Anne Frank sits in the attic, scribbling in her diary. Outside Frankenstein's Monster sought a way in, aided in his battle by Supergirl and Hercules. Meanwhile, Sherlock Holmes continued in his quest to stop the Scientific Revolution… which he succeeded in quelling, and winning the whole day for his side.
No, I’m not describing a lucid nightmare, this is Triptych, and you will soon learn its name. The card game is currently on Kickstarter from new designers Talking Cartoon Rabbits and is hoping to make its way into your homes (and hopefully, phones) before the end of the year.
Triptych bills itself as a game of ‘Anything Vs Everything’, the ultimate nerd mashup, and it certainly feels like that. The game boasts an absurd number of cards from pretty much any property you can think of. Like superheroes or villains? There are analogues of characters like Flash Gordon, Professor X, Yoda, and Batman. History buff? Play with the deck that features cards like Marie Curie, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mao. Prefer fantasy? How about a deck full of Chupacabras, Magic Beans and Loch Ness Monsters?
Or maybe you just want to mix it all up together? Yup, this is a collectible card game, so deck-building is encouraged once you have enough cards. You can fashion a deck of your own design, putting Pinnochio to work alongside Helen of Troy and the Military Industrial Complex if you so choose. The game really does allow you to play with nearly anything you can think of, and half of the fun is imagining these insane match-ups and creating a story as you play them.
We were lucky enough to meet the creator of the game Luke Harms, who sat down with us at The Uncommons in NYC to run us through a game, and we ended up playing far later than any of us had expected.
One of our best games saw Cthulhu and Loki sitting together in a bar where everyone knew their name, drinking the night away. While they were busy Henry Ford started up a franchise with Christopher Columbus, who started earning tons of money through it. Meanwhile, Santa Claus and Wombat (a clawed superhero-type) geared up for a fight and the Revenger, who looked like a certain caped crusader, hid in the shadows. All the while we laughed at the sheer insanity of it all.
But hey, why take our word for it? You can download both the Starter set and Expansion sets on their official site here at anythingvseverything.com and check out their Facebook and Kickstarter pages for more info.
All hail Triptych!
