?vs? — SoD

The map is called ?vs?, and its name suggests a free-for-all contest in which eight players start on a sandy landscape of medium size, 72 by 72 tiles, with an underground level included. It was built for Shadow of Death and plays at the Impossible difficulty setting. Eight players fill every seat, all of them human-capable, with no teams and no computer-only colors. Each player's faction is random. The map is about 95 percent sand and 5 percent water. Victory requires defeating all enemies, and a player is eliminated after losing every town and hero. Across the map are 16 towns, 72 mines, 40 creature banks, 168 random monster stacks, and 24 randomly placed artifacts. The author left only a brief note, which says the goal is simply to win.