units could become are

Woodsman

Hunter{
Beast Master

Dire Wolf
Wolf{
Hell Hound

Cave Bear
Bear{
Great Bear

Demon Cat
Tiger{
White Tiger

I misplaced my notes on exactly what the different animal promoted classes did, but I know that the Woodsman can wield a Sword and the Beast Master can wield an Axe.

And when you chose a race besides human, certain classes fit certain races better, for instance, Elves have a racial bonus for pretty much all magic users or light fighters such as Myrmidons or Thieves. But Dwarves are more proficient in heavier classes like Knight or Warrior, and those units would gain a Racial bonus, which improves that units growth rate (max percentage is 90%). And if you had an Elven Knight or a Dwarven Cavalier, then you'd have a Racial penalty, and that characters growth rate would decrease.


I've got five different factions. Three mono-raced factions, and two joined factions. A Human Empire, an Elven Council, Dwarven Kingdom, a band of Native Tribes, and finally the Allied Kingdom.

I believe I have come up with good names for the different Factions now.
Human Empire: The Gaulder Empire
Elven Council: The Etherian Council
Dwarven Kingdom: The Kraathon Kingdom
Tribal Nation: The Iron-Wolf Tribes
Allied Kingdom: The Narielian Kingdom, or The Kingdom of Narielia

And after spending some time on the forums and chatroom here, I thought that maybe you guys might have some ideas to help me with this idea. I do know I'm going to want to write a story to go along with this. But for now I'm trying to focus on getting the details of the game figured out. Any opinions or advice you guys have for this would be appreciated =)

Edited October 27, 2014 by Willben20

[Dragoncat]

I've tried my hand at board games like this before. Never finished any of them.

Yours looks more complex than mine were, and I like the animal triangle...thing.

[Willben20]

Yeah, I've stopped and restarted this project over a couple of years, this is the closest to one of these side project things I've ever gotten to finishing it, so I'm kind of excited about finishing it up.

And Thanks =) I'm really quite please with the Animal's aspect.

The cool thing is I can work on making characters with the data I've got already. I can't do any combat yet, because I need the Weapons and Calculations. I want to try to find I way to translate the calculations to a d20 system so I don't need to do percentile for everything.