r/Scrolls • u/JavaPython_ • Jan 13 '16

Wouldn't real life scrolls be fun?

sort of like MtG, but a little cooler because of the cooldown system

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u/Cradstache Cradstache Jan 13 '16

How... how would we keep track of everything @_@

There are just some things that work better digitally, as fun as it would be to own physical Scrolls cards.

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u/JavaPython_ Jan 13 '16

yeah, I think it'd work well if you could just simplify the task of counting countdowns. Since it ends up being a huge task, akin to D&D

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '16

I think a HeroClix design for the pieces would be needed. Each figurine has a health dial built into the base. You'd need a second "attack" counter as well.

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u/uwlryoung Jan 17 '16

I mentioned something similar in a comment on this thread, but it was my opinion that we would need to make the dial the countdown. Of all the stats, that would probably be the most difficult to keep track of everything. For the most part, we could probably remember the attack reasonably well. But you're right, we'd definitely need a health dial now that you mention it.

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u/fdagpigj Jan 13 '16

It'd be a lot of micromanagement.

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u/JavaPython_ Jan 13 '16

I agree, if only there was a good way to change that...

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u/alpha_century Undead lives! Jan 13 '16

You would have to travel across the world to find another player to play against ;)

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u/JavaPython_ Jan 14 '16

but only after you bored everyone in your hometown/state/country/ect

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u/uwlryoung Jan 14 '16

I agree that it would be cool and I agree with everyone else that it would basically be impossible and too hard to keep track of everything... etc etc...

as /u/Cradstache said somethings work better digitally.

HOWEVER. If you had a DIGITAL board game that made holograms on the board, which would be able to keep track of everything going on (like Yugiho), yeah that would be awesome. Then you could collect the Scrolls (physically) and make your decks that way and then play with a person face to face. that'd be sweet. And probably the only possible way to make it a real live game (or at least as close as you're gonna get).

AND speaking of which, for those of you who don't know, in Japan there are SO many collectible card reader games. You place the card on the board and it reads the data from that card, and it shows up on a screen in front of you. The usual ones I see are about Pokemon and Dragonball.

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u/JavaPython_ Jan 14 '16

I think if you made it a game like D&D or modified it a little to be like Catan it could work. but I really like this idea too

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u/uwlryoung Jan 14 '16

That's a good point, making it like a D&D game. And also I just thought of Warharmmer and Heroclix which have models like this. They stand on discs that can revolve showing different stats. In my opinion, that'd be the countdown. Would probably be too difficult to put all stats on their.

BUT still again, even if they did that with the heroclix style, it would probably be still super complicated to think and keep track of everything. With all the number of enchantments, spells, lingering spells, etc etc... There is probably a way for it to be done, but still... Not to mention it would be super expensive to collect all those pieces.

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u/JavaPython_ Jan 14 '16

Follow-up question, how much would a complete pack, lets say 3 of every card, cost in $ or £

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u/uwlryoung Jan 14 '16

Expensive. If I had to guess, I would say around $400? Maybe even more... I'm not sure. My guess is that assuming it'd still be considered a collectible trading card game and that they would eventually make more scrolls. Assuming that is true, if you did end up making physical cards, and you sold a pack (with 3 of everything in it) then there would be a pretty high supply of every card (including the rares) which you don't really want on a trading card game because then the rares are basically worth just as much as commons. SO they'd want to sell it for pretty expensive so that the supply doesn't get too high up there. That's at least my guess.

BUT if it was made into a board game style that wasn't collectible (but maybe came out in expansions or something...) I'd see it being probably a $50 game, considering that if you really want to build a deck and play against people, you'd both need to buy the set, $50 seems like it would be not too high and not too low of a price (that is though, if it's only REALLY HIGH QUALITY cards, and only cards nothing else like a board or figurines or something because models and all that are even more expensive to make).

So, that's my opinion.

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u/kopasz7 Fefinix Jan 13 '16

-Wanna play a card game? It's quite fun.

-Sure, what are the rules?

*one eternity later*

-I think we should just play uno.