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Dang, I should have stayed vigilante, super bummed I missed this.
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One of our players has decided to bow out, so we've got an opening for a male obelisk blue character, if either of you are still interested.
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I'd love that! Let me see if I can make something good!
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It's been ages since I've seen a Yugioh rp. Gonna put down some tentative interest here.
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@Scarifar You're welcome to join. A new "episode" just started, so knowledge of previous events isn't necessary.

I've been pairing up player characters with NPCs in order to drag them off into plots, if needed. While this arrangement isn't mandatory, the open slots/freed up NPCs, from players who have left the RP, include:
  • Sina (Slifer Red female)
  • Miles (Ra Yellow male)
  • Jon (Obelisk Blue male)
  • Caleb (Obelisk Blue male)

Tentatively, Chris (Ra Yellow male) is also available (in that @WXer hasn't been online in a month) though I'll wait on @SSW's response before declaring Melony (Obelisk Blue female) freed up. I contacted them both on our Discord just now and am waiting to hear back.

Players can choose which NPC they want as their roommate, or just go without a roommate. No other player character is available as a roommate currently, so that's unfortunately not an option.

You're also welcome to join the discord if you wanna discuss your character and their deck.
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Hey there @Ryik!

Looks like you're accepting applications to join and I'm interested; I love the campy feel of the school setting and am intrigued by the use of full deck lists for each character. However, I do have a couple of questions:

Are you running these games on Discord over some online program? Do you intend to? And are the decks expected to be competitive in that regard, or are the lists just for the sake of the characters having a gimmick?

(In other words, do I need to learn what Xyz, Link and Tuner cards are?)

EDIT: Whatever, here's hoping! ~

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Are you running these games on Discord over some online program? Do you intend to? And are the decks expected to be competitive in that regard, or are the lists just for the sake of the characters having a gimmick?


Duels are taking place on Discord and can be done either over an online simulator, or on Discord itself; if you choose the latter then either Ryik of myself will tell you what your draw is for each turn and you will play it out like a real duel. In other words, duels are not scripted and it is expected that you will make your deck good enough to at least be able to compete with other players' decks.

We're not making modern, meta decks though. You don't need to make it super competitive, but it does help to make a deck that is consistent enough to work in a real game.

(In other words, do I need to learn what Xyz, Link and Tuner cards are?)


You don't have to use any mechanics you don't want to use, but other players are using these types of cards so it would help to know how they work for when you duel against them. If you have any questions around rulings or things like that then I can help with that.
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Hey @King Cosmos, thanks for the responses. Would you mind taking a quick look at my deck and letting me know whether the Side Deck seems "good enough"? Like I said, I'm not sure how those work, and I do know Battleguard isn't exactly intended to be a competitive archetype, but I'd be happy to play some duels!

EDIT: Also, what simulator do you use?
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Would you mind taking a quick look at my deck and letting me know whether the Side Deck seems "good enough"? Like I said, I'm not sure how those work, and I do know Battleguard isn't exactly intended to be a competitive archetype, but I'd be happy to play some duels!


Do you mean extra deck? Side decks are a different thing, that we aren't using.

It seems fine. It works for what you're going for, which is just Earth Warrior beat-down. I would say to take out Powerload Ogre because it being unaffected by card effects is above the power level we are going for. I will say that it is expected that people's decks will get stronger as the RP progresses, so it would be good if you had an idea in mind for how to build off of this; or just another deck you can switch to at a later point.

EDIT: Also, what simulator do you use?


Dueling Nexus mostly, but if there's another one that you would prefer then we can use that instead.
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@Goose Looks good. I agree that Powerload Ogre's gotta go - after that, you can drop them in the character's tab.

I've never really explained it on the forums before so our main two benchmarks for balance are:

1. Set normal monster > pass on turn 1 (usually) won't immediately lose you the game (though it's not necessarily a good play) - mainly just something to measure a deck's immediate swarm against. A lot of the decks in the RP rely on slow starts when they can't draw their combo pieces, and while they're expected to draw them quickly/put up some kind of defense or lose, being able to stall a little helps.

2. Nothing is super difficult to remove; if it's unaffected by card effects, for example, then its attack should be moderately low, and the deck shouldn't be capable of buffing it. Crooked Cook and Libromancer Firestarter are about the upper limit for this, and cards like Left-Hand Shark or I:P Masquerena would require you to limit the contents of your extra deck accordingly. Once-per-turn negates aren't as bad, unless they are also omninegates, in which case they may need the same restrictions. Naturally, other aspects of the deck can easily push them off the table entirely. For example, Libromancer Firestarter, Libromancer Bonded and Libromancer Fireburst aren't allowed in the same deck, since Fireburst would be able to achieve immunity to destruction by battle or card effect, as well as immunity to banishment. I don't want everyone to be forced to run Lava Golem/Kaijus/Effect Veiler/etc. to deal with particularly ornery monsters.

The rest is mostly balancing guesswork.

Nobody has submitted an anti-fun deck (e.g. burn/mill/exodia) yet but we'd probably be harsher with them, such as Fonda Fontaine's nurse burn deck that doesn't actually have a lot of burn or control cards.

Jon in the NPCs is a temporary exception to these rules mainly because it ties into his character arc, his deck is a (very inflexible) gimmick I really like, and because I thought it'd be cool if there was an unreasonably strong NPC available to duel against. Nobody has dueled against him yet though, so maybe I thought wrong.
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@Ryik Sweet!

I’ve gone ahead and posted my character sheet as is, with the Powerload Ogre removed from the Extra Deck. Am I supposed to be looking for some Discord invite link now?
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