Warriors of Myth Freeform "Card Game"

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Hey, I was thinking about the Warriors of Myth RP just today. I thought, it's a shame that the original Warriors of Myth RP kinda faded away, and I wished there was some way to resurrect the fun of playing with mythical creatures (even before the new Warriors of Myth RP is fleshed out). And so, I thought of this game. Rather than use a character in an RP (which requires some narration outside of the game), you could just use a group of characters in a true game-like setting.

In particular, a simulated card game. I say card game, so you know that the chosen characters are not alive (we're not battling them like Pokemon; think more like Yu-Gi-Oh).

Anyhow, it would basically work like this.

1. Choose a number of cards. These will be based on various aspects of myth. You only get a certain number of cards. I don't know exactly how many cards I want to settle on yet, but it's between ten and twenty cards in all. And your deck should be a mix of all five types of card.
---Some will be mythical, legendary or folkloric creatures (Bigfoot, Manticore, Dragon, Aliens, etc)
---Some will be tools/weapons/items (Witch's Broom, Magic/Flying Carpet, Eye of Newt, etc)
---Some will be places/locations (Atlantis, The Realm of the Djinni, Cimmeria, Mummy's Tomb, etc)
---Some will be trap cards (a bear trap, a pit trap, even a surprise location change; e.g. putting the foe in some immediate disadvantage, like a sea serpent in a desert)
---Some will be magic/spell cards (Transmutation, Love Spell, Siren's Song, Lotus Bloom potion, etc)

2. Design the stats of your cards. FAIRLY.
---Each card has to state what kind it is (Creature/Being/Race, Object, Place, etc. even if it is obvious)
---For Creature/Being/Race or Tool//Weapon/Item cards, you must state how many health points (HP) it has. We can go by Pokemon stats with these. Lowest is 10 HP and highest goes into 255 HP.

3. First one to 0 total HP loses; most HP points you can have to start is 5000
---When two HP cards (item and/or creature) go against one another, subtract the lowest HP number from the highest HP number.
-----The number you get from that, is halved to get the number of damage that the higher-HP does to the lower HP. (For example 120-80= 40; 40 divided by 2 = 20 points of damage)
-----The lower-HP card does 5 less points than that (From the above example, 120-80=40; 40 divided by 2= 20 points of damage, minus five is 15 points of damage)

More rules to come, but these are to start. Let me know any questions, comments and concerns. And let me know if you're interested. And if you are, look at the link below to get some ideas for creatures.

http://warriorsofmyth.wikia.com/wiki/Warriors_Of_Myth_Wiki

[Zaleramancer]

Cards you say?

[Philote]

How would this work over a forum?

[Zaleramancer]

You should probably include a mechanic for making weaker monsters/items easier to use than stronger ones.

A zombie should be easier to place/summon than a Vampire or a Mummy.

[Zaleramancer]

Also, wouldn't it be simpler for each creature card to have an attack value and a health value, and simply have the attacker lower the defender's healthy by it's attack value, and then have the opponent take half damage?

EX:

A creature with 10 attack and 10 hp attacks a monster with 10 attack and 20 hp. The defending monster's health is decreased to 10, and player controlling it takes 5 damage.

If the creature's hp is reduced to 0, then it gets scooted into a graveyard. If you have no creatures/traps/defenses, you can be attacked directly and receive damage equal to the attack value.

If the same creature (10 attack, 10 hp) attacks you directly, you receive 10 damage.

This would more or less make creatures the main defense between you and your opponent. Items could enhance various critters (Like a holy sword would boost attack value vs demons/undead), lands could change the playing field and offer certain bonuses (Like a castle wall acting as a 200 hp object protecting you from being hit directly), spells would focus more on changing things up than on blowing things up (Siren's Song making all the male creatures stand there stupidly)

Of course, each mythical being would have it's own special abilities, like a Gorgon being able to petrify. I suppose anything that required an active effort would expend their chance to attack that turn (So if a Gorgon petrifies a card, then the gorogn will be unable to attack that turn).

Just food for thought.

I plan on helping you with this.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Indeed.

[Zaleramancer]

Simple.

Mark each card in your deck with a number (1-whatever the max number of cards is)

Then we get a ref to use a random number generator to determine what card we draw each round.

[Zaleramancer]

<script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function RandomNumber(upper_limit) { return Math.round(upper_limit * Math.random()); } //--> </script> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- var upper_limit = 21; document.write('Here is a random number between 0 and ' + upper_limit + ':<P><center>'); document.write(RandomNumber(upper_limit) + '</center>'); //--> </script>

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Exactly what I wanted to discuss. You keep track of the cards you use in a separate place. Word document, whatever.

You can change up what creatures, etc you use, but 1) they must be an existing part of myth, legend or folklore, 2) they get AT most two moves/abilities (you can have one or two), 3) you must stick with whatever your deck is at that time.

Say for example, in reference to rule #3 you chose:

Orc (fire element)
Goblin (fire element)
Salamander (fire element)
Ifrit (fire element)
Kitsune (fire element)
Fire Giant (fire element)
Imp (fire element)
Phoenix (fire element)
etc.

Because you know a certain foe uses all plant type cards.

Now, when the plant-type card player gets the first move (we do a number guessing thing, 1-50, to determine turns), just don't complain when he uses his move to set the playing field to a watery swamp land and decides to shake it up with a Creature from the Black Lagoon, with 115 HP.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Yes, I intend on working on the mechanics over the next few days. I think this could work with great results.

[Zaleramancer]

Once we've meshed out the mechanics, I can start churning out cards.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Yeah, I was doing the attack damage thing fairly quickly. My brain thinks of weird stuff when I'm in a rush.

And your help is SO totally welcome. I can use as much input as I can get. This one has such great potential, and it'll be its best with help from more than one perspective.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Oh, and here's another thing.

I think you can help with how the cards come out, but if the players want, they can also make up their own cards (and submit them to you or I for acceptance or critique).

[Zaleramancer]

My brain has already conducted a few promising combos.

Siren + Amazons. All your opponents male creatures derp out, and your amazons are unaffected.

[Zaleramancer]

My brother had a phase where he loved Yu-Gi-Oh cards.

We have a ton of them.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Exactly. That's why this is so exciting for me. And equipping the Siren with a longbow? On an island, or in a jungle? A deadly duo.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 That's perfect. I need somebody with this kinda interest.

[Zaleramancer]

Also: Here's a card maker. 

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Yeah, I like that. Very nice.

[Zaleramancer]

Of course, how would we manage the elements?