Card Game Update: What's Your Character?

 Today I'm going to give you some insight to how my new upcoming game, GZ: Heroic Missions plays by showing you who or what you get to be. That's right, you get to be one of several character types, best selected at random. If you've been paying attention, I've teased two of them in the past; the warrior and the speedster. Today, we'll take a look at the warrior again. Let's see what the items on this card mean and how they work for you in the game!

So right from the top we have the name of the character type. This is the warrior. Below the name we have a set of 5 red stars with stat names next to them. As you can read, they are strength, speed, mentality, agility, and endurance. The first important thing about these are the numbers next to them. HM uses a great deal of dice combat with standard six sided dice (not included) and you need a lot of them for a host and 3 or 4 players. The top three stats are attack stats and the bottom two are almost entirely for defense. Mentality can go both ways. The numeric level of the stat indicates how many dice you get to roll when taking an action that involves it. 

So, if the warrior makes a strength attack, she will roll 5d6, but how do you know what hits? The standard for what I call a "successful dice" is a roll of 4-6. So the warrior will keep all dice that come up 4-6 and discard the rest. The warrior's target may then make a defense roll with the dice for the appropriate stat and try to roll numbers to cancel out any potential hits against them. Canceling out an attack dice means rolling a defense of equal or greater than that dice's roll. So a 4 can be eliminated as a hit by any rolls of 4-6. After seeing how many dice are eliminated, any left count as damage at the rate of 1 per dice. 

Now is where I mention that all players start with 10 health. More on that later. 

Next over to the right we have the warrior's abilities. As you read, the warrior gets to draw 2 reward cards for the beginning of the game. Reward cards give additional support in the way of all sorts of items and abilities so starting out with 2 right away is pretty awesome. The warrior may also may use weapons regardless of any special requirements they might have and can even equip an extra weapon. Weapons often add to your stats and give you extra dice to roll. Each player character has its own special abilities. 

That's pretty much all there is to the player character card and the game will come with 12 different characters to play. Each one adding their own special flavor to the game.

Next time we will take a look at the threats you face as in the bosses themselves! 

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