Conversation on this board got me thinking about Dungeons and Dragons-inspired Chess variants. Elements might include:
- experience points and leveling up
- character class abilities
- Character Creation
- traps
- treasure
- asymmetric parties
- variable or progressive board configurations
- exploration
- NPC opponents/monsters
- a magic system
- fantasy themes
- other roleplaying-related tropes and mechanics
Here’s what I’ve found so far:
CHESS WITH DICE - Dice Chess - Ludus Equitum, by Signore Giovanni Fontananera - Duell, by Geoffrey Hayes - Heraldic Chess, by Modest Solans - Solitaire Dice Chess, by Kevin Pacey - Babylonian Chess, by Muhammad Hidayat - Chaotic Chess, by Laurent Dubois - Destiny Chess, by Sergey Sirotkin
CHESS WITH CHARACTER CREATION / CHARACTER LEVELS - The Way of the Knight, by Ralph Betza - Veteran Chess, by H.G. Muller - Jack-be-nimble, by Ralph Betza - Ladder Shogi, by Mason Green - Upgrade Chess, by Daniil Frolov - Mortal Shogi, by Fergus Duniho - Alternative Promotion Chess, by Charles Gilman - Evolution Chess, by Jason Wittman - Decimaka, by H.G. Muller
PARTY CONSTRUCTION SYSTEMS - “Choose your Party” - Pointbuy Chess - Betza’s Buypoint Chess - Generic Chess System, by Guilherme Tows - Pick-the-teams Chess, by Hans Bodlaender - Shuuro, by Alessio Cavatore - ABC Chess, by Jeff “Cavebear” Stroud - Eternal Chess
D&D PLAYER RACES - Elvenchess, by H.G. Muller - Hobbit Chess, by C. George Boeree - Asymmetric Chess, by Dmitry Eskin (Humans, Elves, Orcs) - Fantasy Grand Chess, by Peter Hatch (Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Orcs & Goblins, Giants, Animals) - ChessWar, by Kalle Marjole (Dwarves, Elves, Humans, Orcs, Ratmen, Undead)
HIGH FANTASY VARIANTS - Dragonchess, by Gary Gygax - The Fellowship of the Ring / The One Ring, by Robert Price - Treeleader Chess, by Erez Schatz - Fantasy Chess, by Sean Duggan - The Siege of Dros Delnach - Fortress of the Witch - Tishai, by James Ernest - Vyremorn Chess, by Nathan McDonald - The Sons of Mithra, by Michael Chang & Holly Gummelt - Dai Dai Shogi Western, by Christine Bagley-Jones - Optima, by Michael Howe - Beastmaster Chess, by Glenn Overby - Summoners Chess - Fidchell, by Gary Gygax - Chess on a Larger Board with not so few Pieces Dropped, by Antoine Fourrière - Fairy Chess: The Mother of All Battles
CHESS WITH MONSTERS - Monster Chess - The Game of Nemoroth, by Ralph Betza - Spookyhouse Chessmen - Bulldog Chess w/ Witch, Spirit, Nazgul - Samhain Chess, by M. Winther - 2000 A.D., by V.R. Parton - Musketeer Chess - Scirocco / Typhoon / Jupiter, by Adrian King - Mad Chess, by Jason Wittman - Minotaur Chess, by Frank Truelove - Rose Chess II, by David Paulowich - Troll Chess, by Ralph Betza - Venomous, by Charles Daniel - Universal Chess, by Carlos Cetina - Pillars of Medusa, by Gary Gifford - Centaur Chess, by Adrian Alvarez de la Campa - Halloween Knight Court, by Jason D. Wittman - Basilisk Chess, by M. Winther - Halloween Bastardo / Objective Bastardo, by Roberto F., Alessio L., Sergio T., Paolo C. - Bug-Eyed Monster Chess - Chimera Chess, by Albert Lee - Capricorn Chess, by V.R. Parton - Exotic Chess
WILD ANIMALS - Mastodon Chess - White Elephant Chess, by Peter Aronson - The Game for the Trees / This Game is for the Birds, by Ralph Betza - Wild Kingdom, by Nick Wolff - Where Eagles Fly, by Michael Nelson - Random Rodents Chess, by Charles Gilman - SerPent Chess 50, by Charles Gilman - Locust Chess, by Yu Ren Dong - Raptor Chess, by Charles Daniel - Cobra Chess, by Derick Peterson - Panther Chess, by James Zuercher - Mad Elephant Chess, by Peter Aronson - Passed Pawns, by George Duke - Cannons and Crabs, by David Short - HiveQueen, by Larry Smith - Bear Chess, by Milkhail Sosnovsky - Dino-Czars, by Clark Rodeffer
AMAZONS - El Juego de las Amazonas, by Walter Zamkauskas - Yagbap, by James McComb - Royal Amazon Chess, by Peter Aronson - The Amazon Army, by Ralph Betza - Terror Chess, by Bryan Wong - Maharajah and the Sepoys - Chess of Amazons, by paculino
UNICORNS - Caissa Britannia, by Fergus Duniho - Unicorn Chess / Unicorn Great Chess / Lions and Unicorns Chess, by David Paulowich
DRAGONS - Dragon Chess, by Lex and Susan Parker - Dragon Chess II - Dragons, Archers & Oxen, by Jim Aikin - Butterfly Chess, by Kevin Pacey - Ryu Shogi, by Jared McComb - Flight and Ferry, by Charles Gilman - Wreckage! / Carnage, by Charles Daniel - Dragon, by Glenn Nicholls - Dragonet Chess
