Update : Dymino Monsters.

Tommy B game review a moment ago on FB.

Loved this game!! Not just saying that because we are friends. We did discuss possible changes and all but overall I really enjoyed the gameplay. There is sooo much possibilities in gameplays and fighting. This game after we tried a different mechanic it put me in a strategic state that I had to play a total different way. I truly had a blast. I struggled with my attacks but my defense was on point. Some of the monsters I fought and their special abilities had me running to try a different attack. I did not even get to play a full version like it was meant to be played. Jesse Fernandez just played a version to show me mechanics of how the game plays. Let me tell you now I was struggling and having a blast. The fantasy and character cards along with the story telling he gives you to play is amazing. I was running up on monsters and smacking them with my bow and laughing in their faces. Great game and I'm looking forward to playing next week to finish what I started.. unless I meet back up with another Dymino monster with an attack of 31 then I may have to rethink my actions. Again I could tell u stories of some of the monsters I encountered but I don't want to ruin all the fun for you!! Great game Jesse

@Questccg (Kris),

Thank you for the kind words Kris.

I still have roughly upto 60 chapter decks and more details to Dymino Monsters to complete. In the last 16 1/2 years of development, Dymino Monsters has been playtested close to 20 times.

The high fantasy part of the game works very well and smooth and even better with the newest mechanic we implemented last night.

The only part of the game not playtested yet is the diesel punk storyline. I'm nearly finished with that by 2021 to beginning of 2022. Its been a fantastic journey to travel on to the destination.

Bows respectively;
Jesse

Thank you Professor;

Yes, the game has been in development for 16 1/2 years. I'm in no rush to publish the game. And I update and playtest when a new update of chapter decks have been completed to play test.

Thank you for the friendly advice to the future of my game. I still have a long way to complete the game.

It's a very large world and game, I can not a rush this story and game to fall apart. As my nephew has put it"its like coding but for tabletop".

Bows respectively;
Jesse

Through out the development of Dymino Monsters I have several card count lists but today, I took the opportunity to write up a full new list due to the fact that I have 5 faction prototype sets to hand cut and write the text on obverse and reverse side of each card.

The listed number I'm about to share is for only the decks I have completed and playtested. The current objective I am working on the good part of the year is for the diesel punk storyline and chapter decks. I have those cards cut already from 2 years ago that are 60 cards each but that was just a standard estimate, so I wouldn't know how many cards will be included for the later decks until I get to that point.

Today, the card count list is at 8,992 for a tabletop epic fantasy novel customizable, deck building card game.

Stay tuned for more updates when the game is updated.

Bows respectively;
Jesse

Here is what needs to be completed for DM:

1: 1,152 New encounters to have 2,500 encounters for entire game

2: 24 Playable Character Backstory

3: Point system for all 10 factions

4: Main Storyline

5: Play mats to be hand drawn

6: Point system for the rest of the 1,152 new encounters

7: Artwork for cover

8: Digital cards with text

9: Digital Play mats

10: The next 4 to 5 movie production scripts

11: Constellation back stories

12: Character Encyclopedia

13: Monster Encyclopedia

14: Character Objectives list

Thank you for the questions.

Here are my answers:

Q1: Movie scripts?

A1: No, I wont be pitching directors for my franchise. I write these stories to push the envelope of my creativity. I enjoy writing and hopefully in the future I will have finances to direct these projects. And Why not? I have the creative skills to write 5 production scripts. I've already wrote the first one based on the first 6 1/2 chapters of the first novel. Which became 96 pages.

Q2: The "Need of 2,500 encounters?"

A2: Yes. As large as the story and game, the game requires large scale of encounters for the large world / story to interact with. 100 or 200 monster cards is not enough. In the beginning, 2004 there were and are 28 original cards. But when I shuffled and played the primitive deck of cards at that count, the cards began to sort itself out. Plus, I felt the game needed more than just 28. Nothing wrong with the 28, it felt bland.

