BANDWIDTH FRAGMENTED DISPLAYED: 7800 ACTUAL: 4200 MEETING PHASE ACTIVE 3 DISCUSSION EFFECTS QUEUED ALL NEGATED LEGACY SYSTEM MINOTAUR CANNOT BE TARGETED ADMIN GOBLIN DENIED YOUR REQUEST IT SCANNED YESTERDAY TEMPORARY FIX APPLIED BANDWIDTH FRAGMENTED DISPLAYED: 7800 ACTUAL: 4200 MEETING PHASE ACTIVE 3 DISCUSSION EFFECTS QUEUED ALL NEGATED LEGACY SYSTEM MINOTAUR CANNOT BE TARGETED ADMIN GOBLIN DENIED YOUR REQUEST IT SCANNED YESTERDAY TEMPORARY FIX APPLIED
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Meetings:
The Blathering

A competitive card game of strategic misalignment, weaponized bureaucracy, and documented outcomes that change nothing.

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Legacy System Minotaur
Beast / EffectATK 2100
Cannot be targeted by card effects. Once per turn: A random effect you control is negated.
"It still works. It just doesn't work the way it used to. Or should. Or... ever did."
Works on My Machine
Quick-Play Spell
Negate an opponent's effect. On your next turn, that same effect resolves successfully for you. No explanation is required.
Admin Goblin
Fiend / EffectATK 900 / DEF 3200
Cannot be destroyed while holding an unresolved ticket. Once per turn: Deny one access request without explanation.
"He's had that access since 2019. We don't know why."
Strategic Misalignment Bandwidth Fragmentation Unintended Use Documentation Check Meeting Phase Thought Leader Tier™ Delivering Outcomes Regardless of Intent Strategic Misalignment Bandwidth Fragmentation Unintended Use Documentation Check Meeting Phase Thought Leader Tier™ Delivering Outcomes Regardless of Intent
About the Game

The Game That Plays Like Work. Unfortunately.

Indifferencer, Inc.™ presents Meetings: The Blathering — a trading card game built from the raw material of enterprise dysfunction, documented in real time by people who have been there.

Reduce your opponent's Bandwidth to zero — or outlast them through strategic confusion, weaponized bureaucracy, and the occasional Marginal Gain Victory.

Every card came from a real wound. The flavor text is not satirical. It is testimony.

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8,000
Starting Bandwidth
4
Rarity Tiers incl. Thought Leader™
0
Meetings That Couldn't Have Been Emails
∞
Unresolved Tickets
Featured Cards

The Roster So Far

Vendor Evangelist Hydra
Hydra / EffectATK 2800 / DEF 2400
Gains one additional attack per turn for each buzzword spoken (max 3). Once per turn: Shuffle one Agile Ritual from your deck into your opponent's deck.
PowerPoint Lich
Undead / EffectATK 1200 / DEF 3000
Gains 1 Slide Counter each turn. Cannot be destroyed while it has counters. Opponent loses 100 Bandwidth per counter during standby phase.
Principal Consultant Parrot
Winged Beast / EffectATK 1400 / DEF 3100
Special Summon condition: PowerPoint Lich must have 8+ Slide Counters. When summoned: Summon 2 additional copies. Each generates a 50-slide presentation. Slides 1–25 and 26–50 contain the same information formatted differently.
"I've taken the liberty of putting together a few thoughts."
End User: Rooster
Beast / End User / EffectATK 800 / DEF 800
Cannot be redirected by the card that built the system. Activates Unintended Use once per turn without reading the documentation. Gains 500 ATK when adjacent to one specific player. That player did nothing to earn this.
"He just prefers JSON. His team used it on a project once…."
Red X (Silent Failure)
Trap Card
When an effect fails, do not explain why. Opponent must guess.
Temporary Fix
Trap Card
Restore 500 Fragmented Bandwidth to usable Bandwidth. Then Fragment 700.
"That should hold."
Business Analyst Boar
Beast / EffectATK 2200 / DEF 1800
Once per turn: Identify the actual root cause of any problem on the field. When Principal Consultant Parrot is also on the field: Boar's effects resolve first. Parrot gets the draw.
Out of Office Phantom
Spirit / EffectATK 0 / DEF 0
Cannot be targeted. Leaves the field at end of turn. While active: Opponent cannot interact with this card.
The Room Where It Happens (But Nothing Gets Done)
Field Spell
All players may activate one additional effect during Meeting Phase. If more than 3 effects resolve: Negate all of them.
Core Mechanics

How the System Fails You

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Bandwidth System
Replace Life Points with Bandwidth — your capacity to act, respond, and maintain operational coherence. Track both Displayed and Actual Bandwidth. They are never the same number. The game is managing the gap.
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Bandwidth Fragmentation
Fragmented Bandwidth still exists. Still counts toward your total. Cannot be used or referenced. It is, basically, allocated but unavailable. If Fragmentation exceeds 2000, all Tool Cards begin misfiring automatically.
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Meeting Phase
A new turn step before Battle Phase. Each player may activate one Discussion effect. If more than two activate, both players discard 1 card. Flavor ruling: "This meeting could have been avoided."
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Unintended Use
Cards with this keyword may be activated outside their intended parameters. Effects are unpredictable but cannot be negated by Documentation Check. The system wasn't built for this. It does it anyway.
Coming Soon

Special Edition:
Tradeshows — The Corporate Circus

The base set documents the office. The special edition documents the floor.

A dedicated expansion set on the convention circuit — where the demos are pre-recorded, the pricing is custom, and the cocktail hour starts at six. Introduces Booth Space as a resource and a new field environment with its own ecosystem of cards, creatures, and catered suffering.

Featuring the All Access Badge of Unearned Privilege, the Convention Center Lunch field spell, and the Booth Babe Basilisk — whose gaze suspends all product evaluation until your next turn.

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Booth Babe Basilisk
Reptile / Effect — ATK 1800 / DEF 1800
Tradeshow
Convention Center Lunch
Field Spell
Tradeshow
All Access Badge of Unearned Privilege
Equip / Magical Item — Thought Leader Tier™
Ultra Rare
Platform and Data Lion Tamer
Beast-Tamer / Effect — ATK 2300 / DEF 2000
Thought Leader™
Convention Center Bar
Field Spell — Replaces Convention Center Lunch
Tradeshow
Badge Lanyard of Dubious Authority
Equip Spell / Magical Item
Rare
Official Design Philosophy
"If it makes sense,
it's probably underpowered."
— Indifferencer, Inc.™ Official Rulebook, Draft 1.0

© Indifferencer, Inc.™ All outcomes delivered regardless of intent.

Bandwidth figures are Displayed values only. Actual Bandwidth may vary.