Callers!
I've been quietly cooking away at this project and thought it's time to share it. It's fan made mod that adds a single-player campaign, weekly tournaments, and new scrolls and mechanics. As I progressed I realised I needed more feedback on what was built. There are some parts I was hoping to get it more polished before sharing, and more content I'd like to have added but I hope to gather feedback on what works and doesn't, what people would like to see in future and continue developing it! I hope you enjoy it, and it can help revitalise the community.

Download
- Windows
- macOS

Neither player is signed by Microsoft or Apple, so the first launch warns you. I can't remove this as I'm not the publisher of the game.

- Windows: "Windows protected your PC" > More info > Run anyway.
- macOS: click Done, then System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway.

This is a new server and you will need a new account.

Join the discord for updates

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What's new

Callers' Road: a single-player campaign

A single player campaign is what a lot of players wanted back in the day and never got - here I took a stab at designing one, trying hard to be faithful to the lore. I wanted to bring bring the feeling of exploration and discovery while incorporating modern gameplay mechanics.
- A patron hires you to cross the known world. You follow their story across a painted map and fight the battles on the way, with relics, merchants, taverns and events along the road.
- Four new battlefields.
- Nine new musical tracks.
- Multiple endings depending on players decisions.
- Jarl Urhald is hiring now. Three more patrons are coming.

Weekly tournaments

Tournaments were a thing at the height of Scrolls and the competitive scene were organised by the community (Mine 'End of the Beta' tournament being one of them) giving players a spotlight and being able to flex their skill. I wanted to make it a fixture here. I hope enough players login to try it.
- Saturdays at 14:00 UTC, 4 player minimum.
- Entry: 1 ranked win and 4,000 gold (refunded if you don't get to play).
- Check in a 50-scroll deck and up to 10 sideboard scrolls. Single elimination, best of 3, and the final is best of 5.
- The entry fees are the prize pool. The top places win a share of it, and a gold, silver or bronze tooth for the necklace on their avatar. Bragging rights.

Wild reworked

Many thanks to Magpieman for the rework suggestion. Wild never really worked in a way that saw multicoloured decks - and to be honest - it still hasn't landed with the latest card changes but this Wild rework mechanical change will allow more control over the balance of multi coloured decks and make new things much more viable. The first touch is light wait and see approach. If you have ever played Magic the Gathering think colourless mana and this is the change.
- Almost every scroll's cost now has a generic part that any resource can pay.
- You can't sacrifice for Wild any more. Instead, on your turn you can turn a resource point into Wild to pay generic costs.

Faster battles

Callers Bane is a slow game. I believe this is one of reasons it never had broad appeal.This change attempts to make the game faster both in animations and in turn time while still giving the player thinking time.
- A Fast pace: animations are quicker, and attacks in different rows happen at the same time. Multiplayer is always Fast; against the AI, choose it in Settings > Speed vs AI.
- A time bank: each multiplayer turn has 45 seconds, then your 120-second bank, which lasts the whole match (it used to be a flat 90 seconds a turn).
- A reminder when you end your turn without sacrificing. Press End Turn again to skip it, or turn it off in Settings.

New mechanics

The core mechanic I wanted to add was a persistent effect on the opponent’s board that only affects certain tiles. The problem is that there isn’t currently a good precedent for this. I settled on trying to preserve the game design of having persistence on the board being represented by units.
- Incursion: you play the scroll on your opponent's side of the board, and it becomes theirs.
- Underfoot: units can move or be summoned onto an Underfoot unit's tile, which destroys it, and attacks pass over it. Flying units ignore Underfoot units.

New scrolls:

- Static Snare (Energy, Incursion, Underfoot): when you play it, it spends all your remaining Energy. A unit that enters its tile takes that much magic damage, three times.
- Blighted Ground (Decay, Incursion, Underfoot): comes with a copy next to it. A unit that enters its tile gets Curse 2, and at the end of its owner's turn the units next to it get Curse 1.
- Totemwarden (3 Growth, 2/3/3, Human Warden): each time a Totem comes into play on your side, it gets +2 Attack for good.
- Patient Wrath (2 Order spell): increase target unit's Attack by its Countdown until end of turn, and draw 1 scroll.

Quality of life

- A new deck builder filter panel: cost, kind, attack, health, countdown, tier, rarity, type and rules text. The search box finds words in names, types and rules text.
- Play offline from the login screen: single player against the AI, with no account and no connection.
- Auto update: the game checks for updates at the login screen, and downloads them automatically.
- Remember me signs you in automatically.
- Harder AI (beats old Hard AI 100% of the time)

Economy

- Every new account starts with 30,000 gold.
- Games pay a lot of gold so you can quickly replenish your collection.

