Chapter Ideas

HPzero

Hello everyone. I have a love and not love relationship with DBD most of the time, which I’m sure all of you do too. But I do enjoy the game, and I wanted to share two concept chapters that I thought of and wanted to see if you guys think they’re interesting too. Both chapters feature a KILLER and a SURVIVOR. I think both the killers offer a unique gameplay that’s different and a little bit the same as others. And they are NOT a repetitive dash slop. They offer something new and challenging. One is a hybrid of Teleport/Stealth/Infection, and the other a Range/Trap killer. *Note the images are AI generated. I am not much of an artist*

New Chapter - Mystic Carnage 

New Killer - The Ravager 

Killer Power: Beastial Shape

• The Ravager has access to two Forms and can freely change between them. Each Form has unique abilities and strengths.

Special Ability: Shapeshift 

• Press Ability button 1 to shift between Monstrous Bunny and Regular Bunny Form. 
  • Monstrous Form has a 32 meter Terror Radius.
  • Regular Form grants undetectable. Cannot break pallets and is not granted the bloodlust status effect. 

Killer Effect: Cursed

• Hitting a Survivor with Cursed Claw adds to their Cursed Meter. When the meter is filled, the Survivor is afflicted with Cursed I. 
  • Cursed I: The Survivor is afflicted with the colored curse’s effect. 
  • A Survivor can only be affected by a total of one Curse at a time, and no other Survivor can be affected by the same Curse another Survivor is affected by. 
  • (*Description of how the curse’s mark will look: A claw scratch mark will appear on the Survivor’s back, and will glow with the imbued Curse color*)

Special Ability: Mother Nature 

• A series of bunny burrow tunnels become available on the map when The Ravager is in play. By accessing a Bunny Burrow in Regular Form, it can enter these tunnels to move around the map. Survivors can hear the rustling of dirt if The Ravager is coming out of one.
• In Regular Form, The Ravager is able to see scratch marks for a longer time, and blood pools and scratch marks are more apparent. Speed is a little faster.
• Press the interaction button near dropped pallets to vault them (hop over them).

Special Ability: Cursed Claw

• In Monstrous Form, to select a Curse, hold the Ability Button to open the Curse selection. The Ravager has access to 4 different Curses:
  • Green Curse: A Survivor's HUD is glitched
  • Blue Curse: A Survivor is afflicted with reduced repair, sabotage and Totem-cleansing speeds. 
  • Purple Curse: A Survivor is afflicted with the blindness and oblivious status effect.  
  • Red Curse: A Survivor is afflicted with the broken status effect. If healthy, they become injured.

Special Item: Sacred Carrot

• Survivors when near one can pluck a Sacred Carrot from the ground and eat it to decrease the Cursed Meter over time. Being hit ends the effect.
• There are 4 different colored Sacred Carrots, each one corresponds to a specific curse. Survivors can only eat the carrot that corresponds to their curse. 

New Killer Perks:

• Hex: Prey no More 

You were once the hunted, now you hunt.

• Every time a survivor heals a Healthstate, gain a Token. Up to 5 Tokens.
• Each token adds ?% of Healing speed reduction to all Survivors.
  
• Hex: Haunt our Prey
  • Every ?/?/? Seconds, all Survivors get blinded by a flash of light.
  • The flash of light comes from a floating light crystal that spawns in your radius and explodes.
    
• Scourge Hook: Burrowed Rage 
  • Every time a survivor is unhooked from a scourge hook, you see the generator with the most progress. Highlighted in yellow.

New Survivor -  Beatrice Blackwood 

New Survivor Perks: 

• Invocation: Hand of Fate 
  • In the basement near the circle, press the Active Ability button to begin the Invocation, which takes 60 seconds to complete.
  • During an Invocation, your Aura is revealed to all other Survivors and they can join in, accelerating the process by +100 %, if they too have an Invocation Perk equipped, or by +50%, if they have not.
  • Once the Invocation is completed, the following effects apply:
    • You and all Survivors gain the ability to conjure an item into your hand once per trial.
      • While crouched press the Active Ability Button 2 to conjure an item. Replacing and dropping any item you currently have.
      • The item is randomized (basic toolbox, medkit, flashlight, or fog Vial).
    • You automatically enter the Injured State from any previous Health State, and suffer from the broken status effect for the remainder of the trial. 
  • Completing an Invocation disables all Invocation Perks for the remainder of the Trial for all Survivors.
    
