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The masterminds behind the Blades in the Dark inspired game Wicked Ones (FREE version here), about a group of fantasy monsters building a dungeon, launching raids on the surface to gather a hoard, and pursuing a nefarious master plan; have a new Blades in the Dark inspired game that will be Kickstarted soon. One of the creators describes Relic as, "In short, it's kind of like Shadow of the Colossus and Monster Hunter meets Princess Mononoke and Breath of the Wild, with some low-tech steampunk thrown into the mix. Its mechanics are an extension of the work we did modifying FitD in Wicked Ones, so there'll be a lot of familiar territory there." https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/banditcamp/relic
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dwarf74 posted:Gammarauders! I guess the Gammarauders design team didn't talk to the marking team at ALL. I saw those ads and then let out a "Wut" when I saw the game box at the store, with the giant penguin on it. 
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Wheeljack posted:I guess the Gammarauders design team didn't talk to the marking team at ALL. I saw those ads and then let out a "Wut" when I saw the game box at the store, with the giant penguin on it. I know there was a short-lived rpg, too, but... drat, dude. I've never seen that before. Thanks.
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Sep 16, 2021 05:22
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I remember Gammarauders! I got an exclamation for the boxed game at dollar tree after TSR collapsed, and the RPG was (get this) released serially in the back of the comics.
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Sep 16, 2021 11:14
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Helical Nightmares posted:The masterminds behind the Blades in the Dark inspired game Wicked Ones (FREE version here), about a group of fantasy monsters building a dungeon, launching raids on the surface to gather a hoard, and pursuing a nefarious master plan; have a new Blades in the Dark inspired game that will be Kickstarted soon.
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Sep 16, 2021 12:02
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Splicer posted:I know why all the new games with super cool settings are FitD based, but I really wish there were some games with super cool settings that leaned more toward the "You athleticsing? Roll athletics" style of mechanics. What do you mean? BitD does exactly that, it's just that the player chooses what they roll and the GM just gets to tell the player if it's more/less likely to succeeded (via position and effect) than a different approach.
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Sep 16, 2021 14:29
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moths posted:I remember Gammarauders! I got an exclamation for the boxed game at dollar tree after TSR collapsed, and the RPG was (get this) released serially in the back of the comics. I remember they did something kinda similar in the AD&D comics, at least at first - full stats for some of the characters and monsters. I think I got a few extra copies of Gammarauders through Kay*Bee back when TSR always offloaded overstock through them.
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Helical Nightmares posted:the Stars Without Number supplement Dead Names. TK_Nyarlathotep posted:aliens confirmed for trans moths posted:*Punches transphobic alien*
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Sep 16, 2021 16:42
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Been working a lot lately, so I treated myself to one of my favourite things- unopened boosters for long-dead card games!
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Sep 16, 2021 16:44
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Nice! I remember getting some starter packs for that back in the day, with the little fold-out pop-up stands for PCs. Some of my friends bought it, too, but we never felt like we had enough cards to build a proper map, and it was just too different from other CCGs out there. I remember that there was an earlier card game with a similar roleplaying-heavy concept, where you played people who turned in to dragons. Read about it in InQuest, never found it for sale.
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Sep 16, 2021 16:53
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Back in the 90s, my local shop was selling packs for like a dollar a pop or cheaper, but I could only ever get one character pack. I still have a pile of story cards though, so now with these character packs I could potentially get a game going. I'll post the character standees when I open them later. Edit:  Vulpes Vulpes fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Sep 16, 2021 |
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Sep 16, 2021 17:09
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Wow! I thought I knew every old/obscure CCG, but I never heard of that one. Super cool.
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Sep 16, 2021 18:03
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Ah, arcadia. I don’t think I ever heard of anyone playing it. The fact it was sold only as boosters didn’t help. The impression I got is that when you actually got it working it was just a very simple “move, roll against hazard, move” game. Now Heresy? That’s an awesome obscure CCG.
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Sep 16, 2021 18:23
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I also have some Heresy cards. I'd love to get enough to play the loving thing. gently caress, I'd love to see a RPG in the Heresy setting, if only because then they'd have to explicate how stuff was simultaneously happening in the real world and heaven and hell and cyberspace, which I think was all mixed together somehow? I felt like it was one of those things that really grabbed ahold of and exemplified part of the zeitgeist of the 90s, and in a way that's still relevant, like Unknown Armies and Over the Edge.
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Sep 16, 2021 18:27
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I have almost full sets of the KULT CCG, Shadowrun CCG, Jyhad (The original Bampire CCG), Daedalus's Shadowfist, Doomtrooper, and Heresy. I had a serious problem.
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Sep 16, 2021 19:45
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Shadowfist was bloody great.
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Sep 16, 2021 19:46
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hyphz posted:Shadowfist was bloody great. It still is.
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Sep 16, 2021 20:00
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:It still is.
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Sep 16, 2021 20:33
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Magnetic North posted:*puts hand out flat, then tips it side to side* Humbug Scoolbus posted:It still is.
