Trading card games are a lot of fun. Being able to customize your deck based on what kind of strategy you prefer and what kind of style you like is something that appeals to many, and trading card games are a fantastic outlet for that. But what if you want to go beyond that?
Keeper of the Cards goes beyond by allowing you to not only construct your deck, but also design your own cards. Here's how: instead of being designed around a set of specific card pools, Keeper of the Cards is designed around a set of specific card text components, along with specific formulas for how to calculate the stats of a card.
Gameplay-wise, Keeper of the Cards takes most of its gameplay inspiration from Duel Masters, with some slight influences from other games as well. The rules are meant to be as simple as possible to ease onboarding, but also to add a unique flair.
This directory contains the Keeper of the Cards starter set, designed to get you started playing Keeper of the Cards!
Rules for the game can be found in this directory as "rulebook.html". For creating cards, a card building guide ("cardbuilding.html") and a card template ("card.xcf") are also included. The template can be opened and edited with the GNU Image Manipulation Program, Photoshop, or any other graphics software that supports the XCF format.
To start playing, you can find starter decks which you can print in the "decks" directory. These starter decks are built using cards found in the "cards" directory. The "decks" directory also includes a printable set of "tip cards" which you can use to help introduce the game to others.
For custom deck building, feel free to use LibreOffice Draw or any other program which supports the ODG format to edit the existing deck files, or alternatively, you might consider sending the individual card images to a card printing service. Padded card images, which are better for card printing services in general, can be found in the "cards-padded" directory.
Cards found under the "cards" directory are under their own licenses (usually CC BY, CC BY-SA, or CC0), indicated by the text below the images.
All other files in this directory and its sub-directories are dedicated to the public domain via CC0.