• Boon: Veil of Warding  
  • Soft chimes ring out in a radius of 24 meters. The killer suffers from the following effects when inside the Boon Totem’s radius:
  • Grants a ?% hindered Status Effect to the Killer
  • This effect lingers for ?/?/? Seconds after leaving the Boon Totem’s range.
  • (*This is like the opposite of Dark Theory. Which could possibly be paired with, allowing for a little more distance. The killer wouldn’t suffer too much, just like Dark Theory by itself doesn’t give a survivor too much benefit*)
    
• Mystic 8-Ball: 
  • Press the Active Ability button while running to consult your mystic 8-ball.
  • 50% chance YES / 50% chance NO:
    • YES: You gain the Elusive status effect for ?/?/? seconds, followed by one of the following effects: 
      • Haste +?% for ? seconds. 
      • Oblivious for ? Seconds.
      • +??% healing and repair speeds for ? Seconds 
      • -??% healing and repair speeds for ? Seconds
      • Afterward, you suffer from Exhaustion for ?/?/? Seconds 
    • NO: Nothing happens, but you still become Exhausted for ?/?/? Seconds.
  • The same effect cannot happen twice in a row.
  • Cannot be used while Exhausted.

Lore Short Version: Beatrice Blackwood is a magician who dabbles in the mystic arts. She has a talent for magic, but her habit of being recklessly clumsy causes her to accidentally mess up a spell and curse one of her bunnies, transforming it into an evil deadly beast.

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New Chapter - Blizzard of Blood

New Killer - The BioFrost

Killer Power: Winter Solstice 

• The BioFrost has access to placing Traps, shooting Projectiles, and blasting a wave of coldness.

Special Trap: Ice Trap   

• The BioFrost starts the Trial with 4 Ice Traps equipped. Placing additional Ice Traps will recycle the oldest one.
• Press Ability button 1 to bend down and freeze an icy sign into the ground, placing and arming an Ice Trap.
• Armed Ice Traps trap and immobilize any survivor stepping into them
  • This will also injure healthy Survivors.
  • Trapped Survivors can try to free themselves from it, which may take several attempts, or wait for another survivor to rescue them. 
  • (*Trapped Survivors will be embodied by a block of ice, ice spikes seen inside piercing through the Survivor’s body. When hit by the killer, the ice will shatter and the Survivor will be downed. To be free of the Trap, the attempt animation would be shaking the ice until broken free. Rescuers would be knocking on it*)
  • (*Shiver Shards and Basic Attacks can shatter the Ice Trap*)
• Armed Ice Traps also temporarily trap and immobilise The BioFrost stepping into them, until she shatters the ice, which will erase the trap.
  • This will cause any carried Survivor to escape from her shoulder.
    

Special Weapon: Shiver Shard

• The BioFrost starts the Trial with 7 Shiver Shards equipped.
• (*They shoot from her arm out of her hand*)
• Press and hold the Power button to manifest and charge a Shiver Shard. 
• Release the Power button to launch the Shiver Shard or press the Attack button to cancel the launch:
  • Releasing at minimum charge launches them at 25 m/s.
  • Releasing at maximum charge launches them at 40 m/s.
• Once launched the Shiver Shard spears through the air until it hits a target/obstacle, or if max distance is reached it vaporizes.
• Shiver Shards can be replenished at Lockers.
  

