These are just some more random card ideas suggested by various people, color coded as follows:
MeIf you have any card ideas and want to see your name in lights (or in funky colors, anyway), send them to me and I'll put them up here.
Rob Lightner
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| # | Name | Description | Cost | AP | DP | Pull | Traits | Special | Flavor Text |
| -- | Black Box | Condition | 2* | +1* | +1* | -- | Alien | Target Android, Cyborg or Machine gains +1 Power. Non-cumulative. | These devices, salvaged from downed UFOs, imrpove the performance of any machine they're hooked up to. |
| -- | Carjack | Whammy | -- | -- | -- | -- | Criminal | Crank a Criminal to call this card whenever a Total Taxi is played. The Total Taxi effect is cancelled and the Total Taxi card is placed with the Criminal. The Criminal may then crank at any time to play the Total Taxi card, which is then discarded. If the Criminal cranks for any other action or is popped before the Total Taxi is played, the Total Taxi is discarded. | "Leave the engine running and get out of the car!" |
| -- | Deep Cover | Whammy | -- | -- | -- | -- | Cloak | Play any time. You may discard one Character and replace it with one Cloak called from your hand. You may crank any cards you need to in order to generate Pull Points to call the Cloak. Excess Pull is lost. | The owls are not what they seem; nor is anything else... |
| -- | Fluke | Sewer Dweller | 2 | 4 | 2 | -- | Mutant, Lurker | Surprise. | "... then he bit me on the...!" |
| -- | Giant Robots | Environmental | 4* | -- | -- | -- | Fringe | No Fringe characters may uncrank while this Environmental is in effect. Anyone may crank this card to pop one opponent's cranked character. Uncranks on your turn as normal. | We must stop them! |
| -- | Glitterazzi | Condition | 2 | -- | -- | -- | Media | Target character cannot Surprise. | "Look, there he is!" |
| -- | Alexander Hamilton | Animal Rights Activist | 2 | 1* | 1* | * | Human, Burger, Sommerite | Crank to Save any Animal. +1 Power vs. Academics. +2 Pull to call Animals. | He's come to Al Amarja because he's heard about the terrible conditions of lab animals at D'Aubainne U. |
| -- | PJ Hughes | Slacker Extraordinaire | 2 | 1 | 1 | -- | Human, Slacker | Crank to cancel the pull generated by any Entrepreneur. | PJ has turned loitering into an art form. |
| -- | Jonathan | Environmental | 4* | 5 | -- | -- | Machine, Fringe | Any Player may crank Jonathan for 2 non-victory Pull. The Player loses Influence equal to any Pull not used (Influence cannot go negative). Jonathan uncranks on your turn as normal. If Jonathan is not cranked in a round, it attacks the character in your conspiracy with the lowest DP (if there are multiple characters with the same DP, choose one randomly). | Since becoming sentient, Jonathan lives to serve, but doesn't like to be neglected. |
| -- | Kryten | Mechanical Maid | 2 | 3 | 3 | =0 | Android, Manic | Cannot attack Humans. May Martyr for any Human. | |
| -- | Solomon Muntz | Attorney | 2 | 1 | 2 | -- | Human, Law | Flip Solomon and another character to flip a third character. | Solomon specializes in malpractice and personal injury suits. |
| -- | Planet Claire | Resource | 0 | -- | -- | * | Alien | +1 pull to call Alien cards. Unique. | |
| -- | Raymond Polyester | Fingerman | 2 | 3 | 4 | * | Human, Law | +1 pull to call Law characters. Crank to allow any Law characters to gang up against a character that Raymond could attack. Law characters from other conspiracies may gang up out of turn. | "She's got a gun!" |
| -- | Rebound | Resource | 1 | -- | -- | * | Academic, Book | +1 pull to call Book cards. Crank and pay 1 Pull to take a book from one of your Characters and return it to your hand. Unique. | |
| -- | Sufficiently Advanced Magic | Condition | 2* | -- | -- | -- | Astral | Target Fringe loses the trait 'Fringe' and gains the trait 'Astral' permanently. | Clarke knew not wherefrom he spoke. |
| -- | Sufficiently Advanced Technology | Condition | 2* | -- | -- | -- | Fringe | Target Astral loses the trait 'Astral' and gains the trait 'Fringe' permanently. | "...is indistinguishable from magic." |
| -- | Akira Watanabe | Conspiracy Theorist | 4 | 1 | 3 | * | Human, Media, Slacker | Flip to place a token on another Player's Secret. Akira gains +1 Pull for each Secret in play that has such a token. Characters sharing a trait with a Secret that has a token on it gain +1 Power against Akira. Tokens are removed from the Secrets if Akira is popped | Akira exposes conspiracies in her popular sub-culture zine "Stir." However, doing so makes her a prime target of their agents. |
| -- | Perry Winfield | Game Hunter | 2 | 3* | 2* | -- | Human, Burger | Crank to place a token on any character he could attack. Perry gains +1 Power against a character for every such token on that character. | Perry came to Al Amarja for the sport. Not being able to use a gun just makes it that much more interesting to him. |
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