The idea would to be to have a problem a character has, and the card is used as a possible solution. It could be a reversal of the usual concept, where the players have to work together as friends to solve whatever problem there is. You could have a separate deck of things to go wrong, and keep stacking them up if a solution isn't reached in a number of turns depending on how bad it is.

A card game huh? What kind of card game? Is it the kind where each card has some kind of attack/defense thing?

@Storyeller: Yeah, I mean, an rpg should definitely be balanced. It'll be more fun that way and create a lot less work for the GM. But it's always possible to salvage a poorly balanced game through clever gming. But yeah the balance issue is one of the big reasons I will never willing play a D&D or Pathfinder game again.

edited 18th Jul '13 7:28:14 PM by Bluespade

@the idea of a pony card game:

One other way I could see this working is if it was a variant of Fluxx. (Protagonistic characters and artifacts counting as keepers, and of course, a goal to work on.)

As for what you missed Orion, it appears to be Dungeons and Dragons stuff, along with card games. -goes to put a cat ear band upon Orion-

@NES: I quiet like my ears.

So, what do you think my abilities would be?

*knows nothing about TT Gs aside from what he's osmosed from Darths and Droids and Order of the Stick*

You could always give Another Gaming Comic a try. Unfortunately it went on hiatus, but it was pretty funny while it lasted.

You gotta try em sometime. They're a blast.

I've been a GM for going on 13 years now and it's pretty much my favorite thing. I do wish I could spend more time as a player though.

edited 18th Jul '13 7:32:35 PM by Bluespade

@Blue: Well, yeah, I agree. Like, I don't give a toss about the optimization of my current character(Though so far the DM seems to be responding well to the fact that I 'rescued' a horse by allowing it to give me a bonus to combat, so there's that), because the DM has allowed for the campaign to be reasonably forgiving in the name of story. I'd be concerned about it if I had a terrible DM who was playing a numbers game, though.

@Story: See, I had figured their Ki abilities would give them a big boost in combat - not to mention some cool high-level class features. Though I suppose since their Ki pool is limited it'll only ever go so far, and if you can never GET to high level... That's pretty weird, then.

The last game I'd played before this was the Star Wars Roleplaying Game. Broken, but equally broken. Pick a skill, dump all character points(Which you get a decent amount of at the end of every game) into that. New Dice are getting too expensive? take a specialty in that skill, it's half the cost of a full skill dice. You can get a dozen D6's in a single skill in a few nights, which is generally all you will ever need unless you get some shit-tastic rolls. Rinse and repeat with a few core skills and you're good to go.

edited 18th Jul '13 7:36:48 PM by kegisak

Are we talking about Trading Card games now?

All this time, and I never knew... I suppose I need to go find a ship and pillage something now.

And they said that a viking helmet whit a pony in it would be useless.

edited 18th Jul '13 7:59:16 PM by spyro4

I'm a go befriend a Night Fury and lose my leg in a climactic battle with the Green Death!

BTW, Andy Price agrees that AJ is the bestest.

edited 18th Jul '13 8:03:28 PM by edvedd

Seriously... DAFUQ is goin' on?

Well, it turns out we're all vikings now. So that's something.

Rainbow Dash examines Cargo Shipping.

Just don't let the Pineapple Princess find you.

Pineapple Princess? Is this a new OC? She sounds hot.

The pineapples will last...

for as long as it takes to shove 'em down your mouth hole. Pineapple is good.

edited 18th Jul '13 8:33:24 PM by edvedd

I understand that pineapple cores can be eaten as a mild painkiller.

Please tell me that line is really dirty in context.

Pineapple Princess, he calls me Pineapple Princess all day...

edited 18th Jul '13 8:43:24 PM by Sydxelia

And a rather...interesting cover:

So I guess pineapples are the new cheese, then?

Not sure if anyone addressed this little bit directly, but:

This was already in vanilla D&D, Fighters get "Fighter bonus feats" every even-numbered level. (And also at first level, which is why some people I know like to splash a level or two of Fighter, just for the extra feat.) But what Pathfinder did was add class features, so Fighters always get some extra perk for leveling up instead of having all these Empty Levels.

edited 18th Jul '13 8:53:05 PM by KylerThatch