I wanted to have more cards for different categories. The core deck has 80 encounters. The first expansion has 100 new encounters. The second expansion has 102 encounters.

In 2012, the genre and theme started to take shape for the game. Even though I had monster lists from previous years, 80 of those names didn't fit the story. Or the story the cards were trying to fit into.

2012 the game was high fantasy and steampunk. 2014-2015 New monster/creature lists were written to fit the genre and theme. The game then was high fantasy, steampunk and diesel punk. Adding new material to the game and story required new encounters.

For Balancing the Game after each chapter deck (expansion deck).

I balanced the game by using the dominoes set numbers. Double 6, double 9 and double 12. The core deck and its chapter decks (expansion decks) use the double 6 domino set.

How can this game be balanced?
Easily by adding +2, +4, +6, +8 on the character card and on the monster card as both groups use during attack and defense phase. Then with that system, I can easily use the domino set. In the double six set, all 8 tiles that have 6 on them add up to 48. But for combat and defense , each character and encounter only use 4 tiles from their 4 high 7 across tile (bone) stack.

If you look at a domino tile
There are numbers or pips (dots on both sides of a black line.

When you flip over the tile, the piys that are above the line is your attack points. The pips below the black line (closest to your chest) is the defense points for your character.

Basic addition. Encounter cards have add or negative point system for 1 or all 4 tiles to make a higher attack or higher defense. If the same number for player and encounter happens; it negates itself and all tiles goes to the discard pile. The player or monster can now counter attack.

This goes very well with the double 9 and double 12 dominoes sets. This is how I can manage a balance point system. Encounter cards also have abilities (flavor text) that really challenges the player / group of players. Yes, I am ambitious to strive to finish on what I love to do. Write, tell stories, being passionate with my creativity.

How do I balance higher Encounter numbers? It all deals with how many players are in play, the domino sets being used and the affect from text. The only thing I had to edit were the Titan cards for their point system. My group and i were doing great with the Titans on the field, some battles were completed after 4 battle rounds due to the faction units they were fighting with. And the Titans were not Titan enough so I bumped the point system from say for example 4,200 attack to 42,000 attack. For defense system for encounters and Titans etc, I just divided the numbers to get a defense system. This is why I can keep adding to the list but also remove material that doesn't fit and how many cards per chapter (expansion) deck is needed. Card counting per deck tells a story in itself. My lowest deck has 9. Its the Thieves of Alahar. A floater deck that pops up every now and again during the story and game play.

Selling the Product:

Option 1: Core and expansions for all novel sets separately. There are no commons,rares, ultra rare, super rare etc in Dymino Monsters. It wasn't needed. Game includes rules, play mats (5), chapter booklets.

Option 2: Core with 25 chapter decks in same box per novel set. Extras : See option 1.

3: Character Encyclopedia, Monster Encyclopedia, World Map, Constellation Encyclopedia all sold separately.

And in the very beginning of this thread page 2 or 3 , I have mentioned, "I'm not worried if this game sells or not. I know that it was well worth it"

I have also thinking doing a limited run of 5,000 games and be done. We will see.
I'm self publishing as well.

Thank you for the questions Antonio, I hope I have answered your questions today. Feel free to send me more questions about my game Dymino Monsters.

I get it all the time,"Like How?" and "Like Why?"

Because it's easy for me, I know it works and because I can and have the skills to understand what I'm doing.

Bows respectively;
Jesse

Your quite welcome sir.

Jesse

Yesterday and this morning from 12:14 am to 12:39 am, I have written 32 back stories to the Dymino Monsters Constellations Encyclopedia.

I have 43 left to complete the book.

Storrmetal, thief, blood flora, benu, bar juchne, simurgh, ziz, yellow iobna, trinity, twin havenous, radiant, river kail, wydfish, wolf, weaver star, twydain's hope, trillion, tridactyle, tinker sphere, thorn (Thaern), rattleback, river flare, Eastern Crown, sword dancer, talon, sunfish, Sebastian's Tower, Safarono, Pharadite, pendulum, Caldeanna, blue star rose.

