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Winding Road/Endless Road Request:
« on: June 14, 2018, 03:39:37 PM »
Server Area Request:
  • Characters listed in the Outlander faction have a small percentage of going through a transition and being re-directed to The Winding Road or The Endless Road during certain events.
Suggestions are as follows:


The Winding Road:
The Winding Road is the domain of the Headless Horseman. The Winding Road appears on the night of the sickle moon.
  • Small percent chance of spawning on The Winding Road on the night of the sickle moon.
  • There is no purpose to this domain but to run from Point A to Point B as the Headless Horsemen chases you down.
  • Perhaps there are some sort of obstacles and traps you must guide your character to run around.

I choose to think of this idea like that old 90s game called Ski Free. If there is a way to make obstacles randomized in this domain, I am all for it. Because this is essentially a mini game, the character may not actually die in this domain, mechanically speaking, but must successfully complete a full run past the obstacles while the Headless Horseman chases behind.  If the Horseman catches the player, he or she respawns at the start and it begins again until the player makes it out.

Alternative suggestions:
  • A forest maze, The Headless Horseman is the Minotaur
  • An interactive little side game where two or more characters are whisked away when they transition, and one player gets to be the headless horseman and the other has a little bit of time to find a hiding place or fortify a hiding place (such as in a shack with destructible furniture blocking the door). The Headless Horseman then has to find them within a time limit, kind of like  hide and seek. If the hiding player successfully survives until the end of the timer, something good happens like getting an item or getting xp/gp, etc. If the Headless Horseman player finds all hiding players, then they get the reward and everyone can exit transition.



The Endless Road:
The Endless Road is the domain of Eli van Hassen. He is pursued by The Headless Horseman.
Eli van Hassen is the darklord of the Endless Road, the patriarch of the van Hassen Family. He resides within the boundaries of his his estate, protected by his faith and the special abilities afforded to him by the Dark Powers. However, he is also effectively trapped inside of it, for to leave is to met the wrath of the Horseman, a hero Eli had direly wronged so many years ago.


  • Players spawn to a hostile horseman and they must run toward/inside the manor/estate for safety.
  • They must search the large estate while avoiding traps, sneaking past creatures on walk paths (like the thief or splinter cell game), and other tricky rooms to find a severed head.
  • A severed head is randomly hidden in one of the various containers around the estate for the player to find per player in this domain.
  • Possessing the severed head in character inventory makes said character non hostile to the horseman outside.
  • Giving the head to the horseman will transport the character outside of the domain.



I'm not sure if it is acceptable to recommend new areas, but thank you for taking the time and reading.

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Re: Winding Road/Endless Road Request:
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2018, 03:45:03 PM »
I think it'd be cool to have the headless horseman be more than just a rumour.
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Re: Winding Road/Endless Road Request:
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2018, 11:10:16 PM »
The Endless Road is pretty cool but it's best left as a DM device than a mechanical thing, otherwise it'll lose its flavour and become either an annoyance or something players try to farm. We've used it in past events as well.