Hello, this is an idea for a new (and more original) PvP game on Spiral Knights. It's based off a sub-game in the old RPG Dragon Warrior 3, where you could send one of your party members into a board game with the possibility of both rewards and battles depending on where the player landed. This concept is similar - but with potentially large groups of knights!

Admission: A 200 crown fee must be payed by all players entering. It is possible for only one player to play, but it is generally more fun to play with several players knowing the nature of these kinds of board games...so, up to 4 groups of players can play, each with 4 individual players!

The game: Everybody starts out on the "start" space. A spinning die will then appear randomly for one player of each party: they must hit the die. Hitting the die will cause it to stop: if not stopped within 10 seconds it will always land on 1. The die will land between 1 and 6: besides determining turn order, this roll causes the party to move that number of spaces (each space resembling a danger room) for their first turn, and they will roll the dice again next time it is their turn. The space they land on may trigger the following:

- Monsters attack the player! Note that almost any tier-appropriate monster (excluding phantoms, bosses, and drones) can attack the party. No crowns are dropped by these monsters, and if all the party members die before the monsters are slain they must either revive or leave the match within 10 seconds. Should at least one party member survive until all the monsters are slain (or if the last monsters die by a status effect after the last player is downed) the party will be revived, have its health restored, and gain 20 crowns. Roughly a third of all spaces are of this type.
- 5 crown bonus (all the players in that party get 5 crowns). Roughly 1/4 of all spaces are bonus spaces.
- A maze! Landing on some spaces will turn that space into a small, randomly generated maze filled with drone enemies, breakable blocks, explosive blocks, and traps. There is a switch hidden under one of the breakable blocks, and if the party can find it within 30 seconds, all party members get 25 crowns! Roughly 1/4 of all spaces are of this variety. Once again, the party will be healed and revived at the end of the sub-game.
- PvP space! A party that lands on this space can either do nothing or choose to attack another party. If they do the latter, they will teleport to the offending party's space and PvP will begin! If the attacking party wins, they will swap spaces with the loser: otherwise nothing happens. When the battle is over, all combatants have their HP restored. Note that the teams will have their health readjusted so that both teams start the match with an equal amount of health. 3 of these spaces will spawn each match.
- Jackpot! Atrociously lucky players who land on this space will see crowns start to rain from the sky for ten seconds, free for the taking! However, the space only appears in 1/5 of all boards and never more than once on a board.
- Filler spaces: These spaces occupy the rest of the board. They do various things depending on the board - for example, in a cake-themed board, stepping on one would likely result in creep cakes attacking you.

The boards would have from 20 to 40 spaces depending on the board. The winner would be determined either by who lasted the longest or by which player reached start again first: the winning party will gain 600 crowns per party member and 3 krogmo coins, whereas other parties would get no crowns and only 1-2 krogmo coins. The winning team also has a very small (1%) chance of being awarded with a tier-appropriate weapon (0-star for tier 1, 2-star for tier 2, and 4-star for tier 3); this weapon cannot be traded, sold, or otherwise discarded.

Please leave feedback on this! I hope I was more original this time...