Progress Quest deck

Progress Quest deck
Designers	Binarius, kr
Date	10/10/2008
Players	2+
This is a playable deck - it's finished, tested and ready to play.
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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Battle ferocious monsters, master arcane spells, and undertake epic quests in this adaptation of the seminal RPG Progress Quest. Gameplay has been streamlined to eliminate the tedium of keeping track of attribute stats, armor classes, gold, etc., while remaining as true as possible to the original.

Special Rules

Levels

Every player begins at Level 1.  When a player has an amount of Experience equal to their Level, their Level increases by one and their Experience resets to zero.

Equipment, Quests, and Spells

Every player may control a maximum of one of each type of Equipment (Weapon, Weapon Mod, Shield, and Shield Mod) and one Quest and may hold at most one of each in their hand, discarding at the end of their turn if necessary.

If a player holds any Equipment card in their hand that is weaker than the corresponding type of card under their control but stronger than that of any opponent, they must discard it at the end of their turn.

If a player controls no Weapon card, their weapon is a Sharp Stick with strength 1. Sharp Sticks may not take Weapon Mods.

A player may only play a Spell or Equipment card if they have gained a level during their current or last turn, or if another card instructs them to.

Characters and Monsters

At the beginning of the game, search the deck for a Character card and put it into play under your control; it is an indestructible Thing. The other Character cards can be played in the same way as Monster cards. The numbers in a Monster or Character card's cornervalue are the Weapon and Shield strengths, respectively, required to play that card.

If a player draws a Monster card both of whose Weapon and Shield strengths exceed the player's, they must immediately discard it to run away from the monster for 1 Experience and may not play another Action that turn. If only one of the Monster card's Weapon and Shield strengths exceeds the player's, they may choose to run away but are not required to.

Finding Cards

When a player is instructed to "find" a card of a given type, they must draw cards until they draw one of that type, then reveal the others and shuffle them back into the draw pile.

If a player finds a card with a required level higher than the player's level, they may choose to ignore it and continue finding.

Card List

9/9

Demicanadian Runeloremaster

Action - Character

Gain 5 Experience. Play or find a Spell or Equipment card.

10/8

Dung Elf Mage Illusioner

Action - Character

Gain 5 Experience. Play or find a Spell or Equipment card.

8/10

Double Hobbit Fighter/Organist

Action - Character

Gain 5 Experience. Play or find a Spell or Equipment card.

11/6

Eel Man Ur-Paladin

Action - Character

Gain 5 Experience. Play or find a Spell or Equipment card.

10/7

Skraeling Robot Monk

Action - Character

Gain 5 Experience. Play or find a Spell or Equipment card.

9/8

Gyrognome Birdrider

Action - Character

Gain 5 Experience. Play or find a Spell or Equipment card.

10/7

Crested Dwarf Inner Mason

Action - Character

Gain 5 Experience. Play or find a Spell or Equipment card.

9/9

Will o' the Wisp Tongueblade

Action - Character

Gain 5 Experience. Play or find a Spell or Equipment card.

1/0

Bunny

Action - Monster

Gain 1 Experience.

1/0

Pixie

Action - Monster

Gain 1 Experience.

1/0

Octopus

Action - Monster

Gain 1 Experience.

1/0

Koala

Action - Monster

Gain 1 Experience.

1/0

Gelatinous Cube

Action - Monster

Gain 1 Experience.

1/0

Unicorn

Action - Monster

Gain 1 Experience.

1/0

Ogre

Action - Monster

Gain 1 Experience.

1/0

Berserker

Action - Monster

Gain 1 Experience.

1/0

Blink Dog

Action - Monster

Gain 1 Experience.

2/0

Bat

Action - Monster

Gain 1 Experience.

2/0

Wraith

Action - Monster

Gain 1 Experience.

3/0

Sea Elf

Action - Monster

Gain 1 Experience.

4/0

Owlbear

Action - Monster

Gain 2 Experience.

3/2

Bone Devil

Action - Monster

Gain 2 Experience.

4/4

Anklyosaurus

Action - Monster

Gain 2 Experience.

5/2

Wyvern

Action - Monster

Gain 2 Experience.

6/3

Catoblepas

Action - Monster

Gain 2 Experience.

1/3

Mind Flayer

Action - Monster

Gain 2 Experience.

4/2

Griffon

Action - Monster

Gain 2 Experience.

5/1

Hydra

Action - Monster

Gain 2 Experience.

6/5

Beer Golem

Action - Monster

Gain 3 Experience.

8/4

Purple Worm

Action - Monster

Gain 3 Experience.

5/6

Cheese Elemental

Action - Monster

Gain 3 Experience.

7/6

Baluchitherium

Action - Monster

Gain 3 Experience.

5/7

Umber Hulk

Action - Monster

Gain 3 Experience.

6/6

Mastodon

Action - Monster

Gain 3 Experience.

12/10

Ice Dragon

Action - Monster

Gain 8 Experience. Play or find a Spell or Equipment card.