GIANTS & TITANS - Giant Chess, by Koksal Karakus - Giant King Chess, by Robert Shimmin - Rolling Kings, by Peter Aronson - Juggernaut Chess, by Seth McGinnis and Erik Wilson - Behemoth Chess, by Donald Seagraves - PieceEater Chess, by Peter Aronson - Carnivore Chess
ANGELS & DEMONS - Angels and Devils Chess, by Greg Strong - Angel Chess, by Louis P. D’Autremont - Djinn Chess - Apocalypse, by C.S. Elliott - The Demon Game, by Larry Smith
FAIRIES - The Fearful Fairies, by Jörg Knappen - Alseid Chess, by M. Winther - Gateway Chess, by Charles Gilman
MIMICS & CHANGELINGS - Mimic Chess, by Nick Wolff - Dueling Archbishops, by Jason Wittman - Bishop-Knight Morph Factor, by Gary Gifford - Doppelgänger Chess, by Gary Gifford - Illusory Piece Chess, by Peter Aronson - Changling Chess, by Karl Scherer - Chameleon Chess, by Sergey Sirotkin - Circean Chess, by V.R. Parton
WEREWOLVES - Werewolf Chess, by H.G. Muller - Werewolf Chess (party game variant)
WITCHES & WARLOCKS - Witch’s Chess, by Ralf Hansmann - Warlock Chess, by M. Winther - Omicron Chess - Magicpawns, by M. Winther - Shamanic Chess, by M. Winther - Cataclysm, by Greg Strong - Euqorab, by John Smith - Pagan Chess, by Mikey Kousre - Chess with Wizards, by Abdul-Rahman Sibahi
GOLEMS - Golem Chess, by Peter Aronson & Ben Good - Lichen Chess, by Alexandre Muniz - Hanga Roa, by Hernan Dominguez Placencia and Juan Pablo Schweitzer Kirsinger
GHOSTS & SPIRITS - Haunted Chess, by Stephane Burkhart - Ghost Chess, by T.R. Dawson - Phantom Chess, by Adrian Alvarez de la Campa - The Black Ghost, by Ralph Betza
ZOMBIES (& VAMPIRES) - Zombie Chess, by Chris Sellers - Zombie Chess, by Justin Egan - Reincarnation Chess, by Philip M. Cohen - Zombie/Vampire Chess - Necromancer Chess - Necromancer Chess, by Larry Smith - King’s Reincarnation, by Gary Gifford - Dracula and the Zombies, by Daniel MacDuff
CANNIBALS - Cannibal Chess / Absorption Chess - Pawn Eaters, by Gary Gifford - Merger Chess, by Mike Reeves-McMillan - Mutation Chess, by John E. Bosley
PIRATES - PiRaTeKnIcS, by David Jagger - Pirates-Heng-Ho, by R. Stephen Chafe - Buccaneer Chess, by M. Winther
NINJAS - Prison Break / Birds and Ninjas / Hassan Chess / Sorcerer Chess / Titan Chess / Hadean Chess / Asylum Chess, by Charles Daniel
SAMURAI - Bushi Shogi, by Georg Dunkel - Divine Wind, by Daniel MacDuff
GLADIATORS - Secutor Chess, by M. Winther - Archchess, by Dr. Francesco Piacenza - Dimachaer Chess, by M. Winther
CRUSADERS - Cavalier Chess / Grand Cavalier Chess, by Fergus Duniho - Templar Chess, by Adrian Alvarez de la Campa - Holywar, by Fergus Duniho - Teutonic Knight’s Chess, by Jörg Knappen - SquireKnight Chess, by Stephane Burkhart - Cavalry Chess, by Frank Maus
BERSERKERS - Berserker Pawns, by Terry H. Journey - Battle Chieftan Chess, by Craig Daniel
ASSASSINS - Stealth Chess, by Terry Pratchett - Little Cheops, by B. Johnson - Assassination Chess, by Seth Blanchard & Dave Hogarty - Al-Ces, by Koskal Karakus - Assassin Chess, by Jed Stone
ROGUES & ESPIONAGE - Knavish Chess, by Charles Gilman - Jester Chess, by Thomas Havel - Bandit Chess, by Patrik Hedmen - Robber-Baron, by Seth McGinnis - Poison Chess, by Bryan Lambert - The Disguised King - Deception Chess, by Greg Shanker - Secret Agent Chess, by Ralph Betza - Espionage Chess, by Sergey Sirotkin - Masking Chess, by Jane Lummel - Invisible Kings Chess, by A. Black - Intrigue, by Nigel Chapman - Chess Legions, by Morien Jones
FEUDAL POLITICS - True King, by Roxy Wu - Tamerlane Chess II - Little Great Chess, by Terry Jones - Ascending the Throne, by Terry Jones - Attending Pawns, by Terry Jones - Crown, by L.U. Kisliouk - Sovereign Chess, by Mark Bates - Throne Chess, by Kevin Pacey - Madness of Kings, by Abdul-Rahman Sibahi - Royal Rumble, by Nick Wolff - Imperial Chess, by James Killian Spratt - Knight Court, by Jason D. Wittman - Peasant Revolt, by George Whelan - Diplomat Chess, by Carlos Martín-Fuertes - Revenge of the King, by Martin Janecke - Bachelor Chess, by Doug Chatham - Chieftain Chess, by Joe Joyce - Capture the Scepter, by Charles Daniel - Dynasty Chess - Dynasty Chess (II)
