Wizard Crawl

Dungeon-crawling, dice-rolling wizard party card game. Current rules can be viewed by clicking here. Based on the PolyHero wizard dice kickstarter set. I am not affiliated with PolyHero in any way, I just like making games and this set sparked a plethora of ideas.

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I just realised

I haven’t posted anything in weeks! Game is still progressing. Needs more playtesters!! Sadly its getting very busy in the lead up to christmas so this will have to be a 2017 release! 

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Printer-friendly cards!  These are mostly final designs. Will need a bit of balancing but so far they play well. Introduced a point-based score system to help counter the ‘race-to-the-finish’ mechanic problem I was having. 

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Room cards and equippable wardrobe (item) cards. 

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More playtesting! (version 0.3)  Printing new cards this weekend.

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Updated cards! Im liking this style. 

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Spent a couple hours doing 17-19th century illustrated cards. Public domain images collected from the Bristish Library Flickr. I’m liking this style. I’ve never really seen it for a tabletop game. What do you guys think? 

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After discovering that the British Library put 1 million images into the public domain, free to reuse and remix, i’m toying with the idea of an 17-19th Century art style for Wizard Crawl. I think it would work nicely given the period and the lore around wizardry. 

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Print’n’play Health Tracker for playtesting

Health tokens at the bottom to cut out and use on the paper version of the health tracker. Four player tokens (1-4 circles and coloured) and a Monster token (X-M cross). 

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Cards V3 

Now with texture and depth! 

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First Playtest of Wizard Crawl Co-operative mechanics worked well, but were thrown to the side to play a more competitive player v. player game. Dice and cards mechanics mostly work as planned. 

Scribbles on cards are due to balancing between playing rounds.  Monsters need a lot of evening out. At the moment they’re either too easy or too hard. Needs to have a more gradual progression.  Finishing the game was near impossible on the first round.

The second time playing we looked for more gear/weapon/loot cards on the first couple floors and were able to finish it with only 2 characters dying. 

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Card Ideas V2 Front and backs of new monsters and gear. Rooms now have dead ends to create the feeling of a more tangible dungeon. 

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Card Ideas V1

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Wizard Crawl

Wizard based tabletop ideas based on the PolyHero wizard dice kickstarter set. I am not affiliated with PolyHero in any way. I just like making games and this set sparked a plethora of ideas.  Dice Set: D20     Orb D12     Wand/Staff D10     Potion D100   Potion D8       Scroll D6       Ball D4       Bolt

Wizard Party (Co-op Ideas)

1. Draw cards to create a dungeon crawl adventure and find the exit. Exits get easier to go through once monsters are defeated. 

2. Dungeon tower defence, wizard in the centre of a board (a4 printed). Draw monster and demon cards that approach once each player has had a turn.

Wizard Battle (Competetive Ideas)

1. Area based battle. D20 health, scroll with spell list that define which damage dice to roll, wand/bolt/ball=damage, potionsx2=heal.

2. Dungeon crawl with a drawn board (munchkin-like). Need to progress till the last room.