Back again asking for a name

Racer and Droid Lover are VERY cool. I'm still leaning more "Look Sir, Droids" and one called 256 megabytes which seems to have Memory-Holed off DaFont. Good thing I snagged it!

And dammit...Osmeo is just perfect. Sigh.

As killer as Osomoe is, I wonder if I could get something more earthy sounding. The game itself doesn't have a science bend, per se, and as I'm shooting for a broad-based appeal, I like names like "chess" or even "Backgammon" that have that "this game's been around forever" feel to them or how the GIPF games are only referring to themselves when you think Dvonn and Yinsh.

Who likes "Sklorb?"

Maybe Flum?

Lazzem?

Eh.

Maybe I should've just used mosiodoter. Or plunker. Plunker's kind of cool.

How about, to completely circle back, "Mobae?" I LIKE that one. "Mobae." No reference to anything, really, and still looks at the very good suggestions here...

Hey, Briz and Torko sound pretty Kick-Ass. They could be Mobeo expansions.

OK.

I'm getting mark 1.0 of the rules ready now. If the contribs from this thread use Google Docs, please PM me your email and I'll share the PDF with you as soon as it's ready.

Here's the next part (which will make a little more sense when you read the rules). The basic thing is that you roll movement for the pawns on your team. However, in order to score with "Pay Cards" you might need other people's pawns near you (in an adjacent hex) or with you (in the same hex as you). Enter "Move Cards." Nothing too fancy, and all cards are playable on your turn only...at least in the initial roll-out. Most "art" will be Wingdings 1-3's various and sundry arrows and zipzorps or stuff I can get from CLkER.com.

Here are the move cards I have right now:
Pull (move a pawn 1 Zone closer to your pawn),
Push (move any pawn 1 Zone further from your Pawn)
Warp (put any Pawn on the board With your Pawn)
Scatter (After your pay card, all Pawns in this Zone are placed in other Zones)
Blast (After your Pay Card, all Near pawns are placed 2 Zones away from their current Zone)
Edge (Move target With or Near Pawn to any edge of the Board)

ANY additions to these cards are welcome after having a look at the rules. I figure I want maybe 10 types of move cards, but they should be as simple for movements as possible.

My deck will have Pay Cards (for scoring), Move Cards (as above) and Proxy Cards (usable as a stand-in for a required Pawn on a Pay Card). Proxies, being pretty powerful, are the ones I want the least of. If I was doing 100 cards, it'd be like 50 Moves, 35 pays, and 15 Proxies. I don't have a deck count in mind, and for moves/Pays want them to be pretty accessable but also easily shuffled/randomized.

For playtest, I'm beating the tar out of Word and OpenOffice as well as the grids from http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/hexagonal/. The other stuff is something most gamers have around or can get easily: winks, glass stones, pawns or similar, d6, and d8. Once ready, the Google Doc PDF area will have a 4-sheet board, rules, tracking cards, and game cards to print and play with.

Let's get it on!

That's my hope. I want to playtest the hell out of a load of the move cards and then maybe cull them a little. If this takes off-- which, hey, weirder things have happened-- I can always keep unused ones in my pocket for later on. Especially if your awesomely named expansions hit the table :-D

Downside: a flu bug has kicked my son, my wife, and my own collective keyster. As such a day of nastiness has kind of depleted my mental faculties. I have answers for cog's post but am not thinking well.

Upside: loads of bed time and a hexpack have my board in mind. When I get back to actual computer time (this is posted from my phone), I'll work up a prototype. Imagine a square board. Each of the four corners is a hex-ring. Rings are connected at the "2 hex" side by one additional hex and simply touch @ the "one flat hex edge" side.

Cog, I've numbered these for ease of reply. You said:

Itemised Reply:
1) No. My gaming circle is down to myself and a fraternity Brother of mine who lives ninety minutes away (on a good day). My wife, for her volumes of good qualities, doesn't do abstracts like this well-- her rule in her words is "it needs a start and finish line for me."

2) I can see that. I like the concept of "N actions/turn" to keep an even keel, but I always feel WAY limited. Well, sometimes I do.

2b) Have a closer read :-D. Drawing/rolling is a "once per turn" action. Think of it as buying the last of something with an Action credit. Also, no, you can't use the same Pay Card twice. Good catch, though; that DEFINITELY needed clarified! It'd be two UNIQUE pay cards/turn.

3) Yeah, I'd agree in most respects with this. It's a big game for now; I'd much rather trim fat than have to beef up, you know? I actually did this kind of beta-ing with some of the cards for a design of mine called Twist of Fate a few years back. The deck was then an astonishing 150-some-odd cards, which I pared to 100. The "cut-outs" from the original set are still in my journal and, should I ever get this thing published, are in place for expansions as most of them were craaaaazy powerful cards that, if I made a set of them to sprinkle into the deck vs. just one Deity-level card, would be more fun and way more playable. The one has text, no kidding, in 4-point font to get it all in. Seriously. But I love the idea behind it (the card's called Eternal Escalation and it basically The Cold War in one card...how about that), so I've taken its pieces and spread it into like a 10-card booster expansion. I think that could work for Mobeo too-- a standard deck for the roll-out that has basics in it with trippy whacko rule-destroyers later on. Hell, Magic does that shit all the time.