Most sets come with a generous supply of blanks, and if you don't have any there's always a good way to make do. If remembering the card instructions is a problem, set one aside and use one extra blank.
Do the Allies split piles have 56 cards in them?
While i'm not on Discord i could help. I'm curious on the data format - why a database and not a spreadsheet?
I already have a spreadsheet with some 322 cards, that are not mine, and another 160 of my own. My columns are: Name, Object (C = card, M = mat, H = Horizontal), Designer (i used user names from this site), Made Date, Quantity (which is important for printing purposes and filtering the data), URL, Card Type, Special. Special houses some particular data like: if overpay is present, if its part of a split pile (to link those cards), or if its "Not in the Supply".
They look good, but they'd look even better without the text!
If playing with veterans of the game you could remove the text entirely, just keep the border info. That would look cool. And you get to play a game that's completely unfathomable to the uninitiated.
I had a card idea and as a way to mitigate its effect, I thought i should put it as the bottom part of a split pile.
Randomizer: Silver Thief/Gold Thief: This pile starts the game with one plus one per player copies of each card. All copies of Silver Thief are on top.
Silver Thief ($4, Action-Attack): Each other player trashes a Silver or reveals a hand with no Silver. You may gain one Silver from the Trash to your hand. At Clean-up if you gained no Silver this turn, trash two Silvers from the Supply.
Gold Thief ($7, Action-Attack): Each other player trashes a Gold or reveals a hand with no Gold. You may gain one Gold from the Trash to your hand. At Clean-up if you gained no Gold this turn, trash two Golds from the Supply.
This attacks players, robbing them of their Treasures. If it was unsuccessful, it preloads the Trash for future gaining to keep the failure likelihood low.
I don't know if the victory point is worth it being trashed on the first play. I feel like the effect should be more or the cost less.The main perk is not the, but the trashing clause itself. Sometimes, you want to hit
, but do not wish to keep the Silver that got you there. Recycled Goods is just that: A Silver that does not linger in your deck. And it's mostly better than keeping a subpar stop card.
Recycled Goods can copy Duchess’s “In games using this” wording. It also doesn’t need the Reaction type because the contents of the trash are common knowledge.True that it could use Duchess' wording, but that would add a 4th line of text, shrinking the font. I think the current version is a good compromise between readability and ease of understanding. The only reason why it's blue is to draw attention to the fact that it can be gained from the trash. Same as Patron; that card is uselessly coloured in blue, yet it still is since Donald X. figured that players could benefit from the extra tell.
Yeah, but the trashing is forced. Spending $3 to hit $5 once maybe isn't great. Stop cards aren't great either, but I feel like this is extending that line of thinking too far. There is a point you want a silver, and that point lasts longer than once during the third/fourth turn.
He's playtested it a fair bit, including with me, and it hasn't seemed underpowered so far. Keep in mind that the non-one-shot version is not only a
I don't know if the victory point is worth it being trashed on the first play. I feel like the effect should be more or the cost less.The main perk is not theRecycled Goods can copy Duchess’s “In games using this” wording. It also doesn’t need the Reaction type because the contents of the trash are common knowledge.True that it could use Duchess' wording, but that would add a 4th line of text, shrinking the font. I think the current version is a good compromise between readability and ease of understanding. The only reason why it's blue is to draw attention to the fact that it can be gained from the trash. Same as Patron; that card is uselessly coloured in blue, yet it still is since Donald X. figured that players could benefit from the extra tell.
This was actually a 3-cost. I let my feelings during playtesting get ahead of my common sense. I'll change it back.Clockwork Steed looks bad compared to Caravan,being a twice delayed Lab.It's also vulnerable to handsize attacks in a way Caravan is not.
I think playtesting supersedes vague comparisons to other cards. Seems more like a 4 cost anyways considering that two are like a hireling.
This was actually a 3-cost. I let my feelings during playtesting get ahead of my common sense. I'll change it back.Clockwork Steed looks bad compared to Caravan,being a twice delayed Lab.It's also vulnerable to handsize attacks in a way Caravan is not.
11/12/2022 - Added 19 more cards, deleted Hidden Village.
My favorite card is possession
Have you considered doing something like Visit/Relative?
oh. uh...FWIW, this is what this would look like on an actual card (not the right triple-color scheme):QuoteIcy VentureA Venture that can't hit copies of itself. (not sure about the best wording).
$5 - Treasure - Duration
+$2
Reveal cards from your deck until you reveal an Action or Treasure. Discard the other revealed cards. If you revealed a Treasure, play it. Otherwise, set it aside and play it at the start of your next turn.
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When you reveal this, set it aside, and keep revealing cards as if you hadn't revealed it, then discard this when the current card is resolved.
Which satisfies the "fine print" of the contest, but I think it would be good to look into ways in which you can reduce the amount of text needed.
I guess that's the problem with not mocking up cards is I never realize how wordy they turn out to be.
If I think of a better version (or something else), I'll update it. If not, well, I probably won't win.
(Also, I keep thinking up concepts that seem simple in my head but take a lot of words to write out.)
It's jealous of other cards you get
I couldn't avoid the temptation of making my own replacement for Pearl Diver. Intrigue already had a Kingdom treasure (Harem), and Seaside could have one.
Pearl
$2 - Treasure
$1
Look at the bottom card of your deck. You may put it into your hand.
Fishing a Treasure is the best, and fishing a Victory card is OK. For Actions, it depends: unblocking for the next Pearl might be beneficial
