Forlorn Four

Your goal is to find the valuable artifact, the Amulet of Asterisk, on the 10th level of the dungeon.

Classes

Your party consists of four adventurers, selected from seven classes:

• The fighter is an all-around competent dungeon explorer.
• The berserker attacks well, but is damaged more easily.
• The stalwart is an excellent defender, but has a weak attack.
• The rogue is weaker than the fighter, but may not be noticed by monsters.
• The assassin has a very strong attack and may also sneak past monsters, but is very weak defending.
• The mage has a strong magic blast, but is weak physically.
• The cleric can heal allies, but is also weak physically.

Controls

key	action
numpad or hjkyubn	move or attack (if the square is occupied by a monster)
> and <	descend or ascend stairs (represented by > and < symbols)
.	end turn early
c	cast a spell; move the cursor with the movement keys and hit space to select a square, or select a blank square to cancel (mage blasts require line of sight)
d	describe a monster; move the cursor with the movement keys and hit space to select a square

Credits

Richard Schneider — design and programming

I want to give a huge thanks to my excellent playtesters, who contributed many great ideas and played the game much more than I did:

• Brock Hinerman
• Jacsn
• Josh Pilgrim

This game was created for the 2015 7DRL Challenge and was also submitted to the March edition of #onegameamonth.

The source code for Forlorn Four is available on GitHub.

Thanks for playing!