ChessRPG – Desmond Rossignoli
Materials Included:
Standard 8×8 chess board
2 sets of 16 chess pieces with draw-erase bases
12 Ability cards (2 sets of 6)
Draw-erase marker w/ eraser
Set-up
The game is set up like a standard chess game.
Row 1 (Player 1): Rook, Knight, Bishop, Queen, King, Bishop, Knight, Rook
Row 2 (Player 1): Pawn, Pawn, Pawn, Pawn, Pawn, Pawn, Pawn, Pawn
Row 7 (Player 2): Pawn, Pawn, Pawn, Pawn, Pawn, Pawn, Pawn, Pawn
Row 8 (Player 2): Rook, Knight, Bishop, Queen, King, Bishop, Knight, Rook
Set all of the pieces to maximum health by filling in the numerator on the bottom of each chess piece (for example, the bottom of the queen should show 2/2).
The younger player goes first.
New Rules for Attacking:
– When attacking a piece, check your attack value and subtract that from the opponent’s piece.
– If you do not completely kill a piece, you do not move your piece to replace it.
– If you successfully kill a piece, you MUST move your piece to replace it.
New Abilities:
King: Enemy pieces adjacent to your king cannot move or attack.
Queen: When your queen has line-of-sight to the enemy king, the enemy king’s ability is canceled.
Bishop: As your action, you may swap a bishop for one of your dead pieces. The piece is brought back onto the board at full health.
Knight: When one of your pieces is adjacent to one of your knights, that piece may move and attack as a knight would.
Rook: Any of your pieces next to one of your rooks cannot be attacked.
Pawn: If a piece of yours is attacked and a pawn of yours is adjacent to it, the pawn may take the damage instead.
Stats:
King: 5 attack, 1 health
Queen: 4 attack, 2 health
Bishop: 3 attack, 3 health
Knight: 2 attack, 4 health
Rook: 1 attack, 5 health
Pawn: 1 attack, 1 health
*Stats and abilities are displayed on ability cards
End of Game:
The game ends – as any chess game does – when a king is removed from the board.