Quintessence: A card-based TTRPG [WIP]

A work-in-progress tabletop role-playing game heavily inspired by Magic: the Gathering, particularly its color pie. Uses cards to represent characters' traits, abilities, and equipment.

The main goals of this system are to encourage characterization and make combat be rewarding to learn. What I mean by that:

• Encourage characterization: Playing the role of another person is very difficult, especially when that person exists in a fantastical setting. In this system, you give your character a set of traits representing their unique aspects and are rewarded for taking actions that invoke them. This encourages and supports playing your character in a way that is interesting, distinct, and true to their personality.
• Combat is rewarding to learn: I have striven to construct a combat system that is not only mechanically deep, but more fun and more effective the more you delve into that depth. A variety of playstyles are supported and synergizing the abilities of different characters can yield dramatic results.

Currently only has a rulebook, blank character sheets, and a reminder sheet for certain game elements, more to be added in the near future including example characters and a playable demo.