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ok as far as I'm concerned, this is your baby. But you got me thinking about ideas.

-The game is playable in one of two different ways. Either each person has their own deck of 20+ OR both/all players pull from a single deck that has at least 20 cards per person involved.

-The Deck is comprised of :

exclaim Characters
exclaim Spells
exclaim Equipment

- Each person draws 5 cards to start and will draw another at teh begining of each of their turns.

-Each person starts with a single Character Card. It enters play when your first turn begins. You lose when you run out of characters.

-Only one character may be played per turn.

-Characters labeled unique may only have one in play.

-Each character has 2-4 abilitys.

-Each Character has a starting HP total. When this HP reaches zero, the character leaves the game.

-Spells and Character abilities are cast using MP tokens.

-Each character generates a fixed number of energy of a type listed on the card each turn. (probably the lower right) Ex: 2 black dots in the lower left corner of Sailor Blacks card means every turn 2 black energy tokens are put on her card.

-Once per turn each character can their tokens to use one of her abilities or cast a spell/equipment card from your hand. Tokens from multiple charactors cannot be used to cast a spell or use an ability unless the ability specifically says you can. (Ie we might add a card that uses multiple senshi to cast a "planet power" type attack)

-Equipment cards would add re-usable abilities. The conditions for using those abilities would be listed on them. (**cough**relics**cough**)

-Spells would be single use effects and would explain their requirements and effects.

Sample Card:

Evening the Odds
Cost: 3 White or Green Mana Token:
"Return a character to it's owners hand. Only do this if they have more characters then you."

Additional thoughts:

Other card games make extensive use of a keyword ability system. Instead of explaining every ability on every card, they come up with a short hand and only explain the abilities when space permits and when the ability is new enough that people may not be familiar.

For example:


You'll notice the first keyword, "Flying" has no explanation. It's been around forever, so everyone knows it means "This creature can only be blocked by other creatures with flying"

The second ability, "infect", is newer, more complicated ability, so most cards list out the full ability.

The ability to add keyword abilities to cards means they can string together abilities that normally wouldn't fit on the same card. (or if they did, would be hard as heck to read).

For example:



It also keep the game simple to understand since you don't have 5 different versions of each ability running around.



Now, while the key word abilities in Magic the Gathering are inappropriate for our game, we should start coming up with our own.

For example:

Fast Action = This spell can be cast at any time, even on your opponents turn, or in response to another spell or ability.
Hope(1) = This Character regenerates 1 health each turn. (change the number in the () to change the amount healed)
Hand to Hand (5) = At the end of your turn, if this character spent no tokens and took no actions, you may have it do (5) pts of damage to target Character.

Mechanics ARE the basics dear. Artworks just window dressing. wink

So, you want a card game that's playable on the forum? Yeah....I'm at a loss about how to make that work. Short of everyone printing out their decks and being honest about what they get....


That program you linked looks like it'd work. Hopefully it works the way I think it does. I'm downloading it now to play around with.