CHESS WITH TERRAIN ELEMENTS - Edge of the World Chess, by Michael Fryer - House of Mirrors Chess, by Gary Gifford - Hole Chess, by Gary Gifford - Jacks and Witches, by Antoine Fourriere - Star Pool Chess, by Peter Aronson and Tony Quintanilla - Save the Standard, by Graeme Neatham - Seenschach, by Jörg Knappen - Field Chess, by Peter Leyva - dUchess, by Eric Clayton - Closing Time, by Ralph Betza - The Pit, by Daniel Roth - Jeson Mor - Ice Age Chess, by Koksal Karakus - Arena Chess 42, by David Howe - Arena Chess, by Jeff Kiska - BanCanCat, by Charles Gilman - TheBridge41, by Hubert Lamontagne - Brouhaha Chess, by Greg Strong - Chess with Terrain, by Greg Strong - Chess on the Rainbows, by Ingo Althofer - Chess on Ice, by Daniel MacDuff - Chasm Chess, by Danielle Allen
CASTLES - Chad, by Christian Freeling - Congo, by Demian Freeling - Fortress Chess - Altair, by Roberto Lavieri - Eurasian Chess, by Fergus Duniho - Shanghai Palace Chess, by Gary Gifford - Four Towers, by Jim Aikin - Christopher’s Towers Chess - Palace Shogi, by Silvia Hollinshead - Melee, by C. George Boeree - Little River Chess, by Gary Gifford - Bastille Chess, by Paul DeWitt - Citadel Chess - Citadel, by Karen Robinson - Castalia Chess, by M. Winther
WALLS - Latrunculi XXI, by Jose Carrillo - Obstruction Chess, by Martin Rinab - Dart Chess, by Darren Izard - Masonic Chess, by George R. Dekle Sr. - Strange Chess, by Mark Hedden
DUNGEONS - Cavewars CSIPGS Chess, by Ralph Betza - Weave and Dungeon, by W.D. Troyka
MAGIC SQUARES - Essentia, by Fernando Lafuente - Storm the Ivory Tower, by Fergus Duniho - Greener Chess, by Ralph Betza - Shifting Sand Chess / Chameleon, by Tony Quintanilla - Gala Chess - Zelig Chess, by Stan Druben - Augmented Different Knights / Augmented Chess / Archonoclastic Chess, by Ralph Betza - Upchess, by Mark Leff - Chessence, by Jim Winslow - Chameleon Chess, by P.D. Magnus
INTERDIMENSIONAL CHESS & DIMENSIONAL MANIPULATION - Voidrider Chess, by Fergus Duniho - Wormhole Chess, by Fergus Duniho - Amoeba, by Jim Aikin - Geodesic Chess, by Jack Cheiky - Kingdom of Distorting Mirrors, by Daniil Frolov - Building Chess, by Sergey Sirotkin - Beyond Chess, by David L. Crockett - Atlantis Chess, by Gerben Dirksen - Chivalrous Attrition, by William F. Bultas - Bellows Chess, by Tony Quintanilla - Earthquake Chess, by Ralph Betza - Caissa, by Christian Freeling - Dead Square Chess, by Jason Shields
PORTALS - Portal Chess - Warp Point Chess, by Jason Shields - Random Wormhole Chess, by Adrian Alvarez de la Campa - The Bermuda Chess Angle, by Gary Gifford - Black Holes, by Juraj Lorinc - Chakra, by Christian Freeling
PARALLEL WORLDS - Alice Chess / Cheshire Cat Chess, by V.R. Parton - Parallel Worlds, by R. Wayne Schmittberger - Dimension X, by Gary K. Gifford - Separate Realms Chess, by Mike Nelson and Peter Aronson - Switching Realms Chess, by Jörg Knappen - Flipworld, by John Ryan
MAGIC SYSTEMS - Blockula Chess / Diarchic Chess, by M. Winther - Wand Chess, by Ralph Betza - Wizard’s Curse, by Daniel MacDuff - Magician’s Death Match - Circe Chess, by Pierre Montreal - Magician Chess, by Jonathan Whittle - Maces, Horse-apults, and Tulpas, by Gary Gifford - Wizard Chess / Advanced Wizard Chess, by Paul & Andrew Newton - Wizard War, by Mike Nelson - Royal Magician’s Chess, by Gary Gifford - Remote Sensing Chess, by Gary Gifford - Ludus Magus, by Larry Smith - Hypnotic Chess / Mesmer Chess, by W.D. Troyka - Medieval War Chess, by Anthony Peterson
FLIGHT - Flying Chess, by David Eltis - Arabian Nights Chess, by Paul and Tim Newton - The Flying Circus, by Ralph Betza
PROPHECY & TIME TRAVEL - Tapestry Chess, by David Howe - Time Travel Chess, by Gary Gifford - Time Traveler’s Chess (TTIC) - Cassandra Chess, by Ralph Betza - Clairvoyant Chess, by Jim Aikin
SUMMONING & MONSTER CREATION - Mad Scientist Chess, by Peter Aronson - Panchimera, by Graeme Neatham - Summoner’s Chess, by Michael Schmahl - Descent Chess, by Andreas Kaufman
ADVANCED COMBAT SYSTEMS - Hit Point Chess, by Ralph Betza - Combat Chess II, by John Garwood - Scrabble Battle Chess - Falling Off, by Ralph Betza - Heroes Hexagonal Chess, by Tony Quintanilla - King’s Guard Chess, by Graeme Neatham - The Iron Knight, by Ralph Betza - Hostage Chess, by John Leslie - Sudden Death Chess, by Doug Chatham - Highlander Chess, by Peter Leyva - Hero Chess / Superhero Chess, by Tomas Forsman - Quex, by Stephen Larson - Single Combat Chess, by Brett Ward - Kristensen’s Game - Archimedes Chess, by Phillip Cohen and Scott Marley - Zelda Chess, by Adam Norberg - Charles Gilman’s Modest Variants - Battle Chess - Blood Brothers Chess - Brotherhood Chess, by Gianluca Vecchi - Duel Chess, by Erez Schatz
