Charas: The Gathering

[Felix-0]

Makes sense. Maybe we could have forum boards as land, and then posts as spells.

and not posts it would bee topic boards

AKA: Gaming/ Games/ All of All/ Creative Arts/ Off Topic/ Welcome Board

Am I not Appreciated 

[Moosetroop11]

The boards as types would work. If it's unbalanced, think about bending the rules slightly. Tons of people could be put in Creative Arts because they're musical or arty or have been a mod of it :p All the people who had games or demos in the games section could be the games or programming type, as well as the rpgmaker coder helpers who could easily be lumped into that. Forum gaming would include all those members who post constantly in FFL's games, Welcome board takes the more friendly half of those left and everyone else is in all of all.

[Felix-0]

no those would be feild cards >__<
and It allowes users to be more leniant...Like I would never be in creative arts...but probably the board of projects 

[Meiscool-2]

I REQUIRE 5 ALL OF ALL POSTS, 3 FORUM GAMING POSTS, 1 TEST AND WELCOME POST, 1 GAMES POST, AND 1 COLORLESS POST TO BE SUMMONED.

[Prpl_Mage]

I'm not sure how the stats work in card games. But I'm kinda working to make something like converting a persons length, weight, speed and armpower into stats.
It's kinda solid, needs more work- but still. It could be used.

And if anyone wants to know. It's C++, so you just enter the numbers and it calculates it for you.

[X_marks_the_ed]

I'll explain the system I was using before.

The lands were undecided, but between posts (Red posts, blue posts, etc.), bytes (as in profiles take up space on the server), or just sources of awesomeness, funniness, creation, etc.

Boards and threads were enchantments. Boards being more like shrines. The shrines were as follows: Red (Creative) - Creative Arts, Blue (Awesomeness) - All of All, Purple (Randomness) - Unmoderated (I guess that's void now), Green - Humour (Forum Gaming), White (Law) - Test and Welcome.

The strategies were as follows for the colors-
Purple: Unpredictable strategies and surprises.
Red: Generation and production of helpful summons and spells.
Blue: Power and plenty of it, crushing opponents as quickly as possible.
White: Destruction based on type and evasion of direct damage.
Green: Use of outside forces to strengthen oneself in both defense and offense.

The term 'deck' was replaced by 'forum.'

Fads were a form of enchantment.

ZKX/I have a Sandwich was the B.F.M. of the game. Highly overpowered and for players with no sense of strategy. This is not meant to mean anything, it just thrives on my egotistical ZKX thing.

How I determined abilities:
-I research a bit about the member, mostly using the wiki, and take down things they have done that affected the forum or its members in some way.
-I then convert them into magic abilities.
-From there, I determine the colors of the member based on these actions. The colors usually fall into place normally, if not, I just pick the one I feel fits best.
-From there, I take the abilities I have and eliminate ones that do not work with the color's big strategy.
-I would take the member's abilities into consideration, and considering how they may be used strategically, assign a mana cost I find suitable.

I was going to branch out into the projects of the members, as you can see, Olive from Epic Adventures made it into the mix, marked as separate series (Epic Adventures being Bunneh).


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Holy ****, I still have my old workshop for the cards, they made it over the backup!
So, I'd appreciate it if we're not using my stuff that you not use "Charas: The Gathering," Lucas. I hope you understand.

[Meiscool-2]

I'm more for completely restarting with new ideas.

[Cerebus]

I agree. There's no need to use Magic theme. We could just create a new theme or use a less complex one... because yeah, magic is quite complex.

[Dragonium]

The boards as types would work. If it's unbalanced, think about bending the rules slightly. Tons of people could be put in Creative Arts because they're musical or arty or have been a mod of it :p All the people who had games or demos in the games section could be the games or programming type, as well as the rpgmaker coder helpers who could easily be lumped into that. Forum gaming would include all those members who post constantly in FFL's games, Welcome board takes the more friendly half of those left and everyone else is in all of all.

