Legends of Norrath

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Legends of Norrath
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Developer(s) Sony Online Entertainment
Publisher(s) Sony Online Entertainment
Designer(s) Paul Dennen
Series EverQuest
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows, macOS
Release
  • WW: September 5, 2007
Genre(s) Collectible card game
Mode(s) Multiplayer

Legends of Norrath was an online digital collectible card game by Sony Online Entertainment. Legends of Norrath is based on the massively multiplayer online role-playing games EverQuest and EverQuest II . Legends Of Norrath was playable from within either of the two games, or via a stand-alone client.

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Legends of Norrath was announced at the 2007 Sony Online Entertainment fan fair by (CEO) John Smedley. It was also previewed at the August 2007 Gen Con Game Fair. [1] Legends of Norrath went online on September 5 of the same year.

Legends of Norrath was sunset on August 17, 2016. [2]

Gameplay

Oathbound was the first set in Legends of Norrath. There were 4 primary Archetypes of cards: Priest, Mage, Fighter, and Scout. There was one secondary Archetype, Neutral. This was only available with two free Avatars available during the release of Ethernauts and Travelers. Along with each Archetype was the ability to create a deck along a Light, Shadow or Neutral path. Each player included 4 quests in their deck (default ruleset) and at any given point in the game, each player had at least one quest in play, and each quest had a value level. As abilities were "used" in the game their value was applied to a quest. If a quest attained its level value from one player (over the course of many rounds) that quest was then achieved by that player and counted towards that player's progression of achieving 4 quests.

Winning was achieved by four means: defeating the opponent's avatar, completing 4 player quests, having the opponent run out of cards in his/her deck, or, during a chess clock match, having the opponent run out of time.

Other features

In Legends of Norrath, players could fight in tournaments and gain loot cards for both EverQuest and EverQuest II . [1] The interrelation between the MMO and the card game was considered unusual at the time. [1] The tournaments awarded booster packs or rare cards to the winners, but were limited only to players located in the United States. Players could also choose to create their own avatar, a highly desired feature. Players could pick from 21 races: Human, Wood Elf, Dark Elf, Dwarf, Gnome, Ogre, High Elf, Iksar, Halfling, Troll, Froglok, Erudite, Barbarian, Half Elf, Fae, Arasai, Drakkin, Sarnak, Kerra, Ratonga, or Vah Shir. Players could pick from one male or one female from any of the listed races before answering a questionnaire that determined the avatar's stats. After players bought cards from the online store, they could trade cards with other players. There was also a single player version of the game: a story line that featured battles against the AI. Winning each chapter of the single player story line awarded one card to the player. With the Ethernauts set, players could earn two different sets of cards (based on archetype) for each scenario as well as a loot card for beating Ethernauts scenarios 1, 3, 5, 7, and 10.

Expansions

Legends of Norrath had 16 sets released between September 2007 and August 2013. Each one featured a number of base cards which could be found in either starter or booster packs, as well as promotional cards and special loot cards which could grant items in either EverQuest or EverQuest II . They would feature characters, locations, and monsters featured in both games, and would sometimes have story arcs revolving around a current expansion or key points in the history of the EverQuest series. [3] Sets were originally released at a rate of one every 3–4 months until Debt of the Ratonga, which debuted almost a year after the previous mini set The Jarsath Destroyer. The final set, Drakkinshard, released 8 months later, would be the last one produced until the game's closure in August 2016.

Set #TitleRelease dateCards
1OathboundSeptember 5, 2007375 [4]
2ForswornDecember 19, 2007230 [5]
3InquisitorMarch 7, 2008250 [6]
4OathbreakerJune 19, 2008250 [7]
5EthernautsOctober 9, 2008280 [3]
6Against the VoidFebruary 12, 2009280 [8]
7Storm BreakJuly 9, 2009240 [9]
8TravelersOctober 13, 2009210 [10]
9Vengeful GodsFebruary 23, 2010180 [11]
10Doom of the Ancient OnesJune 15, 2010200 [12]
11Dragonbrood - The AnarchsOctober 14, 2010200 [13]
12LegaciesMarch 1, 2011165 [a] [14]
13Priestess of the AnarchsAugust 25, 201195 [b] [15]
14The Jarsath Destroyer [c] December 21, 201110 [16]
15Debt of the RatongaDecember 6, 2012110 [17]
16DrakkinshardAugust 13, 2013120 [18]
Notes
  1. ↑ 51 new cards plus 114 reprints from previous sets.
  2. ↑ 70 new cards plus 25 reprints from previous sets.
  3. ↑ A mini expansion which added 10 new cards to the Priestess of the Anarchs set and was not available via chosen pack.

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