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<blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 3745134" data-attributes="member: 1656"><p>I was playing around with some numbers for a playing card system that works for a 4-person party (and only for a four-person party, unfortunately).</p><p></p><p>Basically, each player gets dealt 13 cards. Red cards can be assigned to mental abilities, Black cards to physical abilities. Players can trade cards (and may have to, if they don't have at least three Black cards, say). No limit to the number of cards assigned to a score, but the total must be between 3 and 18. (So a player with two Red Kings might trade one for a Red 8, so he could put an 18 in one score - he can't put both Kings in one for a score of 20.)</p><p></p><p>I can't remember which values I had assigned to Ace and face cards... it may have been Blackjack values (1 or 11 for Ace, 10 for face cards).</p><p></p><p>If a player had below a certain total, he could request a reshuffle.</p><p></p><p>I dealt a bunch of demo hands while I was playing with the idea, but never actually had a chance to try it in practice. The four-person-only restriction is a definite weakness, and there are five players in our group...</p><p></p><p>-Hyp.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hypersmurf, post: 3745134, member: 1656"] I was playing around with some numbers for a playing card system that works for a 4-person party (and only for a four-person party, unfortunately). Basically, each player gets dealt 13 cards. Red cards can be assigned to mental abilities, Black cards to physical abilities. Players can trade cards (and may have to, if they don't have at least three Black cards, say). No limit to the number of cards assigned to a score, but the total must be between 3 and 18. (So a player with two Red Kings might trade one for a Red 8, so he could put an 18 in one score - he can't put both Kings in one for a score of 20.) I can't remember which values I had assigned to Ace and face cards... it may have been Blackjack values (1 or 11 for Ace, 10 for face cards). If a player had below a certain total, he could request a reshuffle. I dealt a bunch of demo hands while I was playing with the idea, but never actually had a chance to try it in practice. The four-person-only restriction is a definite weakness, and there are five players in our group... -Hyp. [/QUOTE]
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