The rules tab carried a paraphrase and the FAQ; now the court of
final appeal sits between them — the full base rulebook text (the
5th-edition wording the 6th shipped with) and the Expansion Set 1
sections, word for word from the designer's own wizwar.com, with
copyright and provenance shown rather than hidden. This edition has
no Expansion 2 — Artifacts and Transformations do not exist here and
are not included. The text moves out of research/ into real source.
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Every play-strength item, in one education. DOORS: the pathfinder
walks through doors it can open — already-opened ones freely, locked
ones when holding Master Key or Pick Lock, casting the key at the
door on the path before stepping through (and a loop where the
clockwork re-keyed an already-open door forever is fixed: opened
doors read as open). TREASURE DEFENSE: a wizard carrying the
automaton's gold becomes the priority — chased over all objectives,
shaken down with DROP OBJECT when held, and attacked first. WIDER
SPELLCRAFT: blaster wands charged by number and fired; teleport as
escape when wounded and hunted, and as a counteraction clear of big
incoming spells; SPEED cast on sight; WARD armed to guard the gold;
shieldstone displayed so spare numbers soak small hits; ANTI-ANTI
pressed against counters (never against escapes); the berserker grows
BIG with an enemy near, the worrier fades invisible or slams a
CREATE WALL in its pursuer's face; ambushes armed from held
interrupts — the worrier trapping its doorstep, the others trapping
the treasure. Tournament suite green across all temperaments.
And the clockwork speaks: sparing, temperament-voiced table talk on
its own deeds — "ACQUISITION COMPLETE.", "SCHEDULED DEMISE:
DELIVERED.", "good wall. safe wall." — through the same chat ledger
as everyone else. The tally gains "games fought against the
clockwork", and automatons no longer pollute the count of wizards
seated.
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Rules rev 8 closes the last two fidelity threads. A SPEED bonus turn
burns a turn of duration spells on the hastened wizard — recipient-
counted, per the FAQ's most obscure ruling — with self-cast durations
already burning through the normal turn-start sweep (expiry extracted
into expireEffect so both paths share the cleanup). And nothing can
be created on a DIMENSIONAL WARP token, as the card face always said.
The general-topic FAQ sections (Combat, Line of Sight, Monsters,
Treasures, and five more) join the rules tab verbatim under a double-
ruled divider, completing the FAQ's absorption: card rulings on the
cards, general rulings in the rules.
The four promoted UX items: cell-target spells now dim ineligible
squares (creations mirror emptySquareTarget from the viewer's
knowledge, summons want clear sighted squares, teleport BFSes its
four spaces exactly as the engine does, stone-to-water lights only
stone, dispel lights only creations); hotseat games get the full
replay reel, each step seen from its actor's own seat; a "stop
announcing attacks on this device" link in the fanfare modal (undo
lives beside the notification toggle in the lobby); the corner
inspector now serves only the selected casting card, with every
examine-a-card peek unified on the centered treatment; and the dev
socket URL keys on vite's port instead of hijacking every localhost.
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The FAQ affordance moves onto the card itself: a small dark seal in
the corner of any card with official rulings, everywhere cards render
— hand, inspector, peek, final reveal, discard pile, card library —
opening the rulings modal on tap (the link, never the text: card
faces stay verbatim card text). The separate inspector buttons and
library chips retire in its favor.
And clicking a library card mid-game no longer summons the App-level
inspector beneath the help modal, greyed out and useless — the
library enlarges its card in its own overlay, centered above the
booklet, seal included.
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Tom Jolly's 2002 Rules FAQ settled three table disputes this week
from a text file only I could read. Now it lives in the game: 95
cards gained their FAQ sections (extracted verbatim from the official
document, alias-matched — Slime, Mistbody, Buck and friends resolved
to their proper cards), joining the handful already present for 102
cards with rulings in all. The card faces stay pure card text; an
"Official FAQ" button appears under any enlarged card that has
rulings — the hand inspector, the peek overlay, and as an FAQ chip in
the card library — opening a booklet modal with the rulings and their
provenance: "the cards overrule the rules, and the designer overrules
the table."
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142 "moves" was really 142 logged commands — steps, spells, passes,
end-turns alike. The line now says so.
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A "Send word" section with the keeper's addresses: email, Bluesky,
Mastodon, and the home roost at kestrelsnest.social — for feedback,
bug reports, and faint praise alike.
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Instead of re-scanning every room's log on demand, stats.json now
accumulates beside the room files: each room is remembered at its
highest counted stage (created → started → finished), so boots and
replays reconcile without double-counting, and the tally will survive
any future pruning of old rooms. Finished games contribute their
moves, table-time, and manner of victory exactly once, at the moment
of victory.
And with an accumulator to receive them, hotseat games finally count:
each local game mints an anonymous id, pings "started" with its
player count, tracks its own between-moves clock, and on the final
move reports counts only — commands, minutes, players, win reason.
No names, no moves leave the device. The server dedupes by id, clamps
everything to sane ranges, and the booklet's tally now shows how many
of the games were hotseat tables.
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A new tab in the help booklet answers "how much is this getting
played?" from the ledgers themselves: games chronicled (begun and
fought to a finish), distinct wizards seated, every spell, step, and
punch recorded, time at the table estimated by the clock between
moves (gaps over ten minutes don't count — async games tell the
truth), victories split by treasure-theft versus last standing, the
longest game, the fullest table, and the date the first game was
dealt. Computed server-side over the in-memory rooms with a 60-second
cache, fetched over the socket when the tab opens.
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A handwritten "about this game — a labor of love" link on the box lid
opens a new About tab in the booklet: what Wiz-War is, that Tom Jolly
created it in 1983, that this is a faithful reproduction of the
out-of-print Chessex sixth edition (with its one expansion) that Eric
and his friends played for countless hours in the early nineties —
rebuilt from that very copy, card by photographed card, wall by
verified wall, with the original hand-inked token art. It names Steve
Jackson Games as the current rightsholder, states plainly that this
is an unofficial, non-commercial fan work made with love and
admiration, and closes by pointing anyone the game delights toward
the edition currently in print and a real table.
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"Help & rules" in the masthead (lobby and table alike) opens a paper
booklet with three tabs: How To Play (the client's own controls —
moving, casting, attaching numbers and modifiers, fighting, turns,
transfers), The Rules (the 6th edition rules condensed faithfully
from the verified rulebook transcription, exact numbers throughout,
with a Jolly Games colophon), and a Card Library — all 135 playable
cards rendered as the real card faces, searchable by name or text,
each labeled with its quantity and set. Escape closes.
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