Elemental Warfare by DrEvilBrain

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made by DrEvilBrain for LD 44 (JAM)

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Overview

Elemental Warfare is a 2 to 4 player competitive card game where you play as earth elementals that are fighting a civil war against rival clans. Sell off parts of your own body’s various mineral deposits in order to purchase weapons and fight against rival earth elementals.

So How The Hell Do I Play This?

First, you'll want to print out the cards and character sheet, or follow the card list/rulebook and write down all the card effects on index cards and use a blank sheet of paper as a character sheet. Then you'll need at least one friend to play with!

You don't really need anything else, but its nice to have something to keep track of how many minerals you have on different body parts besides just writing them down on the character sheet. Dice work well for this (d10s on the torso, d8s on the head, and d6s on the arms/legs). Alternatively, you can print out the tokens and use those to keep track of what minerals you have on what body parts.

Credits

@matthewrobo - Art

Made using GIMP, LibreOffice, ~200 index cards, 4 bottles of green tea, 3 bottles of Dr. Pepper, and a lot of junk food.

Post-Mortem

Check out the post-mortem of this game!

Ratings

Given 8🗳️ 6🗨️

Feedback

Lyrcaxis
30. Apr 2019 · 21:17 UTC
Really tough to play this without friends :')
🎤 DrEvilBrain
30. Apr 2019 · 21:31 UTC
@lyrcaxis In elementary school I used to play chess and YuGiOh by myself because I didn't have many friends. I later ended up discovering chess and YuGiOh puzzles where you win in X amount of turns.

But I didn't know until pretty recently that sometimes it's more fun to just play a random board game with strangers. The best times I've had at conventions were with random people with random board games I've never heard of. Discovered Bunny Kingdom that way which is one of the best Richard Garfield games, if not his best work thus far (and this is coming from a huge Netrunner fan).
VaizAragorn
30. Apr 2019 · 23:44 UTC
I really need close friends to play this. :'(
Geckoo1337
01. May 2019 · 01:04 UTC
I love card games. I took a look at the cards which you share and on the rules, and it seems to me that it is a solid entry. I think that it could be interesting you post a video, showing to us a real game with friends - just to figure out how it works. Thank you. I wish you the best ++