Ascension (Act I)- RPG with playing cards 

“Hope to hear from ya’ll soon.” Five years later:

I do have ACT III saved on my computer. Perhaps I shall take a look at it...

I seriously thought you were explaining a pre-existing game...

Did this man just create a rpg with normal playing cards? The madman, to be fair this reminds me of when I was really young and had no idea how to play any of the games people played with playing cards so I would make my own. Good times.

This is probably the most creative game invented with cards, I love it.

this dude can probably make a Shakespeare level story with just playing cards

Tony Ngo: ... you can create your own classes. that annoying friend we all have: *_AIGHT! I'm a demi god with healing abilities, who can tank and destroy royals by blinking....blablabahblah_*

I can't imagine the feeling when your old video, you maybe forgot about, just gets recommended to so many people and they share their love with you. That must be so frikin wholesome

Just in case anyone else is wondering: the discard pile is re-used as draw pile once the initial draw pile runs out. This way, wound cards will become part of the draw deck and can therefor be in your hand and played (if paladin).

Some classes I just brainstormed: Druid- Can block each monster twice Ranger- +2 against unblocked monsters, -2 against blocked monsters Barbarian- attacks twice, +1 to all card values, draws only 2 cards per turn Summoner- discard to summon cards of lower value, summoned cards attack once per turn, must discard two cards to summon any royal, summoned royals count as two drawn cards, summoned cards count as drawn cards, if no cards drawn this turn then cannot summon next turn, cannot attack directly Necromancer- can summon monster from top of graveyard after taking damage from a stronger monster, summoned monster attacks once per turn, can only have one summoned monster, can attack directly as well, only draws two cards per turn if a monster is summoned Scoundrel- flip a coin at the beginning of each draw phase, if tails: can choose one card from your deck as one of your drawn cards, shuffle after choosing; if heads: draw one card from your ally’s deck to your hand and draw one card from your own deck and add it to your ally’s hand, do this before any other cards are drawn Alchemist- can discard one normal card and one health card to choose any card from the deck, shuffle after choosing, OR discard two health cards and return one to the health deck Bard- your ally draws an extra card next turn if you take damage, once per game you can instead nullify the damage you would take and return all health cards in both players’ hands to their respective health decks Noble- can attack and block with your ally’s card or your own Priest- If a player (you or your ally) draws a health card, the player who drew the health card can draw an extra card (only one extra card maximum each turn)

Well now I have to get another deck of cards. And maybe a friend.

I wouldn't use the name 'Ascension'. There's already a deck-building game with that name.

Here I sit At my computer chair Remaking this in Unity Wish me luck, comrades.

This kind of stuff is why I love playing cards over any other elaborate boardgame. People have been getting creative with them for hundreds of years, and with the internet, we can explore such a large portion of the crazyness

Me: Mom can you buy me an RPG? Mom: We already have an RPG at home. RPG at home:

Omg did this guy create slay the spire before it came out

For some reason, while watching this, all I'm hearing is: *"NOW I WANT YOU ALL TO GO AHEAD AND ROLL INITIATIVE."*

Nobody: RU-vid: I'mma recommend this video from 5 years ago...

Recommendations has served me up some good shit.

That small moment at 3:37 warms my soul

great idea, challenging and fun. played this with my wife now for 6 hours straight :)

Underrated channel. Finally regular decks have an appeal to me. 🙃

This seems so awesome. Just a simple card game with cool RPG elements. Love it. Ranger class: can take a defeated monster into its hand to use as an attacking card (like a pet)

Ive been trying to develop a game like this for a while.others have too.i think yours is definitely the best take on the rpg game for a regular card deck by far!!very nice!!also..solo..im thinking you could reduce the amount of monsters by say one, and maybe tap colors for aggro turns.so one defend turn black attacks the hero, and then draw discard attack and red attacks the hero.or play two decks solo as a two party team..im going to start testing that this week..act 2!!! Damn the gods!! let them burn!! let their temples crumble! And let them all fall from the sky to face our mortal fury!!!

