Pattern Ledger - Major Update 7
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- Demerit System: Run-level handicap replaces the old invisible forfeit. Visible in the top bar. Accumulates from messy wins and risky events, reduced by resting. Makes things harder but never kills your run outright.
- Precedent Authority: +1 permanent damage bonus for every district you complete. Your past rulings strengthen future verdicts.
- Damage now scales with card value: Higher-value cards hit harder. A value-13 Exarch deals 5 base damage, not 3.
- Escalation preserves your damage: Marks that escalate gain a bit of HP but no longer heal to full. Your progress against them is kept.
- Accord and Forfeit simplified: Both use a clear formula based on the mark's value, type, and tier. No hidden modifiers.
- Mark values scale with progression: Early cases have low-value marks. Higher values appear as you go deeper.
- Card rewards scale with districts: Shops and rewards offer cards matching your current difficulty range, not random junk.
- Card purge: Remove cards from your deck at Shops (for gold) or Rest Sites (for free). Minimum deck size of 8.
- Full ending: Defeating the final boss now shows an archetype-specific epilogue before the stats screen.
- Narrative fragments: Contextual voice lines and case descriptors appear during encounters. Toggle-able.
- Root-Walker fixed: Deep Roots passive actually works now. Ink grows each cycle up to a cap of 6.
- Archivist fixed: +2 draw per cycle passive was silently broken. Now fires correctly.
- Settlement vs Execute: Settlement writs show a distinct "SETTLE" badge instead of the confusing red "EXE." Both now have full tooltips.
- Card display: "A" (Ace) is now shown as "1" to match mark values.
- Valthek now teaches strategy: Onboarding includes advice on ignoring marks you can't solve.
- Difficulty rebalanced across all districts, elites, and bosses.
- Codex expanded with documentation on all new systems.
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19 hours ago
Pattern Ledger
Bureaucratic magic meets deck-building. Resolve obligations before they resolve you.
| Status | Prototype |
| Author | strandedenigma |
| Genre | Card Game, Role Playing |
| Tags | Deck Building, Roguelike |
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