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Chronogeddon
Designer	Collaborative effort - please contribute
Date	6th February 2006
Players	2+
This is a CCG set, a set of cards which can be used to construct personalised decks, in the style of a collectable card game.
To play Dvorak: Draw five cards each and leave the rest as a draw pile. On your turn, draw a card from the draw pile and play one Thing and/or one Action. (See the full rules.)
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This deck is under construction. Anyone is welcome to contribute - check the talk page to find out more.

This is a collaboratively-built time-travel themed CCG system.

Deck construction

A deck must contain at least 40 cards, and contain no more than three Era cards. A deck may not contain multiple copies of the same Era card.

Playing area

The playing area is called the Timeline, and is divided into adjacent Eras. The Eras are composed of at least one Portal and any number of Units.

Era Portals

At the start of the game, each player removes all the Era Portal cards from their deck, and puts them into play in a line along the centre of the table, in chronological order (at start), with each card face-up and facing its owner. This is the Timeline, and these are the Eras in which the game will take place. If two or more players have the same Portal card, place them together - or synched. They're part of the same Era.

While a Portal is face up, its owner has a portal into that time period. When a Portal is turned face down, the portal is closed.

If all of a player's Portals have been removed from play, they lose the game.

Units and Terrain

All Unit and Terrain cards exist in a particular Era - if a Unit or Terrain is ever unassigned to an Era (typically if they were in an Era when its Portal was removed from play), then it is lost to chronal chaos and destroyed.

Unit cards have Damage and Stamina ratings; some Terrain cards also have Stamina ratings. If a card ever sustains a number of wound counters that equals or exceeds its Stamina, it is destroyed.

Unit Types

Units can be of type Soldier, Animal and/or Vehicle. They can also have subtypes, such as Aerial or Equipment. Some of these keywords attach automatic rules to their cards:-

Animal: Animal Units cannot take "Alter Portal" Unit Actions.
Vehicle: Vehicles can only take Unit Actions if you control a Soldier in the same Era.
Aerial: Prevent all combat damage to Aerial Units, unless it is Ranged damage. An Aerial Unit can only be refuelled by a card with the 'Airstrip' keyword.

Equipment

Equipment Things must be played in a Thing that shares a type with it. If that Thing leaves play, the Equipment is destroyed. The Equipment card may change the statistics and abilities of the equipped Thing.

Example: the Semi-Automatic Rifle is a 'Equipment - Soldier' card, and may only be played on Soldiers. A Soldier that has it equipped adds 1 to its Damage stat.

Turn structure

A player's turn consists of playing one Thing, and either playing an Action card or taking a Unit Action.

Playing a Thing

Thing cards (Units, Terrains or Equipment) can be played into any Era to which the player has an open Portal; the card is placed in front of the Era.

Where a Thing card has a specific year printed on it, it can only be played into an Era that includes that year. If a Thing has a year followed by a plus sign, it can be played into any Era that contains or follows that year.

Unless otherwise specified, Units and Terrain can only "see" other Units and Terrain within the same Era - if a Unit has an ability that allows it to affect other Units or Terrain, it can only affect those in the same Era as it.

Playing an Action

Unless otherwise specified, Action cards must be played into a single specific Era. The Action resolves as if the cards in that Era were the only cards that existed - a card that read "Destroy all Units." would only destroy the Units in the Era it was played into.

Where an Action card has a specific year printed on it, it can be played into an Era that contains that year. If an Action has a year followed by a plus sign, it can target Units and Terrain in any Era that contains or follows that year.

Unit Actions

To take a Unit Action, a player nominates a Unit or Terrain card they control. That Unit may either:-

Heal: The Unit removes one wound counter from itself.
Attack: Select another Unit or Terrain in the same Era as a target. The targeted Unit/Terrain sustains wounds equal to the Damage Rating of the attacking Unit.
Warp: Move the Unit from its current Era to an Era adjacent on the timeline.
Alter a portal: If the Unit is in an Era with no enemy units, it may open or close any portal in that Era by turning the Era card face up or face down. It may also destroy a face-down portal by removing that Era card from the game.

Resources

Mana, Fuel and Battery are resources specific to certain Units. If an Unit has values defined in any of these, it starts with the indicated amount, and spends one unit of any of them to perform Unit Actions.

Card List, by Era

Cards are grouped by Era, and should be ordered by card colour within that Era (Era Portal, Unit, Terrain, Equipment, Action).

Mesozoic Era

Era Portal

-250 Million to -65 Million

-70M

Tyrannosaur

Unit - Animal

Damage: 5
Stamina: 3

Regeneration 1: This heals one wound counter at the start of your turn.

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Difference between revisions of "Chronogeddon CCG card set"

Revision as of 07:47, 1 October 2007

Deck construction

Playing area

Era Portals

Units and Terrain

Unit Types

Equipment

Turn structure

Playing a Thing

Playing an Action

Unit Actions

Resources

Card List, by Era

Mesozoic Era

Antiquity

Middle Ages

Renaissance

Victorian Era

Industrial Age

Information Age

Apocalypse Wars

Space Pioneer Age

Timeless Cards

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