Nu Vibez and Roleplay Guide Magazine - October 2014 | Page 39
DECK
Deck-based role-playing is
very different than all of the
others because technically
it's not really role-playing.
Granted games like Magic
the Gathering want people
to get into the role that they
are Planeswalkers “people
with the ability to travel to
different dimensions” and you
use the deck of cards that you
build to do battle with other
Planeswalkers, or players,
to see who is the best. Yes,
there is a story about warring
Planeswalkers but it takes a
back seat to the deck building
and game play.
This is how most deck based
RPG's are set up and you'll
find that they can be highly
competitive. However there are
other games that have tried to
incorporate actual role-playing
with card decks. Pathfinder has
a deck-based RPG where the