Round Effects

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If you're looking for this phase's flavor text, see Round Effects (flavor text).

Round Effects is the first thing to occur in any Round.

When a game of BGO is started, the turn order among players is decided. The player who is last in the turn order will have Round Effects occur immediately after their turn ends.

In some ways, Round Effects functions as if part of the turn of the player who is last in the turn order.

  • The player who is last in the turn order can be Hypnotized during Round Effects.
  • Pick Snowballs can successfully be used during the Snow round effect by the player who is last in the turn order.

However, win conditions are checked in-between the turn of the player who is last in the turn order and Round Effects, which is a way that Round Effects does not function as if part of the turn of the player who is last in the turn order.

Special traits of Round Effects are:

  • Win conditions are checked right after continuing from Round Effects.
  • There is a slight delay once Round Effects starts before players can continue from it.
  • All players are able to continue from Round Effects starting at the same time (excluding lag discrepancies), long before the action timer runs out.
  • There cannot be a Forced End during Round Effects.



Round Effects is by all means a global affair with all players' things being checked. All effects in this phase occur on one page each Round.

Some effects happen here even if the phase itself is invisible.

Standard Effects[edit | edit source]

  • Cooldowns tick down by 1
  • Frozen turn counters tick down by 1
  • Non-Amethyst Lightsaber and Phaser lose 5% Energy, Teleporter Activator loses 13-17% Energy, and Gallifreyan Time Watch loses 3-6% Energy
  • Legendary Ring turn counters tick down by 1; supposing the turn counter hits 0, the effect won't activate, and the turn counter remains at 0, to be activated in the next Effects Phase the Ring spends in a player inventory.
  • Wildcard: Shops Generation warning the Round before the generation
  • Wildcard: Shops Generation on every Round that is a multiple of 10.

Seasonal Effects[edit | edit source]

  • Romantic Rose- All players gain Romantic Rose. (Valentine's Week)
  • April's Aristocrats- All players gain 100 Rupees. (Requires the Actually Pretty Radical Item Loot (SPECIAL!) option chosen during game creation.) (April Fools)
  • Overlord Overload- All players gain the Overlord Buff. (If Wild Mode: Racing In Reverse is active, they instead receive Underlord.) (Requires the Actually Pretty Radical Item Loot (SPECIAL!) option chosen during game creation.) (April Fools)
  • Fresh Towels- All players gain a Towel. Activates every 15-20 Rounds. (Towel Day)
  • Heat Wave- All players gain 6 turns of Dehydration (or have the turn counter of an already existing Dehydration Debuff lowered by 2), also all Frozen turn counters of items in player inventories tick down by 3. (Summer)
  • Forecast: Blistering Sun- Blistering Sun occurs during the next 3 Round Effects. (Summer)
  • Blistering Sun- 1 Sunburn stack is applied to all living players that don't have the Sunscreen Buff, also every living player with Solar Panel has its Passive Effect activate. (Summer)
  • Snow- It starts snowing, and all players receive the Pick Snowballs skill. Activates on a random Round from 6-16. Pick Snowballs can be used here to gain Snowballs. (Winter)
  • Valentines Week Box Of Chocolates Global Effect activates
  • Oktoberfest! Global Effect activates
  • Lunar New Year Global Effect activates

Gallery[edit | edit source]

  • Heat Wave

    Heat Wave

  • Blistering Sun

    Blistering Sun

  • Early Reinforcements

    Early Reinforcements

  • Hungry Games (started by U.N. Voting)

    Hungry Games (started by U.N. Voting)

  • PETA's Rescue Race End

    PETA's Rescue Race End

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