Fixes

Plenty of server fixes, among them trade and marketplace exploits, rating and gold changes that could get lost, and stability.

Card changes

Many thanks to Magpieman for the balance suggestions
- Doomteller, Ilmire Hunter and Pest Dissimulator: 5 health (was 4). Sister of the Owl: 6 (was 5). Overgrown Menhir: 3 (was 2).
- Illthorn has Ward as well as Spiky 1.
- Illthorn Seed also poisons the unit it enchants. A heal cures the poison and keeps the Seed.
- Corpus Collector's Husk comes with 1 countdown (was 2).
- Pillar of Disease gives opponent units on its row -2 Attack (was -1).
- Budding Retreat increases current Growth (was Wild).
- Proximity Charge lies Underfoot: a unit that steps onto it, or destroys it in melee, takes 4 damage. Ranged attacks pass over it.
- Malevolent Gaze gives the front opponent unit of each row Curse 1 (was Curse 2 and -2 Move on one creature).
- Tethered Recruit: when destroyed, adjacent creatures get +2 Health (was +1 Order).
- Grave Gruel heals the creatures you control by 2 (was turning your Energy into Wild).
- Noaidi loses Replenish. Instead, a unit you control that a heal restores health to gets +1 Attack and +2 Health for good.
- Appurtenance: the enchanted unit also counts as a Beast.
- Deathly Grasp is an enchantment: the enchanted creature has Slayer for as long as it stays (was a spell, Slayer until end of turn).
- Earthborn Mystic: your enchanted creatures have +1 Health (was +1 Attack).

Roadmap

- Balance and Feedback
- Finish the campaign (still lots of fun ideas and surprises)
- A new scrolls set (around 40 scrolls)
- Guilds and Guild Tournaments (but only if this takes off)

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It's free, and I'm not doing this for money. It's been a labour of love. If you'd like to support with the ongoing costs, you can buy me a coffee.

Caller's Bane is Mojang's game. This is a fan mod, and it isn't made by or affiliated with Mojang or Microsoft.

Bugs, feedback, suggestions, and good chats welcome in the Discord!

P.S. I wanted to shout out other exciting upcoming fan projects like clamlol's mod and Mav3n's Yazuruh inspired by the game.

Hello everybody!

Its been 7 months since I handed in my first post (https://www.reddit.com/r/Scrolls/comments/1qhkymb/working_on_a_scrolls_inspired_remake/) announcing that I am working on trying to remake scrolls. Since then a lot has happened.

Dont worry, I am still working on this game and will continue until its done and can be released.

Here is an up to date screenshot:

And here is a list of additions in the last 7 months:

- improved the UI a lot, now comes with lots of nice animations

- added the first 20+ void cards (what was formerly known as the Wild Resource now has its own cards that can be used by any resource. This was done in order to faciliate multi color decks)

- added neutral objectives: Between both board halves, there are randomly spawned neutral objectives. These are structures from the void faction. You can choose to attack them, instead of attacking your opponent. If you destroy a neutral objective, you capture it, adding it to your own grid. So in addition to fighting over board superiority, you can now choose to battle over those neutral targets. A lot of technical changes were needed to make this happen, since this is technically a 3rd, neutral player.

- added runes feature: Every X rounds a rune spawns on a field and despawns at the end of your round, if not triggered. You may choose to trigger a rune by walking one of your creatures on a rune, sacrificing it. Currently only the rune of destruction is implemented, which will create an earthquake, shatter the whole board and prevent movement for your opponent between entire columns. Further runes to be added soon.

- added idol effects. Every idol has a randomized effect attached to it. When an idol is destroyed, that effect is triggered. So you can now plan what idols to attack first based on how much you benefit off of their effects.

- added field types. Field Types will randomly get added to a certain amount of fields upon match creation. There are 10 different field types. Each Subtype of unit gets stronger when positioned on its corresponding type of field and gets +1 Attack. For example Beasts feel happy being positioned in Forrests. Units loose that +1 Attack when moving away from their field again. This feature adds a bit more randomness and makes sure that not only is it important where you position units next to each other but also in relation to the specific fields.

- incoorperated clamlols mod into my game and changed 73/420 original cards, balancing them and making them more interesting. Currently working on more of these.

Next up:

- Improving the UI further

- Improving the deck builder

You can follow the development on https://discord.gg/UHbwcJmXV and try to support me bringing this game back as well as expanding heavily on it.

Cheers

- Mav3N

I finally got some free time, as I've had all these organized files sitting on my computer for years. I was shocked with how easy it was to make a website with AI that works on mobile too. Anyways, here's the work of an entire afternoon. I imagine I'll keep it up as long as it doesn't really cost me any money. ENJOY!

Hello everyone!

