Ogre's Delight is an asymmetrical card game with turn-based combat where a group of heroes fight against a boss. Choose your skills wisely. Or don't. It's up to you. Good luck!
Before the game, a member of your group "volunteers" to be the boss player. Once decided, each player locks in a boss or hero and builds their deck of skills. The game starts.
During an encounter, each side tries to bring down the opponents health points to zero by casting skills.
The game ends when either all bosses or all heroes are dead.
The game can be divided into the following phases:
Decide who is going to be the boss player and set the number of bosses, which will be controlled by the boss player.
The boss player is prompted to select their bosses. The order in which the bosses were selected is the order the heroes will face them. Once the bosses have been locked in, the hero players can choose their hero. Heroes are grouped into different roles: damage dealer, tank and support. In a team of heroes, there may be at most one tank and one support.
Each hero or boss has a predefined set of skills you can choose from and go into battle with. There are three types of skills: basic, special and reactive. You must choose a basic skill and at least nine other skills to complete your deck.
In order to prepare for an upcoming encounter, both hero players and the boss player take their selected basic into their hand and shuffle their deck, placing it face down in front of them.
An encounter is a turn based combat between the boss and the hero players. It ends, when either the boss dies or all heroes are dead.
Turns alternate between the heroes and the boss. In a team of three heroes, this would look like this:
hero1 -> boss -> hero2 -> boss -> hero3 -> boss -> hero1
The turn itself of an active hero player looks as follows:
A turn of the active boss player looks as follows:
If a boss gets defeated, it drops loot. The loot consists of four randomly selected skills from the bosses loot table. Each hero can select one. The selected skill will be added to their deck for the remaining bosses of the game. While the heroes are looting, the boss player builds the deck for the upcoming boss. Once everybody is ready, the next encounter begins.
The cast describes all skills played during a turn. The first activated skill in a turn, which may only be a basic or special skill, becomes the foundation of the cast. It determines the target(s) of this turn. From this point forward within the turn, you may only play reactive skills.
All outgoing effects and events are applied to the cast's target(s). On the other hand, incoming effects and events only apply individually to the player, who activated the respective skill.
At the end of a turn, the activated skills' effects and events are calculated and carried out.
There are three different skill types in the game: basic, special and reactive skills. All skills require energy in order to be played.
Basic skills can only be played on your active turn. After your turn ends, you must put the skill back into your hand. You can only play one basic on your turn. You need a target to play them. You always hold your basic skill in your hand at the start of a turn.
Special skills can only be played on your active turn. After your turn ends, this skill gets put back to the bottom of your deck, unless it is a one time use skill. You can only play one special on your turn. You need a target to play them.
Reactive skills can only be played after a basic or special skill has been activated. You can play as many reactives as your energy permits. After the turn ends, the played reactives get put back to the bottom of your deck. The target of the cast is the target of your reactive's outgoing effects and events.
General attributes specify how a skill can or can not be played during a turn. They are displayed on the top of the card.
The amount of available energy you have is the number of cards you are currently holding in your hand. You must meet the resource requirement for a skill before you activate it.
Tells you onto how many targets you can use your skills. Reactive skills do not specify targets. The target(s) of the cast is/are the target(s) of the basic or special skill.
You can only designate yourself as the target of the skill.
The casttime tells you how many turns it takes for this skill to become active. During this time, all of your turns are used up to cast this skill. Meaning: you are not allowed to do anything during this casttime, except drawing cards from the deck. A casttime of 1 means that after you casted the skill, it becomes active on your next turn. Upon casting a skill with casttime, it is placed face up on the table.
These skills are removed from the encounter after they have been successfully played. Once the encounter ends, players can return their one-time-use skills back to their deck. If a one-time-use skill has been interrupted, it is not removed from the encounter, instead it gets put back under the deck.
This icon separates the effects and events of the skill depending on their direction. On the left, all outgoing effects are listed. These effects and events apply to the target(s) of the cast. On the right are the incoming effects and events, which are applied to the player who activated the skill.
Amplifications strengthen or weaken the corresponding effect. They only apply if the corresponding effect type is present in the cast.
The target is not able to cast reactive skills during the cast.
Interrupts a currently channelled cast of the target. A cast can only be interrupted while it is being channelled. Once the cast has been activated, it is no longer interruptable.
The affected player(s) lose all special skills from their hand. They must be put to the bottom of their deck.
The affected player(s) receive no physical damage.
The affected player(s) receive no magic damage.
The affected player(s) receive no damage.
The deck(s) of the affected player(s) get shuffled.
The affected player(s) can not be stunned or disoriented.
The affected player(s) is/are allowed to draw a card from their deck.
The player(s) who cast a skill with this event becomes the new and only target of the cast.
The affected player(s) is/are revived and is/are able to rejoin the fight.
A skill with stealth is placed face down. You may this skill to your team mates before activating it.
All cards facing down are turned face up.
The target(s) receives double the amount of damage, they would otherwise receive. The amount is calculated after all other effects and events have been taken into account. This event stacks.
Transmutations convert the effect type of the cast, meaning that all other effect types in the cast turn into the specified effect type. In the case of transmute magic, physical and magic damage as well as healing turns into magic damage. This also applies to all amplification effects.
Turns all effects to magic damage and effect amplifications into magic damage amplifications.
Turns all effects into heals and all effect amplifications into heal amplifications.