u/FosterIssuesJones

I have seen many fan cast about a chaos season where they bring back the most chaotic contestants. Would anybody else want a season of the contestants that were the most competitive or took it the most seriously?

Of course Ed Gamble comes to mind, but I think this season shows that Chloe is both lovable and competitive. Who else? I think it would be great to have 5 people that really want to win.

Maybe have a live task where they have to compete against the contestants that pissed them off the most on their original season.

I am looking for cookbooks that are more of a piece of art in themselves rather than a cookbook. Good recipes are welcome, but I want a book that makes a statement on culture or ideas.

The books don't have to be based on an artist. I have the Salvador Dali Cookbook, and I also have a great one from Georgia O'Keeffe.

What I am really looking for is a book that creates a story with both recipes and images. Example, I was going through "Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen", and I just felt inspired and in awe from page to page. The art on display in the book gave weight to the stories and recipes in the pages. I would love more like that.

I seriously came up with this idea in a dream. I was playing a lot of the video game Blue Prince to the point I was dreaming about it, and in that dream, I thought about how I would turn it into a board game. Then the dream evolved into how I would turn that board game into a card game using a single deck of cards, but it evolved into more of a simplified dungeon crawler.

After I woke up, I tried it a few times, made some tweaks, played some more, and wrote down the below set of instructions.

I have some of my own critiques that I will put into the comments, but I would love to hear your questions, advice, or ideas to make this a better solitaire game. Thank you all.

INTRODUCTION

Brute Solitaire is a single player dungeon crawler card game played with a standard deck of playing cards. With each turn, you discover rooms, defeat monsters, open doors, and manage resources as you explore an expanding dungeon. Treasure awaits at the back of the dungeon, and it is your goal to clear a safe path before you run out of assets.

 

SETUP

Brute Solitaire is played with a standard deck of playing cards.

Shuffle the standard deck of playing cards and place the pile face down on your left. This deck is the resource deck.

Take out a piece of paper and pen (or use your memory). Mark down 20 on the piece of paper, this is your starting Health.

 

RULES & GAMEPLAY

For your fist move, flip the top card on the top of your resource deck and place in front of you at the bottom of the play area.

This is your first room.

Black cards can be rooms with monsters or the resource strength of your attacks against monsters or doors.

Red cards can be rooms with magical locks or the resource spells used against monsters and doors.

All cards keep their standard numeric value with Aces being 1 and Kings being 13 with the highest number winning.

Once a card is played as a room, it will remain on the board while used resources are discarded.

Each newly discovered room card has 1 entrance to the south and 3 exits to the west, north, and east.

Black rooms have a monster inside with a strength and health equal to the numeric value on the room card.

To fight monsters, draw three cards.

Your card with the highest number is your defense against the monster’s attack. If your highest cards numeric value is higher than the monster’s strength, you have successfully defended against attack, but if your card is lower, take the difference in damage against your life points.

Your card with the lowest number is your attack against the monster. Subtract the numeric value from the monster’s health. The monster’s strength does not lose value.

If you choose, you can risk a second action by flipping over the next card as an additional resource. If black, take 1 more point of damage from the monster’s health, and add 1 point of health you your life points if the card is red making sure to not go above 20.

Once the monster is defeated, you can move forward to the next room row.

Red rooms have 3 magical locked doors inside with a strength equal to the numeric value on the room card.

To unlock, draw three resource cards with the first being the for the west lock, second for the north lock, and third for the east lock, but you do not draw a resource card for any locks that already have rooms to the west, north, or east because these paths are already considered unlocked.

Red cards are keys and black cards are strength attacks against doors.

If the numeric value of the resource card is higher than the room card, that door is now unlocked and you place a room card in the direction.

If no door is unlocked, you have the option of choosing a direction and flipping an additional resource card.

If that card’s color is different than that directions resource card, that door is now locked for the rest of the game, and it cannot be opened. Place the next resource card face down where the room would go.

If that card’s color matches that directions resource card, add the numeric value to the previous resource card to use against the numeric value of the locked door.

You can choose to continue to flip resources, or move to another unsuccessful lock.

You can also backtrack to another room to try an open path, placing a room card next to a previously beaten monster if a room does not already exist in that direction.

The Game ends when your life reaches 0, you run out of resources, no more rooms can be discovered, or you successfully make a path to the treasure room in row 6 of the dungeon.