You wanna get all interactive with me, or what, baby? So check this out:
The Mardi Gras 3000 Starter Deck ships with six Level One cards (one for each character). These cards allow your character one (Level *One*) attempt to hit or defend in battle. This is referred to as the character’s constitution score. On a Level One card is six white spaces. Every time you beat another player, that player signs and dates your card. When all six spaces are signed and dated, you can swap your Level One card for a Level Two card and your character will then be granted *two* attempts to attack or defend in battle (and so on up to Level Six). You have to keep your Level One card in your stack (at the back) to prove that you’ve earned your level. You’ll also have to show your various level cards before entering a character stack in an official tournament.
Now here’s the rub:
Players don’t sign their names. They aren’t allowed to. They have to sign their Mardi Gras 3000 forum handle. Signing up for the forum is totally free, of course, and it takes literally two minutes (often less). We never use your email address for anything (we don’t sell or rent addresses; we don’t even contact you ourselves). So it’s risk free. When you show up for a tournament (either in the real world or the virtual world) your level cards will be checked against the forum member list. Forum members because the official players of the game.
There are other benefits, too. All forum members who ordered the game before October 1, 2006, got a free pair of scissors and a hole punch sent with their Starter Deck. Any forum member who ordered the Starter Deck and one of each booster got a free Deluxe Board. Just some smooth little thank yous.
Forum members will receive discounts and rare cards not available to anyone else, including an autographed “Eye” card which grants a +2 Presence Skill. They’ll be credited by handle (and name, if they wish) for their Mardi Gras ideas used in the sourcebook and they’ll have direct access to me – the boosters they want are the boosters I’ll do. I’ll even be sending out gold-plated d6 to really amazing players who post incredible games.
And did I mentioned the spicy online RPG that’s running right now? It’s on hiatus between October 10 and October 24 so you have just enough time to catch up (and get ready to read on or join in on the 25th).
Mardi Gras 3000 is all about the interactive universe, right? So why are you reading my blog all alone at midnight? Why aren’t you chatting me up about which is better, brown or black leather jackets? Or whether the T1000 shimmys to the left over 75? Huh? Come on, baby. Let’s talk about everything you can roll a d6 to determine ;)
E.J.
P.S. I miss you, forum friends! I’m away with my editor and a bunch of the play-testers until the 25th of October. I’m sending in my blogs by email but I miss you guys on the forum! Can’t wait to catch up!!