RANGED COMBAT - Cannons of Chestonia, by Gary Gifford - Rifle Chess - Blunderbuss Chess, by Charles Gilman - Arrow Pawn Chess, by R. Perrson - Koopa Chess, by Edward Kolis - Quantum Chess - Brigadier Chess - Cannonrider Chess - Cannon Shogi / Cannon Chess, by Peter Michaelson - Doublecannon Chess / Doublebarrel Chess, by M. Winther
TRAPS & BOMBS - Beirut Chess, by Jim Winslow - Secret Bombs Chess, by A. Black - Bomb Chess, by Duncan Suttles - Bombalot, by Bruce Harper and Duncan Suttles - Bomber Chess
MARKETS & EQUIPMENT - csipgs Chess, by Ralph Betza - Chess Economy, by João Neto - PlunderChess - Warrior Chess, by Justin Bridges - Dice-Money Chess, by A. Black
WARGAMING - Chessmen-at-Arms - Command & Maneuver: A Tale of Two Countries, by Joe Joyce and Dave Bennett - Tower Siege, by Kenneth Fourcell - Clash of Civilizations, by Namik Zade - Penta War, by Joost Brugh - Border Wars / Border Wars II, by Jared B. McComb - Chess Wars campaign, by Daniel MacDuff
TRANS-HISTORICAL & MYTHOLOGICAL VARIANTS - Magna Carta Chess, by Charles Gilman - Opulent Lemurian Shatranj, by David Paulowich - Atlantean Barroom Shatranj, by Joe Joyce - Armies of Faith 1-6, by Charles Gilman - Three Fat Brothers, by Sergey Sirotkin - Granlem Shatranj, by Joe Joyce - Battle of the Six Armies, by Graeme Neatham - Tepuy, by Roberto Lavieri - Charge of the Light Brigade, by H.G. Muller - Sha’rah, by Patrik Hedman - Gastrophete Chess, by M. Winther - Mid-Evil Chess, by Andy Maxson - Agincourt, by Charles Stinson - Succhess, by Djafer Medjahed - The Shatranjian Shooters, by Abdul-Rahman Sibahi and Joe Joyce - Desert Pub Chess / Desert Oasis Chess, by Gary Gifford - War of the Roses, by Abdul-Rahman Sibahi - Hannibal Chess, by Kevin Pacey - Dabbabante Chess, by V.R. Parton - Champagne Chess - Besiege Chess, by Koksal Karakus
ARTHURIAN MYTHOS - Camblam, by Michael Asher - Knights of the Round Table, by Adam Goss - King Arthur’s Chess 72, by David Cannon - Round Table Chess, by Richard VanDeventer
EGYPTIAN MYTHOS - Afterlife Chess, by Luiz Carlos Campos - Horus, by Peter Aronson - Cleopatra Chess, by W.D. Troyka
GRECKO-ROMAN MYTHOS - Spartan Chess, by Steven Streetman - Ajax Chess, by Jose Carrillo - Triumvirate Chess, by Paul DeWitte - Clash of Mythic Titans: Alpha-Nu-Omega Chess - Herculean Chess, by Charles Daniel - Colossus Chess, by Charles Danielu - Pompeii Chess, by W.D. Troyka - Chess Olympic, by Redzo Kolakovic
TROJAN WAR - Catapults of Troy / Shatranj of Troy, by Gary Gifford - Chariots, by David Jagger
NORSE MYTHOS - Odin’s Rune Chess, by Gary Gifford - Viking Chess, by Tomas Forsman - Midgard Chess, by David Paulowich
ORIENTAL MYTHOS - Nahbi Chess, by Uri Bruck - Alibishogi, by Charles Gilman - Ziggurat II, by Glenn Overby II - Ramayana Chess, by Luiz Campos - Monkey Chess, by David Gelman - Orda Chess, by Daniel Lee - Nimrod Chess
FAMOUS CHESS VARIANTS W/ RPG OR FANTASY ELEMENTS - Omega Chess, by Daniel MacDonald - Chess 2: The Sequel - Raumshach, by Ferdinand Maack - Grand Acedrex - Chu Shogi, Tenjiku Shogi & Maka Dai Dai Shogi - Tamerlane Chess - Smess, by Perry Grant - Enochian Chess - Kriegspiel, by Henry Michael Temple - Jetan, by Edgar Rice Burroughs - Xhess, by David Howe - Dunsany’s Chess - Arimaa, by Aamir and Omar Syed - Superschaak, by Henk van Haeringen
COMMERCIAL VARIANTS W/ COMPLEX RULESETS & EQUIPMENT - Navia Dratp (Bandai) - For the Crown (Victory Point Games) - Knightmare Chess (Steve Jackson Games) - Loka (Mantic Games) - Mythic Chess (Guild of Blades) - Fantasy & Zombie Chess (Shadow Hex Games) - Chess Evolved Online - Chaos Chess (Hammerdog Games)
Fantasy and mythology-themed fairy pieces not belonging to any particular game:
- Alibaba (~2*)
- Amazon (Queen + Knight) also called Dragon
- Banshee (Bishop + Nightrider)
- Beholder (captures as Checkers King, cannot move otherwise)
- Berserker (moves as Rook, captures as Queen)
- Cockatrice, name of the Bishop in Grand Acedrex
- Bug-eyed Monster (can make any move that couldn’t be made by an orthodox piece)
- Cavalier (1X.n+ or n+.1X)
- Centaur (Knight + Mann/non-royal King)
- Chameleon (chameleon queen)
- Demonic Jester (moves as cannon version of opponent’s last moves piece)
- Gryphon-Dragon (1+.nX)
