Home Brew Rules: 5th Dimensional Chess Game

or Mxyzptlk, Tea, and Me

Got another one for yez.



Believe it or not, this isn't the screwiest map concept I've come up with. But this one got made. Let's all hope and pray The Other Map doesn't.

But let's talk about this one, shall we?

First thing you should notice is the chess board itself. It's three times the length of a standard chess board. In fact, the four columns on either side of the board are normal, the bit in the middle has raised platforms. So I like to imagine Mr. Mxyzptlk took a standard chess board and sort of "opened it up" into something more to his liking.

The platforms are simply raised out of the ground, so you'll need Leap/Climb, Phasing/Teleport, the ability to fly, or at least know somebody who does to get up there.

Another thing I want to point out is the Elevated/Water Terrain in the form of a cup of tea. I put that in there because I thought there ought to be a cup of tea. That's it, really. But afterwards I thought it was neat to have Water Terrain up high, where Aquatic characters can be brought up there and just snipe people on the ground. They do have to be Aquatic, otherwise you take 1 click of damage at the beginning of your turn. That stuff's hot!

The other thing at the top of the map is Mr. Mxyzptlk's hand. It's Blocking Terrain because Mr. Mxyzptlk isn't going to take any guff from a bunch of game pieces.

The last item of interest is the books on the bottom. The top book is Elevated Terrain which you can climb up via the red book on the bottom. The top book is The Book Nobody Read, which is really about Copernicus, but I just picked it because it sounded like a book Mr. Mxyzptlk would have in his library.

Special rule time. At the beginning of each player's turn, roll a die. If you roll a 1, your opponent chooses one of your figures that has one or more action tokens on it and moves it to any square adjacent to Mr. Mxyzptlk's hand.

This is Mxy getting upset with that figure's previous action and plucking it from play. Why? Because 5th dimension, that's why.

And that's it. I'm thinking of making a special set of chess pieces, possibly based on DC heroes and villains, to use with this map, but it's ready to play as is.

Enjoy!

To download:
Micro Map - PDF
Special Map Rules - DOC or TXT