11/12

Chromatic Dragon

Action - Monster

Gain 9 Experience. Play or find a Spell or Equipment card.

13/12

Shadow Dragon

Action - Monster

Gain 10 Experience. Play or find a Spell or Equipment card.

4

Mace

Thing - Weapon

5

Morning Star

Thing - Weapon

6

Longsword

Thing - Weapon

8

Peenarm

Thing - Weapon

9

Poleadze

Thing - Weapon

10

Bandyclef

Thing - Weapon

Required level: 7.

+2

Stabbity

Thing - Weapon Mod

+3

Flaming

Thing - Weapon Mod

+4

Invisible

Thing - Weapon Mod

+5

Vorpal

Thing - Weapon Mod

Required level: 5.

3

Buckler

Thing - Shield

5

Scutum

Thing - Shield

6

Pavise

Thing - Shield

7

Tower Shield

Thing - Shield

8

Baroque Shield

Thing - Shield

10

Magnetic Field

Thing - Shield

Required level: 7.

+2

Studded

Thing - Shield Mod

+3

Fine

Thing - Shield Mod

+4

Elven

Thing - Shield Mod

+5

Holy

Thing - Shield Mod

Required level: 5.

Deliver this chicken

Thing - Quest

When you have gained 12 Experience since playing this card, destroy it and play or find a Spell or Equipment card.

Exterminate the Stegosauri

Thing - Quest

When you have gained 12 Experience since playing this card, destroy it and play or find a Spell or Equipment card.

Fetch me a plank

Thing - Quest

When you have gained 12 Experience since playing this card, destroy it and play or find a Spell or Equipment card.

Placate the Bacon Elementals

Thing - Quest

When you have gained 12 Experience since playing this card, destroy it and play or find a Spell or Equipment card.

Seek the Ostentatious Candelabra

Thing - Quest

When you have gained 12 Experience since playing this card, destroy it and play or find a Spell or Equipment card.

Deliver this towel

Thing - Quest

When you have gained 12 Experience since playing this card, destroy it and play or find a Spell or Equipment card.

Exterminate the Wyverns

Thing - Quest

When you have gained 12 Experience since playing this card, destroy it and play or find a Spell or Equipment card.

Fetch me a bandage

Thing - Quest

When you have gained 12 Experience since playing this card, destroy it and play or find a Spell or Equipment card.

Placate the Cloud Giants

Thing - Quest

When you have gained 12 Experience since playing this card, destroy it and play or find a Spell or Equipment card.

Seek the Arcane Gimcrack

Thing - Quest

When you have gained 12 Experience since playing this card, destroy it and play or find a Spell or Equipment card.

Seasick

Thing - Spell

Required level: 6. Action: Flip a coin for target opponent to discard a card.

Eye of the Troglodyte

Thing - Spell

Required level: 6. Action: Look at target opponent's hand.

Rabbit Punch

Thing - Spell

Required level: 7. Action: Target opponent must discard a Monster card if they have one; you receive the Experience indicated on the card if your weapon and shield are good enough, or 1 Experience otherwise.

Ursine Armor

Thing - Spell

Required level: 7. Action: Your shield or shield mod gains +1 (maximum +5).

Hastiness

Thing - Spell

Required level: 8. Action: If target opponent attempts to play any Action or Thing on their next turn, they have a 50% chance of failing.

Braingate

Thing - Spell

Required level: 8. Action: Negate any continuing effects of a spell cast on you since your last turn.

Invisible Hands

Thing - Spell

Required level: 9. Action: Discard a card. Look at the top three cards in the draw pile and arrange them in the order of your choice.

Inoculate

Thing - Spell

Required level: 9. Action: Negate the effects of target spell against you until the spell's controller spends an Action to counteract the inoculation.

Slime Finger

Thing - Spell

Required level: 10. Action: Target Mod gains -1; if target Mod has +0, destroy it.

Magnetic Orb

Thing - Spell

Required level: 10. Action: Discard an Equipment card and two other cards. Take an Equipment card of the same type from the discard pile and put it into your hand.

Lockjaw

Thing - Spell

Required level: 11. Action: Return target spell with a level less than or equal to yours to its controller's hand unless its controller discards a card.

Revolting Cloud

Thing - Spell

Required level: 11. Action: Every player discards a card. Opponents' weapons and shields gain -2 for their next turn.

Big Sister

Thing - Spell

Required level: 12. Action: Choose an opponent. At the beginning of their turns, they may not draw cards; instead, you draw a card and then give them a card from your hand. This effect has a 50% chance to lapse at the end of their turns.

Spectral Miasma

Thing - Spell

Required level: 13. Action: Opponents may not draw cards at the beginning of their turns. This effect has a 50% chance to lapse at the end of their turns. Limit once every three turns.

Infinite Confusion

Thing - Spell

Required level: 14. Action: During their next two turns, every player must choose a card randomly from their hand and either play or discard it.

Astral Miasma

Thing - Spell

Required level: 15. Action: Opponents may not cast spells or attack monsters. This effect has a 50% chance to lapse at the end of their turns. Limit once every three turns.