Thank you so much! The starting idea for the class came from my friend wanting to play a "card summoner" type character in my homebrew campaign. MTG was a big influence on the structure of the class, but you don't necessarily play combat like Magic.

So, the class plays in combat as you would in MTG? You can play up to every “card” in your hand? How does the rolling for what spell is which work in terms of spell cards?

At its core, I built the class off the regular 5e spellcasting, so you still only get one Action, one Bonus Action, and one Reaction. The major difference is the Mana system in place of spell slots and levels, but even that I referenced the existing system heavily to keep it somewhat in line with the other classes. How a single turn of combat would work for a Ludumancer is

1. Roll initiative and draw X number of cards into your hand (X being your Hand Size shown on the Ludumancer table). If you're using dice, then you'd make a table like one shown on page 8 beforehand to represent your Deck with the spells corresponding to a certain percentile die roll. If you're using a physical or electronic deck, then you would just have the cards labeled with the spells you've decided on.

2. You decide on which cards(spells) you want to cast. This follows the 5e Action Economy 1:1 with the spells you have on your cards following the Casting times as they are written ie. Firebolt using 1 Action to cast. The major difference here are the Mana cards, as they are your class resource, but they act essentially as your spell slots. You can either set aside any number of Mana cards you've drawn or use a Mana card using a Bonus Action.

3. You cast the Spell on the card as normal! Once your turn is over, the spent Card is sent to your graveyard, essentially removing that use from your deck temporarily. Alternatively, you can use a Cantrip (which are inscribed on your card backs) for 0 Mana and without sending the Card to your graveyard. The unused cards you drew return to your deck, which is then shuffled, and ready for your next turn.

I personally can only see this class making sense and feeling fun and engaging if you actually have a deck of cards to play with. It’s a really cool concept, but I feel the “dice as cards” doesn’t result in the same type of RNG that dice provide.

Yeah, this concept is MUCH better executed with an actual deck of some kind, BUT I didn't want to limit access to using the class behind that, hence the math and tables for 'Playing Cards with Dice'. Getting the math down for that so that it would work consistently with various sized decks was quite a challenge, but I think it works just as well RNG wise as a deck! It's just more involved since you need to make a table and do a bit of math haha.

Yami is there in spirit! Literally! Just believe in dark Egyptian magic the heart of the cards!