Cthulhu Will Drive You Insane deck

Cthulhu Will Drive You Insane deck
Designer	Øyvind Thorsby
Date	5/04/2011
Players	2
This is an untested deck. Its cards are complete, but it hasn't yet been tested.
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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A game based on the stories by H.P.Lovecraft. I have not tried it. If you try it, please comment on discussion page. I especially want to know if number of life point or sanity points one start with is too high of too low.

Special Rules

This is a game for two players.

Players begin with 100 life points, 100 sanity points and 5 cards in their hand.

If a player loses all his life points he has lost the game.

There are five type of things: monsters, persons, books, locations and curses.

All cards have a number. The number show how many sanity points you lose when you play the card.

Monsters and persons have a second number to the right of the first number. This number show how much power the monster or person have. It is used in combat. (See below.)

You are still allowed to play a card even if you don’t have enough sanity points.

You are also allowed to use actions that cause you to lose sanity points even if you don’t have enough sanity points. This does not apply to other things: for instance if an action causes you to discard a card you cannot do the action if you don’t have a card to discard.

If you have 0 sanity points, it doesn’t get any lower. That is, you don’t get negative sanity points.

If somebody plays a location, destroy any location that is already in play. (Notice that all locations have effects that affect both players.)

A curse must be played onto a monster or person. If the curse’s target is destroyed, put the curse in the discard pile.

A player's turn

When it is a player’s turn he goes through the following phases:

1. The Draw Phase. The player draws two cards, then discards one card. (The discarded card does not have to be one of the two cards the player just drew.)

2. The Action Phase. The player can play as many cards of each type as he likes, except only one monster card. The player can use as many actions on cards he controls as he like, but only once for each card. The player can attack once. He cannot play any cards, or use any actions during the attack. The player can do this in any order he likes. For example he could play one card, attack, then play another card.

3. The Discard Phase. If the player has more than 10 cards in his hand, he discards card until he has only 10.

4. The Insanity Phase. If a player has 0 sanity points and he controls any monsters, he has to choose one monster, person or book he controls. The opponent gains control of it.

Attack

When a player attacks, he first declares which things he controls will attack. Monsters can attack. Persons can only attack under special circumstances described on some cards. Other things can not attack. A thing cannot attack the same action phase as it came into play.

The opponent can block the attackers with persons or monsters he controls. A blocker cannot block more than one attacker. An attacker can be blocked by more than one blocker.

A blocker does damage equal to its power to the attacker it is blocking. A blocked attacker does damage equal its power. The attacking player may distribute this damage as he sees fit among the blockers blocking that attacker. If a person or monster receives damage equal or higher to its power during a single attack, that person or monster is destroyed.

Example 1: An attacker with power 2 is blocked by a blocker with power 1. The blocker is destroyed, the attacker is not.

Example 2: An attacker with power 2 is blocked by a blocker with power 2. Both the attacker and the blocker are destroyed.

Example 3: An attacker with power two is blocked by two blockers, both with power one. The attacker and both blockers are destroyed.

Example 4. An attacker with power 4, is blocked by two blockers both with power 3. The attacking player decides to do 3 damage to the first blocker and 1 damage to the second blocker. The attacker and the first blocker are destroyed. The second blocker is not.

The attacked player loses life points equal to the combined power of all the attacking monsters and persons that has not been blocked.

Card List

10,10

Cthulhu

Thing - Monster

After your draw phase, lose 10 sanity points.

10,10

Azathoth

Thing - Monster

After your draw phase, destroy a person you control or a monster you control.

10,10

Nyarlathotep

Thing - Monster

None of your monsters can block. All of your things that are able to, must attack each action phase.

10,10

Shub-Niggurath

Thing - Monster

At the start of each players turn, reveal cards in the draw deck until finding a monster. Put the monster into play under that players control without that player losing sanity. Put the other cards you drew in the discard pile.

10,10

Yog-Sothoth

Thing - Monster

This monster can only attack if you have 0 sanity points.

10,10

Hastur

Thing - Monster

This monster can only attack if you have 20 or fewer life points.

7,2

Mi-go

Thing - Monster

Action: Lose 5 sanity points, discard a card from your hand, gain control of a person your opponent controls.

7,2

Accursed Flute Player

Thing - Monster

Action: Lose 5 sanity points, discard a card from your hand, destroy a monster or person.

8,4

The Unnamable

Thing - Monster

If this monster attacks and is unblocked, your opponent loses 3 sanity points.

