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Hi, I thought it would be fun to have a Yu-Gi-Oh Roleplay so I am creating one. The world you will be playing in is not in any specific place or time, but is not in continuity with any of the Yu-Gi-Oh series. No Yu-gi-oh characters will make appearences, though common tropes from the series such as the heart of the cards and the shadow realm may appear. The setup for the game is that the card series is brand new, and has never been plaid before. However, the 9 year world champion of every card game, board game, and strategy / tactics event has created the game and is holding a tournament to challenge any who feel they can beat him. Obviously most players will be tacticians, but he is offering a ridiculous amount of award money so it is possible other types may show up. You may have noticed that I said he was the 9 year champion for all of those events. This is because before 9 years ago he had never been hear of and nine years ago he took the world by storm. He's only interested in games though and all of his substantial wealth seems to either be self-generated or tournament winnings. His name is Juan Perish officially, but nobody has seen his face because he likes to play using a computer program and associates. He goes by "the King of Games". Yes, this game will be incredibly campy. This is in keeping with the heart of the series.

Cards can be drawn from any series, but not at first! See Rules for Details. I've only seen the first series so if you are going to try to match the mood of one of the series stick with that one. That being said, there will be no requirement to do so.

Now Mechanics.

Your characters will be first level d20modern classes. This will have nothing to do with your cardplaying skills unless you can think of a way to incorporate the two realms. Characters will gain experience both from playing cards and for out of game experiences, but there isn't really much of a push to advance these classes as they will little impact on your game playing experience. That being said, the sleight of hand skill will dictate much of cheating, and spot / sense motive will be it's counter. You have been warned. A couple other things. For ease of gameplay, pathfinders rules will be used for skills, meaning that hide and move silently are combined into stealth, spot, search, and listen become perception, and there may or may not be others. IF for some reason you don't have access to even the mos basic d20modern and Pathfinders stuff (which you should, they are free online) you may and should still apply. These aspects of the game are mostly background and I don't mind walking you through them.

Now onto the important stuff. Your characters will have decks built from random packs just opened. Yes, I am giving you random cards to start with. You may trade with other characters as they show up and npcs, and every victory you face will allow you to take one of your opponent's cards: which is your decision.

Winning and loosing duels builds up Duel points, though winning builds these points up faster, which can then be used to entitle players to unlock new packs and recieve new pacts. Duel points are not lost when they are utilised and they are used to dictate position in the tournament that the game revolves around. More about this will be explained in game. All packs will eventually be available, but I will be starting each player off with three packs of their choice which they can choose from when choosing packs. All others must be unlocked. These are tournament rules, not world rules. Packs can also be bought using wealth at a one pack to one wealth ratio. This is a ridiculous ratio, but you are not nearly as wealthy as what wealth would usually assume you to be so it is justified. I am going to suggest that every player max out profession and seriously consider taking an occupation / feat that will enhance income. I'm also going to allow a special feat that allows a player to change the stat that dictates their profession skill because it doesn't make sense for wisdom to be the only stat that gets people paid and the skill is too important to this game to ignore.

The randomness of decks will be done with a dice roller using 1dHowever many cards are in the deck, subtracting the deck by one every time a card is drawn. For example. Before a game I set up my 48 card deck by placing a number on every card. I roll 1d48 with the game's dice roller. I recieve a 36. I look to my set up card values. 36 equals celtic guardian. I drew a celtic guardian. I subtract 1 from the entire deck after 35, and continue playing. From now on when I roll I will roll 1d47, and so on. It is an easy system that requires minimal work, and I can't think of a better way to play card games in play by post. The hardest part is making your deck which you will have to do anyway to play the game.

For Applications I'll be wanting Name, D20 Modern Class, your 3 pack types you'll want to draw from. The type of deck you will ideally be building (I'll help you along in that direction), an appearence, personality, and background. Any or all of this can be in secret and it can be as much or as little as you want.

Also, I'll be starting the game a week from today. Not much time? Well, I will be accepting players after that as well so it should be fine. I won't be running the game with a specific number of players in mind, because if there are allot I can simply rely more on pvp to keep some occupied and if there are less I can simply make more npcs. Rather, I will accept any player whose application I like an deny any player whose app I don't like. I will not beat around the bush. If I don't like your app I will tell you. You may still try to make another app, or fix the problems I have with the first, problems that will probably be stated in vague useless language like "I don't know... it just didn't feel right." I can occasionally be evil like that.

I hope we all have allot of fun and I'm excited to be running this. With that in mind, let's keep the namecalling and taunting to a minimum. Some people can't handle it, and I don't want those people scared off. Yes, I am a carebear. I care.

EDIT: I have made a decision in regards to banned cards. Every player will be allowed a single banned card slot that will be able to hold a single banned card in their deck. These cards will go by their other title 'forbidden cards' ingame and will be extremely rare and sought after. Epect to mostly find them on mean looking npcs. I did this because I know allot of players really loved an old card that they can't use anymore because it got banned. Be warned. Your opponents will also have a single banned card in their possession and sooner or later someone will get change of hearted.