LET'S TALK ABOUT CARDS, GUYS.

Questions or requests for clarification are likely necessary. Ask away!

I was plannin' a game out on paper, when I got to thinkin' "Maybe I don't have to design all of these decks myself!

So I figured I'd ask you guys for enemy setups.

THE STATS

HP is, well HP. Ranges from 400 to 9999 for the PC.
MP is weird in this. You get all of it each turn. You keep going until you run out of cards or you run out of MP. The MP cost for a single card is listed as "Normal MP". Combos add up the "Combo MP" of all of their components, and use that as the MP cost. Ranges 50-130 for the PC.
ST increases base physical damage by 15 for every point. Ranges 10-99 for the PC.
DF reduces both incoming physical and magical damage by 10 for every point. Ranges 10-99 for the PC.
MG increases base magical damage by 15 for every point. Ranges 10-99 for the PC.
Hand is how many cards a player gets for their turn. Their hand is refilled to this and their turn's start. Ranges 5 to 7 for the PC.

9 BASIC CARDS

NOTE: Cards, when used, are shuffled back into the deck. In no way can cards be lost for a battle or some such.

Deals low physical damage to opponent. Combos to make physical/elemental attacks.
Deals low fire damage to the opponent. Combos for increased damage or resistance manipulation.
Deals low air damage to the opponent. Combos for increased damage or resistance manipulation.
Deals low water damage to the opponent. Combos for increased damage or resistance manipulation.
Deals low earth damage to the opponent. Combos for increased damage or resistance manipulation.
Deals 30 times the caster's level in light damage to one foe. Combos for 50 damage per level or to create statistic buffs.
Deals 30 times the caster's level in dark damage to one foe. Combos for 50 damage per level or to create statistic debuffs.
Restores the caster's HP by one half of their maximum. Combos for full healing.
Reveals the enemy's HP for five turns. Combos for physical or magical charge-ups or to scan all of an enemy's parameters.

34 COMBO SPELLS

ATTACK COMBOS

Force Blade - Deals medium (double) physical damage to the opponent.
Burning Edge - Deals low physical damage to the opponent, mitigated by fire resistance.
Gale Edge - Deals low physical damage to the opponent, mitigated by air resistance.
Liquid Edge - Deals low physical damage to the opponent, mitigated by water resistance.
Stone Edge - Deals low physical damage to the opponent, mitigated by earth resistance.
Vampire - Deals low physical damage to the opponent, healing the user for the same amount.

FIRE COMBOS

Exuroyte - Deals heavy (triple) fire damage to the opponent.
Barrier Red - Increases the caster's elemental resistance to fire magic by one level. (Drain -> Block -> Half -> Normal -> Weak)
Fire Conduct - Reduces the opponent's elemental resistance to fire magic by one level. (Drain -> Block -> Half -> Normal -> Weak)
Brave Gather - Fills as many of the caster's empty hand slots as possible with Attack cards.

AIR COMBOS

Ventyte Barrier Green Air Conduct
Draw - Fills as many of the caster's empty hand slots as possible with randomly drawn cards.

WATER COMBOS

Aquyte Barrier Blue WaterConduct
Cleanse - Purges both the caster and the opponent of all statistic buffs and debuffs.

EARTH COMBOS

Terryte Barrier Brown EarthConduct
Discard - Shuffles the caster's entire hand into their deck, ending their turn.

LIGHT COMBOS

Attaugeo - Increases the caster's physical damage output by 50% for three turns.
Defaugeo - Reduces damage taken by the caster by 25% for three turns.
Magaugeo - Increases the caster's magical damage output by 50% for three turns.
Luxirane - Deals 50 times the caster's level in light damage to the opponent.

DARK COMBOS

Attarto - Decreases the opponent's physical damage output by 50% for three turns.
Defarto - Increases damage taken by the opponent by 25% for three turns.
Magarto - Decreases the opponent's magical damage output by 50% for three turns.
Atrarane - Deals 50 times the caster's level in darkdamage to the opponent.

HEALING COMBOS

Sanodram - Fully restores the caster's HP.

DECK COMBOS

Strezone - Doubles the base damage of the caster's next physical attack.
Magizone - Doubles the base damage of the caster's next magical attack.
Alumnyte - Scans all of the opponents' parameters.

ESTABLISHED TRIPLE COMBOS

Triple combos are boss territory. Usually only one or two are employed. Any more can make decks rather random.


Crusader - Deals heavy phys damage to the opponent.
Supercharger - Grants the caster all -augeo effects for three turns.
Cripple - Inflicts the opponent with all -arto effects for three turns.
Poison - Inflicts the opponent with a toxin that saps 10% of their maximum HP in damage at the start of their turn. It lasts until their HP has been reduced below 25%. It cannot kill. Cancels with Regen.
Regen - Grants the caster an aura that restores 10% of their maximum HP at the start of their turn. It lasts until all HP is restored in this fashion. Cancels with Poison.
Veneficus - Deals heavy non-elemental damage to the opponent.
Wrath - Deals damage to the opponent equal to 1/2 of the HP the caster has lost.

