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[ExKirby]

Hello ladies and gentlemen. Alright, probably just gentlemen, but I don't want to be sexist so there. I bid ye welcome to what will arguably become the world's greatest card game; the B12KBWC (Bay 12 Thousand Blank White Cards). The rules in a nutshell for you: everyone throws cards into an infinite deck, everyone plays everyone else for no reason whatsoever. The spoilers contain the rules.

Spoiler: How To Play (click to show/hide)

Firstly, you need to challenge someone to a match. You can do this however you like, but the traditional way is to yell "PERSON 1! I CHALLENGE YOU TO A CARD GAME!" and then "PERSON 2! I ACCEPT YOUR CHALLENGE!" While there is no limit to the number of games you can play at once, I would recommend that you only play one game at once because you will be in charge of looking after your game. Not me. You. However, I will be the dealer and adjudicator when called for. Either way, once you have accepted a challenge, you need to agree on a starting number of Hearts and Points; traditionally, 10 Heats and 100 Points is the norm. Once you've got that sorted, both of you need to PM me asking for your starting hands, stating your opponent's name (Just so I can make sure about these things).

Your hand will initially have 5 cards in it. The player who was issued the initial challenge gets to take his turn first. A turn consists of 4 parts;

1) Draw a Card!
2) Resolve Any Ongoing Effects!
3) Take An Action!
4) Attack!

And now to break it down. Firstly, you need to draw a card. This is done by simply sending me a PM asking for a card. That's how you get any cards drawn; just ask me for (a) card(s). I expect you to have the ability to look after your own cards, you know.

Next, effect resolving. This is basically anything that happens once per turn; it happens BEFORE you take an action but AFTER you draw. Just in case some stuff requires this level of detail. Hopefully it won't. For wasting your time, have a joke. The British Political System. Dohohoho.

Now, for your action, you have THREE, count 'em, THREE options. You can either play a card from your hand (and the one you'll be using the most), draw a card or gain 100 points (the one you'll be using the least, probably). To play a card, just put the image into your post and, if required, elaborate on any decisions you need to make. To draw a card, say you're going to draw a card and ask me for one. TO gain 100 points, just say so.

Then you get to ATTACK! As you'll read in the card creation rules, cards can have Attack and Heart values (both or none). Each card with an Attack value gets to make 1 attack per turn, and to make this attack, you just say what you want to attack. If your opponent has cards with Hearts, you have to attack them first, but if they don't have any, or some card says otherwise, then you can attack your opponent directly! To resolve attacks; subtract your card's Attack from your opponent's (card's) Hearts. If your opponent's card has no Hearts left, it blows up. If your opponent has no Hearts left, you win do a victory dance.

At the end of your turn, do a nice spoiler with all the info that is needed. Which is to say, how many Hearts and Points you have, the number of cards you have in your hand and any cards on the table. And that's basically your entire turn. Then it's your opponent's go! Now for a few technicalities;

1) You can't go below 0 points. If you have a say in the matter, you have to stay above 0 points, and if you don't, your score automatically resets to 0.
2) Hearts don't reset between turns.
3) Things CAN go above their original Heart Values.
4) Unless something says otherwise, 0 Hearts = Instadeath.
5) If you need to choose another player in a different game, and you are in multiple games, you can't choose yourself nor your other opponent(s).
6) MORE HERE AS NEEDED.

Spoiler: How to Card (click to show/hide)

Just going to throw the most important thing out there now: YOU CAN MAKE AND SEND IN CARDS AT ANY TIME AND THEY CAN SHOW UP IN ANY GAME, REGARDLESS OF WHEN THEY WERE MADE. Think of the deck like a big pile of cards somewhere-people can throw cards in at any point and you can take cards from it at any point. Simples. Now, there are a few things to consider when making cards.

Firstly, the size of the card. These cards need to be 240 * 320 pixels EXACTLY. No more, no less. For the lazy among us, here's a template.



Now you literally have no excuse to mess with the sizes. Seriously, one pixel off and I'm just going to go nope.avi. Anyway, while it is not 100% required, most cards have a title for them to be referred to-however, as long as it's instantly identifiable, the subject of the card can also be used-for instance, a red love heart in the middle of a card with As in opposite corners can instantly be declared the Ace of Hearts. Make it identifiable!

Most cards also have some form of artwork on them. This can be as horrific as you want it to be. Seriously, it can even be something you just ripped off the internet. It doesn't even need to exist, but it's nice to put a BIT of effort in.

Some of the cards will be used for attacking and such-they need BOTH some number for Attack and Hearts. It can be incorrectly spelt, drawn as images, abbreviated-I don't care, as long as it's clear and both are present. Or neither. One on it's own will be ignored. If you want something to just be used for defensive purposes, give it 0 Attack. Something with 0 Hearts explodes instantly, so it doesn't really work the other way.

Now, almost all of the cards will have some form of effect. What should they do? I leave that to your imagination, but there are a few restrictions just so shit doesn't fly off the handle.

1) No insta-win/insta-loss cards. I don't mind if you want to make cards that make you win/lose, but they need to have a reasonable chance of cocking up, to be judged by me on a case by case basis.
2) Cards CAN affect other games, however, these effects can only be one-offs and cannot repeatedly affect the game unless the card is somehow re-played.
3) No Invincible cards. All cards have to be defeatable by some means that aren't card specific. I don't mind "This card cannot be destroyed by card effects" if I can punch it out with an Attack, but "This card can only be destroyed by XXX card" is stupid.
4) Cards can't forcibly set someone to below 0 points. It's alright if it would situationally happen, but nothing like "You now have -100 points"
5) Cards can't ridiculously outlive their time on the field. It's alright to have something that activates a few turns after the card leaves the field, but once a card is gone, it should be... well... gone.
6) If a card has illegible, incomprehensible or non-english effects, they are nulled.

Here are some I made earlier.



Once you've made some cards, send them to me IN A PM and I'll put them in the deckpile. Simple.

Erm... I think that's everything. Feel free to ask me to elaborate on anything by yelling at me IN BOLD CAPS SO I CAN SEE IT. Aside from that, start playing =P

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Monster cards allowed? Also, are we allowed to use a card to see what they have in a deck?

[ExKirby]

Monster cards allowed?

Give them some numbers for Hearts and Attack and they sort of become monsters, so yeah.

[10ebbor10]

All card images are broken for me.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Same. Reupload please?

[ExKirby]

...Odd. I'll try a different host and see if that works.

EDIT: Reuploaded the cards. Does it work now?

[10ebbor10]

Bottom cards word, the template doesn't.

[Kashyyk]

Cards are being built now. (Bottom set also visible, Template is not)

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Would it be alright for me to use an online card maker if any?

[ExKirby]

Bottom cards word, the template doesn't.

Forgot to fix the template =P

Would it be alright for me to use an online card maker if any?

As long as it exports to 240*320, certainly.

[scapheap]

I'll start making some cards then

[borno]

I'll do some horrible cards as well, but I only have Abode CS5 so don't expect no pixels. Or quality.

[Dariush]

I'll do some horrible cards as well, but I only have Abode CS5 so don't expect no pixel art.

I only have MSPaint. Beat that.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Submitted some cards.

[scapheap]

Same here.