Cardboard Beatdown
A downloadable tabletop rpg
DO YOU BELIEVE IN YOUR DECK?
Cardboard Beatdown is a simple engine for playing out ludicrous fantasy card duels against your friends (or enemies, and possibly for the fate of the world), inspired by a certain card game anime. It can easily slot into another roleplaying game of your choice.
Choose from two of five duelist advantages:
- Heart - Passion for the game and the love of your friends
- Mind - Clever strategies and sly builds
- Spirit - Unstoppable determination and courage
- Stacks - Screw the rules, you have money
- Magic - Being spooky and probably cheating
Play one of four deck archetypes:
- Aggro - You play to beat your opponent down with fierce creatures and damaging spells.
- Control - You play to rule the duel, locking your opponent down and setting your own pace.
- Combo - You play to unleash your unstoppable master plan to crush your opponent completely.
- Hybrid - You're a maverick and a tinkerer who wants the best of several worlds.
Roll some dice, describe wild card synergies, and maybe even put a dragon on a turtle to catapult your way to victory!
NOTES:
Cardboard Beatdown uses 4dF (Fate dice or Fudge dice) and 3-5 d8s.
The game doesn't include things like character stats, and only covers playing a card game. It's up to you to pick a system to handle any adventures outside it!
The game has full mechanics for playing out duels, but hasn't been thoroughly tested and could probably use some tuning. As such, it's up for PWYW so you can freely have a look at it!
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Hey, awesome game, we played it with a friend and had a blast, only had a couple of questions regarding design decisions/rulings,
when you have the stack advantage and get a card like "Defender + destroy" but don't have a target to destroy can you still play that card?
The flavor being that you draw one expensive card that has two effects. But also the effect says you have to play the card directly so you cannot put it in your hand basically and keep it for later.
when you have the "attacker+ attacker" do you get two monsters? like you have a monster who comes in and creates a token second monster or stuff like that or does it do nothing?
Those where basically the only hurdles we had, besifes that I really enjoyed playing as an even more evil Kaiba