Realm of
Raines

Your roster is
already a world.

A hundred and forty five creators across gaming, anime, cosplay, music and VTubing, spread from Georgia to the Carolinas to Texas. Nothing obvious ties them together, which is exactly the problem a good world solves.

So we did not design a card game and paint your people onto it. We built the world the roster implies, and the game came out of the world.

Rain falling in
full sunlight.

In the American South a sunshower means the devil is beating his wife. In Japan it is kitsune no yomeiri, the fox's wedding. Two traditions that never met both decided that rain in sunlight means something is happening.

Six gates. Six creators deep.

A valley where the sun never sets, ringed by six peaks. Each peak holds a gate to a different realm. Control all six and you win.

Laying the Road.

The realm card prints the road you have to build. Every creator is a domino, so you lay them end to end until your road matches it.

The realm card prints the road

Two gold over three black

Five black over a blank

Dominoes are not a borrowed mechanic here. They are a front porch, a barbershop and a family reunion across the whole American South, and they are the one card game grammar this audience already knows by heart.

A creator card should never
have a damage number.

Six realms. Three energies.
One valley in the middle.

Light answers Dark. Dark absorbs Water. Water dims Light. Three energies in a loop, so no realm is a dead end.

Your top thirty three,
as the first set.

A home realm, a second realm where they still contribute, and their own pips. Every frame is built from its realm's own materials.

Deep Water · verdigris and shell

Maternia · gold leaf and glass

Steeldrive · riveted iron

The Green · bark and bottle glass

Not a photograph.
The person they already built.

A creator, standing in a world

A creator who belongs to it

Andre Cummings commissioned that throne, that crown and those gorillas himself, years before we turned up. We kept all of it and dropped the jungle, because the Crossroads is bare lunar ground. The persona comes from the creator. The realm decides how it is dressed.

Only creators are dominoes.

Everything else has blank rails and no divider, so you can tell what a card does from across the table without being taught.

Conjure · changes the road

Rig · changes your side

Item · attaches and holds

In hoodoo a piece of magic is called a working. Conjure bends the board and Rig bends your own cards, and the two answer each other.

Same creator.
Different road.

The double six · every pip a prism

A creator can be printed more than once with the same face and a different set of pips. Collectors chase the version that finishes a road nobody else can finish.

That is where the rarity lives. A printing can be rare without any creator being ranked above another, which keeps the collectible engine running and keeps every conversation with your roster an easy one.

And the heaviest card in the set is yours. Queen Yuki is the double six, and her pips connect to any value and any colour, because she is the only junction in the world.

The numbers that
actually matter here.

Norse, Greek, Egyptian and Japanese pantheons have been used by card games for thirty years. African American folklore has almost nothing at scale. That is a real opening, and it is one your roster is uniquely placed to walk through.

What is done and
what isn't.

One set is a game.
Many is a franchise.

Your roster grows, so the set list grows with it. Every creator you sign is a card you already have a home for.

The world was deliberately built bigger than one card game. Six realms with their own rules, their own look and their own stories is a setting, and settings outlive their first product.

A two designer studio
that finishes things.

On this one we would rather not be the only names on it. Bringing in a designer from inside the culture is a priority for us, and we have a first call in mind.

Show it to six of them.

Pick six creators from the shortlist, send them their realm and their card, and ask whether they want it or whether they would rather be somewhere else. That one question tells us whether this world belongs to them, and it costs nothing to ask.

Money is a later conversation and not a number on a slide. If this is not the direction you want, that is a fair answer and we would rather hear it now than in three months.

Zack Howe & Cole Beardsley · Pamplemoose Games · zack@pamplemoosegames.com

Concept pitch prepared by Pamplemoose Games LLC for Realm of Raines Digital. Creator names, handles and roster information appear solely to demonstrate this concept and remain the property of the individuals concerned. Game mechanics and designs are original work of Pamplemoose Games LLC. Not for distribution.