The DropTale cast
Each friend shows you one idea by how they act. Meet them all and see how the ideas fit together.
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Boomerang Fu The pawn (Fu): steps one square forward; captured, it comes back as a drop -
Lance Kyo The lance: charges straight forward any distance, never retreats -
Leaping Kei The knight (Keima): the only jumper — two fixed forward hops over any piece -
Silverstep Gin The silver general: steps forward plus all four diagonals (the attacker's five) -
Goldguard Kin The gold general: the six-direction shield step (cannot promote) -
Bishop Kaku The bishop: the long diagonal slide, locked to one colour -
Rook Hisha The rook: the long file and rank sweep — the strongest slider -
Crownfall Gyoku The king: one step any direction; protecting it is the game — checkmate is its fall -
Promote Nari The promotion zone: a piece flips to its stronger promoted side in the last three ranks -
Dropcatch Dai The DROP rule: a captured piece enters your hand and redeploys on an empty square -
Reserve Rin Piece-in-hand + drop limits: the komadai reserve, nifu and uchifuzume -
Sensei Tsume The tsume-shogi puzzle master: forced-mate problems with one solution