Gears of War deck

Gears of War deck
Designer	Brad Soup
Date	24/05/2007
Players	2-8
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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.

A deck inspired in part by the First Person Shooter deck, based on the game Gears of War! Choose a character and jump in! You'll need a die to play, but if you don't have one, you can use the dice cards.

Special Rules

Hand size in the Gears of War Dvorak deck is 7 instead of 5. You may play up to two actions during your turn.

Characters

Some things are Characters. Everyone chooses a Character at the beginning of the game, and the rest of the Characters are removed from the deck.

Weapons

Weapons have a Power value in the corner. This is used to determine the outcome of firefights. When equipping a weapon, play it on your character. If he has a weapon equipped already, return it to your hand. If you have no weapon equipped, you may melee, which has a power of 2. Equipping a weapon uses an action, except if you are defending during a firefight.

Firefights

Any time during your turn, you may start a Firefight with a single opponent. This consumes an Action. During a firefight, take the following steps:
1. The attacking player chooses a range (Long, Mid, Close).
2. The defending player may equip a new weapon from his hand.
3. Both players roll a die. The result is multiplied by your weapon's power.
4. The players take turns playing maneuvers, starting with the attacking player. You may choose to stop playing maneuvers whenever you want. If you stop, your opponent may continue playing maneuvers if they have them. If a character is behind cover, this counts as a maneuver.
5. All maneuvers then take effect AFTER the die roll is multiplied. The player with the lowest final power takes a point of damage. The firefight is over.

Health and Dying

Unlike in the console version of GoW, your health doesn't regenerate here. You start with five HP, and lose one each time you lose a firefight. If you lose all five, you die. All your weapons are removed from the game and your hand is discarded, and you leave the game.

Dice Cards

The dice cards are used in place of a die if you don't have one. They are removed from the deck, shuffled, and placed face down. When someone needs to roll a die, they draw a card. Shuffle the dice cards after each roll.

Notes

I haven't added the maneuvers in yet, but I'm working on them. Hang in there!

Also, I could really use some help tweaking the values for all the maneuvers, weapon powers, etc. But please try to keep the weapon powers true to the game (i.e. don't make the Lancer do more damage than the Boomshot =P) I've probably screwed up on that somewhere, so feel free to fix it. All the flavor text is either a quote from a character (if it's in quotation marks) or from the Brady Games strategy guide for Gears of War.