This is awesome. Imagining all of the different options/ways to play. Adding a couple abilities per class and some more classes even

Played this for the first time finally. Really like it. Simple to set up and inspires decision making. Letting you know I look forward to seeing more!

hello Tony, how are you? I would like to adapt that game to solo gaming and I would like to know if there is a solo version of it. Also, I'd like to ask permission to translating the game to portuguese and also to talk about it in my channel, mentioning all credits of course. Thanks for your attention! Regards

I don't know what took RU-vid so long to recommend this to me but I'm glad they finally did.

Lemme just remember every frame of this just so when the guys get bored of blackjack, we can continue in *style*

This so freaking cool! Will definitely give this a try. It seems to have the feel of a full fledged card game like The Mind and yet it only uses standard playing cards! Genius!

I’m back three years later, still think this is dope.

Mr. Ngo, the almighty algorithm has blessed thee.

Dude I used to try and make games like this all the time!!! So cool to see a successful card RPG, really good job on this

Weird recommendations aside, this is actually a pretty interesting game.

You could make a class that is like a summoner and his attack cards are actually monsters he can place to fight by the player's side. Also you could make a necromancer class that could use his attack cards to summon a monster from the monster's graveyard to the same effect as the summoner, I imagine this as the necromancer playing an attack card to reanimate a monster of equal or lower value as the card played.

There's already a card game called Ascension (it's really good!) and I was looking for videos about that, but now I'm interested in this.

I played this game forever ago with my friend and it was intense. Only time I've ever played. Now I'm looking to play it again and so many memories keep flooding my brain lmao

I love it, I gonna try it with my bro. Are the Act II rules online somewhere ? I'm eager to get more :p Thanks much for what you already shared.

I like this very much. Dont you EVER stop making RPG card game videos.

I have never expected that my cards may be played that way, thx man, it's awesome!

let me guess, you got recommended too.

Congratulations for you creativity!!

awesome dude, im gonna use your gameplay with my story to make an awesome campaign! really cool system

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It reminded me of the mobile game Card Crawl, but then I realized maybe this video came out earlier lol I would love a single player version!

I mean, I'm not saying I'm glad that youtube is recommending me this video from 5 years ago, but I'm glad youtube is recommending me this video from five years ago.

its time to D-D-D-DECK BUILD

Game for two players? Yea, I will just play with myself instead.

LOVE IT, otw to buy 2 deck of cards

Very glad this popped up in recommended, will definitely try this with friends at some point!

ive always wanted something like this, same with chess pieces. i love stuff like this

THIS IS SO FREAKING COOL!!

This is a very creative game, I have enjoyed it every time I played it. I’ve showed other people this game and they like it as well. Keep up the great work.

A few questions here. 1. When the game ends? Do we won at the moment the monster deck runs out, end of the round the monster deck runs out, or the moment we destroy all monster? Do I die when I get 13 wounds(wound deck runs out), or 14 wounds (wound deck is not enough)? 2. If a warrior kills a club monster by Bloodlust, can they get a healing/removal bonus? (even if the suit of attack card is not same with that of monster card) 3. Can a player perform a dummy action? For example, can a paladin attack a monster with a lower-value card only in order to use their ability? (because it requires to attack)

your almost at 1000 subs my guy

Dude u are amazing cool, great game!

That’s crazy. We got the same friend.

Couple more questions. Do both players go at the same time? Or does one go, and then the other goes? And if we go separately, do I get attacked on my friends turn? Or do you only get attacked on your own turn?

Tony Tony, I love this Bloody good work

クラス別特殊能力 Warrior：アタックフェイズでダメージカードをアタックカードとして使うことができる。 Paladin：アタックフェイズでアタック後に手札から任意の枚数のダメージカードを体力山札に戻すことができる。 Rogue：アタックフェイズで1度に2枚までアタックできる。 Mage：《ファイアストーム》アタックフェイズでアタック後にブロックラインのモンスターにアタックできる。

Did a similar game, but a little bit more simple with my students. Turned part of the game into counting practise haha

this game looks very very good. nice development. was the video focused on 2 players? did u make a 4-player video?

