Dice combat card game

Thnx I suppose limiting it to 1 card might slow the game a bit, it can go either way, though would the opponent be able to keep up with a barrage of special attacks from multiple cards at once? That’s if I allow it so the attacking player chooses multiple cards to attack at once.

I could add very strong cards in the game it’s like a risk reward thing

This card is so strong that it can kill all cards on the opponents field at once but the catch is, it has only 1 dice result. Also the draw back of using it even if its attack fails or not, it goes on cool down and can’t attack or defend for 2 turns or something and another factor is you can only play the card if you have no cards on your field and you can’t play any cards if it’s on the field

Yeah was a bad idea, wasn't a problem i was trying to solve though, just threw in another idea... wasn't good

yeah i kind of like that too, ill simplify it a bit and maybe not have much of a weakness as i suggested earlier

pretty cool late-term, right now im probably just going to work with a few class types and see how it goes there, there are not many class fantasy out there so ill have to search for a lot of class types

there will be the generic warrior, hunter, priest, rogue, etc

my art style will probably be pretty simplistic, i was thinking chibi style or cube like heads on a small body, kind of like those funko pop vinyls

I was thinking about the dice roll abilities. How about this to make it less bad rolls

Some cards for 1 ability will have 2 dice results so let’s say for a mage fire ball does 2 dmg, the ability has a dice number of 2 and 5 pips. If you get either one of those results you can use fireball however if you roll and the results are both 2 and 5 then the ability dmg doubles to 4

I’ve been thinking of a a point system instead of an invisible lifepoint for players

Ok each class has a rarity system.. not that kind of rarity system but a rare system on how valuable that class is while on the field

Classes divided as

Common
Uncommon
Rare
Legendary

Once you kill a class you get a point for that defeated class depending on rarity such as common are worth 2 points so on and so forth

So would you risk playing a high level class and try and protect said class from being killed or is it worth getting killed so you have room to play bigger classes
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created some test card for tabletop simulator and i came up with a good idea

lets say you have 4 classes already on the field, you cannot play any more class until one dies right? but what about if you can call a card back from the field to your hand but it requires a cost

so the total dice you can have is 4, depending on the card you want to return, it requires you to use up a die for your turn

so for example, the card on the field has a retreat cost of 1 die, so remove 1 die from your dice pool and return the card back to your hand, so for this turn only you can only use 3 dice, but after your turn has ended you get the die back

some stronger cards will require more dice (max 4) to retreat. its risky but yeah.

I also changed the subject heading as the subject has changed and i am happy with using dice as a mechanic

I also might change some dice combos on some cards as ive been rolling less of those, but that is whats testing is for

Rough draft of the first testing phase of my game

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Class battle unofficial title

Wip rules (the rules are only for what is available now for testing, future gameplay elements will be added in the future)
There are only 7 classes available for testing on TTS more will be added in the future
What will be added in the future
More classes
abilities for the classes and passives
Right now the roll mechanic is only available for testing

Gameplay
You start with 2 dice out of 4 to begin with
Players decide who goes first (the first player cannot do anything other than playing 1 card and must end turn immediately)
Both players draw 5 cards
play 1 card on your field (max number of cards you can have on the field is 4)
pick up 2 dice and roll them
Match the roll with the result on the card, if an ability is a match then you can attack
(there is a defence mechanic for the opponent but it is not in the game yet so your attack will always go through for now)
The opponent deducts life from their targeted card, for example, if your attack does 2 damage and the opponent has 4 life then they reduce the life by 2.
You can use whatever combination you have in your dice result but you can only use it once so for example, if you have 2 cards that have an ability with the dice roll of 3 pip and another one of your cards with a 3 pip and you have only rolled 1 3 pip then you have to choose which card will attack. once you use that die, you put it aside until the next turn.
After you and your opponent had a turn each and it goes back to you, you can then add another die into your dice pool, your opponent will do the same during your turn.
Each turn you add a die to your dice pool up to the cap of 4 dice.
After your roll phase, you are free to bank a die result and save it for a card on the field that matches the result on the card however you will be rolling less next turn. If you change your mind you can add the bank die back to your dice pool before you roll for that turn.
For this test phase, the win condition is to 5 points so if you defeat 5 cards you win.

phase 2 of my game has been added, the classes now have abilities, would appreciate your input

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1537615758

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Class Battle WIP PHASE 2

Ill be testing this game in phases, the first phase was dice mechanics and how they roll
This phase will focus on the cards and how they interact with each other when using their abilities

The idea is to defeat your opponents cards while using dice to determine combat

Gameplay
You each begin the game with 2 dice and which will increase ever turn after to a maximum of 4 dice

Both players shuffle their decks and decide who will go first (The first player cannot roll dice or attack on the first turn of the game)

Add 2 dice to your dice pool to begin

Draw a card

Play 1 card on your field (you can only have a maximum number of 4 cards on your field)
(First player ends turn immediately

Roll 2 dice match the dice result to one of your cards, if it is a match you can use the card's ability
Once you selected an ability you are free to use it and attack the opponent's card
Your opponent has a chance to defend their card, your opponent rolls 2 dice and if it matches an DEF ability you can then use it to defend. The Defend will only work if it is targeted but some cards can defend your other cards though for this test phase, there are no abilities that does that

After both players had their first turn, both can add another die to the dice pool at the same time, you can add the last die once both players had their 2nd turn.

After you have rolled your dice, you have a choice to bank the die result, for example, if you have a card with a 3 pip and a 2 pip ability and you have rolled a 2 pip but not the 3 pip, you can bank the 2 pip and put it to the side for later use, doing this will reduce your roll count so instead of 4 dice you can only roll 3. If you change your mind you can add the banked dice back into the dice pool but only before you have rolled during that turn

You can only use the dice result once per card, so if you have 2 cards that can use the 3 pip die and you have only 1 3 pip dice result then you can only use it on one card.

Your cards can only attack once per turn so if your card is able to use multiple abilities through the dice result, then you can only use 1 of the abilities

For this test phase, it is the first person to 5 points, which means if you defeated 5 cards you win

Yeah I’ve been doing that with the dice when selecting the card to attack

Haha yeah I don’t have a name for my game yet, I’ve been just calling it dice battle card game wip v3 on tts

I’ve had a few testers, for the most part they liked it, I just need to balance some cards as some are too op