Wikipedia talk:Trading card game/Rules proposal 1

Here's what we should be aiming for in the rules:
 * Promoting and emphasizing a style of gameplay heavily dependent on collaboration with rivals
 * Gameplay structure
 * Clarifications of any keyworded abilities that may exist.
 * Setting reasonable starts and victory conditions.
 * Clarifying terminology

These need not all be mutually exclusive; I think I can start on terminology right off but we'd need to work on the gameplay structure (i.e. rules, turns, etc.) before we start thinking about VCs.


 * Here's what I've bodged up thus far:

Players: 3-6

Objective: Working with your rivals, complete 10,000 articles before they can!

Setup: Each player brings in a deck of 40 cards, known as an Edit Pool, and then shuffles it. After this, they pass their deck to the right to allow the next player to cut the deck. Each player then draws 5 cards, which forms their hand.

To determine who goes first, roll a six-sided die. The highest number goes first; turn rotates clockwise.

Turn: At the start of a player’s turn, he or she draws a card from his edit pool and Prepares all clicked Editors he has on his side of the field.

After drawing, he may do several things:
 * A player may play an Editor card, which represents a Wikipedia editor (such as “Administrator” or “Impersonator Sock”). He may play only one Editor card per turn, though he is otherwise not limited to how many editors he may have in play. Many cards (especially Edit cards) require that an editor be Clicked first.  A clicked editor is turned sideways to show that he has been clicked.  Clicked editors prepare themselves (turning themselves back upright) at the beginning of each turn.
 * If he has an Editor card in play, he may opt to play an Edit card (such as “Copyedit” or “Reversion”) by clicking one. Clicked editors cannot be used any further that turn. Edit cards add articles to the player’s (and rivals’) article total (white cards) or removes articles from rivals’ totals (black cards). He may play one edit card per turn for each rival he has. Cards that add edits to the player’s total are placed in a separate file called the Contribution; cards removed from this zone by other cards’ effects and those that do not add edits are placed in a pile beside the Edit Pool called the Deletion Pile.
 * He may, as many times as he has cards he can play per turn, play an Action card (such as “Block” or “Report”). Action cards have random effects, such as drawing more cards, returning cards in the Deletion Pile to the Edit Pool, or even sending Editors to the Deletion Pile. Action cards may be played by any player during a turn, not just the player whose turn it is. Once played, Actions go to the Deletion Pile.

At the end of his turn (i.e. when he decides to take no more actions for the turn), if he has at least one card in hand, he must trade a card in his hand at random for a card in the hand of a rival sitting next to him, referred to as Collaboration. He must also, if he has more than five cards in hand, discard cards to the Deletion Pile from his hand until he has five cards in hand.


 * Proposed by Jeremy'' (v^_^v Dittobori)


 * Discuss this proposal at Wikipedia talk:Trading card game/Action plan/Phase 1:Rules.