Vitcards Discussion

Oh yeah yeah, you can use my characters too.

That takes forever.

That's why I changed the Reaper's Game.

Here's my vision for Vitcards.

Each player, before building their deck, selects a Hero. That's not necessarily a good guy, just a Vitcon character of special significance. Each Hero has their own Hero Power, which can have varied, modest effects. This allows for interesting mixing and matching, while also keeping the concept Malefio suggested. However, instead of all the cards following that character, players can mix and match. Every Hero has 30 health and their Hero Powers cost 2 Energy.

Starting turn 1, the players each have one Energy, and that steadily increases up to a total of 10. Each card has Energy cost, which helps balance cards with stronger effects meant to be played later in the game with cheaper cards means to be played earlier or which can be played a few a turn. In a general sense, this leads to more interesting possibilities than a flat, all cards must be balanced against all other cards system, and is less static than something like "can only play one monster at a time".

There are two principal categories for cards. Actions and Characters. Characters are like Pokemon or Minions from Hearthstone or Monsters from Yu-Gi-Oh, you use them to attack enemies and can only have a maximum of 7 on the board, all lined up in a row. The first turn they're played they can't attack, since they have to Prepare. Some Characters, including speedy ones, don't have that trait, but most do. In a general sense, the monsters will be in the single digits in terms of their stats: Attack and Health. Attack is how many points of damage they do to Characters or Heroes, while defense is how much they can take before they die and go to the discard pile. Actions, on the other hand, are like spells from Magic the Gathering or Yu-Gi-Oh!, and they can have lots of impacts. Basically they can encompass single-use actions (think Pot of Greed), Plans (which react to enemy actions like trap cards), and Weapons (which are equipped by the Hero and allow them to attack like a Character, with each weapon having a set number of attacks before it breaks).

Classification of characters is easy. Generally most Character cards would just be classified as Normal, but there is the possibility that they could fall into Tribes. This isn't like Types in Pokemon where it turns into boring rock-paper-scissors, it's more like a tag applied to the character. As a simple example, there could be the Contestant Tribe for Total Drama characters. To explain, I'll make an example card:

Island Supply Drop - 3 Energy

All Contestants currently in play receive +1/+1 (+1 attack and +1 health).

"Dude, I hope there are snacks in there!"

In this example, if the board is full of Contestants, you can power them all up simultaneously for a nice tempo swing. On the other hand, if you don't have the Contestants out, either because you didn't put enough in your deck or the enemy cleared them out too quickly, it's unuseful. That's the tradeoff for using Tribe cards: you get nice synergy effects in return for using cards that are otherwise sub-par.

As well, there are generally Keywords. While some special cards have particularly unique effects, Keywords are basic, common effects that can be given to a decent amount of cards. Things like Quick, where they'd be able to attack the turn they're summoned, or Tank, where enemy Characters and Heroes would have to attack them before attacking the Hero or other Characters.

There's a lot of big ideas being thrown around, which is great, but whoever's leading this should make sure that the game is turning into something that they want to do.
I'm also gonna rally for all cards being free to use in any deck- the categorizing thing seems to be giving a bigger headache than it's worth, and I'm sure we could brainstorm ideas for new card functions if ever need be. But once again I'm cool with categorizing if need be.

Categorizing could just be YGO attributes or something that only really matter for support card effects.

Yeah, I threw out what I did just to suggest something, but if I am being totally honest I think TCGs are outside the scope of Vitcon in terms of workload.

I don't Mind if you use my characters, I also Still have my Old Deck from the Previous Vitcards on my PC.