The Inverted Tower/Draft 4

Under consideration

No XP if current level is +2 the floor level (to circumvent farming)?

Open Questions

Retreating?
Should I enable some kind of grind mode?
Game is too mechanic?
I need to add some non-battle mechanics. Maybe a table before encounters?
- Quests?
- Trader monsters?
- Feats of Strength?
Especial rules for the necromancer combat
Second-wind?
Should elites cause 2 points of damage?

Changelog

Simplified dead-end rules
Simplified elite mobs
Added Flavor section

Rules

Character Creation

Attributes

There are 3 attributes in this game:

Attribute	Description
STR	How strong your character is
DEX	How dexterous your character is
INT	How intelligent your character is

Select one attribute and put one point in it. The other two will start as zero.

Hit Points

Max HP starts at 5. You can never heal up your Max HP.

Initial Equipment

1 dagger — add one to a combat roll
1 potion — recover to Max HP and then discarded

Rolls

These are all the rolls you going to use to play The Inverted Tower:

Name	Abbr.	Desc.
Dice Roll	DR	Roll, compare with table
Dice Check	DC	Roll. Passes if die is 5 or 6
Epic Check	EC	Roll. Passes if die is 6
Split Roll	SR	Roll, then: 1 or 2: option 1 3 or 4: option 2 5 or 6: option 3

Also, a six is always a success and one is always a failure.

Gameplay

New room: DC. If passes, DR for Event. Otherwise, Its an Encounter

Event
- Make note on the room if event room.
- Each floor has only one event room of each kind
- Event rooms has no monsters
If Encounter
- DR l for number of monsters
- EC for elite check

Resolve event or encounter

If Encounter, DR for treasure (from table)

Tables

Events

Roll	Name	Mechanic
1 to 3	Trap	Must handle trap
4	Merchant	Sell items (dagger and potion) for 5gp each
5	Bonfire	Heals to Max HP
6	Stairs	Takes to the next floor

Traps

SR(STR,DEX,INR) to see the kind of trap. Do DC with the attribute as modifier. If fails, -1 HP and no treasure.

Number of Monsters

SR(1,2,3)

Treasure

Roll	Treasure
1-4	1 gp
5	Dagger
6	Potion

Combat

If normal monster, DR with the following multipliers:

plus attribute as modifier (choose one)
(optional) dagger (adds +1, more than one can be used)

If Elite Dice DC (daggers can be used)

If succeeds

monster dies
player gets 1 xp

if fails

take 1 hp of damage

a six is always a win (critical hit)

an one is always a failure (critical failure)

Leveling up

Every (10 + current level) XP — level up

Max HP + 1, 1 point to add to any attribute (STR, DEX or INT)

Elite Monsters and Bosses

An elite monster is a terrifying enemy from the levels below who spends some of their time in this room. To kill an elite monster must pass a DC.
Daggers can be used to get to this number as usual.
A Boss is another gruesome enemy always found in the last room of the floor. Handle it as an elite monster, but do a DC to see how many minions he has. If passed, he has 4. Otherwise, 2.
A boss always drops one potion, one dagger, and one gold piece as treasure.
Elite and bosses gives 2 XP

Wandering Monsters

When moving back to an existing room, do a DC. If pass. handle it as a new encounter.

Dead-ends

A level has 12 a maximum of rooms.

If the player got to the 12th room and still haven't find the stairs, this room is the stairs and also is the floor boss lair.

Dungeon Log

Since we don't have rooms anymore, it's advised to keep what we call a Dungeon Log. Each line in it displays what is in the room. For example:

Floor 1

Room 1 : Trap (INT) (Failed)
Room 2: Mob 1 (killed) Mob 2 (killed)
Room 3: Stairs (Descended)
Room 4: Mob 1 (killed) ⟶ Wandering: Yes. Mob 1 (killed), Mob 2 (killed)
Room 5: Mob 1 (killed), Mob 2 (killed)

Flavor

Objective

The objective of the game is to get to the 10th floor and slay the necromancer.

Mobs

Elite mobs are lichs, normal mobs are skeleton warriors

Floor Bosses are the Necromancer Acolytes, who raise skeletons to aid them

Elite mobs are lichs, normal mobs are skeleton warriors