Game CCG Strike:Main Page

The Strike Engine is a customizable card game by one "Silly Rookie", creator of a webcomic called '32 Kick Up. Taking its initial inspiration from the Vs. System but also adding some features from other card games and of course original touches of its own, the Strike Engine is intended as, in the words of the rulebook, "an 'open source' card game system... that anyone can create expansions for." Moreover, it's explicitly intended to be able to mix characters and concepts from multiple settings: "Fantasy, sci-fi, western, whatever! If it involves characters fighting, then it can be made into an expansion for Strike Engine!" So if I wanted to make cards for an open-licensed customizable card game, the Strike Engine seemed like an ideal one to do it for.

The Strike Engine is still under development, but it's far enough along to enable sets to be made—and indeed Silly Rookie and others already have a lot of cards designed. Unfortunately, there's no official webpage for the Strike Engine at this point, but there is an unofficial site—which, however, is not maintained by Silly Rookie himself, and which I'm not sure is up to date. There's also a Strike Engine Steam mod for Tabletop Simulator, and there's a Discord server where there's a lot more available—although I don't remember where I found it and I'm not sure how much Silly Rookie wants it spread around, so I'll hold off on putting a link here until I check with him.

Unfortunately, while I've been working on some Strike Engine cards themed to the world of Dadauar, I don't really have enough done yet to share. I'm working on a Clash of Champions deck themed around the onirarchs of Dadauar and championed by Eulaige Hahorbath, president of the Free Republic of Avelax (Clash of Champions being a Strike Engine variant ruleset), but while I'd hoped to have it ready by the site's "hard launch" on January 1, I had enough else to do getting the site ready that I didn't quite get it done. Still, I should have it done by the end of January. After that, my plans are to create another Clash of Champions deck themed around the resistance and the Bathybius, and eventually I hope to have a full three-hundred-or-so card Dadauar Strike set. After that (or maybe after the three Clash decks but concurrently with completing the full Dadauar set), I also want to start releasing Strike Engine content for other worlds; the next few I have in mind are Curcalen (starting with Clash decks for each of the major wizard covins) and Varra (starting with Clash decks for each of the Five Masters of Thamarand). I don't have a set schedule for all of this, though, so it will happen as it happens.