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>>96450424
Picrel is a starter playmat which has all the zones and basic rules/definition/mechanic reminders.

It is 30*22inches, 2 inches longer than MTG starter playmats which serve the same function.

Between this playmat, and the 1 page condensed rules, you can play the game at an advanced level.

You can get this playmat printed/laminated at Office Depot for around $50, or for $7-15 if you use Banner Buzz (vinyl). You can get the high res .pdf files from the Telegram:
https://t.me/Frenopolis/20

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Here is a quick reference sheet that covers the more advanced interactions. It is 8.5*11inches (single side).

Between the starter playmat, and this quick reference page, you can play at an advanced level.

The basic rules/mechanics of Frenopolis are generalized and simple. The ordering of them is what determines skill.

Check out a play through video:
Physical Demo 1:
https://youtu.be/KIGdAsFzgHI
Physical Demo 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Q_JRqjd_Y

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The 4 colors that make up the Frenopolis board are called "elements":
Fire, Air, Water, and Earth

All the board zones and card types are assigned 1 of these 4 elements.

Each card color (Red, Orange, Yellow, Blue, Purple, Violet) are defined as 2-combinations of the elements which comprise the board and the card types.

Defining all effects in terms of these elemental relationships allows a strict correspondence between the game board and color pie. The effect scope of each color is strictly defined and predictable.

You don't need to know this to play – you can just follow the written card text, but knowledge of the underlying design allows for more advantageous play.

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For example:
A Purple (Psi) and Blue (Technology) deck will have a strictly predefined interaction scope:

Purple [Psi] (Air/Water) have effects which involve:
Memes (Air), Stories (Air), and Energies (Water)

in/to/from the:
Void (Air), Soul (Water), and Matrix (field)

Blue [Technology] (Air/Earth) have effects which involve:
Memes (Air), Stories (Air), and Structures (Earth)

in/to/from the:
Void (Air), Archive (Earth), and Matrix (field)

Purple (Air/Water) and Blue (Air/Earth) have an elemental conjunction (overlap) in the Air element. This means that a Purple/Blue deck will have effects which involve:

Memes (Air), Stories (Air), Energies (Water) and Structures (Earth)

in/to/from the:
Void (Air), Soul (Water), Archive (Earth), and Matrix (field)

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How to understand Frenopolis in the context of Chess:

A chess board is composed of 2 colors (black and white) and 6 unique pieces (king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, and pawn).

The identity of each piece is characterized by its unique movement on the board. For example:
Pawn: Moves 1 square forward
Knight: Moves 2 then 1 perpendicular
Bishop: Moves diagonally on its color.
Rook: Moves horizontally.
King: Moves in 1 in any direction.
Queen: Moves diagonally or horizontally.

If you were to assign each of these movements an identifier (abstract them), you would end up with something like this:
Pawn: Move 1 square forward = P
Knight: Move 2 then 1 perpendicular = N
Bishop: Move diagonally on its color. = B
Rook: Move horizontally. = R
King: Move 1 in any direction. = K
Queen: Move diagonally or horizontally. = Q

In this way, you could define the Queen's movement (moves diagonally or horizontally) as:
>Queen = Moves horizontally (Rook “R”) + Moves diagonally on its color (Bishop “B”)
>Queen = Rook + Bishop
Queen = R + B

If you understand how a Chess piece's movement can be abstracted from the piece, you can understand how Frenopolis is constructed.

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Frenopolis is like Chess, except the board has 4 colors instead of 2, and only 10 squares instead of 64. All of the movements between those 4 squares are abstracted (ex Pawn: Moves 1 square forward = P) and distributed onto cards. There are tables that serialize every single movement between every color. These movements are mixed and matched to create Frenopolis cards.

A chess example of this:
Pawn: Moves 1 square forward = P
Knight: Moves 2 then 1 perpendicular = N

Pawn-Knight = P + N
This meta piece “Pawn-Knight” is able to do both the actions of a Pawn and a Knight, in a single piece. Sort of like how a Queen is a combination of a Rook and Bishop. The movements are abstracted and combined to form a new piece.

Frenopolis cards are analogous to meta chess pieces on 4-color 10-square board. Once you learn the basic movements, it is easy to understand any card.

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picrel is a box of starter/playtesting sets.

They each contain 6 packs of 15 cards each.
Each pack contains:
11 of a single color (all 6 packs are the same mono color)
2 Frens (green)
1 Story (grey)
0-1 Colorless (black)
0-1 Avatars (white)

Each of these kits contain 90 cards, and exactly 1/2 of a full color. There are 6 basic colors, so 12 sets total. There is no randomization or repeats. If you were to get all 12 kits, you'd have a complete 1080 card set.

To play with these starter sets, all you need to do is remove the white cards (avatars), then shuffle the cards together, and split the pile in half.

Then you need to select 1 of the removed avatars for each of the 2 players.

After that you can begin playing.

Question, where did the inspiration for this come from?

>>96452110
Autism

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>>96452110
also autism
>>96452156

Hey wait, isn't "fren" a /pol/tard meme?

>>96452218
it could be a coincidence

>>96452218
Far Right Ethno-Nationalist

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There are 7 card types in Frenopolis. A card's type is indicated by the symbol on the bottom of the card which contains its stat. There are no subtypes.

They are:
1.) Entity (like creatures or monsters)

2.) Structure (like artifact-sorcery-walls or perma defense mode monsters)

3.) Meme (like instant sorceries or trap cards)

4.) Story (like a field spell)

Entities, Structures, Memes, and Stories only differ in their Type designation and how they conduct combat.

For example:
Structures do not conduct combat at all.
Stories +1 cards.
Memes -1 cards.
Entities subtract their stat from their target.

5.) Energy (like mana)

6.) Avatar (like a commander)

7.) Fren (like a xyz monster)

These comparisons are rough and simplified, and I will explain them each in more detail below.

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Entities:

Entities are the primary damage dealer in the game. In MTG terms, they have Haste, Trample, and Vigilance by default.

Entities are vulnerable to other Entities because the other Entity only need to have 1 stat higher to remove it through combat.

Entity's effects are usually tap effects. Tap in Frenopolis means "reduce stat by 1" (it also has a 90 degree rotation, but it can be repeated 4 times before returning to its original position because the cards have 4 stat). This means that to use an Entity effect, you have to make it weaker, and it makes it especially vulnerable to other Entities which all have a base stat of 4. In this way Entity effects are expensive and high risk.

The combat operation for Entity vs Entity is:
Reduce each Entity's Will from the other until the end of the combat phase, and subtract any difference from the player who controls the lower stat card.

Entities also have a more difficult time against Structures. The combat equation for Entity (Will) vs Structure (Equilibrium) is:
(Will - Equilibrium) +1

Because all the basic card types have 4 stat, this means it would take an Entity (with 4 stat) 3 turns to get through a single Structure (with 4 stat).

Example:
On the first attack the Entity would do 1 damage: (4 Will - 4 Equilibrium) + 1 = 1 damage, resulting in a 3 stat Structure.
On the second attack the Entity would do 2 damage (4 Will - 3 Equilibrium) + 1 = 2 damage, resulting in a 1 stat Structure.
On the third attack the Entity would do 4 damage (4 Will - 1 Equilibrium) + 1 = 4 damage,
resulting in a -3 stat Structure. Cards are removed when they reach 0 stat.

Entities cannot attack other player's Entities if they control any Structures. The Structures must be removed first.

Entities cannot conduct combat against Memes.

You choose the targets for all attacks, like YGO.

>>96452218
Take a look at that guys youtube channel anon.