- Dragoon (Knight + Pawn) a.k.a. Drake, Dragon
- Eagle (moves like a grasshopper, but landing to the left or right of their hurdle)
- Eccentric Knight (moves as knight, but only to or from edge and center squares)
- Evil Wolf (moves as king without backward movements)
- Godzilla (1X.n+ or 1+.nX)
- Gorgon/Demi-gorgon (Paralyzing Queen, can’t paralyze king in King’s sight)
- Hobbit (o1+, c1X) “Free Pawn”
- Hut (two-step Rook)
- Mind-flayer (moves passively as Queen, captures as Checkers King)
- Nightrider (n~1/2)
- Nun (two-step Bishop)
- Janus (Bishop + Knight) more commonly called Princess
- Joker (moves as last piece moved by opponent)
- Kraken (Universal Leaper + Zero)
- Locust (Grasshopper who captures its hurdle) a.k.a. “Saurian Locust-Grasshopper”
- Loremaster (Rook + Gryphon)
- Queen of the Night (Queen + Nightrider)
- Raven (Rook + Nightrider)
- Scorpion (Grasshopper + King)
- Seeress (two-step Queen)
- Teutonic Knight (1+, ~1/2, ~1/3)
- Tower (Rook + King) a.k.a. Dragon King (Shogi)
- Valkyrie (moves as Bishop, captures as Queen)
- Witch (unusual universal rider, Rook + Bishop + Nightrider + Camel-rider + Zebra-rider on 8x8)
- Mermaid (sea queen - travels as rider, captures as locust)
- Triton (sea rook)
- Nereid (sea bishop) a.k.a. Sea Bee
- Sea-Lion (sea lion)
Lots more unique fantasy themed pieces can be found here:
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess960-chess-variants/letrsquos-invent-some-very-weird-pieces . . .
Any other chess variants you know of that take inspiration or influence from Dungeons and Dragons and the fantasy genre?
EDIT: Added Fellowship, One Ring, Treeleader Chess (links in comments below)
EDIT 2: Added Nemoroth, Spookyhouse, Bulldog Chess
EDIT 3: Added Golem Chess, Duggan’s Fantasy, Essentia
EDIT 4: Added Alice, Cheshire Cat, Portal, Obstruction, Shadow Hex Fantasy, another version of Dragon Chess, and Dros Delnoch
EDIT 5: Added Navia Dratp, For the Crown, Loka, Knightmare, Mythic Chess; added a sub-section for commercial variants
EDIT 6: Added several variants of Chess with monsters, and organized the list into categories
EDIT 7: Added more games, and identified publishers of commercial variants
EDIT 8: Added lots more games, and new sections for party construction systems, advanced combat systems, magic systems, and chess with dice
EDIT 9: Added loads more games, and new sections for D&D player races, trans-historical and mythological variants, feudal politics and espionage, and most importantly DRAGONS!
EDIT 10: Added new games, and new section for leveling, wargaming, and economics; organized and reordered list categories
EDIT 11: Added new games and sections, recategorized some entries, and copied the nonspecific fairy piece inventory to the end of the list; scanned A-D of chessvariants.com’s alphabetical listings
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https://i.imgur.com/8qhubRU.png 1) Intro
1.1 The Basics So first let me explain how this would work. Basically, there are
hexes, the little hexagons that make up the map, and then there are
tiles, conglomerations of seven hexes, one in the middle and six around the outside. Everything in civ games so far has happened on the same level, since a hex and a tile were the same thing. With tiles made of seven hexes, the existing systems would be split between the hex level and the tile level. Units are would be shrunk down to the hex level, so that archers can shoot over a river, not a sea, and other things would be kept at the tile level, like expanding your borders and building improvements or districts. You would not “toggle” between two views; everything is taking place on the same map. You would just have more granularity for tactical decisions.
Here is part of a map in standard civ 6:
https://i.imgur.com/w4xVUDp.png Now, here is what it would look like with the changes discussed so far:
https://i.imgur.com/OQgrGO9.png This creates one major problem though and is the reason I think Firaxis have avoided creating a system like this. A large component of civ combat is terrain bonuses. If your warrior is facing off against an enemy warrior, your tactics are going to depend heavily on the terrain. You might want to duck into some woods or stand on some hills for a defensive bonus. Alternatively, you might see that they’re standing in a marsh, and choose to attack while their positioning is weak.
