History VideoGame / GuildOfDungeoneering

** The Artificier card "Reflecting Ray" does Magic damage equal to the ammount taken that turn. Against {{Spam Attack}}s, it's quite the punishment.

* LosingHorns: Type C where the bard will sing making fun of the player and the dungeoneer who just died when you lose a level.

* LosingHrons: Type C where the bard will sing making fun of the player and the dungeoneer who just died when you lose a level.

* CaptainErsatz: The Boss "Generic, Non-Infringing Princess" is one for [[Disney/{{Frozen}} Elsa]]. The trophy for beating her is a C&D letter.

* AttackBackfire: Depending on the cards played. Certain skills do +1 damage vs. Unblockable attacks.

* ChargeAttack: Certain skills add a point of damage to the next ability of the same damage type as themselves. Some can be spammed indefinately until you find yourself doing enough damage to clean out a boss' entire stock of hearts if you're lucky.

* DamageIncreasingDebuff: The debuffs Frail, Mundane, Decay and Brittle cause enemies (and heroes who drank from a cursed Fountain or have equipment like Seaweed or Dynamite) to take extra damage.
** Frail adds +1 to physical attacks.
** Mundane adds +1 to magic attacks.
** Decay adds +1 untyped damage to any attack that deals two or more damage.
** Brittle adds +2 untyped damage to any attack that deals three or more damage.

* ExactWords: Certain skills have special abilities that proc "per hit" or "if successful". For example, ''Siphon'' steals a heart per hit, and hits twice. However, if you've charged it up with a Focus card, it strikes a third time, and steals three hp. This also works if the enemy is "Mundane" (takes +1 damage from Magic attacks). A skill that procs "if successful" tacks its special effect to the rearmost damage icon. Conversely, Holy Seal defends once against Physical or Magic damage, and heals 1 heart per block. Against a "Sluggish" enemy, it blocks twice, healing on the extra block as well.

* FightLikeACardPlayer: Characters have a deck of cards that dictates what skills they can use.

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Shields usually grant a defensive skill. Sometimes crosses over with "Armor=HP" as they often grant an extra Heart.

* ReligiousBruiser: Grail Knights and Ice Cream Monks.

* SpamAttack: Arcane Barrage which launches three unblockable magic attacks.

* SpoonyBard: The narrator.

* StockBritishPhrases: The "Cuppa" shield is a cup of tea. It grants the Flame Strike ability, [[FoodSlap presumably by letting you throw hot tea in an opponents face.]]

''Guild of Dungeoneering'' is a 2015 DungeonCrawler [[RolePlayingGame RPG]] with a twist: Instead of controlling the adventurers in your party, you build the dungeon around them. With cards. It takes a note from ''VideoGame/CannonFodder'', with dead characters buried in a graveyard to rub your nose in having a bunch of people dying for your amusement. In practise, it's more like playing an [[AdventureBoardGames Adventure Board Game]] on a computer (or an [[IOSGames IOS device]]) than a computer RPG.

''Guild of Dungeoneering'' is a DungeonCrawler RPG with a twist: Instead of controlling the adventurers in your party, you build the dungeon around them. With cards. It takes a note from ''VideoGame/CannonFodder'', with dead characters buried in a graveyard to rub your nose in having a bunch of people dying for your amusement. In practise, it's more like playing an [[AdventureBoardGames Adventure Board Game]] on a computer than a computer RPG.

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* YourMimeMakesItReal: Mimes start off with the skill "Imaginary Cannon", which presumably involves miming shooting a monster.

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** The "Showoff" passive, granted by way of A) the Long Coat shirt or B) playing a Swashbuckler involves banking physical damage every time you fully block an attack.

* MechanicallyUnusualClass: The H2Omancer (introduced in the ''Pirate Cove'' DLC) has several skills that cause them to DiscardAndDraw, and can see the enemy's next card if they have at least 3 cards in the discard pile. They are the only class that you want to lose cards.
* MyRulesAreNotYourRules: For once, in the players favour. The player gets to draw three cards to an enemy's one.

* DeflectorShields: The Artificier's ''Static Field'' skill blocks two magic damage and retaliates for one.

* EquipmentBasedProgression: Your adventurers start out with six class skills and get new ones based on what loot they find.

* TheDeadHaveNames: Every Dungeineer who dies on your watch gets buried in the guild's Graveyard.
* DittoFighter: The Mime's "Copycat" ability copies an enemy card for use during the battle.

* ExactWords: Certain skills have special abilities that proc "per hit" or "if successful". For example, ''Siphon'' steals a heart per hit, and hits twice. However, if you've charged it up with a Focus card, it strikes a third time, and steals three hp. A skill that procs "if successful" tacks its special effect to the rearmost damage icon. Conversely, Holy Seal defends once against Physical or Magic damage, and heals 1 heart per block. Against a "Sluggish" enemy, it blocks twice, healing on the extra block as well.

* ExactWords: Certain skills have special abilities that proc "per hit". For example, ''Siphon'' steals a heart per hit, and hits twice. However, if you've charged it up with a Focus card, it strikes a third time, and steals three hp. Conversely, Holy Seal defends once against Physical or Magic damage, and heals 1 heart per block. Against a "Sluggish" enemy, it blocks twice, healing on the extra block as well.

* FireBreathingWeapon: The "Flintlock" weapon. [[note]][[FridgeBrilliance This makes more sense when you consider where the term "firearm" comes from]]: originally, guns only projected the explosion from the burning gunpowder, then someone noticed that if he stuck a pebble down the barrel, it could kill people from much further away.[[/note]]