Supremacy- a Rosharan cardgame FINISHED(free pdfs available)

[The flying spider he/him]

I would go with blue but it's your choice. nice work.

[Evie she/her]

1 hour ago, Awakened rock stacker said:

I would go with blue but it's your choice. nice work.

I think I'm leaning towards it as well. It's more eye-catching and I do love kaolin blue. 

 

 

Alright. Here's my hyperfocus today. What glyphs do I use?.?..

I've got two options. Using existing glyphs or making my own. 

so its my understanding glyphs are made up of letters phonetic sounds that make a word stylized into a pleasing shape. OK that's doable.... ish. I dont know enough of the language, but I can use the Phonetic sounds in English to literally spell the cards names. I've tried to do that with knight.

Knight is N I T . Then I used those symbols and gradually morphed them into a shape of a helmet.  

It's a stretch, but i don't think it's terrible. 

Second option iis to use existing glyphs. If I do this I'm leaning towards using the iron stance scroll glyphs because violence.  

Stance 1 is the infantry because they are the front wave of the army, the initial stance, initial part of army. 

Stance 2, iron is for archer, because the shape looks like an arrow head. 

Stance 3, trap, parry is for squire because of the card effect I've assigned the squires, to swap places with the knight, a trap? 

Stance 4 depicted with a third step, second parry  for calvary because their card effect is an additional move "step"

Stance 5 is the finish,  and is the knight. I thought there was a glyph for knight because  knight radiance, but I can't find it. 

So then I ran out of stances. 

The transformation surge is possible for soul casters.

The shardbearer is giving me the most trouble. I've got the glyph for strength as a possibility , but I'm not sold. I'm tempted to use the kaolin glyph pair because I'm already using oathbringer as an element on the front, but it's significantly more complicated.  Again I'm sure there has to be a glyph of shard bearer SOMEWHERE but I can't find it. 

 

I'm getting a headache.  Time to go for a walk. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Evie she/her]

I've made beta test cards. Ill print these on cardstock to beta test the rules so I can tweak what needs tweaking.

I've tried to balance the stats so there's nothing totally unreasonable.  Each card has potential to defeat a variety of other cards and be defeated depending on your strategy.  

Except shard bbearers. The only thing that can beat a shard bearer is another shardbearer, as it should be. They are op by design, the queens of the game. 

Still thinking about how many cards to a deck. I want the game to be playable by two people on a single deck. 

Fitting the different cards on one a4 would be nice as well, it might cut the costs depending on how many cards per deck i chose. 

30 cards to a deck might do well. That's 4 a4s if I fit all the cards on the a4 like this and remove 2 of the shard bearers. 

If the minimum for the wood printing is 10,  that's 2.5 full decks. One for husband, then maybe I can send a deck to Brandon and Emily and still have 2 copies of each card as a buffer for mistakes. 

 

Yes I like that idea.  Then maybe Brandon will send us a letter and be like " hey neat thing you made for your husband's birthday. Thanks for the weird wooden cardgame, and happy birthday dude" 

I think husband would die if he had a letter from Brando. 

 

Aight that's the plan then. 

 

[Evie she/her]

In the instance i want non wooden copies there is this website

https://www.printplaygames.com/

So price is by card, 18 cards per sheet. 7.75 per sheet. 7 card styles, so 54.25ish? Maybe an additional one for the infantry. 

If im considering doing 8 copies of the infantry, 2 copies of shardbearer and 4 copies of everything else ... Thats 4 1/2 decks. 

They would look better, but it would be cheaper to have fedex double side print a4s on cardstock and cut them myself. 

Thats like, 2$ a sheet and wont murder my printer.  So thats what ill do if I want cardstock copies. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Evie she/her]

Okay i printed out test cards. 

 

8 Infantry, 4 calvary, 4 squire, 4 knight, 4 archer, 4 soul caster, 2 shard bearer. 

 

First try : tried without middle row in def. ended in a draw and couldnt move forward. There were too many stalemates. 

