u/NerbPrincess

Keep in mind I'm still trying to fill in the blanks.

Basically, there's 10 cards in each deck. Each player starts with 4 cards in their hand. There's two prize cards laid out* and 3 monster cards per deck.

Each player can take up to 3 actions per turn, each card has 2 actions, and each card can only act once.

There's monsters, objects, and tools.

Monsters can attack and be defeated for prize cards. They work in sets of matching monsters that have abilities that compliment each other. (Example: if you sacrifice Dr.Frankenstein from play, you can add a ton of extra health to his Monster)

Objects can do things like heal, boost attack, or let you draw cards. Some objects can deal small amounts of damage.

Tools are held by monsters and are discarded when a monster is defeated.

Aside from the occasional card that does something powerful if you sacrifice it, the discard pile gets shuffled back into the draw pile when you run out of cards to draw.

The goal is to defeat two of your opponents monsters to win.

There's also three cards classes, pumpkins, skulls, and candy.

Pumpkin cards typically encourage drawing lots of cards to keep cycling the deck. Skull cards focus in on boosting the powers of certain monster combos. Candy doesn't have any monsters attached to the class and it's made up of objects or tool cards that don't fit either category.

Does that seem simple enough while covering the bases? I'm gonna make a little rule book zine to go with the tcg when I hand it out too.

*edit two prize cards per player

Planning on eventually reshelling my white GBA sp and I really want a kirby themed shell.

Since I know screens can be shell dependent I'm curious if it'd be better to paint a shell thst matches the screen I want or by a screen the matches the shell I want?

Honestly the 3DS is better for Kirby games than GBA/GBASP but I'm scared to try and fix up either of my 3DS consoles and on my GBA SP i can still play Dreamland, Dreamland 2, and star stacker.

My DS lite is down for repairs and I haven't beaten pokemon colosseum.

There's no way I'm getting what I need done by February 2027.

The new plan is to get a full ribbon master up to the point where I'd have to use pokemon bank/pokemon transport and just keep it in ultra sun.

I'll definitely back up the save file with my Meganuim and keep it on my external hard drive for my art projects too.

It will be sad not to use the ultimate Meganuim in pokemon champions but I suck at competitive anyways.

I love making and drawing stuff to hand out for Halloween. I made a coloring comic, coloring collectable trading cards, but I want to use my coloring trading cards from last year to make an actual homemade tcg.

I'd need to make more support cards since I'm pretty sure I have all monster cards drawn so far? I also know that I need to make it so there's 10 cards or less in a deck because I have to draw, plan, print, and cut everything myself for the purpose of handing out to trick or treaters.

I have more experienced family that can help me some, but I'll have to do the bulk of the work alone.

Does anyone know where I should start for planning card actions and game mechanics?

Also,, the cards were a hit last year even without a game at least.

I always hand out something fun for trick or treaters as a tradition along with candy as many children can't eat certain kinds of candy due to food intolerances.

Last year I made collectable coloring page card packs with my own art, and this year I want to take it up a notch and make it so the cards can be used for an actual game if people want.

The main problem is that I don't have experience with board game or tcg design. I know video game design to a certain degree, but table top games are newer to me when it comes to a design perspective.

I was wondering if there's any open source tcgs that use smaller decks I could use the rules from? This would also help me learn much needed skills around table top gaming design.

I already have quite a bit of needed art for this project, so I'm hoping I can pull something together. Curse me for always needing to top last year!

I learned more about love from a Nintendo wii game I played as a kid called super paper mario than I ever did from the church's direct teachings.

Like if you ever need to deconstruct Mormon ideas around love for your kids that game might be good way to? Like some kind of reverse family home evening that focuses on unlearning things that are bad for you?

It doesn't only cover romantic love, there's one chapter that covers contrasting needs around platonic love.

There's goofy characters that love their community and lifestyle, but they're unknowingly polluting a water supply and driving the king of another community insane which causes conflict that the heroes have to resolve. There's aspects of grief and parental love too that i don't want to spoil too much of because i just don't have space here.

Plus it's all clearly fictional. And since it's not in any way pretending to be real it's easier to talk about things that you don't like in it.

These days I see the Bible as an ancient over translated historical document containing legends and parables. The BoM is just made up with no merit to it.

Also I want to hear if any of you have reverse family home evening ideas for deconstructing weird faith or any favorite fictional media that taught you more about something than the church did despite the claim of expertise.

I might not respond but I will read any comments I see.

This is the only thing holding me back from making the switch to Linux. I'm sick of bloat and I want a laptop that's easy to repair and good for game dev.

But clip studio paint ex was expensive even if I got it over time in different discounted pieces. It's also my favorite art program I've used so far since my hands shake and I can adjust the stabilization to be just right. Plus I hate coloring if it's not with physical watercolor or acrylic paints and I can actually use a fill bucket in this program.

Basically, how easy is it to run clip studio paint in Linux? Is there too much extra friction in getting it set up to draw compared to windows?

I can look up how it runs on my own, but would it deter someone from drawing on a bad day to use it through Linux?

I listen to music on YouTube a lot while writing, and for my current fic I was thinking about linking to each chapters 'theme' in each chapters summary or the authors notes.

Would that break the flow for people or be kinda cool?

I don't have YouTube music btw I just suffer through advertisements.

The thing about prayer (especially Mormon prayer) is, the answer is inside us the whole time. But if you're stressed or anxious you aren't gonna get anything and just feel more stressed because of it.

But with tarot you can gently get the answer out of you without having to force anything. You can even get multiple answers instead of just one! Mormon prayer seems to tell people "go with the first answer you get" which isn't healthy once you realize that the answers are inside of you and not from a god.

I also like how it has to be an intentional event. I care about my cards so I'm not gonna do it half awake before bed or in front of a cluttered desk. When I feel like i need to do a reading I'll clear space on my desk or make a note to sleep on the worry then read tomorrow with mental clarity.

Also I recommend looking up your birthday cards even though there isn't anything magic about it, since having a reason for personal attachment to certain cards is just useful for introspection.

Disclaimer: I was raised in the church outside of utah. I've been out for a few years now and I'm in my late 20's now, I can't remember any of the acronyms surrounding the culture of leaving this church. Also this post is kinda long since I'm annoyed today and that makes me less concise.

I have pretty severe noise sensitivity and it was way worse when I was a kid. Like certain noises or just loud sounds can often make me feel both mental and physical pain.

I logically know it's not my fault and that it got so extreme thanks to childhood trauma from my family having to move so much because we were poor.

But like I was thinking about the problem since I'm just feeling shitty about it and I realized a few things.

I remember thinking when I was younger that all my good thoughts that helped me push through came from God, i didn't have any faith in myself to think I had willpower of my own.

Many Christian churches push this ideology but the the one this reddit about is probably one of the most wide spread since the local teachers have no professional training in critical thinking around religion, they just regurgitate what the church says.

My depression around noise sensitivity has definitely gotten better since leaving and deconstructing because now I can see both the good and bad thoughts come from me.

I also realized that the tithe probably contributed to the origin of my problem since maybe if my parents weren't scammed into paying it, we would have at least have been able to afford more resources to help me before it got unmanageable.

I'm doing much better now compared to my childhood now that I'm out. It certainly helps that I don't have to go into the physical church building anymore unless I want to? The only reason I've gone is to support family members for mission farewells.

This post isn't gonna even go into my baggage around not wanting to go to church as a kid because of the noise overwhelm. Like this post, that could easily be a whole book if I let it be.