Cross-post from BGG:
www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1008395/
I've been working on a deckbuilding spelling game (Scrabble runs into Ascension in a dark alley, there's a scuffle) for a couple of years ago, so imagine my disappointment when Paperback was launched on Kickstarter a few weeks ago. Doubly disappointing was how fun it looked!
But I think there are enough differences between that game and my game, Dexikon, that it's worth pushing ahead. And now that Paperback's run on Kickstarter has finished, I can post details without feeling like a spiteful saboteur!
Here is the current rulebook for the game, as well as a gallery file showing all of the cards. I'll be releasing a PnP playtest version with correct numbers and proportions of cards and/or sending playtesters printed copies some time in the future.
www.scatteredfleet.com/data/dexikon_rulebook_v3_0.pdf
www.scatteredfleet.com/data/dexikon_gallery_lowres.pdf
For now I'd really like some feedback on the readability and intuitiveness of the rulebook and the game in general. Any other comments are also very welcome!
I'm very aware that the rulebook needs more pictures, so it would be wonderful to be told what things people are having the most difficulty understanding - then I can tailor the images to help express those concepts.
Cheers!
Note - feedback on BGG has already exposed that I missed a pretty major rule out of the rulebook:
In addition to the face-down pool stack and a six card face-up pool mentioned in the rules, there should be a face-up 'returns' pile. Returned cards should go to the returns stack. In addition, before buying cards, a player can chose to move the entire pool into the returns pile, then restock the pool. After buying cards, the pool is restocked at the end of the turn.
The rulebook link has now been updated, and the document now contains all the rules necessary to play the game (!)
If anybody has any feedback about aspects of the rules that would especially benefit from having an image to reinforce rules, I'd really appreciate it. It's quite difficult at this point to step back and evaluate these things objectively now.