Stay tuned for more updates on Dymino Monsters.

Bows respectively;
Jesse

At 1:18 PM today on 1/15/2021 I have completed the Constellation Encyclopedia booklet. It took longer than I thought. But it was well worth it. I was awake till this morning at 5:30ish am and I had 10 pages to fill out. I took a 2 hour nap, then it took me 2 hours from 11:30 am to 1:18 to complete.

It took me at total of 4 days to add backstories and other details to all 89 Constellations.

I will be putting up an update and video of the work later this evening on Facebook at Dymino Monsters/Triidorium page.

Jesse

UPDATE---------

After 4 hours trying to upload a 9 minute and 40 second video to Facebook this early morning from 1am to 4 am, I decided it was not worth the time to upload any more pre-recorded videos. It's a shame, but whatever. I will put up photos on my Dymino Monsters/Triidorium page but not here on bgdf anymore because of photo size to upload. I'm not a tech savvy person so, I can only do whatever the technology allows me to do.

So, if any one is still interested in updates of photos for Dymino Monsters, check out the page there.

I will still continue to text update when the progress is needed to be updated. Have a great and blessed weekend.

Jesse

Brand New Update;

I had completed all 24 player food card point system this morning at 5:42 am. I stayed up till 7 am watching Galaxy Quest and eating my Solo dinner left overs from 10 PM last night. It was oh so good.

Spaghetti noodles
White corn canned
Peas canned
Mixed vegetables canned
Green beans canned
3 small onions chopped and partially sauteed.
Noodles after boiled to the right temperature of not over cooking I used some vegetable oil and added it to the pan and let that warm up.
Then took the vegetable medley and added 3/4 of the mixture to the noodles and added a drizzle of soy sauce. It's nothing new of a recipe, but the meal was so light, fluffy and tender cooked. It was delightful, to drink was gallon water jug. Man, can I cook. Yes I do toot my own horn. Hehe.
Before going to bed this morning, I read Nehemiah chapters 4,5,6, of the Bible.

For the food cards system, the only thing that's left to do is the prototype artwork and the reverse card text for each card. I'll show a picture of the current task I'm working on later this afternoon.

Then to work on the new factions point system. I already have an idea what the point system will look like in mind since 3 weeks ago before writing everything down. Next task will be coming up with all of the General names for each factions for their units.

Next after that or in between these 2 tasks is to come up with the last 1,250 monster encounters to finish up the 2,500 monster Encyclopedia list.

Then write up the chapter deck stories and then work on all of the world play mats.

Then to get everything typed up on digital format and I will be finally completed with this game. Coming up April 24, 2021 will be 17 years in the making of Dymino Monsters.

A dream coming true to see the end of this epic journey to get to the destination. Wow, what an adventure.

Creator of Dymino Monsters;
Jesse

Dymino Monsters: Food System

I have completed the next 11 food systems.

The 12 food card system includes the playable character sets from Princess Katalia to the Geologist with no name as of yet. This set of playable characters goes to the diesel punk storyline.

Now later tonight to work on the Dymino Monsters: Food System character set for Dymino to Nightingale. That is another 12 characters to work on and I'll be complete for this small task.

There are 24 playable characters in Dymino Monsters.

Jesse

Dymino Monsters: Diesel Punk Faction Point System confirmed and configured this morning.

Now to just write the text for these cards to get the second part of this objective completed.

Next objectives to accomplish:

1: 1,083 new monster / creature list.
2: 112 General Faction cards.
3: More Play mats to draw and hand color.
4: Character Objective lists
5: Core story, chapter (expansion) deck
stories
6: Get all of of the prototype cards,
stories on to the digital format

Jesse

It's time, time, time to showcase tonight's brand new Update for Dymino Monsters:

Let's get right to it, shall we?