I've been working on a similar concept. It didn't have classes, but rather different suits represented different things. Like Diamonds were money, and the Dimond royals were shops. Where the players could sell cards from their discard pile and buy ones that were dealt with from the supply. Have you considered using the monster pile to create a map? Think something like the Sector map from FTL ( link below) but replacing each node with a small deck of cards. You could organize the monster deck so that you encounter the Jacks first, then the Queens and then the Kings as boss-type cards that would give the game a ramping difficulty as it progressed. Just a suggestion.

this sounds like a really cool and creative way of playing with some deck of cards. i want to try it out with some friends, but call it Discount DnD (not to be disrespectful)

Cool I wish he still uploaded I'd love to see more games

For extra content/more ideas, what if there was a necromancer class? Basically, whenever you kill a monster, you can discard two additional cards to put that monster in your discard pile rather than the monster graveyard. This may be too powerful as I haven’t tested it but seems pretty cool to me. The reason I think it could be balanced is cause the necromancer has to spend three cards to do this ability (one to kill the monster and two to discard and add it to their own discard pile). This, while, powerful, would leave the necromancer with no cards left to defend with during defense phase. Clarifications: - the necromancer is allowed to discard wound cards as well as attack cards when using their special ability - the monsters, when drawn, count towards the 3 card hand limit and can be used for both attacking and defending. - the monster deck and the player deck have different backs, so this could be potentially powerful in that the necromancer always knows which cards in his deck are the “resurrected” monsters

This idea is amazing

Why is there both an attack- and defend phase? Wouldn't you preferably just destroy a monster in the attack phase to not deal with it in the defend phase? It only seems to be useful to the mage. Unless you can only attack once in a turn?

Idea: Cleric, alternative to Paladin and uses Hearts. If the other player has a Wound in their hand, the Cleric can play a card to contest it. If the card played is equal or higher than the Wound in value, then the other player can place the Wound as well as another card from their hand in their health deck.

Custom Class Class name: Duelist Class ability: Counter attack If the player takes a damage and draws a wound card. The player can discard a card from his hand and add the discarded hand’s number with the wound card, if the sum of the wound card and the discarded card are higher than the monster’s number the monster will be instantly defeated. The player will now put the discarded card and wound card into the discard pile. Class story: The player walks up to an abandoned rapier stabbed onto the ground through the rugged carpets of the now abandoned noble mansion. The player picked it up with no hesitation, as he/she knows that he/she wouldn’t be able to escape without a weapon in hand. He/she closed his/her eyes, memories, endless knowledge of swordplay flashed in his/her mind. Then he/she knew he/she could be ruthless he/she could destroy legions of monsters with this weapon, with each strike he/she will chop off those monsters’ necks. And he/she can do it slowly, one by one, brick by brick and one monster to another.

If we play 3-4 player does we need to put more card in the monster deck? Or does the monster does more damage?

novel and entertaining. Well done

Love the idea I've gotten more use to using Uno cards for my token keeping needs So im actually planning a care RPG inspired by this.

This is really cool! Has anyone made a themed version of this?

Archer idea: you can use a lower card to hit a monster and the damage will add up each turn until you reach the amount to kill it . Ex: use 2 on a 5 , its now wounded and need 3 or higher to finish it next turn

I got some questions... What to use as health with for 3 or 4 players? How do warrior and paladin draw wound cards? What happens when you're own deck empties?

