Technopoly deck

Technopoly
Designers	Kevan and Ben
Date	18th June 2002
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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A deck of cards for the invention-and-trading game Technopoly, which can be played via the Dvorak Engine. Full rules are at http://kevan.org/games/technopoly.html.

Card List

Automatic

Thing - Positive

May not be activated by a Robot; is instead able to activate itself, once per turn.

Ecological

Thing - Positive

If a Machine, any Fuel can be used to fuel its activations.

Invulnerable

Thing - Positive

This Object cannot be destroyed, even when burnt as Fuel. This takes precedence over all other Attributes.

Plentiful

Thing - Positive

Whenever one of these Objects would be created, two are created instead.

Protective

Thing - Positive

Other Object types you own may only be attacked if you own more of them than you do of this Object.

Rapid-Fire

Thing - Positive

If a Machine, it may be Activated twice per turn (by the same Robot, or by itself if Automatic).

Researched

Thing - Positive

The next Attribute card added to this Object by its inventor may not be responded to by opponents.

Retaliatory

Thing - Positive

If an Attacker loses a battle against this Object, the Attacker is destroyed.

Self-Replicating

Thing - Positive

Object is able to make a copy of itself, once per turn.

Synthetic

Thing - Positive

Select an existing Fuel, when you invent this. This Object may be used in place of that Fuel, when fuelling or constructing Machines.

Analyser

Thing - Positive

Activate: Destroy a Machine you own, and gain the Technology for it.

Attacker

Thing - Positive

Activate: Attack an Object as if this Machine were a Robot.

Convertor

Thing - Positive

Activate: Change a Fuel Object you own into any other Fuel.

Copier

Thing - Positive

Activate: Generate a copy of an Object you own.

Destroyer

Thing - Positive

Activate: Destroy any Object.

Liberator

Thing - Positive

Activate: Choose an Object, and roll as if attacking it. If successful, you may steal that Object instead.

Manipulator

Thing - Positive

Activate: Invent a new Object, or create a known Object, or activate a Machine, or Attack another Object.

Miner

Thing - Positive

Activate: Create two copies of a Fuel you have Mining Rights for.

Monitor

Thing - Positive

Activate: Look at any opponent's hand.

Researcher

Thing - Positive

Activate: Draw an Attribute card at the end of this turn. (If you use this multiple times in a turn, you still only get one card.)

Scavenger

Thing - Positive

Activate: Create a copy of an Object which was destroyed or burnt since your last turn, and which belonged to an opponent.

Synthesiser

Thing - Positive

Choose an existing Fuel, when you invent this. Activate: Generate that Fuel.

Transmitter

Thing - Positive

Activate: You may choose to add or subtract ten from the endgame roll, at the end of the round. (Multiple usage doesn't increase this.)

Fixed

Thing - Neutral

This Object cannot be stolen or traded.

Mysterious

Thing - Neutral

Any Player may skip their turn to remove this Attribute and replace it with one from their hand.

Fuel: 1A

Thing - Negative

Requires 1 Fuel to be burnt per activation.

Fuel: 1A

Thing - Negative

Requires 1 Fuel to be burnt per activation.

Fuel: 1A

Thing - Negative

Requires 1 Fuel to be burnt per activation.

Fuel: 2A

Thing - Negative

Requires 2 Fuel to be burnt per activation.

Fuel: 3A

Thing - Negative

Requires 3 Fuel to be burnt per activation.

Fuel: 1C

Thing - Negative

Requires 1 Fuel to be burnt per creation.

Fuel: 1C

Thing - Negative

Requires 1 Fuel to be burnt per creation.

Fuel: 1C

Thing - Negative

Requires 1 Fuel to be burnt per creation.

Fuel: 2C

Thing - Negative

Requires 2 Fuel to be burnt per creation.

Fuel: 3C

Thing - Negative

Requires 3 Fuel to be burnt per creation.

Fuel: 1A*

Thing - Negative

Requires 1 Fuel to be burnt per activation. Whoever plays this card may choose the Fuel.

Fuel: 1C*

Thing - Negative

Requires 1 Fuel to be burnt per creation. Whoever plays this card may choose the Fuel.

Fuel: 1P

Thing - Negative

Requires 1 Fuel to be burnt every turn. If the owner declines to burn the Fuel for this Object, the Object is destroyed.

Elaborate

Thing - Negative

This Object requires 3 Robots to create or activate.

Evaporating

Thing - Negative

At the end of your turns, you must destroy one Evaporating Object you control.

Flawed

Thing - Negative

This Object is abandoned during the design stage, and can never be mined or created.

Fragile

Thing - Negative

This Object will automatically lose, when attacked.

Hazardous

Thing - Negative

If a Machine, the activating Robot is destroyed, when activated. If Fuel, the Robot activating the Machine it is feeding is destroyed.

High-Maintenance

Thing - Negative

At the end of a Player's turn, destroy all High-Maintenance Objects they own which were not monitored by a Robot during that turn.

Illegal

Thing - Negative

If you own any Illegal objects, you cannot win the game.

Inert

Thing - Negative

This Object cannot be used to fuel anything.

Limited

Thing - Negative

If a Fuel, it can only be mined during this round and the next three.

Noisy

Thing - Negative

When created or activated, no other types of Object may be created or activated in the same turn.

One-Shot

Thing - Negative

If a Machine, it is destroyed immediately after being activated.

Pollutant

Thing - Negative

Counts as -1 to score, instead of 1, during endgame.

Polluting

Thing - Negative

Creates a 'Waste' Object (the inventor may name it) every time it is created or activated. (Such Waste Objects count as -1 to score, during endgame.)

Slow

Thing - Negative

If a Machine, it may not be activated if it was activated during the owner's previous turn.

Unique

Thing - Negative

Each Player may only own one of these; excess are automatically destroyed.

Unpredictable

Thing - Negative

Whenever this Machine is activated, its owner nominates an opponent - that opponent makes all choices required by the activation ability.

Unstable

Thing - Negative

If one of these Objects is destroyed, all other Objects of its type belonging to its owner are also destroyed.

Unstoppable

Thing - Negative

Any Player able to create this Object must create two of them per turn, before doing anything else.

Worthless

Thing - Negative

This Object counts for nothing when totalling scores at endgame.