Second: ended very quickly. One side pulled a shard bearer and destroyed the other side. 

Third: going better. Found a way to make shard bearers less op. In the instance pf a draw, attacking cards will knock their opponent into defense. 

If I switch the shard bearer's stats, it can be blocked, but still not destroyed. Ill remove the card effect, becusse otherwise it will totally sweep the field. 

Putting a shard bearer in the lord position makes the player instantly win. 

Maybe male a rule to prevent the shard bearer from being a lord. 

Shard bearers are not defeatable, so perhaps I should only have ONE per deck instead of two. 

 

 

 

[Evie she/her]

New design drafts. While beta testing I found that it's hard to handle with only one color. Instead of just switching the pallette my idea now is to theme the different colors after actual armies, and use the family glyph stylized into a sword for th3 shard bearer card. 

Additionally,  I've added a glyph behind the sword for visual appeal, and I can use the family glyph. 

Here's the card back with the kaolin glyph in the background, and beside it is the shardbearer card using the kaolin glyph morphed into a sword. 

 

Bada BOOM

[Evie she/her]

Beta testing, Rule tweaking, Design polishing, glyph drawing. 

 

I really want to get most of this done by the end of august. I've got an internship starting in September, and I won't have as many lazy uneventful days for this nerd nonsense. 

I realized during beta plays that it's confusing with only one color of card, thus I'm going to have at least 2 colors. The most pleasing idea to me was having slightly themed decks. I'm already using oathbringer as the card back, and I'm adding th kholin glyph behind it. It's just a natural progression for a different colored deck to be a different house. Amaram for example. His shard blade and house glyphs would be the card back! 

 

Another thing to do along this line is to make the shardbearer card in each deck different,  it's like the joker after all. So the shardbearer card will have a slightly different design than the other cards. It's still a wip. 

And look! I turned the kholin glyph into oathbringer! I think it's cool. 

 

 

Here's an extra today too. A quick sketch of me with my drawing tablet and digital art creation spren.  Is that what it would look like? Maybe it would be just like regular creation spren but 18 bit pixel things. I went for a glitchy  look. The concept gives me th Willie's. Plus my safe hand is covered, respectful vorin woman as I am. 

 

 

 

 

That's all you're getting out of me today, !

[Evie she/her]

Okay I've got a header for the instructions.  I've decided to call this project "Alethi Supremacy, a rosharan cardgame" I'm getting pretty decent at calligraphy from this lol

 

 

Today my work is the soulcaster card and I'm pleased.  I've chosen to use the transformation surge glyph.

As for shaping and modification, I stretched and morphed the center lines until I got a hand shape, and softened the lines.  It wasn't the same on both sides though, so I mirrored the hand and shifted them upwards like two outstretched hands.

That was empty though, so I added an orb and smoke(  in honor of kaza ) to represent the act of soulcasting. I think it's a good representation of the idea and makes the card communicate the idea, which is the mist important bit. 

 

[Evie she/her]

Color shift to improve readability. 

[Evie she/her]

Calvary today. Took the transportation surge glyph and morphed it into a horse head. Added an additional transportation glyph in a different color to balance it out. 

[Evie she/her]

Happy monday, friendos. Let me introduce you to shellac. 

"Whats shellac, Evie?" Nobody is asking.

Its a traditional varnish, you curious imp! It gives a good shine, applies well and is exactly what I need for the final phase of the project. The down side is that it makes my printer ink bleed, so i definitely need to get the cards printed. 

But. But. Thats not what is special about shellac. 

Shellac, my friends, is made from insect secretions and is thus an extremely reasonable in-universe varnish option. It would not be a stretch of the imagination to propose the possible existence of some variety of cremling that secretes a fluid that hardens into resin much like the lac bug. 

I would go as far as proposing that secreting a hardening water resistant resin is an excellent evolutionary trait for a land based creature whose environment is regularly assaulted by violent storms. 

BAM. Varnish decided. 

