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Raid Leader Simulator

You don't play the MMO. You run the guild.

Your guildmates are automated players living in a fantasy MMO. You never press an ability button: you recruit them, gear them, hand out the loot, and decide who stands where when the dragon breathes fire.

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A live dungeon pull in the Gearwright Foundry: a five-player group fights three clockwork sentries among lava channels, the leader calls War Drums, and the sentries fall before the group walks on toward the boss.
A live pull in the Gearwright Foundry. You make the calls; they play it out.
classes
13
specs
39
questing zones
8
dungeons
14
raids
5
raid bosses
20
ferry lanes
5
The loop

From an empty guild to the final raid

Every step is yours to decide, and every decision is played out honestly by a deterministic simulation.
  1. 1

    Found a guild

    Name it. It has nothing: no members, no gold.

  2. 2

    Recruit

    A few level-1 hopefuls, each with a class, a personality and a schedule.

  3. 3

    Watch them level

    They quest, sail to the islands and log off when they are spent.

  4. 4

    Lead a dungeon

    Pick five and call every pull. Loot goes where it helps most.

  5. 5

    Raid

    Pick twenty, assign positions, and learn a boss one wipe at a time.

What you do

A management sim built on a real fight

Dense, calm dashboards around a live pixel-art arena. The systems are spreadsheet-grade; the guild chat is not.

The morning briefing

Every day opens with a briefing in three steps: staff the bounty board, post the message of the day, then read the day ahead.

Positional combat

Telegraphs, projectiles to dodge, beams, donuts, soaks that punish too few soakers, marks that drop a burning pool where they leave it, adds, tank swaps and phases, in a themed room.

Your calls

For each boss and dungeon, tell the group how to play it. Then make live calls mid-pull: War Drums now, spread out, defensives, potions.

Characters with a past

Nine races, each with a racial (Dwarf Stoneskin, Gnome Slippery, Troll Juju Rush...), three genders, 25 personality traits and around 200 names.

Voyages in the Corsair Reaches

An ocean of its own, on its own chart, reached only by the guild’s ship from Saltmarrow harbour. Charts, supplies, fog to clear, islands to land on, ports to trade in and ships to fight.

Set-piece mechanics

Spread and stack, frontal cones aimed at a random player, interrupt rotations, intermissions, hard and soft enrages, and a lot more.

Loot and the loot council

Drops go straight onto whoever they upgrade most. In a raid, the loot council is yours, and it makes or breaks morale.

The arena

Once a day, take on an arena event: pick a 2v2, 3v3 or 5v5 team from whoever is online, queue, and another guild’s team answers.

A 3v3 arena match against another guild’s team among pillars: the leader calls defensives and a focus target, and both sides stun and silence each other.
The arena: pick a team, queue, and call the match live.
The guild hall in Highcrest: guildmates mill around the fireplace and chat.
Between fights, the guild hangs out in the hall and talks back.
The guild

13 classes, 39 specs

The classic eight with new specs, and 5 classes of the game's own. Every spec has its own kit and a niche in the group.
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Voyages

The Corsair Reaches

Past the mainland's ferries lies an ocean of its own, on its own chart. The guild's ship sails it from Saltmarrow harbour: chart the fog, land on islands, trade in port, and fight what sails out of the Maw.
The sea chart of the Corsair Reaches: the mainland's coast down the west edge, then open sea scattered with islands, darkening eastward into the Maw.

Saltmarrow Shallows

Low danger

Warm reefs and smugglers’ coves. The Navy keeps the worst away.

Blackwake Strait

Medium danger

Fog banks and wrecks, and Rumhollow, the pirates’ own port.

The Maw

High danger

A storm belt round a drowned volcano. Frigates, monsters and islands worth fighting over.

Voyaging in the Reaches
The endgame

5 raids, one wipe at a time

Every raid boss is a scripted, positional fight with its own mechanics. A new boss has to be learned: every wipe teaches the raid a little.
10 playersGuild level 4

Ravenhold Keep

A haunted keep on the edge of Whisperwood. Ten players, three bosses: where every guild learns to raid.

3 bosses

Warden Holt · The Ravenmother · Lord Varric Ravenhold

10 playersGuild level 5

Tidegrave Hold

A sea fortress the Maw dragged under, found by the guild’s ships. Ten players, four bosses, and the tide in every fight.

4 bosses

Brinehook the Jailer · The Siren of the Hold · Captains Harrow and Hask · The Deepmother

20 playersGuild level 6

The Wyrmspire

A tower of black stone above Frostspire Peaks, with a dragon on top.

5 bosses

Grukk the Gatekeeper · The Twin Seers · Mother Venomweave · Archmage Vel'Thuran · Ignaroth, the Wyrm Eternal

20 playersGuild level 6After Ignaroth, the Wyrm Eternal

The Abyssal Sanctum

A drowned cathedral under the southern sea. Something down there is dreaming.

4 bosses

Gorvath the Chainbreaker · The Choir of Whispers · Mistress Sorrowveil · Xal'zarith, Dreamer in the Deep

20 playersGuild level 6After Xal'zarith, Dreamer in the Deep

The Starfall Observatory

An observatory on the highest peak, where something fell out of the sky and stayed. Every fight is a puzzle; every puzzle bites.

4 bosses

Kel and Vor, the Bound Wardens · The Orrery Engine · Ysmera, the Twilight Seer · Nhal, the Starving Dark

The raid is waiting.

Found your guild in a minute. Or tick Quick start and skip ahead to a levelled, raid-ready guild.

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