With large tiles of similar hexes, you would often find yourself in a situation where you and your opponent are standing on the same terrain, and all available terrain is also the same. That key element of combat would vanish. I’ve thought of a solution that I’m going to call “tile splatter.”
1.2 Tile Splatter The basic idea of tile splatter is that tiles would randomly swap their outer hexes with adjacent tiles, while the hex in the centre doesn't move. This makes each tile look less like a hexagon made of smaller hexagons, and more like a random paint splat or something. No hex ends up more than two hexes away from the centre of the tile. Nonetheless, the tiles still tesselate like hexagons, and so most gameplay systems can be left unchanged. At the smaller hex level though, there’s still variety in your immediate surroundings.
Here’s that map I generated in standard civ 6 again:
https://i.imgur.com/w4xVUDp.png And here it is with each tile being seven splattered hexes:
https://i.imgur.com/oBxA5Uy.png You can see that the world looks much larger and more interesting, but it isn’t actually any more complex. Yields would all be the same because they’re on the tile level. Only unit movement is affected.
Here are some of the tiles labeled using my sloppy powerpoint skills, with stars on the centre:
https://i.imgur.com/nwwb8zN.png You can see that each hex in a tile shares the same terrain type, features and resources. No tile ever has a hex further than two hexes from the centre.
1.3 Improvements, Cities and Districts The centre hex of a tile is where a builder needs to go to build an improvement. When they build it, every hex associated with the tile is upgraded visually, but since yields are attached to tiles and not hexes, this has the same effect as a tile being improved in civ 6.
Citizens either work the tile as a whole or they don’t. They can't work one hex of a tile and not another. If a tile is being worked, then every hex acts as though it’s being worked. If an enemy unit wants to pillage the improvement, they must also go to the central hex.
Improvements relating to movement cost or defensive bonuses are built on specific hexes however, mostly by military engineers. Roads could still be created by trader units as they move across the map. They do not affect tile yields at all, only the properties of that specific hex.
Cities and districts are still hexagonal; I think it would be too tricky to make them splatter too. Just the same way a builder has to travel to the centre of a tile to build an improvement, a settler has to reach the centre hex of a tile to found a city there. Enemy units have to attack this central hex to take the city. Like they’re storming the keep.
Individual buildings can now be built on their own hex inside the district tile, making them feel larger and more important. This would also have your districts expand visually over the course of the game, making urban sprawl occur not just as you build new districts, but with every new building. It would also then be possible to pillage or defend specific buildings in a district during combat.
Since building districts on adjacent tiles creates roads between them in Civ 6, it’s also fair that roads should be created between districts, making the larger map more navigable for units than it might first appear.
Any hexes a district takes from another tile are just ignored. Yields don’t change, there’s no need. Any hexes that belong to the tile the district is built on, that end up outside the district, are just left to their natural state. If you build a district on rainforest hills, there might be some rainforest hill hexes poking out around the edge of the district. That's okay.
Here’s the closest I could get to a mock-up of actual gameplay:
https://i.imgur.com/8qhubRU.png Unfortunately, here districts still only take up one hex, rather than a full tile. You get an idea of the scale though. Each city has only claimed the tiles immediately adjacent to the city centre, plus one water tile each. (Weirdly also one hex of a rainforest tile was taken by Xi’an, and one hex of forest was taken by Beijing, I don’t know why.) The two cities are only five tiles apart, but they are many hexes apart. You can see that one farm improvement was built on the wheat tile, so now every hex looks like farmland.
It looks like there’s a good campus location in the mountain range, but that’s just a hex. Campuses are built on tiles, not hexes. The small districts in this mock-up are misleading. You should look for open space next to a mountain
range for a place to build your campus. (It could still be a good place to send Galileo though.)
1.4 A big list of what ends up where So, here are all the things that would stay on the tile level:
- Terrain types (desert hills, ocean, mountain, etc…)
- Features (woods, rainforest, reef, etc…)
- Resources (bonus, luxury and strategic)
- Improvements that affect yield (farms, mines, pastures, etc…)
- Cities and districts
- Citizens and what tiles they work
- Border expansion (through gold or culture)
- Coastal flooding
And here are things that can be done on the smaller, hex level:
- Unit movement and combat
- Rivers (more on that later)
- Improvements that affect movement cost or defence (roads, forts, great wall, etc…)
- Buildings within districts
- Barbarian camps
- Tribal villages
- Cliffs
Ones I’m not sure about:
- Natural wonders (Eye of the Sahara should obviously be tile-sized, where delicate arch is much smaller. Might affect adjacency bonuses too.)
- Man-made wonders (I like putting them on tiles and meeting the placement requirements, but they would end up being fucking massive. Maybe there’s a way to do both? I dunno.)
- Natural disasters (Volcanoes, droughts and hurricanes should be tile based, tornadoes should be hex based. River floods?)
- If disease comes back it’ll probably have to work differently than the black death scenario anyway, would be a good feature though. Trade is OP right now with no real risks or downsides
- Sieges (Should you have to surround the entire city tile to put the city under siege, or just the central hex? Is it possible to have two levels of siege, one for each, or is that too complicated? Seems like you’d need too big an army to put a whole tile under siege.)
