Library card redesign

Regarding the 'requires x; costs x pool/blood/spankings or whatever' in the black text box.

I genuinely am failing at understanding why this redundant information is so important. The requirement is in the text box, in icon form, be it clan or discipline. for the cards that require disciplines, there's a lack of "Requires X Discipline" in the box. why is a clan requirement different than a discipline requirement? I sincerely don't get it. is it to preserve something in that black box? there do exist library cards that won't have anything in that box...

edit sorry for being vague-ish. hopefully people will be able to parse my thoughts.

Ke. wrote:

Zombie with 3 life. 0 strength, 0 bleed.

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Would they have a strength and life of 3 or 4 in terms of the icons?

I think you know the answer to your question

self wrote:

i am in no way suggesting that the atrocious icons I designed for life/str/bleed be used.

I think for life we should use green circles like on imbued cards.

For strength and bleed I'm suggesting not the icon with number, but one icon for 1, two for 2 ets (like colored mana cost on mtg cards).

the current design aesthetic is trending away from icons. Consensus seems to be that they confuse new players.

self wrote:

the current design aesthetic is trending away from icons. Consensus seems to be that they confuse new players.

Those icons would allow us to lighten the rules.
With it, there is no need to "know" that every crypt cards has a base strength of 1 and can bleed for 1.

This said, should we stay with icon for cap/life, bleed and strength or should we also include stealth and intercept ?

Juggernaut1981 wrote:

1) I like the icons for the Ally Stats. They are generic enough, maybe use a "medical cross" for life.

I think that the Red Cros sis trademarked.
At least I seem to recall that here in Finland when one band used a similar symbol in their album's cover they had to recall the record and replace the cover.

alek wrote:

I would be tempted to move artist's name to the side or at the top of black box and then move all text sections a little down to show more of card's picture

Good point.