SACRED FIRE KICKSTARTER UPDATE

There | Is / Is Not | Enough to Go Around The last layer of how your character evolves are the Words of Power a level up unlocks. It also unlocks new rare traits helping you spot danger, craft unique items and more. It all contributes to your Character Level.Ī new character level expands your willpower, so you can boost the chances of all the probability checks more often. Making choices shapes your personality and beliefs. Overcoming pain in battle, showing courage, gaining a new prestigious outfit, this all affects how your renown and influence evolves. MMORPG: Do your character traits develop as you play? How?Īndrej Vojtas:The game flows from one tactical encounter to another, and the numeric personality model fluidly reacts to the choices you do, so it feels like the character creation never really stops. So you have this turn-based strategy aspect of competing with them, each story scene representing a turn. Other NPCs rise and fall in influence and they have their own agendas and can overrule you. You have to earn the right to lead and to change the story. What’s important you can spend limited willpower points to boost your chances so you have to strategize. Fear weakens impact, Anger weakens finesse. So every choice has a probability of success based on your personality, skills and emotional state. And the consequences can create traumas you have to process and turn into strengths. We are rethinking the fundamental RPG mechanic of how choices & consequences work: you have to earn the right to make a hard choice. Where combat and dialogues support each other, and the game story and NPCs reacts to your role-playing. We are truly aiming for a new role-playing experience. We got people like Chris Avellone, or Swen Vincke saying they can’t wait to play it so that’s a such a confidence boost.

SACRED FIRE KICKSTARTER UPDATE

They want to learn more and with each design update we share, people get more and more excited. Fans write, they have never seen such take on combat, they thank us for searching for the spirit of the role-playing genre. When games claim to be innovative you usually get all these comments – hey, it’s like this game or that game. Just how different is Sacred Fire?Īndrej Vojtas:The RPG genre is one of the oldest game genres, so creating a unique take on it takes time and Sacred Fire is my life’s work. MMORPG:So these character choices, these intrinsic qualities we’ll be deciding (being a good friend, empathetic, angry, etc) extend beyond character creation? Coming from more traditional roleplaying games, we’re so used to seeing these elements, if they’re included at all, exist on the fringes to add a point or two to a dice roll. These represent the five archetype traits (Warrior, Leader, Genius, Icon, Friend) that you can mix and match, enabling different combat and conflict resolution tactics. Our character creation and writing supports multiple play styles, and lets you gain an edge with either force, intellect, skill, appearance or empathy in every situation. You need both inner strength and social influence to guide the story into the direction you want. So you could say Sacred Fire is all about building a strong personality. To us, this is the most interesting gameplay conflict and challenge of all – the conflict of your protagonist wrestling with their own emotions, beliefs and worldviews. But can you escape the gravity of a world gone mad and the rage building up inside of you? Relationship and psychological motives drive you to search for something more than survival or revenge. Instead of a grizzled resistance war story reduced to a survivalist mindset, your character is an outsider from their honor-based culture. To support this design focus we developed a numbers-based personality model and gameplay rules for the inner workings of a warrior inspired by the 2 nd Century resistance wars in Caledonia (ancient Scotland). The simplest way to put it, Sacred Fire is a role-playing game where your success and solutions to conflicts lie in the psychology of the characters, not in weapons, attacks, and damage types. For those who may not be familiar with it, tell us a little bit about the game and what makes it so unique.Īndrej Vojtas:Thank you for your kind words and for taking the time to look closer. MMORPG: Thank you for chatting with us today! Sacred Fire is certainly a unique take on the RPG genre.

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