- Appeal
2) Advantages
So… why do this? What does it get you? The more I think about it, the more I realise how fundamentally such a simple change could affect almost all of Civ’s systems. I’ll go through the advantages here.
2.1 Realism Right now the scale of units and cities to their surroundings is all off. Archers can shoot over whole cities, while rivers are too small to sail down. The panama canal can stretch across whole continents and a single holiday resort is the same size as a whole city. It’s really weird.
You might say that realism doesn’t matter that much, and that civ is a strategy game, not a simulator, and I’d agree. But it’s not an abstract strategy game like chess or tic tac toe where the pieces are just colours or shapes. The historical, real world theme is part of what makes it fun. Why not have a
slightly more realistic scale to go along with that? Suddenly you’re not conquering a blob that kinda resembles the UK, you’re conquering the actual UK.
2.2 Navigable rivers In one of the livestreams the devs were asked what their favourite scenario maps were. They chose Gifts of the Nile from Civ 6 and the US Civil War map from Civ 5. Both maps were notable for having navigable rivers, which makes me think that this is something the devs would like to see in their game. How would navigable rivers work? Basically, like naturally occurring canals which snake across continents.
I’m imagining that movement cost for naval or embarked units would increase the further the river got from the coast, to simulate the effects of the river becoming narrower and shallower. It shouldn’t be easy to get a frigate to sail up the Amazon. Maybe Viking longships, or embarked scouts with a “kayak” promotion could halve this movement cost.
Actual canals would also be pushed down from districts to hex level improvements, and could connect rivers together, as well as lakes and oceans. Not sure about dams and aqueducts.
2.3 Navigable mountains Just because of the way splatter randomly comes out, a line of mountain tiles might splatter out into the tiles next to them, swapping with non-mountain tiles and creating a mountain pass a single hex wide. The mountain range would still be intact from a tile based perspective, but individual units could still get through, which is nice.
2.4 Less unit clutter Right now it’s possible to have a city with a naval unit, a great admiral, a civilian unit, a religious unit, a military unit, a support unit and multiple traders all on the same hex. This clutter creates visual confusion for new players and still annoys experienced players because it blocks the ranged strike button. With each tile having seven hexes instead of just one, units would be spaced out more often, and less cluttered, making it clearer who is where.
There would also be less variance of terrain or improvement types on the screen at any given time, which can help new players by reducing visual clutter. Here is the regular civ 6 image from earlier:
https://i.imgur.com/w4xVUDp.png And here is the new version at the same level of zoom, as far as hexes are concerned anyway:
https://i.imgur.com/mwRZ8uv.png There’s rice, jungle, stone, mountains, plains, wheat, crabs, woods, etc… in the top image. The map on the bottom includes all of that, all the same tiles, but if you zoom in to the same level as far as hexes are concerned, there’s a lot less to worry about. Just some rice, wheat and plains.
2.5 Less abstraction In one of the early dev diaries for Civ 6, they mentioned the reasoning behind giving districts and wonders their own tiles as taking things out of menus and putting them into the world itself. I think they really wanted players to feel connected to the map like it was a physical place. They’ve succeeded to some extent, I don’t think we’ll be getting rid of districts in any future civ games, but I think it can go further. Right now they’re limited in what they can pull out of menus and put into the world, because it would create too much clutter, either with units as mentioned above, or with taking up tiles and hexes, since anything that takes up just one hex takes up a whole tile in Civ 6.
If you have seven hexes to a tile though, you can start pulling way more stuff out of menus and it won’t clutter the game world up too much. Governors, envoys, spies, even leaders could all be physical units that move about the game world. Religion already functions like this with missionaries, apostles, inquisitors, warrior monks and gurus, (and rock bands?) why not do the same with science and culture, sending researchers to foreign lands or sending performers on tour? Your spies could disguise themselves as archaeologists, traders or rock bands in order to sneak into enemy cities. Suddenly, open borders actually matter for more than scouting or military purposes.
I don’t know if all of these are good ideas, but they actually become a design
option now. I’m sure there are possibilities I can’t even think of. Less fiddling around with obtuse menus and more moving physical things around on the same screen you’ve gotten used to would also make the game more approachable for new players without sacrificing any depth.
2.6 More distinction between small and large cities A small city with 1 pop functions almost the same as a city with 20 pop in civ 6. It’s probably going to be less developed and less valuable as a result but capturing or interacting with it is basically the same. With seven hexes to a tile, a small city takes up just the middle hex of its tile, where a larger city has buildings in all the surrounding hexes, inner
and outer walls, and all of its districts have begun to sprawl over multiple tiles too. You go gradually from a few isolated settlements to a legitimate urban sprawl.
2.7 Urban warfare Since you have to capture the central hex of a tile to capture a city, a siege plays out pretty much the same way as it already does in Civ 6. I guess cities could build inner and outer walls, to give an extra line of defence, but at the end of the day it’s just one hexagon that needs surrounding, bombarding, and invading. Attacking units could even spend their time sacking the city while you defend your palace from total defeat.
Coastal cities should have an automatic canal hex so that they can produce naval units, so that leaves them vulnerable to naval attacks. Any cities founded on or near rivers are also vulnerable to attacks by boats like never before.
2.8 More uses for military engineers Right now all the improvements a military engineer builds take up a whole tile, which means they have to be pretty great to be worth it. If military engineers can instead improve individual hexes, just 1/7th of a tile, then suddenly you can get a lot craftier about the things they can create, since they cost less real estate. Maybe they can leave traps or lay mines for invading armies? Leaving a tile unused because you want to blow up some infantry is madness in Civ 6. Not anymore.
