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Boardgame?

A topic by playlinesgames created Feb 27, 2021 Views: 304 Replies: 2
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Will you be making an analog version of Cantrip?

https://www.thegamecrafter.com/contests/solo-duo-challenge#Description is up.

I'm sending your game to its sponsor right now. I would love to hear a podcast episode where you talk about the design.

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I’ve thought about this a lot! I did paper prototype this while designing, but I wonder if the randomness is just slightly annoying to resolve when playing physically. Each point of damage means you need to point to a random card. But maybe it’s possible by making compromise where players pick what card is discarded for themselves. I’d be interested to test that out. I could make a printable set for people to try out pretty easily!

I think you could get around randomness by always hititing the first (or leftmost) card. Or do the pick. Could be different mechanics: Attacker picks vs defender picks.