Bandwidth Cards

In our webcomic-based cardgame, Bandwidth is the form of currency we use to carry out actions in gameplay. Bandwidth is used to play more powerful cards, activate certain special abilities, and to power a large number of Plot Devices. Bandwidth can be generated either with the effects of certain cards, or by discarding Bandwidth Cards.

At the top-left corner of every card, next to the Card Type indicator, is a series of five circles. These cricles will be filled in with zero, one, two, or more Bandwidth icons. These icons indicate how much Bandwidth must be spent to bring a particular card into play. For example:

The card "Manda the Song Mage" has two Bandwidth icons in the upper-left corner. This tells us that in order to bring this card into play you must send two Bandwidth. By discarding two Bandwidth Cards from your hand, you could then place Manda on the field.

Bandwidth does not only come from Bandwidth Cards however, they can also be generated by a Character's special abilties and by Plot Devices. These other methods of Bandwidth generation can become extremely useful when setting up for bigger and badder strategies as a game progresses.

Cards like "Get a Job" can produce Bandwidth for you every round. When this card is into play it asks you to place a Character on top of it, and whatever that card's Bandwidth Cost is can then be spent every round as Bandwidth. If you happened to use the Manda card from the above example, that means that you'd get two bonus Bandwith every round to use for whatever you need them for... sacrifice the opportunity to put one card into play for the means to put even more cards into play in the rounds to come. Sounds like a good trade off, eh?

The ability to gather and generate Bandwidth is a very important part of gameplay strategies, letting you power your side of the field while leaving your opponent in the dust.