new/ hero/villain dice card game

How are the dice supposed to work now?

Red dice faces =

• Miss: Wasted dice roll
• Double Star: Double element (what is this???)
• Single Star: Single element (what is this???)
• Speech: Character Abilities
• Range 100: Range damage of 100 points
• Melee 100: Melee damage of 100 points

And you roll 5 or is it 6 of these dice Red dice???

Blue dice faces =

• Heart 100: Heals 100 damage points
• Shield 100: Blocks 100 damage points
• The others are like above (I guess)

Please clarify about some of those dice faces...

The "Star" is for your Heroes/Villains "ELEMENT"! And double is as if you had rolled two of them for some more powerful abilities, right?

Gotcha - sounds good. Have you had a chance to roll some dice and see how the probabilities work out?

I'm just wondering it might be simpler to have TWO "Stars" than both a single and double star...

But I guess you can iron that out rolling the dice to see what works better. So with 6 dice, you need (For a Fireball) 1 Range attack + 2 Stars out of 6 dice... Sounds reasonable.

I figure you can "swap" the element for another one that one of your bench characters may have. So Flame-Dude and Shower-Dude attacking at the same time combo-ing with different "elements".

Am I understanding correctly?

Why not introduce "Element"-dice per character. Your "standard" dice for attacking are 2 Melee, 2 Range, 1 Speech and 1 Miss (Blank). For the "defending" Player: 2 Shields, 2 Heart, 1 Speech and 1 Miss (Blank).

Each player gets 5 of these dice each.

BUT to this you ADD an "Element"-dice for characters: Like RED for "Fire" element but instead of the "symbol", use pips (like on Standard dice) - but have 1, 2 or 3 as values and the rest Miss (Blank)... Each "Element"-dice can be balanced DIFFERENTLY.

Like "Nature" (Green) could have values 1, 2, 3 or 4, and 2 Miss (Blank). Meaning the odds for "powerful" combo are "HIGHER".

I'm just thinking about VARIABILITY and "replay-value"... Something you can think about. I'm not sure this is a sure-fire (pun intended! LOL) way to make your game "expandable" with NEW dice + Characters.

Just a thought! Cheers...

Note: With 4 successful values instead of only 3, the "Nature" characters could have WEAKER "Power-Attacks" but they may occur more often. Or the characters may have LESS "Health" and therefore do more damage to protect themselves. As they say: "The BEST Defense is having the BEST Offense!" Something along those lines.

We are not "telling" what Jedite1000 should do... We are only suggesting avenues he may want to explore. My response to Jedite1000 message was this: He said he thought about having Element dice... But said that would be too many dice...

So I suggested instead of adding TOO MANY dice... Just add ONE (1) per character -- and make it custom to the Superhero.

I think it's because you don't understand what this "Forum" stands for. It's a way people can exchange ideas and help one another out. And just because a thread has been hot doesn't mean every one should STOP posting on it... On the contrary!

It is you who doesn't understand what sharing ideas and collaborating (who cares if we don't get any credit...) Jedite1000 will remember the contributions of the various designers that shared their opinions, offered up examples of other solutions and worked together to help refine and refactor his design.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. It is you who are in the wrong. You do not understand what "cooperation" and "collaboration" mean. We don't want to ban you, perhaps you'll learn something (IDK how - who taught you to be so guarded and at the same time say whatever you think without consideration for others)...

If you don't like what you read in a thread, you may choose to IGNORE it. It maybe has nothing to do with you... So please stop telling everyone else what it is THEY should be doing. This forum is an open place for the exchange of ideas and should inspire "collaboration". And to be honest, we don't get many threads like Jedite1000 ... because most people are either afraid to share their design or to collaborate with other designers.

I'm sorry Tucker -- but it is YOU who are in the wrong.

I'm disappointed that your parents, relatives, teachers, etc. have not taught you how to "collaborate" and "share ideas" and work WITH people... That is what this forum is about. It is also a place to post questions and ask for alternate solutions, and generally a place to HELP one another.

Sincerely,

Kristopher
Aka QuestCCG
"Indie" Game Designer
BGDF Moderator - Publisher List

Yes Tucker you are a 9 year old Game Designer. Bravo! Wonder how good your grades are in school... Which in your case is "Back to School" and very soon.

Please don't bother the other adults with your "banter".

If you want to post about Game Design -- Feel free. Otherwise stop bothering everyone with your useless and offensive comments.

Thank you,

Kristopher
Aka QuestCCG
"Indie" Game Designer
BGDF Moderator - Publisher List

If I understand this correctly, that could be a lot of dice.
You need one copy of the element die for each character of that element who could be active at a time. Suppose that each element has three heroes and three villains associated with it... six of each element die across nine elements. It's a neat idea, but could get expensive to include so many dice.

Now if each element has two colors distributed somewhat carefully, including four of each color might work (two per player, with some scarcity to force variety). Still quite a few dice, but not as many and it creates some relationships between elements.

That was uncalled for. That's unprofessional. I'm not 9. Do not call what I think banter. You've crossed the line. You think he has too many Dice. Not anyone else.

I do know what is wrong. I do have good parents! I do have good teachers. I do have a good mentor. Just because I'm in school doesn't make me any less of a game designer. I have designed two successful games so far and I intend on making more.

Oh! And one more clarification, you still make me sick.

questccg,

Last I recall, there can be up to two active characters, but any character that ever took an action is face-up and could be targeted. So if each character is going to have a personal die in addition to the common dice pool, that means up to one die per character on a team, in enough different flavors to cover all the elements.

Reducing the set of colors would help here (for example, fire gets to pick red or yellow, and another element or two use red, and another element or two use yellow), but still a lot.

I've seen the sticker dice in prototypes, but I was thinking of this:

https://www.thegamecrafter.com/publish/product/CustomAcrylicD6

Except I don't see a list of available colors.

So the choices for sticker-dice bodies are black, blue, dark blue, dark gray, dark red, fresh green, green, ivory, light blue, orange, purple, red, turquoise, white, yellow, and "yellow ma" (whatever that is). There are some discontinued colors listed, but I'd avoid those if the plan is for ongoing manufacturing on their platform.

Okay so they may be a little daunting at first but these are the five (5) RPS-3 for an RPS-5:

RPS-3	Sticker Color
Red -> Green -> Blue -> Red	White
Red -> White -> Blue -> Red	Black
Red -> White -> Black -> Red	Green
White -> Black -> Green -> White	Blue
Black -> Green -> Blue -> Black	Red

And this will give you out of all the elements, 5 DISTINCT elements and you can "mix & match" the colors. I know it's "convoluted" but it works.

Here's are some SAMPLES:

Sample #1:

Red + White
White + Black
Black + Green
Green + Blue
Blue + Red

Sample #2:

Green + White
White + Black
Red + Green
Black + Blue
Blue + Red

Basically you choose one (1) of three colors and to match with the Sticker Color... And then you continue matching and choosing to create a unique combination of Heroes/Villains.

Cheers!

I'm not sure how helpful the "cross" diagram is, since it doesn't really get at the relationships between the various elements. A pentagram makes it easier to illustrate the relationships.

There is one famous RPS-5 out there:

Assigning colors,

• BLACK is Rock
• BLUE is Spock
• GREEN is Lizard
• RED is Scissors
• WHITE is Paper