Use this space to talk about what cool cards we could create! What interesting interactions and mechanics we can build! Where synergies can form and stuff! Let's push and evolve Basic TCG!
We have 1 Hard and Fast Rule here: NO CONTENT CREATED FOR BASIC TCG CAN ENDORSE ANY FORM OF BIGOTRY OR HARMFUL WORDS, ACTIONS, OR SYMBOLS. IF YOU DO ANYTHING THAT HARMS MARGINALIZED GROUPS YOUR CONTENT WILL BE DELETED AND YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE.
I'll copy over what the Basic Rules say about what a card is here:
Cards
A card has:
- Levels: To play a card you must sacrifice your cards in play whose total levels equal to its level or more. If a level goes into negatives it is discarded. The Level is akin to health, so damage, healing, etc affects Level.
A card can have:
- Actions: These are _underlined words_ followed by an effect that can be triggered once a turn, one Action per card.
- Most actions should affect levels, drawing, or playing cards. Actions are an active choice to make on the card, a single action card can choose to do the thing, while multi-action cards can only do 1 of those actions a turn.
- Passives: These are (parenthetical words) followed by an effect. They are always active.
- Most passives should react to Actions, prevent them, change how they are played from the hand, or other general ways that shift how the card interacts with the game.
What my guidelines, as the creator of Basic TCG, are as follows (but remember this game isn't mine it's ours):
- Card Levels are generally low numbers between 1-10, easy math to work through and count!
- Low-level cards are easy to play and help set up the board but can be destroyed quickly
- High-level cards are harder to play but come with board longevity and strong abilities
- Card Text overrules Basic Rules, so you can mess with the core loop of play within your cards.
Card Creation Resources
A FREE way to easily make cards on desktop and mobile and export them as zips of pngs or a pdf is through this Canva Template I made! All you need is to sign into Canva, which can be done for free or using a Google account, and click "Use template" which will automatically make a copy of it for you to mess with! Make sure to duplicate the pages as you go, you can create a full deck in one file!
Other templates created are:
- @wereoctopus's tools for Basic TCG that has Affinity templates here
- @VforValensa's Basic TCG Irregular Full Custom templates that add higher resolution templates, various sized image or text box templates, and Photoshop templates here