AUTO-ABILITIES

HP +500/+1000/+2000, MP +10/+20/+30, ST/DF/MG +3/+6/+10, Auto-Attaugeo/Defaugeo/Magaugeo - Exactly what they say. Stackable.
Hand Plus - Increases the user's maximum hand size. Stackable up to +2.
<Element> Boost - Increases outgoing <element> damage by 25%. Does not stack.
Resist <element> - Halves incoming <element> damage. Doesn't stack.
Nul <element> - Prevents incoming <element> damage. Doesn't stack.
Pierce - 25% chance to ignore DF when dealing damage. Doesn't stack.
Chainstrike - 25% chance of striking a second time when dealing physical damage. Doesn't stack.
Chainmagic - 25% chance of striking a second time when dealing magic damage. Doesn't stack.
Sharp Eye - Grants a 15% chance of scoring a critical hit, as opposed to the normal 5%. Doesn't stack.
Sensor - Enemy HP is always visible. Doesn't stack.
Santuary - Halves all damage taken by both combatants. Doesn't stack.
Battlefield - Increases all damage dealt by either combatant by 50%. Doesn't stack.
XP Turbo - Increases XP earned by 25%. Stacks.
Nobleman - Combatants my not deal damage on their first turns. (Becomes Noblewoman on females.)
Ambush - Damage dealt on a combatant's first turn is doubled.
Endure - The user cannot be killed unless they have exactly 1 HP remaining.
Evasion - The user has a 5% chance of evading damage from the opponent's physical, fire, water, air, or earth attacks.
Dodge <element> - The user has a 15% chance of evading damage from the listed element.
Poison Boost - Increases Poison damage by 10% of the victim's maximum HP.

Channeling Increase MP consumption by 10 in order to deal 150% damage.
SOS-Att/Def/Mag - Generates a constant Attaugeo/Defaugeo/Magaugeo effect when HP is below half.
Vigor Aura - Grants both combatants a constant Regen effect.
Venom Aura - Grants both combatants a constants Poison effect.
Vorpal Edge - The user's critical hits deal triple damage instead of double.
Studious - The opponent's critical hits become misses instead.
Weakness Boost - Damage dealt to weaknesses increases from double to triple.
Resist Weakness - Damage dealt to the user's weakness is multiplied by 150% instead of doubled.
Drain Touch - Grants the user a 10% chance of draining damage dealt to the opponent.
Hell - All healing effects are halved.
Counter - 25% to deal a low physical attack to the opponent when struck physically.
Synch - Applying a buff or debuff to one combatant affects both.
Resist Resistance - Ignore the opponent's Drain- or Block-level resistances.

Player Suggestion - This auto-ability made it to the list because the person who though it up wasn't a retard.



YOUR JOB (not legally binding in any way)

I want YOU to ponder these stats for a while. Then, suggest either a:

General Strategy. This consists of what cards are used, and what combos are made, for the given strategy.
"This guy uses Lux and Sano cards. His combos are Luxirane, Sanodram, and Defaugeo."
Or, you can suggest a...

Detailed Strategy This consists of what cards used and their quantity, totaling a 25-card deck; Combos used and their reasoning, up to six auto-abilities (preferably two or three - more denotes a boss/rare monster); and preferred statistics and their reasoning.
"This guy runs 12 Lux, 13 Sano. He combos Luxirane for offense and Sanodram/Defaugeo to keep himself alive. His A-Abilities are Light Boost, Nobleman, and Sharp Eye. He favors HP and DF, since Lux requires neither AT nor MG."

The latter. I don't have that kind of money.

It will be a full-blown RPG in a tribal setting. These cards are the meat and bones of the battle system.

Now, show us your decks.

post=97638
This looks like a very cool system.

I assume this is 1vs1 fights? If there's more than one PC/enemy, it's going to alter what makes sense.

Also, can you have higher stats without the auto-abilities as an NPC? Not that I actually need an answer to that to design a deck, just curious.

Also, Sano looks too strong, unless a lot of decks are going to have one-turn kill combos, in which case, the game doesn't seem like it'll work that well.

Yes, all fights are mano y mano.

There's leveling and stat progression, just like any other RPG. So higher stats are easily possible simply through higher levels.

Sano? It's rather expensive, if you notice - 40 of your 50 initial MP. Early on, it's a panic button to get yourself out of big damage. Later, it's pretty much required that you use it, a DF buff, AT reduction. or some other form of damage mitigation, along with keeping up your offense. Besides, it's not like any of these numbers are set in stone or some such.

At the risk of starting a shitstorm, I'm not really concerned about colors and this point. I posted this to help seed out the prisonrape combos and get some balancing info before I started designing the game's flow, etc.

That said, people, post some god damn decks so I can collect some god damn info. :(

post=97699
Abilities: Sanctuary, Hand Size +2

Sano x 13, Attack x17
Combos: Sanodram, Stone Edge, Vampire
-stuffz-

I like it. Other than the issue of five cards too many for a deck and the lack of Terra to make Stone Edge, Of course. I'd picture ST and MP being the key stats here?

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post=97699
If healing isn't good enough to completely cancel an attack of equal MP/card investment, it's going to be useless, and if it is, it's essentially going to be unbeatable in large enough quantities against equal stat opponents.

I'd suggest slowly scaling up damage as the battle goes along or having healing be less effective each time used.

That's what I was thinking, yes. The idea was for players to hold Sano cards back in their hands until they were needed, at the cost of having a hand space taken by a card with no immediate use.

I'll probably fiddle with the numbers a bunch over the course of the project. This is all very preliminary.