I'm back again, still working on RED and getting feedback where I can. This time I bring you guys three of the prototype cards I made for play-testing, which has the characters final art, their stats, and abilities. The size is just about right, but I need help with the layout...as some of the characters have wordier abilities that might not fit on one card. I don't mind making two cards for some characters, but I'd like to avoid that completely.
Cards : http://www.bgdf.com/node/12781
If mana is a standard cost thing, why not drop the word and make it a number in a circle to the right of the ability or effect name. Similarly, you could compress Attack and Effect to like A and E. Looking at Clarissa, I see a few times you mention within 2 hexes. Why not define a standard area of effect and shorten that or use Near as a defined term. I think it will simplify things to offload that type of information into the rules. And when given a choice, drop some of descriptive text rather than spread stuff out. Some power names are quite descriptive and further action description is redundant.
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Other characters use resources other than Mana as Costs, and there are a lot of characters in the game. Mana is more of a generic cost if anything, and some characters gain stats based on how much Mana they have instead of using it as a cost.
The rest will really help me out though. Generalizing range into keywords is something I'll consider, but I'm always willing to trim fat where I can. Was afraid that the names of the ability's weren't descriptive enough...so it's good to know that they are.