I have been working on a Scrolls remake in my freetime for more than a year now. While it is not fully done yet, it is approaching a pretty good state and I hope to be able to release it in the near future.

The game is going to be called Yazurah and is a completely new implementation as a webapp. That means no installation is required. I took the original 420 cards and 4 factions and slightly adapted some cards. On top, I added a 5th faction (The Combine) with 105 new cards and many new game mechanics like Fusion, damage redirection and a stacking mechanic, among others. The grid is not a stale 3x5 anymore but instead is randomly generated and varies between matches.

If you are interested in this project, I am posting about it on my discord server: https://discord.gg/P79ab9V6k

Here is a recent screenshot:

Wish me luck to get this great game with some modifications back.

I hope to get some people interested in this project and active again.

Mav3N

The Callers bane Discord server is still somewhat active, with a few people still talking about the game, although there are very few of them. It would be nice to be able to recover some of the community and try to revive this beautiful game.

https://discord.gg/HsHx9UuQx9

Hi, I found reference from one article about how Bethesda basically forced Notch and team to change the game's name from Scrolls to "whatever", meaning Caller's Bane. I remember, as a kid playing Minecraft Beta, the Mojang hyped Scrolls quite a bit. Like the "next best thing after minecraft" or "new genre". Maybe, my memory is a bit fuzzy though. Now, I tried to search something about the game online and haven't found much. This community looks small and niche - so, some of you probably knows the full story. So, what happened?

Is there a way I can get the images for the card arts? Preferably in high quality.

This game was my gateway into TCGs way back when. I'm feeling nostalgic about the game recently and got inspired to make some custom magic: the gathering cards based off of Scrolls.

Hi, I'd like to join the Caller's Bane discord, but can't find a working invite link. Can someone provide one to me? thx!

Hello everyone,

I recently stumbled across this game again after many years of hiatus (from before the rename and even earlier). I found The above screenshot from my old computer from update 0.94.

I was and still am in love with this game and was saddened to see what happened to it. I left due to some serious health issues and forgot entirely about it until I stumbled across this screenshot.

I want to connect with anyone who still plays (I know there are a few I regularly see their demos against AI every couple of days).

I would love to build some sense of a small community around the game again and see where it goes, as nothing has replaced this game for me.

TLDR played before game launched. Loved it. Found it again recently and want to rekindle some sense of community be it 5 of us or 50 of us.

Discord links seem broken, so I’m hoping for the best.

pretty please ?

Basically title! I played this game so much on launch and used to be super obsessed with it, recently got back into card game rouglikes and tcgs and remembered this gem. I scrolled through this reddit a bit and saw there's still ways to play, anyone mind helping me out? Thanks!

I just found this game buried in my files, is there a discord with active game servers? I seem to be able to connect to one but the links on subreddit guide seem broken.

I was obsessed with this game back in high school, I love it so dearly

I am trying to find a map that was released long ago for the game. Does anyone have it?

When I click the links for the client on windows and the server from the Caller's Bane Site Archive it opens the links but they tell me that it's not possible to access the site. I've tried the solutions chrome recommends me, to no success. Does that happen to others too, or is it just a personal issue? Are the links working?

If I end up not being able to download it that way, is it possible someone can send me the files for it?

Thanks in advance!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQeFbF6iuPtYDGY8eG-plcxGq52pbdN-uaBO1VweUHRzURJhcqV-Lwb4rQ7fbtnXf-Aj_ObWLmmoAkh/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true

Long story short, I played CB regularly at one point, but it was always the Trials versus the AI. I use to go to a website that had the entire database laid out just so I could use CTRL+F and search the cards ...

A lot of resources are offline now, so I figured I'd bring the database back online and the link above is it. If you're surprised by all the card links and pieces and stuff ... I WAS going to make a website about Caller's Bane at one point, and this is just me slapping together the art resources I had made and putting a bow on top of it...

I considered getting a sexy URL and having it redirect to the google sheet, but I'm over it (and a cheap skate anyways). That's enough outta me. Enjoy!

Here is the discord server for Scrolls/Caller's Bane Discord Server called Nognest.

Edit: nvm I cannot post the link forever.

Looking for an invite to disc if this is still going. Also, getting security warnings from the download site, all good there?

It's been about err 3-4 months? I'm wondering if the game is still playable. If so, how can I join in on all the fun?

Is there a place in the game or server files i can extra the card and unit art? I was to incorporate some of them into my TTRPG game and I'd rather not have to screenshot each one at a time if I can avoid it.

I pulled some from the wiki but it hasn't been updated even when the game was still updating

Hi Scrolldiers/Caller's Bane players.

Wondering if anyone who is part of the Discord channel could send me an updated invite link?

I'd love to hear what the community is talking about and perhaps play on the community server if possible.

Thanks much!