Yes, you can definitely use more than one Actor per Battle. You can see how this works in the Demo Project by talking to the other characters on the Island and adding them to your party. We recommend using the Party Battle UI plugin for this purpose as it arranges all the necessary information for an entire party in a much more easily accessible manner.

For the second request, we are still working on the battle system where the Enemy and Player parties have one Deck each and cards are applied to them. Once this system (known as Party Battle Type C) is complete, you should be able to set up battles to work in the manner of Fate G/O.

Hey Hawkzera, if you would like to do Custom Costs for Cards and are working in RPG Maker MV, we would recommend adding the YEP Skill Core plugin which our plugin is compatible with. YEP Skill Core allows you to use the <Custom Requirement> and <Custom Cost Display> notetags which can let you use other attributes instead of just HP/MP/TP as part of the Cost. This will requirement some JavaScript knowledge to use, luckily it is well documented on their plugin page. Let us know if this solution works for you or if you require another :)

On top of that, how do I make it so your money doesn't show up in the top right. If you notice, it overlaps your name and looks really bad.

Hey Kobaltblue, while we don't have Random Discard as a Card Action keyword, you can do this using a Card Action Eval.

<Card Action>
Eval SceneManager._scene._skillWindow.discardCard(Math.floor(Math.random() * (BattleManager.actor().handSize) + SceneManager._scene._skillWindow._itemsBeforeCards))
</Card Action>

This will discard a random card from your Hand. If you wanted to remove the card instead, you can use the following:

<Card Action>
Eval SceneManager._scene._skillWindow.removeCard(Math.floor(Math.random() * (BattleManager.actor().handSize) + SceneManager._scene._skillWindow._itemsBeforeCards))
</Card Action>

If you wanted to discard/remove multiple at random, using the Conditional Card Actions statements, you can create a Loop like so:

<Card Actions>
Eval $gameVariables.setValue(1, 3);
Label Start
If ($gameVariables.value(1) <= 0)
Jump to End
Eval SceneManager._scene._skillWindow.discardCard(Math.floor(Math.random() * (BattleManager.actor().handSize) + SceneManager._scene._skillWindow._itemsBeforeCards))
Wait 5
Eval $gameVariables.setValue(1, $gameVariables.value(1) - 1)
Jump to Start
Label End
</Card Actions>

As for Scry type effects, we have that working! You will need the new Card Action Pack 1 plugin that is available to supporters of our Patreon. We will eventually grandfather in the Patron plugin into CGC proper a few months down the line :)

Hey D.R.G,

We would recommend using YEP Battle Engine Core and YEP Standard Turn Battle (STB) system plugins for this purpose. That will make it such that you can queue force action Turn Ends and that all the Turn End triggers happen after the Actor has completed their Action. Place these plugins above IsiahCardGameCombat for best compatibility. Once both of these are in, you should be able to use an Eval Card Action or an Action Sequence to fire a skill end the user's turn if their Action Count is reduced to 0.

If you are still having trouble implementing this system, we would be willing to troubleshoot it further with you on our community Discord. We have a dedicated forum by which we can help users with such implementation problems that may be easier than using the ones on itch.io. If however, you would prefer to continue the discussion here, we can do that as well :)

Thanks,

MythAtelier Team

Is it possible, after selecting a card (card action pack 1), to modify its variables (using idenpendent card variables)? Something to simulate Yu-Gi-Oh equip cards?

Selected Var(X) set Y 
Selected Var(X) mod [+/-]Y

Taking this opportunity to also ask if it is possible to modify a card variable depending on the number of specific cards and/or a type in a zone?

Yes, you would need to make use of Conditional Card Actions to check how many of a specific Cards or type there are in a Zone and then change those variables on a Selection of Cards.

Let us know in this thread or on the Discord if you need any help setting these up. We can troubleshoot it with you :)

Hey hibjgalaphor, thanks for the question. You can set up the End Turn button by setting its settings in the plugin parameter. The most important of these is the End Turn skill which corresponds to the ID of a Skill in the Database which is used by the Actor when the button is pressed in Battle.

In the Demo Project, we have set up the End Turn Skill to look like this in the Database. This Skill must use the <willEndTurn> notetag to indicate that it will end the Actor's turn once the Skill has been used so that it can move onto the turns of other Actors in the party or onto the Enemy Troop depending on the initiative order.

