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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.

Winning The Game

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 Thing ever sustains a number of wound counters (or simply "wounds") that equals or exceeds its Stamina, it is destroyed.

Types

Cards can have a number of types. Some of these types 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.
Unique: You can only have one of these in play at any time. If you get another of these into play, destroy the first.
Timeless: This does not exist in any particular Era, and acts as though all other cards were in the same Era it is.

Keywords

Cards may have certain type-independent keywords. These are usually explained if there's enough space in the card, but a comprehensive list is:

Armor X: Takes X less wounds from any damage source.
Regeneration X: Heals X wounds at the start of your turn.
X-Bane: Attacks by this deal double damage to cards of the type X.
Transport X: When this takes a Warp action, it may bring up to X Units with it.
X-Powered Y: May only be played on an Era where you control at least Y cards of the type X.

Equipment

Equipment Things are played (equipped) on other Things. An Equipment can only be equipped by a Thing that shares a type with it (except for types between parentheses: those are exclusive to the Equipment). When an Equipment you control comes into play, you may have a Thing equip it as a free action.

The Equipment card may add to, subtract from, or replace the statistics and abilities of the equipped Thing. If that Thing leaves play, the Equipment 'falls off' and is played by itself on the Era the Thing was in. If an Equipment would receive any wounds, it is destroyed unless it has a Stamina value, in which case the normal rules for Stamina apply.

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.

Other actions

These actions are specific to certain cards. When they can be used is determined in their card text.

Hold: When a card holds another, put it face down under the first card. If the holder is removed from play, all held cards are moved to the discard pile.
Transform: Some cards have a second card text. When they transform, this card text replaces the first. Turn them upside down to represent the change.
Replenish: Add Fuel, Mana or Battery counters to a Thing that uses the appropriate Resource. (Replenishing a resource that it doesn't use has no effect) If the number of counters is not specified, it is the replenished Things' Fuel/Mana/Battery value minus its remaining Fuel/Mana/Battery counters. Replenishing cannot cause a Unit to have more than its initial Fuel, Mana or Battery.

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. Actions can be played in Eras you have no open Portals in. 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. Timeless Actions are not played in a specific Era, and can 'see' the whole Timeline.

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 be played in any Era that contains or follows that year.

Unit Actions

To take a Unit Action, a player nominates a (non-Portal) Thing they control. That Thing may either:-

Equip: Take an unassigned Equipment you control on the same Era of the Thing and equip it on the Thing.
Warp: Move the Unit from its current Era to an Era adjacent on the timeline.
Special Action: Use an Action Ability marked as a Unit Action on the card

Units may take these additional types of Unit Actions:

Alter a portal: If the Unit is in an Era with no enemy units, not counting pilotless Vehicles, 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. Units may not Alter Portals on the turn they come into play.
Attack: Select another Thing in the same Era as a target. The targeted Thing gains wounds equal to the Damage Rating of the attacking Unit. A Unit with no Damage Rating can never Attack.
Heal: The Unit removes one wound from itself.

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 at the start of your turn.

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Difference between revisions of "Chronogeddon CCG card set"

Revision as of 09:37, 3 January 2011

Deck construction

Playing area

Era Portals

Winning The Game

Units and Terrain

Types

Keywords

Equipment

Other actions

Turn structure

Playing a Thing

Playing an Action

Unit Actions

Resources

Card List, by Era

Mesozoic Era

Stone Age

Antiquity

Middle Ages

Renaissance

Victorian Era

Industrial Age

Information Age

Apocalypse Wars

Space Pioneer Age

Anywhen Cards

External Cards

General Purpose Cards

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