Trumps Of Albion

Trumps Of Albion is a persistent online card game set in a Britain broken by the battle of Camlann. In its fiction, Merlin has bound all movement and combat into a card ritual known as the Great Game, dealing each character sixty cards per day. Death is treated as a discard rather than a permanent loss, with fallen characters returned to the map. The game runs in a web browser or on desktop and is now released, launching with English and Traditional Chinese language support.

The central mechanic is that each card serves two purposes. The same card can be played to move along a route map of the British Isles or to attack in an instanced, tactical duel governed by a charge-time clock. The defence value a player receives comes from the guard printed on the card they have just played, and plays cannot be undone. Characters remain in the world after logging out, persisting as NPCs that other players can encounter, fight or trade blows with. The game uses a single shared version of Britain rather than separate server copies, with the world expanding as the player count grows.

Character progression draws on three bloodlines and a branching tree of callings, including knights, hedge-mages and wayfarers, along with further promotions. Skills are organised around an elemental wheel. Figures from the Arthurian age appear as Trumps, some of which roam the map as bosses; defeating one grants the player its skill, but also draws increased attention from the deck. The tone is deadpan comedy, with in-game text based on historical Arthurian sources such as Malory, the Mabinogion and the Gawain-poet.