Video Game World-based Set Idea

These are just my two cents, but I do think with your set concept, it might not be in flavor to make color-based restrictions on mechanic distribution here, aside from maybe equipment. Levels, dungeons, and generally other RPG-ish mechanics really don't have a color-bound mechanical identity and are more of a universal process. I think you'd be better served binding colors to themes within those mechanics while the mechanics themselves are more evenly distributed.

As for your Co-Op Tech mechanic, it's an interesting idea, though I feel the flavor doesn't quite come through with the name and the effect. The restriction seems entirely alien to said flavor, muddying the waters. It's also probably got similar issues to the "splice into" cards, at least on the becoming repetitive side.


I would also throw in some additional mechanics for your consideration: Party and Experience counters.

I think this kind of flavor might work, but probably not with that name. Something like "Coordinated Attack" or "Party Combat" might work better to give that reading, I feel.

I wonder. Are battles (thus far depicted as large scale, temporally-limited conflicts on a battlefield) really that big a part of the RPG experience? Conflicts seem to be more of a status quo sort of thing by my experience, with actual engagement usually relegated to fights of a few dozen people at most.

I mean that's background though, not direct player involvement in large-scale conflict. Admittedly I haven't played those games, so I could be wrong, but I do think if it is true that's background it probably wouldn't justify putting them in a set like this I don't think, as every other mechanic is working with the player perspective with RPG elements. It seems like a break in both mechanical and flavor terms.

That being said, it's your set, so you do as you prefer, as I said before these are just my two cents, feel free to take or ignore them of course.

I'm afraid while I have some sets I am working on, I don't have enough experience to be able to tell you definitely whether I think the ratio should be more like or more like that. There's a lot of factors to consider such as how frequently you want certain things to show up, certain cards that should only appear at certain rarity, the phenomenon where uncommon gets a lot more cards because both rares and commons tend to be pushed to uncommon during design among other things. I know this is vague, but first try to make some cards for the set and start thinking about what you'd like to see and what cards and strategies would need in order to function - try especially to think in terms of limited, as individual cards will matter more for constructed formats, whereas overall set structure matters more for limited.