Doodle Duel

Created by: Lindberg Studios

Note (Lindberg Studios Recommended Rule): For the best experience, defeated Character cards are kept by the player who wins them. This turns the game into a true Trading Card Game—encouraging rematches to try and win back lost cards or grow your collection even more.

Needed for this Game:

• 2 Regular dice (d6)

• Gooblurs cards

• HP tracker - for tracking characters health (optional (recommended)

• Pen & Paper - for tracking characters health (optional (recommended)

How to Play — OFFICIAL RULES

👥 PLAYERS - 2 Players

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🎯 OBJECTIVE

Win the game by either:

• 💥 Defeating your opponent’s Boss (300 HP)

    OR

• 🏆 Defeating 3 enemy Characters (100 HP each)

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🧩 SETUP

Each player builds a 52-card deck:

• At least 24 Doodle Cards (currency)

• At least 6 Character Cards (heroes)

Start the game:

1. Shuffle your deck

2. Choose 1 Character as your Boss

3. Place your Boss on the Battlefield

4. Boss starts with 300 HP

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👑 BOSS RULE

• Your Boss is always in play

• If your Boss has no other Active Characters protecting it on the Battlefield:

    → It takes DOUBLE DAMAGE (ie opponent rolls a 2=4, 5=10, 6=12, etc.)

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⚡ DOODLE CARDS

Doodles are used to:

• Summon Characters

• Attack

• Defend

• Create Shields

• Each Doodle Card = 1 Doodle

• Doodles can only be spent from the bank, not from the players hand.

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⚡ CHARACTER CARDS

• These are your heroes

Characters are used to:

• Attack opponent

• Defend from opponent

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🔁 HOW A TURN WORKS

Each round follows this order:

1. Prep → 2. Reveal, Bank, & Bench → 3. Field, & Shield → 4. Battle

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🃏 1. PREP

• Both players places 1–4 cards face-down

• Cards can be a mix of:

  • Doodle Cards

  • Character Cards

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👀 2. REVEAL, BANK, & BENCH

Both players: 

• Reveal cards placed cards at the same time

• Move any revealed doodle cards to their bank.

• Move any revealed character cards to their bench.

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⚔️ 3. FIELD, & SHIELD

Both players use Doodle cards to: 

• Activate Characters, and/or Apply Shields.

🧍 Battlefield (Activate Characters)

• To make a Character Active:

    → Spend 3 Doodles

• Characters on the Battlefield can attack, and be attacked

Note:

• Max of 5 Active Characters per playerallowedon Battlefield at once

• If Battlefield is full: any new Characters go to the Bench

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🪑 Bench (Inactive Characters)

• Characters you have not activated yet go here

• Characters on the bench cannot attack, nor be attacked

Note:

• To activate a Character, spend 3 Doodles and move character to the Battlefield

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🛡 SHIELDS (Before Battle)

• Give a Character a Shield:

    → Cost: 2 Doodles

How it works:

• Place 1st Doodle card underneath desired Character card (stack in a way where the doodle card “now shield” is exposed and can visibly be seen by players)

• Return the other doodle card to hand

Effect:

• Now when that shielded Character takes damage:

    → Negate ALL damage from attack

    → Shields are only good to receive one attack though.  Once a Character with a shield has been attacked one time, remove the Shield (doodle card) and return to hand.  

Note:

• Shields can be given to active or inactive character cards

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⚔️ 4. BATTLE

• Players alternate who attacks first each round.

• If a player attacks first in one round, the other player will attack first in the next round. 

• This continues back and forth every round.

✔️ Each round includes both players take turns to attack, ensuring everyone gets a chance to play offense and defense.

🎯 To Attack

Attacking Player must spend 1 Doodle card per attack (dice roll).

🎯 When Attacking

Player selects:

• 1 Active Character or Boss (to attack with)

AND

• 1 Active Character or Boss of opponents (target)

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🎲 Attack Roll

• Attacker Rolls 2 dice

• Cost: 1 Doodle per roll

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🛡 Defense

Defender may spend Doodles when being attacked:

• Each Doodle heals -2 damage

• The Defender may reduce damage up to the full amount of the current attack

• Any healing beyond the attack’s damage is wasted (it does not carry over or provide extra benefit)

Example:
If an attack deals 11 damage, the Defender may spend Doodles to reduce up to 11 damage. If they spend more than needed, the extra healing is lost.

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☠️ Damage Resolution

• Apply remaining damage

• If Shielded:

    → No damage

    → Remove Shield

• If a Character reaches 0 HP:

    → It is defeated

    → Opponent keeps the fallen card (Lindberg Studios recommended way to play)

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🔁 AFTER A CHARACTER IS DEFEATED

• You may immediately activate a Benched Character

    → Cost: 2 Doodles

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🔄 CONTINUE PLAY

Repeat turns until a win condition is met.

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🧠 SIMPLE WAY TO TEACH THE GAME

1. Play cards face-down

2. Reveal, Bank, & Bench

3. Field & Shield

   -(Spend Doodles to build your team)

4. Battle

5. First to beat the Boss or 3 Characters wins

6. Victors keep defeated cards(Lindberg Studios recommended way to play)