8 oldschool quest worlds, 252 opponents, 56 challenges!
Posted: 14 Jun 2016, 19:52
Ever wonder what it was like to play Magic in the early 90s? Here's your chance!
It is my sincere desire to see these worlds added to Forge. I submit my work for your approval.
The worlds
- The Domains: The Golden Age of Magic (Limited Edition Beta) | Open
- Rabiah (Arabian Nights) | Open
- Terisiare: The Brothers' War (Antiquities) | Open
- Dominaria: Legends | Open
- Terisiare: The Dark | Open
- Sarpadia (Fallen Empires) | Open
- Homelands | Open
- Terisiare: Ice Age (and Alliances) | Open
Worldbuilding philosophy
I have spent enormous amounts of time and effort to make the worlds the best I could:
- I have personally tested each and every card to see how the AI handles it.
- Every single card that the AI could handle has been given a home.
- Each quest opponent deck is as unique as possible. There is little-to-no overlap especially at the lower levels.
- I have studied the lore as best I could, short of reading the novels.
- I spent countless hours playtesting the worlds.
- The Easy quest opponents have decks that are based on lore. These decks represent people, factions, areas or aspects from the world in question.
- The Medium quest opponents have decks built around a theme. This can be a tribe, a gimmick or a funny but not-very-competitive strategy.
- The Hard quest opponents have decks that are built to crush you. This includes decks that I built myself while playing in the quest world (adapted to the AI's propensities, of course), as well as decks from Magic's very first Pro Tour.
- The Challenge decks are puzzles. They do not obey the normal deckbuilding restrictions and may start with some cards already on the table. You should be able to defeat the Easy ones with just a good quest deck, but the Medium ones might require some "pre-sideboarding" and the Hard ones will require decks specifically built to take them down (but I promise they're all doable!)
Installation
- Unpack the attached archive.
- Copy the eight world folders to your <res\quest\world> folder.
- If you have no other custom worlds installed, simply copy worlds.txt to that same folder and overwrite.
- If you already have other custom worlds, copy the bottom eight world lines from my worlds.txt to your worlds.txt.
Recommended Settings
The worlds were designed to be played with the following settings:
- Difficulty: Medium
- Fantasy Mode: No (This one's important!)
- Starting World: The one you intend to play, of course. (They're sorted by the year and month in which they were printed.)
- Allow duplicate cards: Yes
- Allow unlock of additional editions: No
- stay in your world. The worlds were designed to be self-contained. For the purest experience, do not travel to other worlds. With the exception of basic lands, no opponent or challenge contains or expects to face any cards from outside their world.
- build Vintage legal decks. 60 cards, honoring the Restricted List. Forge will not enforce this but your quest opponents all play by these rules. What you are playing is much closer to Block Constructed than it is to Limited.
Let me know what you think!
- Did you have fun?
- Did you have any technical issues?
- Did you try the recommended settings and restrictions? How did you feel about that?
- How did you experience the flavor of the Easy opponents?
- How did you experience the gimmicks of the Medium opponents?
- How did you experience the challenge of the Hard opponents?
- Did you see the AI make any particularly bone-headed plays?
- Did any of your opponents give you an easier or harder time than you expected?
- Did you attempt any of the challenges? How did it go?
- Did you find any discrepancies or irregularities with the official lore in the Easy opponents?
- The descriptions are mostly flavor text quotes. How do you feel about that?
- Some of the smaller worlds don't have enough cards to support more than 16 opponents. How do you feel about that?
- I did not provide custom icons. Did you miss them?
- Can you think of a good deck that's missing?
- Are you looking forward to more worlds like this?
Happy questing!