Kintropy In Action

Before I had my children I was a certifiable nerd I had a Magic the Gathering Tournament ID card for playing in Magic tournaments. During the Winter Holiday I got to play in a Magic Tournament. It has been over six years and the cards have changed and I have found that I have become more ruthless in the game. It’s still as fun and exciting as ever. The paradigm shifts, which are the part of the game I love, are as strong as ever.

Today, I started Gabriel on the road to fantasy role-playing games. We took out the card Game of TMNT a pretty fun game within it’s self and tweaked it. Gabriel wanted the none transparent cards to battle each other. So here is what I did.

I shuffled the cards and put them in a communal stack between us. I dealt each one of us one card. Then I had each of us roll one 10 sided dice to determine each characters life points. We then took a stack of white poker chips for that number and put it on our respective characters. We then rolled a 4-sided dice to determine how many points a character could attack for. We put red poker chips on the character to let us know how many points the creature could attack for.

So then we started the game play I had the person whose turn it is roll a six-sided dice. That determined how many times that creature could attack that turn. So if a player rolled a four they could attack four times. When a character was attacked we removed the white poker chips in the increments of the attacking cards red chips.

It is a start and Gabriel got a good visual on the concepts of attack and defense as used in role/card fantasy games. (It is a sneaky way to do represent math concepts too.)

--Mom