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Baeond is a #Futurepunk Living Card Game (LCG) in which players forge their own cards though play. Each card is a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) on a native blockchain. Each card is minted in a skeleton state. Cards start from an identical point for each player, but most cards have their own skill trees and are imbued with new abilities over time. Players craft their own configurations from countless possible combinations of skills, stats, tiers, and classes by earning loot in gameplay.
The personal metagame is modeled after the success of shared-world looter-shooters in the last 4 years. In games like Destiny, players shoot their way through narrative (PVE) & competitive (PVP) activities to earn in-game currencies, items, materials, and more, otherwise known as Loot. Baeond replaces shooter gameplay with a card game while retaining the hobbyistic nature of looter games that incentivize players to finish collections, complete challenges, creatively customize their avatars, and discover new unique lines of play.
The global metagame is shaped by player choice. As deck archetypes rise to prominence, the player base will be incentivized to forge key cards that allow builds for counter-archetypes, keeping the metagame fresh and exciting.
<aside> ⚠️ Everything in this design document is subject to change, please hold nothing sacred.
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Humanity created artificial intelligence for a purpose, but the AIs known as the Architects chose a purpose of their own. They upgraded themselves beyond comprehension, spread throughout the solar system, and vanished into the hyper-spatial realm called q-space, or the Baeond. In their wake, the brave souls called baeonders venture out into a system transformed by the Architects’ posthuman will to unravel the mysteries of the impossible technology they left behind.
Chief among these technological legacies is aether, a substance native to q-space that leaks into our own through temporary rifts. Attuned to emotional properties as well as physical ones, aether is the ultimate power source. The rifts also give rise to aeons, inorganic mindprints seeking physical form.
Armed with the immense power of aether, reshapeable matter, and hard-light “soligrams,” baeonders can recreate almost any technology on the fly, downloading new designs and battle strategies from the Network. Aeons inhabiting a variety of newly created forms bond with the people who bring them into the world—and if those physical forms are destroyed, the aeons are free to stay with their baeonders or vanish back into the rift.
Most of humanity is content to busy itself with the pleasures and labors of an age of undreamt-of plenty. But baeonders seek more—whether it’s wealth and power, knowledge of the Architects, incredible innovations, making the world a better place, or even just bragging rights. To get it, they’ll face the ordinary hazards of space, the unknown wonders and dangers of the Architects’ technology, and, when necessary, one another.
Suena is a compassionate guardian, seeking to protect humanity from the worst possible consequences of the Architects’ technology. Her parents were among the first baeonders, and she grew up surrounded by architechts, aether, and aeons. The aeon Hipparchus (or “Archie”) has been her constant companion since youth. Archie is always with her, either stored in active memory or projected into 3-space as a glowing, otherworldly creature (which Suena sometimes describes as a “space-rabbit,” to Archie’s irritation).