Observed arrival · 2026-09-08
Rookmancer — Chess with a spell up your sleeve
A browser chess variant where players cast one of 22 spells before making each normal legal move.
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✦Pretty
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◎Niche
◉Human
⚑Risk
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Field notes
The game keeps standard chess movement, legal moves, check, and checkmate, then inserts one optional spell before each move. Players choose an eight-card loadout from 22 spells and draw a five-card hand; listed effects include exchanging unlike pieces, recruiting an enemy pawn, and creating two pawns from a sacrificed minor piece. A separate solo mode, The Shattered Crown, is described as three realms and twelve encounters, with progress saved on the device.
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○OpenPublic substance visible
✦PrettyNotable craft visible
●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use
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