 

If i was a lac bug (na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na)

See, I'd have all the resin in the world, if I was a shellac buuuug

 

 

Edited August 21, 2023 by Evie
Adding stupid stuff

[Evie she/her]

Getting closer. I need beta testers. 

Roshar War cards.pdf

 

[JohnnyKaizen he/him]

Wow! I just went through this entire thread and 11/10 for you. This is amazing! I would definitely play that..all the accolades to you 

[Evie she/her]

V. 1 Home printable cards available, tokens designed.  

Follow directions on pg 1 of pdf to print cards. Cardstock is advised. 

 

Rules modified slightly. 

Roshar War cards draft 6.pdf

 

card print blue.pdf

 

 

 

This is the potential final designs. I say potential, because I did in fact get in touch with dragonsteel to see about official glyphs for the card faces. If I can get ahold of the alethi words, then i can design the glyphs and that would be the new card faces, so im waiting to hear back. 

 

 

Im also going to be making a different color set with some slight design differences and find a way to post the images with higher quality for printing.

And of course the rules need to ne tweaked. 

This week im going to have fedex print the cards on a few a4s so i can get a feel for them and have a better set for play testing. 

 

Husband knows about the project. I couldn't handle keeping it a secret

Ill move forward to the wood printing stage once i have the designs 100% finalized. 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 27, 2023 by Evie

[Evie she/her]

On 8/24/2023 at 4:37 PM, JohnnyKaizen said:

Wow! I just went through this entire thread and 11/10 for you. This is amazing! I would definitely play that..all the accolades to you 

Thank you so much!!! And you went through the whole thread? Im honored! I didnt think anybody would bother doing that ^^; Im so glad you did! 

Do you have any suggestions or...would you by chance like to play test it for me? I can only get so far playing against myself ^^ ;

 

[Evie she/her]

I got myself mixed up making the pdfs on my tablet. Let's try this again 

 

 

card fronts 1

bluepdfpg2.pdf

card fronts 2

bluecardfronts2.pdf

tokens

tokens.pdf

cardbacks

card backs.pdf

 

 

card backs.pdf

Edited August 27, 2023 by Evie

[JohnnyKaizen he/him]

On 8/26/2023 at 8:58 PM, Evie said:

Thank you so much!!! And you went through the whole thread? Im honored! I didnt think anybody would bother doing that ^^; Im so glad you did! 

Do you have any suggestions or...would you by chance like to play test it for me? I can only get so far playing against myself ^^ ;

 

Yeah, I would like to print them out and see how it runs. I think that would be fun. If I have any feedback, I'll let you know:)

[Evie she/her]

1 hour ago, JohnnyKaizen said:

Yeah, I would like to print them out and see how it runs. I think that would be fun. If I have any feedback, I'll let you know:)

<3 <3 <3 

Im currently working on the red deck, and Ill post them when they are ready as well. 

Please let me know your thoughts every step of the way 

[Acieer]

I'm going to try them. I must say you've done great work. Thanks a lot!

[Evie she/her]

Thank you so much! Ill have the pdfs of the green deck up today! 

[Evie she/her]

Updating printable pdfs, now with green deck. 

 

Tokens and print instructions 

gametokens.pdf

Blue deck

cardfrontblue.pdf

cardfrontblue2.pdf

cardbbackblue.pdf

 

Green deck

cardsfrontgreen.pdf

cardfront green2.pdf

cardbacksgreen.pdf

 

[Evie she/her]

Here's a full spread of all the game assets 

 

[Evie she/her]

Made a quick header for this thread. 

[Evie she/her]

Today I added wood grain bgs to the card images and am having them printed on cards. I figure it will be nicer to play with actual cards for mucking out the rules. 

 

 

meanwhile on the wood side of things, the company can do a custom job of the deck of cards, and its actually less expensive than what I was quoted for the a4s!

 

 

 

So. Gonna do that, shellac them, and slap them in a box!  And then there you have it! 

[Evie she/her]

Oh! Here's what the cards look like against the faux wood 

 

Edited August 30, 2023 by Evie