LNH: Looniverse Fight Chronicles Trading Card Game #0: Designer's Notes
Drew Nilium
pwerdna at gmail.com
Wed Sep 13 20:19:13 PDT 2023
On 9/13/23 3:08 PM, Scott Eiler wrote:
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> In the 1990s I came up with a functioning card game for my own characters:
> Omniverse the Card Game. Early solitaire playtesting had stuff like monsters
> getting sent to Hell, then catching a ride out on a passing spaceship, while the
> Happy Bears got recruited for a crusade.
:D Love it
> About five years ago I revisited the game, and put in a "House Player" for
> solitaire play. That playtest came down to Total Conversion (representing the
> Playtester, if I remember correctly) vs. Evil Wyatt Ferguson (House Player)
> during an omniversal merge. That confrontation was equalized when Evil Wyatt
> drew a Solar Flare Cannon card. Fortunately he was evil, so he could use it, and
> House Player rules said he had to. Unfortunately, the cannon tends to blow up
> the entire Earth if anything goes wrong - and it did. With all the Earths
> having merged, *everything* blew up and the player characters all ended up in
> Limbo. Game victory went to a couple of devil priests from a dystopian world,
> because they had at least escaped their world. 8{D>
Now that's what I call quality marriage of mechanics and flavor. n.n
> ... Anyway, here in the modern age, if you ever come up with rules for your
> game, you could probably hold a Zoom meeting and find some real playtesters. 8{D>
Hell yeah n.n
Drew "absolutely ridiculous" Nilium
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