A ONE player role playing fantasy adventure card game

I think one player games are a vast, untapped wilderness. Looking forward to seeing how this develops.

Hi Jack,

I'm not a card game person, I am a Chess game person,
having said that, I went to your site and found it very
fascinating.

You know like when you watch a documentary about something
your not into but still enjoy the show anyway?
That is what your site did for me.

Like you, I like the same genre, fantasy sword and sorcery,
I like GAME BOOKS, you know the choose your own adventure
ones, but I dislike it when I have to do more than just flip pages.

Like you said, I don't want to keep track of stuff, calculate, etc.

So what about a card game where you use the cards to read
a paragraph like a GAME BOOK, and choose your own destiny,
and the cards also become your stats and items.
How much life do I have left? Just look at how many life cards
I have left. What about dice? Just shuffle the dice cards and pick
one out randomly :) everything is done in cards.

Regarding One player games: Isn't that why they made computer games?

Just a thought.
-Darke

Card Game idea so far...

you play a hero protrayed by a hero card.

You go enter a Maze of death to get a magical artifact
to prove that you indeed went into the maze and came out
alive.
(the maze was created by an evil wizard who after his death
didn't want his magical items to be stolen, it's like his tomb.)

The Maze is portrayed by cards of course.

3 stacks to choose from.

stack A, B, and C.
Each card asks you a question, and offers several answers to
choose from.

You see a statue to your left WDYD (what do you do)?
1) walk around it
2) closely examine it
3) kick it in the nuts

and then when you choose your decision, you flip the card and
on the back it say which answer draws from which pile.

If you choose 1) then draw a card from stack B.

Stack A consists of tons of exploration, and you will progress
in the maze with this one.

Stack B consists of tons of fighting.

Stack C is when you make a bad choice. It is the dreaded stack.

To beat the game fast, you need to go through BOTH stack A & B.

Battle is like I said before VERY simple "War" method, just
look at the battle points, the higher one wins.
If you win, you keep the monster card and add his points to yours.
That is your level up.

For those who just keep on choosing answers that will "most likely"
lead to stack B and just fight like crazy and collecting
monster cards, after the 10th battle you will face a BOSS.
And to beat the boss, you NEED some weapons/items.
To get those, you MUST go through other stacks like A and C.

Like wise, if you just looking for items and travel in Stack A,
after the 10th card, you WILL face a BOSS and you need to have
fought some monsters to increase your level.

OK that is what I have so far, and probably won't work on it
anymore cause like I said other fish to fry at this point.
But I hope it sounds good!!!

Inspired by your solitare CCG and those choose your adventure
books! So far I really like it, I hope you do too!!!!
Please give me comments!

I agree, and want to go further and say that I think most
solitaire games can be played as 2 player games (just take turns)

where as to most 2 player games cannot be played solitaire.

Maybe one of the problem is that it will not have a 'continuing' story (from card to card) like game book (because every card is a small part of the story, on it's own, then it is shuffled at the beginning of the game), so maybe if there's a way to link the cards with each other, it will be better (ie after I pull the blue handle here in this card, the next time I face the closed blue door, it will be open), or something like that. So there will be a real story there :) (but I still not sure how it works, just a thought).

Then, what if the player remember all the 'right' answer of the cards ? He will win easily.

That's some comment from the cool idea :)

Looking forward for the next version of your game

Hey Jack thanx for your reply,
and you really hit the main issues about this game.
I struggled with those Qs the most.
So I had to revert back to simplicity and say No true story,
just a Maze.
No continuity between the cards. Each card I draw is a room, monster
or item. You go from room to room. So that is how I took care of that.

What if they memorize the cards? Then they master the game hehehe!
I guess that is why it is a CCG, they need to get more cards.

As far as 3 decks, because it is my lil attempt to make it more
strategy than random.
However you can't always know what choice will make you draw
from which stack.

The appeal:
solitaire (from you)
all you need are the cards (from you)
qualities of a game book
but not as much to read (depending on your preference, good/bad)
expandable (CCG)

Hey Dete,
Are you sure you want a CCG? Why not sell it as a stand alone (prepackaged 30-40 card decks, maybe 2-3 different ones to start) and then every couple of months put out an expansion of like 15 cards or so that people could add to their decks if wanted. I guess when I think of a CCG I think of a 300+ card base set w/ 120 or so new cards coming out every 3 months. that's a crazy amount of work. As far as producing the cards, find a program you own and use clip art galleries for the art (when legally available obviousy), that part wouldn't really be that hard I think, the big thing would be to figure out how many cards you want to put out how often.... Oh, you're a Dallas / Texas guy, you going to BGG con in Nov? I just found out I can go but I want to find folks to split hotel costs with...... just wondering

De nada on the reply. As far as the BGG con, if you go to boardgamegeek.com in their news section they have all of the info. 4 days long and the hotel is 99 a night, hence the splitting of cost. I understand how life is.... mine has been crazy but should start slowing down again in Sept, I hope. No smoker here... =)

The link isn't working. For me at least.

Seo

I think the third, but the title from the first.

It's funny how any time you make a few drafts and ask "which one you like?", people always answer "a combination of this and that."

Seo

Really nice artwork dede, I had some time to spare last night and I colored/retouched it. It was fun!

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