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Howdy,

I am considering making a playable (online) game of Knightmare top trumps. I'm well aware that the Knightmare Club produced a set many years ago, but I thought that (particularly since they're not all listed online) people might like to discuss who/what should be present and what the various stats should be.

A standard set of top trumps has 30 cards and approximately 5 categories. The categories need to be distributed such that no single card is always defeatable/undefeatable. Ideally, any card which is unbeatable in one category has an easy-to-beat score in another category. Similarly, a card with many beatable scores should have (at least) one mediocre or good score in another category.

My thoughts on categories would be something like:
Cunning
Magic
Goodness
Knowledge
Vitality

Which I think gives a reasonable spread to any KM character. Your thoughts?

Appearance?

Ah yes, appearance is good.
It may be a better replacement for Vitality, perhaps?

I've had a first shot at identifying which 32 characters we wish. Questions/Comments?
Hopefully I've not missed anyone too important. Although doubtless I have!

1. Treguard
2. Pickle
3. Merlin
4. Motley
5. Majida
6. Hordriss
7. Lilith
8. Brother Mace
9. Stiletta
10. Sidriss
11. Bhal-Shebah
12. Lissard
13. Elita
14. Smirkinoff
15. Mogdred
16. Sylvester Hands
17. Maldame
18. Julius Scaramonger
19. Snapper Jack
20. Rothberry
21. Folly
22. Grimaldine
23. Brother Strange
24. Skarkill
25. Greystagg
26. Romahna
27. Gundrada
28. Morghanna
29. Mellisandre
30. Brollachan
31. Lord Fear
32. Dreadnought

Edit: Replaced Sir Hugh de Witless with Lord Fear (ugh, how did I miss Lord Fear?!)

The fan-made Knightmare Top Trumps created by red_fraggle a few years ago are worth investigating. I don't know if she is contactable, but failing that, I have a copy of the file if you would like to see them.

For quick reference, the categories red_fraggle used are: Quests Appeared In, Magic, Strength, Fear Factor, How Annoying, Comedy Value, with all but the first category scored out of 100.

I would have LOVED there to have been some Knightmare Top Trumps.

I was a big Top Trumps fan had loads of sets.

They did do a fantasy set, which included a Dragon, Goblin, Knight etc.

But a Knightmare set would have been the icing on the cake!

Can anyone post pics of the KM Top Trumps made by red_fraggle ?

I did do something similar to this quite some time ago, but it involved teams. What they're strengths and weaknesses were and a score of their peformance. This was divided into a few subjects:

Stamina
Intelligence
Teamwork

And some others which I can't remember right now

Mystara wrote:I've had a first shot at identifying which 32 characters we wish. Questions/Comments?
Hopefully I've not missed anyone too important. Although doubtless I have!

1. Treguard
2. Pickle
3. Merlin
4. Motley
5. Majida
6. Hordriss
7. Lilith
8. Brother Mace
9. Stiletta
10. Sidriss
11. Bhal-Shebah
12. Lissard
13. Elita
14. Smirkinoff
15. Mogdred
16. Sylvester Hands
17. Maldame
18. Julius Scaramonger
19. Snapper Jack
20. Rothberry
21. Folly
22. Grimaldine
23. Brother Strange
24. Skarkill
25. Greystagg
26. Romahna
27. Gundrada
28. Morghanna
29. Mellisandre
30. Brollachan
31. Sir Hugh de Witless
32. Dreadnought

You missed Lord Fear!!

What the-....?
How on Earth did I manage that?!

Let's replace 31 with Lord Fear then