Legends - The FCG new game idea thread

I did not read through your post, so I am just making random comments.

One thing in common that I hate about fighting card games is simultaneous action selection. Yomi an Battlecon use such system.

Personally, I prefer the combo, forward planning strategic aspect. Where you try to do certain moves to eventually chain other moves rather than trying to guest what your opponent has played. I don't know if it's something you would be interested in doing.

For another card game of mine, I had a groove idea which basically reflect a fighting game. The concept is simple, each time you get damaged, you increased your groove and some cards could require groove power to be used. In my game, each time a creature was destroyed in was placed in the groove and you could use your groove to cast spells in your opponent's turn.

Another card game worth looking WWF raw deal. Pretty old, but the concept was simple. You simply play cards do destroy cards from your opponent's deck. There were various type of moves (Submission, grapple, strike) and cards stayed into play adding up to your fortitude. Some cards required a minimum fortitude to be played. So the more you advanced in the game, the stronger were the moves.

Try giving your cards a normal effect, and then combo advantage effect.

If you play X move after an enemy plays a certain type of move, then bonus.

If you play X move immediately following Y move, then bonus.

If enemy is affected by X effect, then Y move gets bonus.

For instance, if he throws a high punch, then a certain type of grab could be un-counterable and then lead into your combo. If your hand is right, you could follow the grab with say an arm-bar, but then maybe your enemy has a counter in hand specifically for arm holds.

Additionally, you want to work it so that there are times where you have a broad choice of what you can do. Use X card now, or draw his counter with a weaker card? Dodge his punch or save for a roundhouse?

I think the key is flexibility, with most cards being capable by themselves, but excelling in their preferred situations. You may want to categorize your moves by basic type so that they can reference each other. Even allow the moves to have several types to increase flexibility.

A quick idea that passed to my mind. There was a video game called fighter's destiny on N64 which had a unique scoring system. It considered the fighting game as a sport where certain moves or round outcome gave you points. The first fighter to reach 7 points wins.

I always thought that it would be awesome to have a board game that use a similar scoring system.

Just like in the fighting video games, there are tag teams. this would be a great opportunity to allow 2 players against another 2 players be on teams. You can have combo strike cards from both players from one single team that allows many combo cards to strike while the other team tries to block and counter attack.

Have a maximum of a 10 strike combo pyramid attack. The other team can break a combo or try to with a break combo strike card. This forces the first team to break up the ten pyramid combo strike system into their discard piles.

The second team that was blocking can counter attack in small waves of strikes with a kick, double kick, to a punch, upper cut card and so forth, while is team mate waits to power up his/her health bar or adds strength cards to the attacker team mate?

Something to think about.