6,3

The Rats in the Walls

Thing - Monster

If this monster attacks and is unblocked, your opponent loses 3 sanity points.

4,2

Brown Jenkin

Thing - Monster

If this monster attacks and is unblocked, your opponent loses 3 sanity points.

6,2

Hound of Tindalos

Thing - Monster

This monster cannot be blocked.

3,2

Animated Corpse

Thing - Monster

If this monster is destroyed when attacking or blocking put it on your hand instead of on the discard pile.

0,6

Shoggoth

Thing - Monster

After your draw phase, if you control fewer monsters than your opponent, lose 5 sanity points.

0,5

The Colour Out of Space

Thing - Monster

After your draw phase, if you control an even number of monsters lose 5 sanity points.

0,5

Yithian

Thing - Monster

After your draw phase, if you control an odd number of monsters lose 5 sanity points.

0,5

Flying Polyp

Thing - Monster

After your draw phase, if you control fewer monsters than your opponent, lose 5 sanity points.

0,5

Spawn of Cthulhu

Thing - Monster

After your draw phase, if you have fewer cards in your hand than your opponent, lose 5 sanity points.

0,4

The Cats of Ulthar

Thing - Monster

After your draw phase, if you control more monsters than your opponent, lose 5 sanity points.

0,4

Formless White Polypous Thing

Thing - Monster

After your action phase, if you have fewer cards in your hand than your opponent, lose 5 sanity points.

0,4

Deep One

Thing - Monster

After your action phase if you control an even number of monsters lose 5 sanity points.

0,4

Byakhee

Thing - Monster

After your action phase if you control an odd number of monsters lose 5 sanity points.

0,3

Bog-wraith

Thing - Monster

After your action phase, if you control more monsters than your opponent, lose 5 sanity points.

0,3

Bat-Winged Devil

Thing - Monster

Before your draw phase, if you have more cards in your hand than your opponent, lose 5 sanity points.

0,2

Nightgaunt

Thing - Monster

After your action phase, if you have more cards in your hand than your opponent, lose 5 sanity points.

10,6

The Dunwich Horror

Thing - Monster

8,5

Elder Thing

Thing - Monster

6,4

Ghoul

Thing - Monster

4,3

Reptile Man

Thing - Monster

2,2

Crawling Hair

Thing - Monster

0,5

Randolp Carter

Thing - Person

You cannot play this card if you control any monsters. You cannot play any monsters if you control this person.

0,5

Hermit

Thing - Person

You cannot play this card if you control any persons. You cannot play any persons if you control this person.

0,4

Cannibal

Thing - Person

At the beginning of your turn if you control more than one person, destroy one person you control other than cannibal.

0,3

Mad Painter

Thing - Person

When this person comes into play, discard all the cards on your hand (It may be 0).

0,3

Submarine Captain

Thing - Person

You can only play this card if your opponent controls at least one monster.

0,3

Police Officer

Thing - Person

You cannot play this card if you control any monsters.

0,3

Chief of Police

Thing - Person

You cannot play any monsters if you control this person.

0,3

Mobster Snitch

Thing - Person

When this person comes into play show the cards in your hand to your opponent.

0,3

Mobster

Thing - Person

After you action phase, if this person is the only person you control, destroy this person.

0,3

Mobster Boss

Thing - Person

You cannot play this person if you don’t control at least one person.

0,3

Government Agent

Thing - Person

When this person comes into play, if you control any monsters destroy one of them.

0,2

Wilbur Whateley

Thing - Person

If the Dunwhich Horror or Yog-Sothoth or both are in play this person gets +2 to power and can attack.

0,2

Richard Upton Pickman

Thing - Person

If you sanity is 0, this person gets +2 to power and can attack.

0,2

Doctor

Thing - Person

When this person comes into play gain 10 life points.

0,2

Librarian

Thing - Person

When this person comes into play draw a card then discard a card.

0,2

Psychic

Thing - Person

When this person comes into play look at the top card of the draw deck and put it back.

0,2

Professor

Thing - Person

When this person comes into play discard as many cards from your hand as you like (it may be 0), then draw that many cards.

0,2

Scholar

Thing - Person

Action: Draw a card, discard a card, lose 2 sanity points.

0,2

Detective

Thing - Person

When this person come into play you opponent shows you the cards on his hand.

0,1

Cult Leader

Thing - Person

Action: Destroy as many persons you control as you like, gain 3 sanity points for each or them. Cult Leader must be one of them.

0,1

Cultist

Thing - Person

Action: Destroy this person, gain 5 sanity points.