Here are some ideas I had for other classes: Ranger class has skill Split Shot which allows him to kill two Mob who's sum is equal to the attacking card. (Use a 9 to kill a 4 & 5). Priest or Cleric class has a skill that works similar to the Paladin. When you kill a Mob one of your allies may move any wounds from their hand to their Life draw deck. Warlock class has Life Tap skill after discard phase you may draw back up to three attack cards but from your Life draw deck. These wounds can be used to make attacks this turn only (or until they are discarded, not sure just so long as a warlock cannot use wounds to attack that went through his discard. Only the fighter can do that) Thief class has Sleight of Hand skill after the discard phase switch 1 card between an ally's hand and your own. This can help make sure the team is making optimal moves. Or non optimal :-)

This is LEGIT cool

I would love to see this made into an actual game with cards that explain themselves... you could keep the suits and numbers on the cards, but have art on them to designate what is what (for example, the knight would have a knight on the back of their cards and maybe a description of the bloodlust ability)... then they could have their own health decks which would be the color swapped suit.... maybe that's actually where you would put the bloodlust description and the Paladin's heal, and then just have the other 2 characters health decks say unusable.... or you could do color swapped suits for expansion characters

Cool game! Am I able to play by myself? Would I just add more health or something? Or could I just just have less monsters?

Thanks for sharing! Looks to be a good and exciting game. My question is that the only way to win is to beat all the monster cards, right?

class combo ideas: if u play with 2 people you can combine the paladin and the rogue to get a mad scientist who heals with his potions your team and your self i was in a 4 man party for this and we did this idea and it went awsome we also made a lot of other classes like combining a mage and a pali to get a pirate clas whos main spell is an aoe set up for a card who can be blown up in phase 4

gonna play it someday

I always wanted to be able to play a battling card game with standard decks of cards

I had an idea for a different mage ability: polymorph! Discard 1 card to transform a monster into the card you discarded

What if instead of puting the monster in the graveyard when it has the same colour as you you put it în your discard pile. This way you are encouraged to cooperate and select what monster to kill very carefully

Uh.. last video 3 years ago. I really hope he is going to read this and ... better late than never, but I like the idea very much!

I have some ideas about how to implement armor, enchants, rings, necklaces, loot and so on

Tony this game caught our interest. Please feel free to contact us if you'd like to develop this game for use within the escape room industry.

I’m also confused about the defending part. How do I now which monster I am being attacked by? If I am a black suit and 2 of the monsters are black suits which one is attacking me? Which one am I defending from because it could change the whole phase depending on your hand. Am I just missing something?

Hi ! Do you keep aces in the classes deck ? If so, what is their value ? When you have a wound card in your hand, what can you do if you are neither a Warrior nor a Paladin ? Only discard it during the discard phase ? Your game seems amazing, but we have to read and understand all the comments here to be able to play it :D Maybe a video showing a full game with a commentary would help ! Thanks for your time EDIT : Ok I figured it out ! Very nice game. Successfull run with Paladin and Warrior. I'll go random on the next run (always a black class and a red one, I like it that way !)

a question about the warriors ability: When I kill a monster with a wound card, does the monster need to be the same kind as the wound card for the special ability of destroing cards in my discard pile to work, or can I still use this ability with club monsters when I attack with a wound?

Am going to play this now with my friends cause it now our favorite game xD i always play mage.

(Insert comment about RU-vid algorithm recommending an old video)

hey, about the player decks, do we keep the aces? are the aces superior to K or the lowest card?

Can you only block one monster during the defend phase or you can block two or three monsters if you have class cards equal or higher than the monsters?

Hello, just a thought that the Saladin could also heal your ally. This could add a stronger sense of teamwork. Also, are the blocked creatures only able to be attacked by the hero they attacked, or can anyone attack them?

This lowkey reminds me of Slay the Spire, we got a warrior who can make better use of Wounds and a rogue who uses more cards but can OHKO anything in the game. Would love to see a single player mode that sees you crafting a larger and larger deck from choices as you best monsters. Having certain cards have additional effects, eg. Joker, aces, royals would be interesting, for example maybe jokers are unplayable unless you use both of them together, to gain a powerful boon? That way, having the Joker given as a choice makes you wonder if you take it and hope for another, or if you pass it for a safer option

Is there any place I could get a PDF of these rules? I would like to send them to my Kindle so I can access them without WiFi

Thanks for the idea, now I'm gonna make a fantasy epic based off of this