Help Us Choose a Name
We also need a name. That’s where you can help right now. We have four names we are considering:
- Elemental Dynasty
- Emperor’s Hand
- Hand of the Five Elements
- Pentelemental
It’s a fun, elegant card game themed around the five Chinese elements: Fire, Metal, Earth, Tree1) Sometimes called Wood, and Water. Each card represents one element, and is numbered from one to ten. As the elements have a complex interplay of creation and destruction, each card also gains a bonus from each card in play that represents the element that feeds it, and a penalty from those that harm it. Lower numbers gain bigger bonuses and smaller penalties, and vice versa.
Each round, The Emperor plays a card face up, then everyone else plays one face down. When all the cards are revealed, whoever has the highest number, after taking into account bonuses and penalties from other cards, wins the round and becomes emperor. Players can try to second guess each other to gain bonuses and avoid penalties. There are a few optional rules, such as the Dragons of the Four Seas, that mix things up a little and increase replayability, but that’s the core of the game.
So, from those four names, which is your favourite?
References
1. | ↑ | Sometimes called Wood |