REAL Elements Trading Card Game

[DesiredNinja]

Ive had this idea of a REAL elements trading card game and by real I mean with cards you go out and buy and play with in real life as well as on this game not just online and i just thought id share this with the community and maybe the devs will see it (wink wink nudge nudge) ik some card effects would need to be altered slightly (fate egg, quantum piller, and so on) but i think it could work and i would love to see that happen who agrees?

[Jaymanfu]

I actually think elements would be one of the worst irl card games in its current state

[ddevans96]

It's completely possible, but there's one major issue - temporary copies, such as those created by PU and mitosis.

Buffs and debuffs can be shown like equips in YGO, random effects can be determined by various types of dice, players' in-game stats can be tracked with mini-abacus, counters can be used for status effects, etc....

But there's no easy way to get around temporary copies. A mini scanner thing than can somehow create copies for PU and mitosis, generate creatures for mutation, and other things would be amazing.

Being addicted to this game and having loads of free time, I have plans in text for a RL Elements, including the above. But it doesn't seem to be truly practical.

[Vineroz]

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,2875.0.html

[DesiredNinja]

for temporary cards one could simply use scrap paper thats what i usually do

[ddevans96]

for temporary cards one could simply use scrap paper thats what i usually do

An official game should not have you write what would essentially a playing piece in a board game on a scrap piece of paper. It's sloppy for any kind of real play.

EDIT: Thanks, Vine, for linking an old and completely useless topic to be necro'ed. ~.~

[DesiredNinja]

they could tolken cards serving as place holders for temp cards then have some other thing making a line over both of them to represent it being a clone for that card but as u said theres no "proffesional" way to do this but there are still many ways to do this

[Naesala]

for temporary cards one could simply use scrap paper thats what i usually do

Tokens like this are completely acceptable in TCGs in my opinion. Yu-gi-oh and Magic both make use of them, and those two are probably the top card games out there right now (the only other TCG that's lasted has been Pokemon, and I believe more people collect them than actually play the game). Now, it is better to have something better than scraps of paper for tokens, I use some little fishbowl rocks (about penny sized, blue glass, very nice)

[ddevans96]

they could tolken cards serving as place holders for temp cards then have some other thing making a line over both of them to represent it being a clone for that card but as u said theres no "proffesional" way to do this but there are still many ways to do this

I never said that. Practical and professional are two different things.

As Naesala pointed out, tokens are a practical alternative. Tokens that would come with the set could also be professional if done right. Scrap paper is not the latter, and a mini-scanner is not the former.

The problem is there probably would also be tokens or similar objects for statuses, Chaos Power, and other things, but it would be a nice touch.

[regen2k9]

for temporary cards one could simply use scrap paper thats what i usually do

Tokens like this are completely acceptable in TCGs in my opinion. Yu-gi-oh and Magic both make use of them, and those two are probably the top card games out there right now (the only other TCG that's lasted has been Pokemon, and I believe more people collect them than actually play the game). Now, it is better to have something better than scraps of paper for tokens, I use some little fishbowl rocks (about penny sized, blue glass, very nice)

Additionally, Magic the Gathering has "token cards" in the back of every pack for cards that are most likely to be used as tokens in that set (i.e. saprolings).  In Elements, the analog would probably be scarabs and malignant cells, etc.  Furthermore, there have been cards in MtG that copy other cards and as Naesala mentioned, generic tokens (sometimes facedown cards with dice to represent power and toughness/attack and HP) have been used in these cases.

[furballdn]

Wait, we have to pay real  ? But I already spent all my playing elements!

[Rutarete]

Consider mutation, and chaos seed, pandemonium, etc. How would you work those out?