Re: LNH: Looniverse Fight Chronicles Trading Card Game #0: Designer's Notes

On 9/13/23 3:08 PM, Scott Eiler wrote:
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> In the 1990s I came up with a functioning card game for my own characters:  
> Omniverse the Card Game.  Early solitaire playtesting had stuff like monsters 
> getting sent to Hell, then catching a ride out on a passing spaceship, while the 
> Happy Bears got recruited for a crusade.

:D Love it

> About five years ago I revisited the game, and put in a "House Player" for 
> solitaire play.  That playtest came down to Total Conversion (representing the 
> Playtester, if I remember correctly) vs. Evil Wyatt Ferguson (House Player) 
> during an omniversal merge.  That confrontation was equalized when Evil Wyatt 
> drew a Solar Flare Cannon card. Fortunately he was evil, so he could use it, and 
> House Player rules said he had to.  Unfortunately, the cannon tends to blow up 
> the entire Earth if anything goes wrong - and it did.  With all the Earths 
> having merged, *everything* blew up and the player characters all ended up in 
> Limbo. Game victory went to a couple of devil priests from a dystopian world, 
> because they had at least escaped their world.  8{D>
Now that's what I call quality marriage of mechanics and flavor. n.n

> ... Anyway, here in the modern age, if you ever come up with rules for your 
> game, you could probably hold a Zoom meeting and find some real playtesters.  8{D>

Hell yeah n.n

Drew "absolutely ridiculous" Nilium