A TPM RPG TCG?

[Blademaster]

I hate to be the resident stick-in-the-mud, but MUST we use only a Magic: The Gathering format? I've never played it, but I've played Pokemon AND Yu-Gi-Oh!. So, I'm pretty much clueless...

For example...

RP'er Name: Weasel Overlord
Element: Earth
Mana Cost: EEEEN
AP/DP: 5/3
Effect: EEN "Yaoi-fy!" - Any two male characters on the field become too preoccupied with making out to do anything else.
Choose one of your characters and one of your opponent's characters. Neither can attack or activate any abilities this turn.

...?

I have no clue what that means... Now, in Yu-Gi-Oh! terms...

Name: Weasel Overlord
Attribute: EARTH
Type: Beast-Warrior
Level: 5
ATK: 2100
DEF: 1300
Image: (insert pic of Weas that I was too lazy to go get myself here)
Effect: This Monster's effect can only be used during your Main Phase 1. Select one face-up Monster on your side of the field and one face-up Monster on your opponent's side of the field and flip them into face-down Defense Mode. Neither selected Monster can switch modes or be flipped face-up until the end of your opponents next turn.

THAT I can understand. Even Pokemon terms is fine by me...

Name: Weasel Overlord
Type: Basic Fighting (evolves into Stage-1 Fighting 'Yaoi Dominatrix')
LV: 36
Card No.: 003
Retreat Cost: CC
Weakness: F
Reistance: L (-30)
Attacks:
-FC: Modstick 20 (Don't apply Weakness or Resistance for this attack.)
-FFL: Tazor 30 (Flip 2 coins; if both are heads, add 1 Trainer Card from your discard pile to your hand. If one is heads, the Defending Pokemon is now Paralyzed. If neither are heads, this Pokemon does 10 damage to itself.)

See? I just think it'd be easier if there were different variations of the game so everybody can join in.

[Prof. Jb Wolf]

I hate to be the resident stick-in-the-mud, but MUST we use only a Magic: The Gathering format? I've never played it, but I've played Pokemon AND Yu-Gi-Oh!. So, I'm pretty much clueless...

See? I just think it'd be easier if there were different variations of the game so everybody can join in.

You seem to have no problem converting it in your head, but by having variations of the game we defeat the whole purpose of having a unifying format. M:tG isn't quite as hard as people seem to think to grasp and everyone else seems to have picked it up just fine. If your having trouble you could always just post them anwyway and someone else can convert them.

[Emotional Faun Chiko-sai]

...Now, stuff like Yu-Gi-Oh makes me quake in my shoes even more than converting Pokemon-TCG-ese to M:tG ever did, but hey, the more numbers I see, the more panicked I get. *numberphobia shrug*

This is a template, sort of, for anyone who's currently obsessed with only ONE RPG although they've joined many. Like me. Yes. Bad fangirl.

(Event Card)
Event Name: Single RPG Obsession
Mana Cost: FWN
Effect: The player picks an RPG. All characters in that RPG automatically gain +3/+3, regardless of whether they are the player's own characters or not. Conversely, all other characters, including the player's own, have their stats diminished by -3/-3. (If the number is less than 0, it remains 0.)

I'm not sure if there should be one of these for each RPG, or simply a single card like the one above, or something else entirely. Butcher away.