User Guide

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Shattered Light
Manual Draft 2.2
Quick Overview
Shattered Light is the first fantasy role playing game to be designed from the beginning
to be customizable and for hosting on the Internet. It begins with a complete role playing game
with over 100 quests and monsters, 300 spells, more than 700 maps and hundreds of magic
items. There are eight character classes, each with its own strengths and special abilities. The
continent of Delos includes hundreds of maps ranging from caverns and dungeons to a
Stonehenge and palaces.
Beyond being a challenging role playing game in itself also included is a World Builder
and Map Maker combination that allow a player to modify or create from scratch a top quality
Role Playing Game. To this end the World Builder allows you to place over 3,000 terrain,
building, ground, and other tiles on three levels. You also can create your own quests, place
non-player characters and give them unique dialogue, and grant unique magic items. The host
can create riddles, passwords, and other puzzles. You can create general and also unique
magical items of all sorts. Shattered Light includes a world builder that allows you to customize
such basic factors as every value used for each hero, monster, spell, and even the rate at which
mana and health regenerate. Virtually every aspect of the world can be customized even how
many monsters appear at each location. Further your customization doesn’t end when the game
starts. The Internet game host has the ability to actually modify the player character’s statistics
and gold total during the game. A host can also change hero values, give or remove gold, and
even cause items to be removed from play while the game is going on.
Winning the Game
A creature that was summoned from the dimension that is the source of all magic is
systematically destroying humans on the world of Delos. The object of the game is to defeat this
creature and so, of course, save the world. To do this you need to gain access to the island and
valley where the supreme monster lives. This can be reached only when ten shards of a giant
gem are reassembled. These shards are hidden, but the scholars and mages in mankind’s last city
are searching five thousand years of records to locate them. So to win you need to (1) be
powerful enough to defeat the ultimate evil creature and (2) to get at it you need to gather ten
magically protected gem shards.
To ensure you are a powerful enough hero to succeed in your quests for the shards, the
mages have placed minimum levels of development that you must achieve before receiving the
quest for each shard. To access the scholar with the location of each shard you are tested with
various riddles about the evil creature you must eventually defeat. The information needed to
answer these questions can be found throughout the world of Delos. You have also been
enchanted so that at the moment of your death your are magically teleported to where you can be
raised to continue the fight, though at a price. You are given these “shard” quests at the temple
of the Oracle NW in the corner of the city. There are also over 100 other quests that can be