Dymino Monsters updates from January 26, 2021 through March 2, 2021

1: Jan 26, 2021

I removed the Archers, battle standards and Warrior units from Flowers of the North.

2: Downsized All engineer cards for all diesel punk factions from thirty cards to 6 - 17 cards each faction size due to management of Kingdoms and Empires.

3: Flowers of the North is a Neutral faction. I did however keep elite guards, engineers, sailors, soldiers units.

4: Jan 27, 2021 With the downsizing of the engineer units across all factions (diesel punk) the total count of cards were 8,999 to 8,048. Then re-added both weapon skill technique sets which brought up the total count of cards so far as 9,488.

5: There are so far as 9 chapter decks for the diesel punk storyline not including the faction sets.

6: Jan 29 2021:
I've decided to remove the faction general sets for the diesel punk chapter decks.

7: on Jan 22, 2021
I have revised the prototype text contents to a short version text that allows me to get the prototype cards completed faster and will be used on the final cards.

8: February 2, 2021
I edited the 20 upcoming chapter deck encounter list. Originally the 20 upcoming chapter decks felt comfortable of having a deck , but the more I thought about it, it seemed more obvious to shorten the list of encounters. This also looks more of a better choice to go with the gut emotion / feeling due to the story and telling / showing the story and not force or over feed the boundaries of thought process. The 20 chapter decks that were edited now have lists of total from the lowest of 25 encounter cards to the highest encounter list of 60 encounter cards .

9: February 7 2021 7 PM to 7:10 PM.
With the 158 Triidorium locations on the list, I finally made , edited what is now a very probable outline for the narrative progressive path from start to finish, but now I will work on a path tree for locations and all other details of objectives players will work towards to the conclusion of the Dymino Monsters story.

10: February 7, 2021
There are 92 story paths so far.

11: February 9, 2021
Wrote 22 new encounters out of 741.
674 names left to be filled out on the list of monster Encyclopedia.

12: February 11, 2021
Wrote 47 new encounters out of 741. 627 names left to be filled on the list.

13: February 13, 2021 - February 13, 2021
Allocated the 35 Toy Master works on the list and the World Map Locations.

14: Story Path , character path. And connections outline started on February 13, 2021 and completed on February 13, 2021.

15: The Astrologer and Geologist names for playable characters has been finalized on February 13, 2021.

16: Toy Master Works throughout Triidorium has been laid out on the list February 13, 2021.

17: Feb 13, 2021 - February 14, 2021 at 4:10 pm.
Locations of all mirrors have been listed.

18: November 24, 2020 to February 18, 2021
Completed the diesel punk faction point system.

19: February 15, 2021 11:30 PM to February 16, 2021 12:16 AM
Game winning conditions per outcome.

20: February 19, 2021
Removed engineer cards from the Minnotaurians faction deck. It did not feel the need for this faction to have engineers.

21: February 19, 2021
Edited all faction decks of the battle standard units down to 9 cards. Single flag bearer each.

22: February 20, 2021 Removed 16 engineer cards from Warriors of Osconia faction. It now has 14 cards. 100 - 5,000 engineers.

23: February 20, 2021
Warriors of Osconia now has 14 land vessel cards.

24: February 20, 2021
The Four Player Battle mat has a new game play variant: Capture the Flag.

25: February 26, 20216:30 PM
Completed the entire diesel punk faction text for the point system finalization.

26: March 2, 2021 4 AM
Completed all diesel punk faction point system on the remaining 5 faction sets.

There you have it folks.
Until next time on Dymino Monsters / Triidorium Facebook page.

Jesse

I written 9 new monster encounters to fill in some older decks. Air, Lightning, Neo Mutant, fire.

4 new air encounters
6 new fire encounters
3 new neo mutant encounters
3 lightning encounters out of 5.

There are no attributes yet, but it does feels great to fill the 10 count for these core categories for these decks.

Stay tuned for more updates.

Jesse