That should be all there is to it, but please follow up and let us know how this looks like in your project so we can help troubleshoot any issues you have been running into :)

Thanks,

MythAtelier Team

Hey MESA, thanks for your question! Don't worry, there are no stupid questions.

You can do this by adding Card Actions to your End Turn Skill. This is the Skill that is activated when you hit the End Turn button, you can set it in the End Turn Button Plugin parameters. For example, the following Notetag:

<willEndTurn>

<Card Actions>
Discard Until 0
</Card Actions>

Will Discard all Cards in your Hand and then End your Turn. This makes it such that when you draw cards at the start of your next turn, you will have an empty Hand before cards are drawn. Hope that helps :)

Hey spiderbob,

To check if an individual card in the library is equipped or not, you will want to use:

[Game_Card].origin()

This is will access the origin value of a Game_Card object which will return "learned" if obtained will Initialization or Skill Learn, "equip" if it was added through Equipment and "state" if it was added through a State on the Actor. You can find a Game_Card by accessing any collection of Cards such as:

$gameParty.members()[0]._cardDeck._data[0]

This gives you the top Card of the Deck as a Game_Card object which you can access the origin of using the above function.

To check how many of a card you have in the library, the script call you are looking for is:

[Game_Cards].amountOf(skillId)

This will return the amount of cards matching the Skill ID you pass in of the Game_Cards object you are calling it from (which is just any collection of Cards). A couple that might be useful to you:

[Game_Actor]._skillCards

This will give you all the cards an individual Actor has including ones they have in their Library which are not in their Deck.

$gameParty._allCards

This will give you all the cards in a Party's shared library if you have that plugin parameter enabled.

Hope that helped. Let us know if you have any further questions. We would be happy to assist :)

Cheers,

MythAtelier Team

Thanks for your question, it's not that strange at all. Here are some answers to each of those questions:

- Enemy Cards and Zones will be a major feature of the Card Game Combat v1.7.0 update which is scheduled for 2025. There are workarounds that allow enemies to use Card abilities but you can't make them draw/discard/remove Cards as they don't have those game objects. For Mahjong, you can set it up to be actions between a party of 4 Actors with a dummy enemy (that is non-interactable so the Battle scene does not end until one Actor has achieved the victory condition). Actors have individual Hands, Deck and Discard Zones which would be perfect if you want to simulate Mahjong gameplay in this manner.

- Visible Discards are not possible with Enemies as they do not have their own Hands yet but are possible with other Actors who have their own Hands. You can also enable peeking at the other Hands of Actors or turn it off as I believe that is usually not allowed in most Mahjong variants. It terms of stealing Cards/Tiles, this can be done by creating a Custom Zone that serves as a shared Discard and allowing each Actor a chance to steal a Tile and add it to their Hand when it is added to the Discard.

- Yes, you can manipulate the Opening Hands by using the Equip Cards and Turn Start Plus plugins. This would allow you to give an accessory  item Notetags that add a specific Card to your opening Hand without fail each match/battle.

Hope some of this helps. What you are trying to do is possible, it will just require a lot of smart scripting to circumvent core behavior of Card Game Combat in order to achieve it. We would be happy to help point you to where in the plugin you will need to make the necessary changes to build your system :)

Thanks for the question. It is currently not possible to play cards vs cards in this system. Cards are played individually and then resolve their action before the next can be played. You will need to wait for the v1.7.0 update happening in a few months where we enable Enemies to have their own Cards and Decks as well. Once that is available, it will be possible to use Custom Zones in order to have Skill Cards beat other Skill Cards like you are envisioning (both cards go to the same Zone, they are compared against each other and one Card wins out and resolves). Hope that helps :)

Multiple answers!

1. Yes, while the base gameplay has cards resolve instantly as you play them, you can use the Start of Turn / End of Turn Card Passives to queue Actions for a specific timing step. May require some additional Eval work to get working but this is possible.

2. Yes, you can use the Deck Editor expansion's new Immutable notetag and Actor Restrictions to make a Decklist exclusive to one Actor. You can also restrict an Actor's card pool used to build Decks by not making the Library shared across all party member.

3. Yes, you can make a card that is a combination of smaller Skill effects from other cards. These could be in the form of multiple attacks.

