Would you be more interested in an RPG Game or Trading Card Game?

[FranklinX 78]

I am currently creating a universe of characters. They are superheroes and I have purchased illustrations of these characters. I am at a crossroads. Would you prefer a RPG game with the characters or play a trading card game of these characters with your friends? Some people will say "do both". That is possible in the future. We are currently in the present and I'm a poor fella. I only have one option at this time.

 

I would greatly appreciate any advice.

 

Thanks

[Kayzee 4,032]

Awww, I had a Zoidburg meme all ready and you spoiled it. >_>

 

But wait... do you mean an actual physical trading card game with actual physical cards to play with actual physical friends? People do that?!?!

 

Er... What I mean to say is, yeah of course there is yugioh and magic the gathering and such. Never played any of that myself, though it might sound mildly interesting if I had anyone I wanted to play with. But that's the rub isn't it? At least for antisocial introverts like me, no matter how good the game is, if I need other people (especially flesh and blood people) to play with, sorry not really interested. Plus no offense but even if I did have someone to play with, chances are they would want to play a more well known game.

 

Though I guess I can think of a few ways in which making a trading card game might work... If you have a bunch of people you know personally who would be interested in playing the new game with you personally and it spirals out from there, or if you just have enough marketing savvy and industry respect that people will want to at least try.

 

You could always make an RPG with trading card game mechanics if you wanted though!

 

Sidenote: I always personally found the superhero thing more then a little silly. But then, I am a magical fairy so I am more then a little silly myself. I guess I just gotta ask if you are going to make a world with random superpowers, why not just make the world a bit more fantastical instead of guys in skin tight outfits running around a mundane normal city fighting crime or whatever?

 

Though sometimes superhero stories are still pretty neat. Like Worm! In a way it's a bit like Evangelion only with loads of superheros and supervillians instead of giant robots fighting the angels... and losing (though really that part of the plot doesn't kick in for a while). Unlike Evangelion it has a main character that doesn't make you want to slap them... or if it does, it's for a completely different reason. The girl is way too stubborn sometimes, though to be fair getting powers in Worm usually involves events that really mess you up.

Edited March 10, 2020 by Kayzee