Rogue Revival

[MeltyruZ]

Where can we find the original Four Rogues rules for Diablo 1?

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[RefSteel]

Where can we find the original Four Rogues rules for Diablo 1?

I don't go far enough back with the site to know for sure, but reading the initial post in this thread suggests that "Four Rogues" is not a complicated variant, but exactly what it sounds like. The "rules" as I infer them would therefore have been:

1) Rope in three friends to play a four-player MP game of Diablo 1 online together.
2) Upon joining the game, each and every player chooses to play as a Rogue.
3) Beat the game on normal difficulty together to earn one "dot," then do so on Nightmare to earn a second "dot," and finally do it again on Hell difficulty to earn a third "dot."

That's my guess for the kind of experience Rogue Revival was trying to ~~duplicate.

[KingOfPain]

I don’t actually remember there ever being a D1 Rogue Revival variant.

[RefSteel]

I don’t actually remember there ever being a D1 Rogue Revival variant.

Yeah, from my reading of Sirian's post, there couldn't be: Sirian said his favorite way to play D1 was "4 Rogues," and with no Rogue character class in D2, the "Rogue Revival" variant was intended to bring back ("revive") the Rogue class for D2, using a team of bow-wielding characters who are technically Sorceresses (with a special variant ruleset) to simulate the old-school experience. Back in D1, if you wanted the Rogue experience, you just played as one. (And as one of four Rogues playing together in an online game whose monsters are scaled for the power of a balanced 4-player team, it would presumably be a fun challenge in itself!)