Zauberspiel
A downloadable adventure game
Visit the planes of the multiverse, combat extraplanar foes, and protect your values against an ever-changing universe.
Zauberspiel (German for "Magic Game") is a game in which players act as spellcasters that have the unique ability of being capable of interdimensional travel. Inspired by the setting of Magic: The Gathering, Zauberspiel is a hack of Zykluspiel, which in turn is a hack of Messerspiel, which is a hack of Blades in the Dark. Zauberspiel uses a similar-yet-distinct innovative pool depletion system that intrinsically provides players with tough choices that in turn allows the referee to utilize said choices in interesting ways. I hope you will enjoy the game as much as I had fun writing it!
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This looks fun!
I just wonder what happens if you cast a spell when you have 1 die in the mana pool? It seems like a single die will always explode, forcing you to roll another die, thus bringing the pool below 0, failing the spell and setting the pool to 1 again.
Thank you!
That's just a way of saying that you can't cast spells with 1 die in the mana pool. It's mostly intended to make specializing in 1/2 mana pools have a bit of a downside (you can't use spells of other mana types that you have 1 in), but can also of course apply to a more depleted pool. In that way, I would recommend to a player to think about the result of their spell, in that, if they want to do fire magic, obviously a red thing, but has only 1 red die, they'll need to either reskin it or provide a bit of an argument as to how their fire magic's intent is something more aligned with a different mana pool.
Hope that helps! If I revisit Zauberspiel like I did Anime Messerspiel, I'm considering a way to burn that last 1 die in a pool, since I can see it to be a bit annoying for players occasionally, since the only way to get rid of the die is to roll it currently.
Gotcha, thanks. I might just do a mana flare when you try to cast from a 1 die pool.
Let me know if you end up running it! That'd be very exciting. You can reach me in a variety of ways, all on https://sagedamage.itch.io/. I personally really want to run something in Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty.