Donsol is a dungeon-crawler card game.
A standard deck of 54 cards, jokers included, is a dungeon. You begin with 21 health points. Shuffle the deck and draw 4 cards, display them before you, this is a room, pick cards until the room is empty or escape. Draw the next four cards, a game ends when the last card has been dealt with or you have no more health points.
You may escape if you have not escaped the previous room or if no monsters are left in the room. When escaping, the remaining cards are put back in the deck and the deck is shuffled.
♥︎ Heart Potions
A potion card gives you health points equal to its value but picture cards (J,Q,K,A) are worth 11.
Drinking multiple potions in a row, without picking a monster or shield card in-between, will make you sick and result in no healing, only the first potion's value will be gained. You can heal up to a maximum of 21 health points.
♦ Diamond Shields
A shield card gives you shield points equal to its value but picture cards (J,Q,K,A) are worth 11. A shield automatically absorbs damages inflicted by a monster up to its own value.
Once used against a monster, a shield can only defend against monsters of increasingly smaller values, using a shield on a monster with higher or equal value to the previous will break it and you receive the monster's full value in damage. Using a shield card will always replace a previously equipped shield.
♣♠ Club/Spade/Joker Monsters
A Monster card removes health points equal to its value, picture cards deal damage as follows J is 11, Q is 13, K is 15, A is 17 and Jokers are equal to 21.
The game was designed by John Eternal during Train Jam 2015 and shares a lot of similarities to Zach Gage & Kurt Bieg's Scoundrel(2011). Scoundrel uses 44 cards(no red face cards, aces and no jokers), a room can be skipped without clearing the monster cards and the distribution of values differ. As for other games in the same lineage, the balancing of Gamot and Card Crawl are closer to that of Donsol.
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