Ether Cup Rules and Mechanics
Find here all the rules and mechanics for the Ether Cup!
Rolling dices for BlackSand Games
For any rolls in BlackSand Racing follow the below rule:
1) State what you are rolling for in the BlackSand pony racing thread (FRWC Discord)
2) Mention what you are rolling for, example: "I am rolling for my Rum Treat", or "I am rolling for this week Special Event"
3) Type /roll, select a Bot and enter the number of sides of your dice
4) Press enter
5) Tag @legatus to make sure your rolls are recorde
Race Mechanics and Rules
BlackSand Racing is a Forgotten Runes Community game that is meant to be playable either passively or actively, depending on the level of enagement holders prefer.
Passively, any holder can participate just by registering their Pony and hope for the best
Actively, holders can:
- Keep track of their Championship Points
- Try to maximize their Race Points every week
- Strategize how to best nurture and level up their Pony with Experience Points
1) Championship Points
Ponies can earn Championship points from every championship race. The Pony with the most points by the end of the Championship wins
2) Race Points
There are six ways to score points for your Pony during a race. The Pony with the most points by the end of each race wins.
- Twitter Points
- Treat Points
- Event Points
- Training Points
- Loot Points
- Morale Points
3) Experience Points
After every race, Ponies also accumulate Experience Points (exp) based on the Total Race Points. Experience Points can be used mainly for two purposes (not counting Special Events):
- Leveling-up: level up your Pony to learn or improve their abilities
- Experience Rolls: buy bonus dice rolls
Advanced Race Rules for Race Points - Treats
Race Points - Treat Points Deep Dive
- After century of racing, the people of BlackSand have come to learn that Ponies love some good treats during the races. As such, any Pony can be feed a max of 3 treats from the Forgotten Runes Athenaeum per race
- To feed a treat to a pony, the holder only needs to have the treat in the same wallet as the pony. There is no need to connect your wallet to any site, transfer your treats to any wallet or burn them
- It's also known that Ponies particularly love very specific Treats. The Treats below will grant pony holders with Treat Rolls to score Treat Points
- Otherwise, any Treat grants 1 Treat Point (still counting towards the max of 3 Treats per race)
Note: if a treat grants more than 1 Treat Roll, all the rolls must be rolled at the same time (e.g., Elixir grants 2x D6 and when fed to a pony, the holder must roll 2 D6s and cannot only roll once)
Treat Rule Focus: Indigestion
- Despite Ponies' love for Treats, sometimes too much is too much
- Whenever you roll 3 or more times from Treats, you will need to check whether your pony gets Indigestion
Note: Indigestion can happen when you ROLL 3 or more times, not when you feed 3 treats (e.g.; if you feed 1 Eggplant = 1x D4 and 1 Carrot = 2x D6, you only use 2 Treats, but you Roll 3 Treat Rolls. Thus, check for Indigestion
Advance Race Rules for Race Points - Training Points
Training
The Council of Mages has hired a special trainer to support Ponie's performance during the Championship. Any pony holder can train their pony by playing games of Runes. Join Runes Discord and visit their Website below to get started with yout training.
You can win 1 training roll per week, by playing with any other Forgotten Runes Community member
Advance Race Rules for Race Points - Loot Points
Loot Boxes
At any time during the Ether Cup, Loot Box Rolls might drop following a Special Event. Here is an example of the Loot Boxes happenend during during Week #1. Please, visit each Race Week page for official information on specific drops
Advanced Race Rules for Experience Points - Pony Levels and Abilities
Levels
- You can decide to level up your pony by burning 10 exp
- Each time your burn 10 exp your Pony gains 1 level and you are able to either learn a new skill or improve one that your pony already know
Abilities
Three types of Abilities have been discovered so far:
- Offensive Skills
- Protection Skills
- Performance Skills
While each new skill your pony learns is assigned randomly by dice rolls, historians in BlackSand report of Pony Specializations...