Special Ability: Cryoburst 

• Striking Survivors with her cryo-chilling abilities, The BioFrost causes them to suffer from the tiered Permafrost Status Effect.
• Press and hold the Secondary Power button, once the Power Gauge is full, to perform a Cryoburst Attack, unleashing a cone-shaped ranged Cryo attack on the ground in front of The BioFrost:
  • Reduces her Movement speed to 2.99 m/s while charging.
  • Cryoburst passes through any obstacles.
• Survivors struck with a Cryoburst Attack suffer from the following effects:
  • Increases their Permafrost by +1 Tier.
• Survivors can prevent being struck by Cryoburst by hiding inside a locker.

Special Affliction: Permafrost 

• Permafrost causes increasingly potent afflictions in the affected Survivors, depending on its current tier.
• Once permafrost is obtained, Survivors are unable to lose it and may only reset it to Tier I by performing the Warm Me Up interaction.

Permafrost I has the following permanent effects until a tier-up:

• Causes Survivors to be hindered by ?% once during the tier-up, and then intermittently every 90 seconds.
• (*The Survivor’s body is a slightly frosty, it builds up after a tier-up*).

Permafrost II has the following permanent effects until a tier-up:

• Causes Survivors to be hindered by ?% during the tier-up, and then intermittently every 30 seconds.
• (*The Survivor’s body is partially covered in frost and ice*).

Permafrost III has the following permanent effects until Survivors Warm Me Up:

• Causes Survivors to be hindered by ?% once during the tier-up, and at all times while they remain in Tier III.
• Suppresses the ability to use any equipped Item.
• Suppresses the ability to perform, or have performed on themselves, any interaction with a Progress bar.
• Unhooking other Survivors is exempt from this restriction.
• (*The Survivor’s body is largely covered in frost and ice*).

Special Interaction: Warm Me Up

• Survivors having reached Permafrost III can perform the Warm Me Up interaction for 12 seconds:
  • Triggers Skill Checks at each quadrant of the Progress bar.
  • Succeeding them continues the interaction.
  • Failing them has the following repercussions:
    • Interrupts the action and resets its Progress to the previous quadrant.
    • Notifies the killer of your location 
  • Completing the interaction resets Permafrost to Tier I.
  • (*The animation would be rubbing both hands against the opposite upper arms*)

New Killer Perks:

• Shivery Meat
  • Hitting a survivor grants them +?% Haste, but reveals the aura of any nearby Survivor for ?/?/? seconds and grants that Survivor ?%/?%?% hindered until they are hit.
    
• Chill Out 
  • When damaging a generator, a block of ice surrounds it for ?/?/? seconds, preventing Survivors from interacting with it. The generator still regresses when within the ice. 
  • Can only apply to one generator at a time.
    
• Frostbite 
  • Every time a survivor takes a hit from you, their luck for skill checks drops slightly until they are hooked.
    

New Survivor - Nikolai Kozlov

New Survivor Perks: 

• Trial and Error 
  • Gain a token for each failed healing attempt (skill check miss), up to 5 tokens.
  • You gain a ?%/?%/?% speed boost for the next Survivor you heal. 
  • (*Survivors that are being healed by the Perk user can see the blue icon of the perk*)
    
• Reactive Formula 
  • Once per trial you can create a special serum from a chest. Using it grants either +?% healing for ?/?/? seconds or +? Haste for ?/?/? seconds.
  • Use Active Ability 1 by an opened chest
    
• Lab Rat 
  • Each time you receive a hooked state, you gain a “mutation.”
  • Mutations are random buffs or debuffs (Haste, Repair Speed, Healing Speed, Blindness, Exhaustion, etc.) that last until you’re hooked again.
  • Maximum 2 mutations per trial.
  • If the hookstate were to disappear, you’d lose the effect.
    

Lore Short Version: Nikolai Kozlov is a scientist, and one day his sister was diagnosed with a rare disease. Conventional treatments proved ineffective, forcing him to turn to an experimental approach. The experiment failed, resulting in his sister to undergo a physical and mental mutation. The sister blamed the brother for what she had become and stabbed him with an icicle shard. The brother was saddened that his sister was no more and he couldn’t save her.

Most of these probably aren’t perfect, but they’re just ideas anyway. Love to see your comments on it, or your own original ideas.

First time on these forums, hopefully, I’m posting it right.