Booster Pack #3 · 4:24pm Nov 25th, 2022
Hope everyone out there in the US of A had a good thanksgiving yesterday.
The votes are in: it looks like the game will henceforth be known as Horsefame! Possibly with a subtitle. Maybe I can get Knighty's okay to call it the "official" Fimfiction card game some day. A man can dream.
I'm going to put together a more formal, evolving document of the game rules and mechanics soon. I'll also organize the cards a bit. This project has gotten a lot more encouragement than I ever expected it to. Not that I'm complaining. I'll do my best!
Anyway, more cards!
Rule change: the Story Pile now has a maximum size of 15 instead of 20.
/////// Authors ////////
Cold in Gardez
Author
Editor — +1 Heat to the Writer's stories.
Writer — Retire this author: You may post a story by Cold in Gardez.
Stories about ponies are stories about people.
Carabas
Author
Editor — +1 Heat to the Writer's stories.
Writer — Retire this author: You may post a story by Carabas.
Wanderer D
Author
Site Post — When this card enters the field, you may pay 2: search your library for a card named A Contest Approaches and add it to your hand.
Editor — +1 Heat to the Writer's stories.
Writer — Retire this author: You may post a story by Wanderer D.
Corejo
Author
Editor — +1 Heat to the Writer's stories.
Writer — Retire this author: You may post a story by Corejo.
Horse Voice
Author
Editor — +1 Heat to the Writer's stories.
Writer — Retire this author: You may post a story by Horse Voice.
/////// Stories ////////
3: Naked Singularity
Story — Comedy
by Cold in Gardez
Heat: 2
Editing Aesop — while this story is in the Feature Box, stories posted by writers with 1 or less editors enter the Feature Box with -1 heat.
'Evening Glimmer collapsed onto the mattress like an electron falling to a lower energy state.'
4: Moonlight Palaver
Story — Comedy, Drama
by Carabas
Heat: 3
Council Negotiations — When this story enters the Feature Box, you and your opponent must agree on a number between 1 and 3. When this card leaves the Feature Box, both you and your opponent gain energy equal to the agreed upon number.
"But that's the fun thing about meetings like this. Everything's up for discussion."
5: The Sweetie Chronicles: Fragments
Story — Adventure
by Wanderer D
Heat: 4
Multiversal Traveler — When this story enters the Feature Box, each other story you control in the Feature Box gains +2 Heat.
2: Reading Rainbow
Story — Comedy, Slice of Life
by Corejo
Heat: 2
Rhyming Verse — On your next turn, if you'd be so kind
Play a story, keep this in mind
with two or less Heat, if you'd be a dear
add 1 Heat to it, and you're in the clear.
In the town of New Filly, there once stood a house,
Though its stature was more of a hou or an ouse.
3: Biblical Monsters
Story — Horror, Tragedy
by Horse Voice
Heat: 2
Fear — While this story is in the Feature Box, once per turn on your turn you may retire a card in your editor slots. If you do, this story gains 2 heat.
When I withdrew them, there was still red under my fingernails. I tried in vain to scrape it out.
/////// Effects ////////
2: Lemons
Effect
Longfic (Play this card into an editor slot. You may pay 2 to remove it on your turn.)
Stories your authors post enter the box with +2 heat. Stories you control in the Feature Box lose 2 Heat each turn instead of 1.
Regarding D: I feel like Contest could be a subtype of Effect, or possibly a keyword ability.
3: Sunset Shipping
Effect
Heat: 5
Contest (Play this card in the Feature Box. It loses Heat as though it were a story, but does not produce Energy)
Everyone Loves Bacon — Romance stories cost -1 Energy to post and enter the Feature Box with +1 Heat.
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That is a really good idea, actually. I like that a lot! This is why they pay you the big bits.
This... for real why has this not been turned into a real fan made card pack yet cause this is stupidly fun!
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I really should finish The Sweetie Chronicles.
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I was a little nervous putting TSC in, since it’s incomplete and I didn’t know how you felt about it nowadays. It is one of the first fics I read in the fandom, though, so nostalgia played a factor. Is that okay?
5700027
There’s a loooooot to be done before this gets any sort of printing. No one’s actually tried playing it yet, so it may be really boring, and then I’ll have to work on balancing it if it isn’t, and… you get the idea. I am going to make some basic printable cards for playtesting once I’ve made enough cards, and I’ll probably release those once I do if anyone wants to playtest it themselves.
I know I could probably just skip all that and make it s novelty, but I’d like it to be playable, too.
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Chewed on it a bit more, and I think instead of making ‘contest’ a subgroup of effects that go into the FB, I’ll instead make that ‘blog’, which allows contests to be blogs as well as leaving the category a little more open-ended. D’s Site Post would then operate on blogs instead.
Any thoughts?
5700037
Completely understood.
5700041
Definitely works. I just didn't want to introduce an entirely new zone to someone else's game.
5700036 Of course it is! I feel honored