4. No, effects firing based on gameplay triggers is not yet supported. This will need be achieved with another plugin such as YEP Buff States Core. That plugin is more suited towards creating the windows for triggered effects. You can also conceivably do this via some clever Eval work in Card Actions but we recommend using the other plugin for this purpose.

5. Not yet. This features is coming soon with the CGC v1.7.0 update which is currently scheduled for sometime mid-next year. There is a lot of foundational work that needs to be set up in order to support this system.

Hope that helps :)

Hey SapphireSquid10,

Thanks for your questions! Here's a couple workarounds for each:

1. While there isn't a way to prevent the visual of the cards flying to the Discard Zone, you can try Removing cards on play via Card Actions which will ensure they don't move to the Discard Zone and instead are removed in Hand. You can Add the same Card to the Discard Zone as part of that set of Card Actions and players will be none the wiser. Make sure to change the coordinates of the Temp Zone which is where the Card moves to after it is played before it moves to any other Zone.

2. This part is a little bit harder and would require editing the plugin. We can offer an option in a future update that lets you choose the priority of Cards vs Pictures, but right now Cards will always appear above the Pictures layer (has to do with the fact that the Cards are on the Window layer).

Let us know if this workaround does the trick or if it is still insufficient. We can continue to troubleshoot until we find a solution.

Thanks,

MythAtelier Team

Hello KBGaming&&Music,

You can dynamically alter Skill Costs via either plugins like YEP Skill Core or our Independent Card Variables plugin.

If you are using YEP Skill Core, you can use the <Custom MP Cost> Notetag in order to have it such that a particular Actor gets to cast this Skill for free.

<Custom MP Cost>
if(user.actorId() == 2)
{
  cost = 0;
}
</Custom MP Cost>

If you would like this to work at the Skill Type level then you might need to use YEP Buff States Core and have a check similar to this on the State itself when the user goes to select the Skill in the menu (which is the CGC equivalent of hovering over the card in Hand).

If you are using Independent Card Variables, you can create a Variable for the card instance and set it to 0, then assign it to the MP Cost.

<Card Passives>
Var(0) init 0
</Card Passives>

<MP cost = var(0)>

The MP Cost will change if you change the value of the Variable via another Card Action, Damage Formula or Script Call.

The second request is a little easier but you'll have to include it in the Card Actions Notetag of each Card. You can check for the user's Actor ID in an if statement and if they match then have the Card move to the Deck/Hand after play and skip to a Label at the End. If not, then it will move to Discard/Exile as the Card normally does.

<Card Actions>
//Do Card Actions Here ...
If (user.actorId() == 2)
Move this to Deck
If (user.actorId() == 2)
Jump to End
Move this to Discard
Label End
</Card Actions>

There is currently no way to bind a Card Action like Discard or Remove to a Zone destination so it will need to be done manually. This will be a feature introduced in a future update.

Hope this helps. Let us know if there is more we can do.

Thanks,

MythAtelier Team

Hey Arcanamoon, if you are using MV then YEP Message Eval Text is your best bet. Use the evalText<<>> Notetag in the Skill Description and you will be able to show formulas. You can have it pull the stats of the user and show the damage formula based on that :)

Hello Gaji666,

1. You are on the right track. You need to make this check in the Damage Formula. It might look something like this:

var dmg = 10; if(!a._firstFlag){ dmg += 50; a._firstFlag == true;} ; dmg

In the above example, the Card's base DMG is 10, but if it is played first, it deals +50 DMG and then sets the first flag to true so no other cards can benefit from this effect this turn. Remember to set user._firstFlag to false in the End Turn Button Skill so that it can be available next turn.

2. Not sure I understand this effect. You are trying to deal Damage to the card itself (not currently possible in CGC) or are you trying to buff the DMG on the next type of Card played this turn?

Thanks,

MythAtelier Team

thanks to your demo. I solved this problem by replacing "Agility" with "agility"

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There are no content restrictions in terms of what you wish to do with our plugin, but team members reserve the right to decline assistance to any plugin user who is using the tool in a project they find objectionable (e.g., promoting discrimination or harmful practices).

Hey swoon spoon,

This doesn't seem to match the current behavior of the CGC plugins even if you set the Party and Actor Command parameter skips to false. Are you using any other plugins that may be altering how turns are taken? If so, could you share a screenshot of your Plugin Manager list so we can replicate your setup and see if we can find out what's causing this behavior.

Thanks,

MythAtelier Team