Romance of the Three Kingdoms Game

Awesome.

I had the idea to do an R3K game myself. In my game, I wanted the whole game to be focused on officers since in the original story, most of the stuff are done by these heroes. So I was thinking that everybody had a set of officers cards and could play them to perform actions. They would recover their cards at the end of the turn.

I did not look at the rules of your game, but at quick glance, there seems to be too much territories on the map. Second, since territories are connected by roads, why define territories when you could just have created a series of cities connected by roads. Maybe placement was easier with territories than city circles or squares.

By the way, you probably got the pictures from the r3k video games, right?

I think there are open r3k artwork. There are also ancient artwork which most of them are black and white. Still, not sure you'll get pictures of every officers.

There is also a TV show of 3 kingdom, but this is copyrighted.

I have been thinking about it. I thought lately of a small design that took place in japan where most of the games were bingo chips on the map and units and building cards in player's hand.

I thought that I could reuse the same system for an r3k games. Instead of units, you would have heroes.

It's really a rough design, I just placed a few hours to gather some ideas.

For the map, I took a map of japan and split it up if 15 areas based on the actual province layout. I split up the sea around the map in 6 areas which would restrict navigation length when moving by sea.

You will have a series of unit tokens represented as bingo chips which are placed on the map. These are your units.

You will have a series of cards which are first the special units: ex: samurai, ninja, shugenja and riffle mens. I don't really have a combat system right now but each time you attack, you need to use some of these cards usable once per round. You cannot use more cards than the number of units you attack with.

You also have buildings cards which have special abilities. When you build you make a like of cards in front of you. If you get attacked and lose a province, players can capture one of the cards on the side of the line. So the buildings in the middle are more protected.

There will also be naval support cards which will allow you to perform sea attack.

Production is easy, each territory produce 1 koku. You need

1 koku = 2 unit token
1 koku = 1 unit card
2 koku = 1 building.

The number of buildings and unit cards you can have is limited by the amount of territories you have. So it's some kind of maintenance system.

This is what I have so far, and it gives you an idea of how the game could work.

So As I thought later, this could be adapted for an r3k Game. For example, unit cards could be replaced by officer cards. So it is possible that if I continue to design my game, I will keep in mind to design a system that could work for both games.

I think somewhere in here there is a lesson about not relying too much on copyrighted material without asking for permission before you spend too much time on a project. Also IANAL, but now that you have contacted them their lawyers might be interested (in a bad way) in your game even if you change the graphics, in case they can find anything that looks as if it is a bit too close to what they have copyrighted. Quite possibly they also have a trademark on using that title for games? Sounds like a dangerous project to spend too much time on without first spending some money on a lawyer and/or retheme the game.

Completely opposite philosophy to my own, but I hope you are having success!

Unless it was a bad traduction, the copy I read was titled "three kingdoms". Unless there is a different title for each edition of the story. I read the remixed edition in the 15th century I think, can't remember the author's name I think there is a "luo" in it.