A problem with this arises if two of those criteria contradict each other, say if someone is a moderator of Forum Gaming or something but doesn't spend the majority of their time there.

*Cough*

[Emerates]

So...  what about a Raffles card?

[Meiscool-2]

WE MUST INCLUDE TRAP CARDS

[Djanki]

WE MUST INCLUDE TRAP CARDS

What about additional pylons, and Brigdet? (jk)

What if we make it more like PokemonTCG, where we have each member, in various forms? Like, say, we have Newb. Archem, User Archem, then Mod. Archem, with each level having varying skills?

[Meiscool-2]

Charas stratego variation! Since there are nine ranks, (sage, zealot, etc. ) we could do the numbers thing. It would need slight alterations though.

[Felix-0]

Posted on: Yesterday at 08:49:53 PMPosted by: Djanki 
What if we make it more like PokemonTCG, where we have each member, in various forms? Like, say, we have Newb. Archem, User Archem, then Mod. Archem, with each level having varying skills?

That sounds like a good Idea...I could work with that >__>

[Grandy]

 We could use character bio's and whatnot to come up with cards.
 Like,
 'Bionic Eye', based on Warxe's bio.
 'Work Accident' based on the same.
 'Hidden Laboratory' Based on ZKX's bio.
 'Lazer Sword' Based on ZKX
 'Runaway' based on mine.

 Or make up situations. Like Magic does.
 Like
 'Harp Tune' with Alex's picture playing a harp.
 'Steal' with Grandy's picture.
 'Gunslinger' with Bluhman's.
 'Inconspicuous' with Pablo walking in a crowd.
 'Barfight' with the Charas' pub's members.
 'What to do?' with the classic picture of Sai'kar not being able to decide wether to go to the male or female bathroom.

 Homage to older members/memes.
 'Xen'
 'White Dwarf'
 'Red Giant'

 Item cards such as:
 'The Big Emerald'
 'Razor's Bacon'
 'Pub's Beer'
 'Xenmobile'

 Or just memorable events from your favorite RPs/game/other threads.
 'Exploding Throw' with Warxe being tossed into Nazis inside a whale's belly. It was somewhere in the Charas pub, I'm sure of it.
 'The Blue Key' card, which opens 'The Blue Door' card. Both from the Charas Pub.
 'StarScape'
 
 And maybe some parodies. We all parody everything anyway.
 Like
 'Ultimate Power!' which shows a member, let's say Almeida, acting like a dargonball character, his paperbag glowing gold.
 'Paranoid' with ZKX scribling the number 23 all over the place
 'It's alive!!' with Sai'Kar dressed as a mad scientist over a generic RPG character in a table with lightning.
 
 And some things which are just RPG-esque, because after all we are an RPG forum. You know,
 like
 'Slime' - the "Classic first dungeon monster."
 'Level up!!!' with a generic RPG character celebrating.
 'Victory Dance' same as above, but diferent.
 'Generic Hero'
 'Generic Thief'
 'Generic Guard'
 'Nameless Thugs'


 Also, this is just an idea, but Charas members (only actual charas members, not generic characters or stuff) could use a card to activate special abilities, the card being called "Overdrive" or something. Instead of Magic the Gathering's Mana, which stay on the field, those cards could be used whenever you wanted, but only one use. That way the charas members could have each a unique ability without being overpowered.
 As an example, my Overdrive would cause the Grandy card to steal one card at random from the oponents hand this turn, but could not attack if did so.
 ZKX's could be adding 50% damage to all his attacks in one turn.
 Bluhman's attacks couldn't be blocked, because he was using a gun for long-range.
 Drace's would save him from death for each Overdrive card used. (He's a phoenix, get it?)
 Alex would be able to search for a card in the deck and put them on top of the deck, but wouldn't be able to attack in that turn.
 Lucas's card would add that one little monster he has as a token on field.
 And such.

 In before "Wall of text" comments.