Forum:What role would serve quest nemeses?

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I was thinking about a NetHack variant where you can play as antiroles. Their gameplay will have the following aspects:

• Quest leaders become Antiquest nemeses.

• Quest nemeses become Antiquest leaders.

• Quest guardians become Antiquest menaces.

• Quest artifacts remain the same. They now belong to Quest leaders (= Antiquest nemeses).

• The player is gonna traverse Quest branches in the opposite way.

As such, I was wondering what the antiroles would be. My current sketch is:

• Anti-Archeologist = Graverobber (An antithesis of Archeologists)

• Anti-Barbarian = (no idea)

• Anti-Caveman = Dragon Raiser (Serves Chromatic Dragon)

• Anti-Healer = (no idea)

• Anti-Knight = Dark Knight (Straightforward reversal)

• Anti-Monk = Sybarite (Seeks for luxury)

• Anti-Priest = Necromancer (Worships evil things)

• Anti-Ranger = (no idea)

• Anti-Rogue = Assassin (Direct reference to Master Assassin)

• Anti-Samurai = (no idea)

• (I'm omitting Tourist. What do you expect their antirole would be, a terrorist?)

• Anti-Valkyrie = Flame Mage (Opposite temperature to Valkyries)

• Anti-Wizard = Warlock (Performs dark magic)

Any suggestions to the blanks? --NDos (talk) 08:06, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

Have Anti-Archaeologist have properties of Belloq.

A barbarian is said to fear magic in a lot of media.

Healer: a dark magic user. Curses player spell, as well as other monster spells. Have new spells of destruction and pain.

Rangers are typically associated with nature, healing and combat.

Tourist: Anarchist? What is the villain in Pratchet's writings (if any, not sure, have not read yet).

Valkyrie: Frost Giant?

Wizard would fear pure might?

--User (talk) 07:05, 19 February 2022 (UTC)