0,1

Evil Asylum Director

Thing - Person

Action: Destroy a person you control, gain 1 sanity point.

0,1

Psychiatric Researcher

Thing - Person

Action: Discard all the cards in your hands, gain 1 sanity point. You can only do this if you have at least one card in your hand.

0,1

Witch

Thing - Person

Action: Destroy a monster you control, gain 1 sanity point.

0,1

Psychiatrist

Thing - Person

When this card comes into play gain 2 sanity points.

0,1

Nurse

Thing - Person

When this card comes into play choose one: gain 10 life points or gain 1 sanity point.

0,1

Thief

Thing - Person

When this card comes into play, if your opponent controls any books, gain control of one of them.

0,1

Author

Thing - Person

Whenever a monster you control is destroyed, gain 1 sanity point.

0,1

Herbert West

Thing - Person

Action: Loose 5 sanity points, take a person from the discard pile, put it into play under your control.

0,1

Dr. Henry Armitage

Thing - Person

When this person comes into play all monsters are destroyed and their cards are put into the hands of their controller.

0

Arkham Sanatorium

Thing - Location

After a players action phase, that player gains 1 sanity point.

3

R’lyeh

Thing - Location

At the beginning of each players turn they lose 3 sanity points.

3

Innsmouth

Thing - Location

All persons can attack.

2

Dunwich

Thing - Location

Whenever a player plays a monster they draw a card.

0

Miskatonic University

Thing - Location

All players draw a card before their draw phase.

2

Arkham

Thing - Location

When blocked, attackers deal no damage.

2

Kingsport

Thing - Location

All blockers gain +2 to force for the duration of the attack.

2

Dreamlands

Thing - Location

Only one person or monster can attack each action phase.

0

Unaussprechlichen Kulten

Thing - Book

Action: Draw a card, lose 5 sanity points.

8

Necronomicon

Thing - Book

In your draw phase, instead of drawing two cards and discarding one card, draw three cards and discard two cards.

0

Book of Eibon

Thing - Book

Action: Discard 2 cards from your hand, gain 6 sanity points.

2

The Pnakotic Manuscripts

Thing - Book

Action: Lose 7 sanity points. Destroy a person you control or a monster you control, destroy a person or monster.

5

De Vermis Mysteriis

Thing - Book

You can play as many monsters each turn as you like.

3

Eternal Sleep

Thing - Curse

Target cannot attack or block.

1

Paralyzing Fear

Thing - Curse

Target cannot attack.

0

The Curse of Yig

Thing - Curse

Target cannot block.

3

Chocking Fog

Action

Destroy a person or monster.

0

Assassination

Action

Destroy a person.

2

Banishing

Action

Destroy a monster.

1

Bolt of Lightning

Action

Destroy a person or monster. You can only play this card if you control fewer monsters than your opponent.

1

Raining Fire

Action

Destroy a person or monster. You can only play this card if you control fewer persons and monsters combined than your opponent.

0

Attack of Shadows

Action

Destroy a person or monster. You can only play this card if you do not control any monsters.

0

Sucking Abyss

Action

Destroy a person or monster. Discard all the cards in your hand (it may be 0).

0

Tentacles From Below

Action

Destroy a person or monster. Lose 3 life points.

0

Desperate Measure

Action

Destroy a person you control or a monster you control.

2

Botched spell

Action

Destroy a person or monster. Instead of putting it in the discard pile, put it in the hand of its controller.

0

Mind Tampering

Action

Your opponent must choose one person he controls or a monster he controls. Destroy it.

1

Mind Control

Action

Your opponent must choose one monster he controls. Destroy it.

15

The Stars Are Wrong

Action

Destroy all monsters.

20

The End of the World

Action

Destroy all persons and monsters.

4

Hypnosis

Action

Choose a person controlled by your opponent. Gain control of it.

10

Possession

Action

Choose a person controlled by your opponent or a monster controlled by your opponent. Gain control of it.

1

Library Fire

Action

Destroy a book.

2

Escape Into Another Dark Age

Action

Destroy all books.

0

Sanatorium Stay

Action

Gain 10 sanity points.

5

Theft

Action

Look at the hand of your opponent, choose one of the cards, put it on your hand.

2

Vandalism

Action

Look at hand of opponent, choose one card he must discard.

1

Mind numbing

Action

Your opponent must discard one card of his choosing from his hand.

3

Blackmail

Action

Your opponent must give you one card of his choosing from his hand.

0

Shady Deal

Action

Your opponent chooses a card from the hand and gives it to you, then draws a card.