Library card redesign

Idea, which bothers me for a some time, cost for action cards and other cards.

Timing of cost (when played / when action resolves) must be somehow represented.

elotar wrote:

Idea, which bothers me for a some time, cost for action cards and other cards.

Timing of cost (when played / when action resolves) must be somehow represented.

care to give me a detailed walk-through as to your logic, and why this is a pressing design need?

self wrote:

as had been mentioned before: solely relying on colors to differentiate cardtypes probably isn't the best idea, because color blindness is a thing. Using a color strip to identify cardtypes is effectively changing from a symbol that's been in use for the last twenty-odd years to a new one. This is precisely why I am advocating that the icons stay on the bar with the text reminder, and have a very transparent texture matching the cardtypes in the text box.

For what it's worth, I have a player in my group who has a significant visual impairment and the icons help him identify cards.

Edit: i think we're actually arguing the same point, Juggernaut.

I don't think we are.
You are saying "If we swap colour strips for icons, haven't we made new icons?"
What I am saying is: "When you have a multi-type card, how are you going to mark the types?"

My point about the icons is: If the icons are a problem of understanding, then we need a consistent replacement for the icons. I am fine with new icons, I'm fine with colour blocks, I'm fine with writing "Combat" in bold on its own line in the usage.

As 'added text' since the text apparently isn't a problem and in terrible non-picture format.

Force of Personality
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(1 blood) Costs 1 blood
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| Combat
| Strike: Combat ends.
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| Modifier
Only usable before... etc, etc,
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Juggernaut1981 wrote:

My point about the icons is: If the icons are a problem of understanding, then we need a consistent replacement for the icons. I am fine with new icons, I'm fine with colour blocks, I'm fine with writing "Combat" in bold on its own line in the

Yes, I tried having "Combat: Effect text" etc on Force of Personality and it was quite effective. I think it's better than showing 2x icons (discipline + context) as new users won't be familiar with a icon as combat cards now only have COMBAT in text. Using text again here is consistent with the card type.

The difficulty was laying it out in a manner that did not look shit.

self wrote:

elotar wrote:

Idea, which bothers me for a some time, cost for action cards and other cards.

Timing of cost (when played / when action resolves) must be somehow represented.

care to give me a detailed walk-through as to your logic, and why this is a pressing design need?

We always encounter with the new players situation, when he tries to pay costs of actions asap, or is not paying cost for modifiers waiting for something.

It's confusing, that this cost looks totally similar on the cards.

And generally Actions and Action Mods are hard to distinguish for a new player.