2.9 More navigation options The distances between tiles are obviously going to be larger with this change, but not seven times larger, that’s just area. Two tiles that are adjacent would have their centres three hexes apart now.
If these tiles are districts that should create roads, then roads should automatically appear on those hexes, making urban areas quickly develop road networks that speed up unit movement across the larger world. Roads may also have to lower movement costs even further to make navigating the map less frustrating.
Navigable rivers would also act like highways through the world, since water doesn’t have the same drawbacks to movement as land hexes can, especially with hills, forest and marsh. You might find that you can get about almost as quickly as you could before.
Pillaging a bridge would be a viable tactical option to slow an invading army.
3) Problems this creates
So obviously there are reasons this hasn’t been implemented in a civ game already. Here are some problems I can’t figure out solutions to:
3.1 Difficult to parse I’ll be the first to admit, it’s not immediately obvious where one tile ends and another starts. This will cause issues for planning district locations and estimating adjacency bonuses. Maybe a lens could be created that highlights each tile a different colour and shows where the centre is? It’s not really an ideal solution though.
One solution could be just to tone down how much tiles splatter. I was only giving tiles a 1/4 chance of not swapping. If that chance was raised higher, the map would look more like
this, and less like
this. Some tinkering would be necessary to get the balance right.
3.2 Movement speed Movement speed is going to have to be increased somewhat to make up for the larger map but multiplying all units’ movement points by three seems like an overreaction that would create as many issues as it solves. I’m in a multiplayer naval game right now, and large-scale naval combat basically consists of units with way more movement than visibility range popping out from somewhere you couldn’t possibly see them and ambushing one of your ships. Then your ships pop out of somewhere they couldn’t possibly be seen and ambush theirs. It’s fine but it’s not great. I wouldn’t want the same thing to happen to land combat.
You could balance this by increasing visibility as you progress along the tech tree. Maybe Military Tactics gives +1 visibility to all units and then Flight gives another +1? Maybe zone of control would also need to increase to prevent faster armies from just avoiding slower ones and going straight for the cities? I don’t know, it would need testing.
3.3 Rebalancing production and movement The bigger issue is trying to balance production costs and movement. This is already funky with different game speeds. Right now, on marathon speed, if you build up a big enough army and invade someone, they simply do not have the time to produce enough units to fight back, even though the same invasion might be easily foiled on online speed.
With movement being slower relative to the size of the overall map, production would have to be rebalanced all over again, and I’m not entirely sure what affect this might have. Faith and gold costs would also need to get rebalanced, even though some things, like purchasing buildings, aren’t affected by movement costs at all. It’s possible that this could all get too screwed up to function.
3.4 Navigable rivers Navigable rivers would have to avoid hexes on the centres of tiles, since that’s where improvements get built, barbarian camps spawn, or districts get created. They might also make district expansion an issue, since buildings are going onto their own hexes now. What happens to a river going between through a district and taking up half the hexes? Is it possible to build a system where rivers always leave enough space for potential buildings? I don’t know.
Apparently flooding rivers were a nightmare to get right in Gathering Storm even with rivers as simple as they are in Civ 6. I don’t even know if they should flood hexes or tiles, let alone the programming challenges the team faced getting canals and natural disasters to function as it is.
3.5 Messy Borders Tiles swapping hexes with other tiles is going to create some weird borders with other civs, where a little bit of your tile is in their territory, and a little bit of theirs is in yours. I don’t know if that would actually create gameplay issues, but it could cause visual confusion and is generally just annoying.
3.6 Programming all of this All of this is easy enough to just dream up, but actually implementing this into the game is going to be a nightmare.
Consider how farm improvements pleasingly knit together visually. Since splattered tiles aren’t a fixed shape, every improvement will have to be done visually, hex by hex, and then knitted together to create the unique tile. Maybe even the hex in the centre will also look unique, I don’t know. You’d have to figure out how to knit together lumber mills, mines, seaside resorts, pastures, golf courses, camps, ski lodges, moai, fishing boats, etc… Those are just man made improvements. Naturally occurring terrain, features and resources like fish, hills, spices, crabs, reefs, cows, mountains, marble, copper, whales, etc… would also all have to be stitched together to create one coherent tile made of seven smaller hexes. Then it’s possible that tiles would have to stitch together with each other. That’s a lot of work and I don’t know if that’s doable. It might take the art department too many man-hours.
And then there’s just the programming challenges and the bugs that this threatens to create. What if one action that should count hexes counts tiles and ends up creating a massive issue. Or what if terrain generation becomes too difficult for rivers to form properly. What if natural disasters like coastal flooding can’t be implemented or if the game just plain can’t run on the systems firaxis are targeting. I’m sure there are other issues I’m not even aware of, so if something like this ends up in a civ game in the future I’m going to be so impressed with the team and all the work it must’ve taken.
4) Am I crazy?
Anyway, I’m in quarantine and I obviously have nothing better to do. That’s my thoughts on what an expanded movement grid for civ could look like. Just wanted to get it out of my head. Part of what I like about games is just imagining how they might develop in the future, so if this seems crazy to you just know that it’s fun for me. I’m not expecting all of this to actually get implemented, I just think that some of these ideas are neat. What do you think?
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