Question:
Element rock-paper-scissors: which elements beat which?
Black Wolf
2012-02-08 15:24:45 UTC
I need to know for a card game i'm thinking up (for my own amusement, and honestly i may never even make the cards, simply bc it seems like too much work).

The deck is based off of the tarot (which was originnally used for card games, infact its similar in design to modern playing cards, and in france all the tarot decks have the suits of modern playing cards rather than the traditional tarot set).

The deck has four suits (swords, coins, stars, and hammers, if you care, also contemplating alternate suits of flowers and crowns). Each suit has 14 cards, 10 numbered cards, and four face cards (like some tarot decks). This creates a total of 56 cards, so i want to have a set of 4 trump cards to even it out. But i dont want them to be like tarot trump cards, where they're basically their own suit, with one card on top that trumps them all, rather i prefer the four trump cards to be a circle, each one beating another trump card, but being defeated by another. This way, there is no 'i win' card.

But i cant seem to find any information on typical rock-paper-scissors-like element systems, even though i recall them once being very common in computer rpgs (even pokemon uses it, though it has alot more than 4 elements).

Can anyone help me?
Seven answers:
?
2012-02-08 15:50:54 UTC
Is someone having a breakdown on Y/A?

Take it easy, copy your question and re-post it. Better than getting so upset.



Go answer lots of poll questions or vote for some unresolved random questions and get 5 points back, really fast.
anonymous
2012-02-08 16:18:52 UTC
First of all Mr Bacon, a basic huge difference between playing and creating a Rock Paper Scissors.



Just to clarify; are you looking to create this an online system to create, so its basically going to have the RPG "dice" like systems to pull at random or physically looking for RPS minigame? If so the best script I can see:



http://rpgmaker.net/tutorials/284/



That would first help to clarify. Also for the record; I say you should go ahead and explore with flowers and crowns etc just to create that extra little twist
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chubert
2012-02-08 15:39:03 UTC
I will help you although my english is not that good and I had to use a translator to read this. Unfortunately the translator can only do one word at a time so it took me a good hour. Thanks a lot. I mean... you must be a silly brain if you don't know how to play RPS. It also took me another thirty minutes to think and translate this answer so here it is:



Por que perder todo nuestro tiempo de leer su mensaje hecking grande. Esto me hace súper loco y por lo tanto, te odio. :)



PS. For making such a long question I decided to even it up by writing it in my home language of Italian.



Double PS. This is not Italian, its Spanish. I hope you don't find this double PS because it will make you uber FRUSTRATED. WIN + 1 for me:)
Scarlet MacBlu
2012-02-08 18:00:06 UTC
You'll have to come up with your own system. The elements really don't have a ranking... they represent balance when gathered together, each one balances the other out. Think of them like this...



Water, in abundance, can extinquish fire, but fire, in abundance, can vaporize water.

-Scarlet
?
2012-02-08 15:35:10 UTC
Well



Say your going with the basic elements. Water,earth,fire and air



Now you could say water beats earth and fire and fire beats earth and earth beats air



But there more elements out there than fire,earth,water and air. You should study this page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_elements_(Japanese_philosophy)

And others like it
Deanna Hubley
2012-02-08 15:27:31 UTC
I don't understand your question...


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