Arena type card game?

Thanx for your added input. I will go with your class idea but i might tweak it. my new idea is there will not be any restrictions like if a melee is in zone 3, the ranger in zone 4 cant attack

The other change i am considering is the board layout, i probably wont use the zone layout you suggested but ill change my board idea with terrain maps, so there will be more than 1 board design with different terrains. hopefully, i can add heaps of terrain maps

The cards will have added features such as direction and movement mechanics

so if there is an arrow only on top of the card, it can only attack in that direction, you are free to rotate your card to whatever direction you want to attack. A class such as a hunter class can attack any squares on top of the card, so a straight line all the way to the end of the map

The movement mechanic - cards like the hunter can only move 1 square per turn. others can move more such as melee classes.

I would like the players to have action tokens so on their turn they can use the action token and choose one action to do such as move or attack. On the next players turn they get the action token back. I think each card they have on the field determines how many actions they can take. so if you have 2 cards, you can use 1 token for 1 card and the other token for the 2nd card or if you want you can spend all the tokens on 1 card, so you can use token to move and then attack with 1 card.

Dice mechanic- im still not sure of this but i might not use custom dice i might just use a d6 die with 1-6 numbers so instead of rolling a fireball you roll a 1 and that is the fireball ability.

I think i covered everything for now

https://i.imgur.com/Wum1f8w.png

only thing i am worried about right now are the cards starting positions, like should cards able to be played on any white spaces or should they be played on a certain side?

What might be fun with the terrain idea is, players can come up with their own terrain, by just drawing on a piece of paper or using photoshop, no terrain should be illegal to use

I also decided on my artstyle, each creature will be an orb looking creature. they are easy to draw so i can create lots of them

https://i.imgur.com/Q0zWl3v.png

I have created these types of creatures before in my old game, these creatures are called orblings

https://i.imgur.com/jGFnD1x.png

Just a quick mockup on what i want my game to have

Question, is the dice rolls to attack too random? like you will be doing it every time you want to attack, is that the smartest move? would using symbols on dice be better than a normal d6. I don't mind when you have to defend you can roll the dice to try and get 1 number to block the whole attack, but it might be a bit too random when attacking. any ideas?

What do you guys think about using dice as an optional source, like these dice are so powerful you would need them to win but are still optional

What i mean is, the charactes can already attack without using dice, like they each have only 1 basic attack, such as firepunch deal 30 damage whatever. Over the course of the game you acquire these dice somehow and if you are a risk taker you can use your turn to roll the dice to use your character's special ability which cant be used without dice. Only thing is how would i acquire the dice mid game?

Its just an idea which hope limits the randomness of the game

oh i see, what you just said gave me a lightbulb

so like you said before but the rolling the dice would be only for 1 player and not everyone so once per turn on a players turn they roll a bunch of dice lets say 4

the dice are kind of your action for the turn, (the dice would have to be customized so cant be a classic d6)

anyway i am player 1, i roll 4 or so dice and the results are as followed

move
move
attack
rotate

I can use these dice in any order

so I move 1, then rotate to face you, then attack and then move again so I am out of the way from your next attack if you survived. Is that still too random? should i add a reroll face or something, what that means is i choose a face i didn't want and pick that die and reroll again as well as the reroll die, so if you land on a reroll you can re roll 2 dice

yeah your version is ok for your game, i didn't want to copy it so i went in a slightly different direction, however, thanx to your idea, i was finally able to climb over the wall as i was struggling so hard to come up with a good dice mechanic.

players will have somewhat control of the dice rolls

So ive been brainstorming what faces i should have on the die and here is an example

Move
Attack
Rotate
Summon

for the other 2 faces i could add more or just repeat 2 of the 4 faces

Anyway at the start of the game everyone is able to play a character for free. then its players 1 turn (me)

I roll and the results are move, move, summon, attack
and here is the control part, i decide to keep 1 move and 1 summon and put it in my bank, i can save the rolls till my next turn, however i will be rolling less dice on my next turn

Everyone had a turn and its my turn again

I roll move, attack, attack, so i move using my recent roll, then i use 1 move die from my bank and i decide to keep my summon result

The summon face is used to summon extra characters on the field, you get your first 1 free but to play more cards you will need a summon result.

Ok i have 2 summon in my bank, (dunno if i should have some cards require more than 1 summon face, so really powerful cards require like 3 summon results).

So you can keep the dice in the bank for as long as you like however there is a drawback if a card you control on the field is killed then the dice in your bank are reset so you have to use those dice again on your next turn, meaning you have to protect your cards on the field if you want to use your bank dice

i was actually thinking of using cards before, however, i kind of dont want players manage too many cards. there is the deck itself and players draw 3 character cards at the start then every turn they draw until they have 5 cards in hand, that's the limit. There will be a deck of 15-20 cards anyway. Anything higher than that is too much. I did a small playtest of the dice mechanic and it flowed pretty well. I should be ready to create proper test cards now with abilities and whatnot