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Sep 16, 2021 20:35
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A longtime Feng Shui fan, I'd love to get some Shadowfist cards, but they're a bit dear for a game that, if we're being honest, I'll never actually play. I do have quite a set of On The Edge cards from when they were going for cheap a couple years ago though:
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Sep 16, 2021 20:49
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Remember the loving Highlander TCG? Lordy, it was ugly. I bought a starter deck as soon as I was aware it existed because of course it was the 90's and I was a schoolboy. I never got to play it. Wish I still had my old garbage pile of useless games no one would play back in the day.
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Sep 16, 2021 21:03
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Someone somewhere ever, please play Anachronism with me. 
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Sep 16, 2021 21:14
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That Old Tree posted:Remember the loving Highlander TCG? Lordy, it was ugly. I think we can all agree that any TCG that just uses screenshots from its source material instead of making original art is automatically bad
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Sep 16, 2021 21:25
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drrockso20 posted:I think we can all agree that any TCG that just uses screenshots from its source material instead of making original art is automatically bad  
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Sep 16, 2021 22:00
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Sim City TCG was cool though?
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Sep 16, 2021 22:53
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drrockso20 posted:I think we can all agree that any TCG that just uses screenshots from its source material instead of making original art is automatically bad I think Decipher at least used original (?) pictures of props.
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Sep 16, 2021 23:14
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I had the full "One With Everything" Illuminati CCG set at one point. Which I see goes for about $400 opened on eBay nowadays...  I never really understood how to play it, tbh.
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Sep 16, 2021 23:28
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PerniciousKnid posted:I think Decipher at least used original (?) pictures of props. They recreated stuff too, I believe with the Lucasfilm people, for the EU cards. They even talked about it in Star Wars Insider.
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Sep 16, 2021 23:34
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Sim City TCG was cool though? Was it? I never played it but I heard it was absolutely awful. Like, Spellfire awful.
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Magnetic North posted:Was it? I never played it but I heard it was absolutely awful. Like, Spellfire awful. As I recall it was one of those ones that was nearly unplayable with a starter deck because the game mechanics relied on certain kinds of cards being in your deck and the starter was just a random set of cards. Like imagine MtG starter decks that were just a random set of all cards, and you might not get any lands. Arcadia was similar - you'd buy a few packs and discover that you couldn't actually play it.
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Yeah, Arcadia desperately needed starter decks that would give you the bare minimum number of cards you actually needed to play a game.
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Imagined posted:I had the full "One With Everything" Illuminati CCG set at one point. Which I see goes for about $400 opened on eBay nowadays... The thing with Illuminati CCG was that it took an existing board game which was all about managing a resource - money - and then removed it from the CCG, replacing it with "action tokens" which did not accumulate in the same way. It tried to make up for this with more card abilities, but it ultimately never worked well whenever I played it. I'm amazed that the factory set sells for so much when you might just as well play the original board game. And oh god, the Doctor Who CCG was terrible. If I recall correctly, it had the inspired rule that when you got damaged, you had to draw a new card from your deck to see if it would allow you to time travel, and if you didn't, you took another point of damage and repeated the process. On the other hand, Battle 3000 Come Defend Your Planet was.. a thing. I don't think I've ever heard of it being played and I never saw any of it beyond a single starter that our FLGS owner picked up at a con.
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I'm extremely confused by this card, because as far as can tell the only game rules information conveyed by this card is that this picture, which is apparently of Amanda, represents the character Amanda.
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:A longtime Feng Shui fan, I'd love to get some Shadowfist cards, but they're a bit dear for a game that, if we're being honest, I'll never actually play. I do have quite a set of On The Edge cards from when they were going for cheap a couple years ago though: Somewhere I have a box of all the Shadowfist starter decks turned into functional decks that are great for casual play. There was true joy in playing the Architects of the Flesh and dropping a Neutron Bomb to wipe out all characters. That might be the best multiplayer CCG after Vampire. Also I completely support your wonderful, mad desire to play Arcadia. It was always interesting to me but the odd card size put me off and I was probably buying like, I don't know, the Battletech CCG at the same time. It was a wild time.
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DalaranJ posted:I'm extremely confused by this card, because as far as can tell the only game rules information conveyed by this card is that this picture, which is apparently of Amanda, represents the character Amanda. Persona Cards: This Pre-Game card allows you to play as your favorite Persona. Persona cards have a picture of a Persona on the front, and biographical information about that Persona on the back. Below the biographical information, you will find a description of the special skills a Persona brings to 'The Game.' These skills are known as Persona Powers. You may still play the game without a Persona Card (see Generic Persona). If you play with a Persona, you may only include Persona Specific Cards for that Persona in your Endurance. You may only include Master Cards (see Card Groups) in your Endurance up to the number as indicated on your Persona card.
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:Back in the 90s, my local shop was selling packs for like a dollar a pop or cheaper, but I could only ever get one character pack. I still have a pile of story cards though, so now with these character packs I could potentially get a game going. I'll post the character standees when I open them later.  Got some cards from the main set and the one expansion. I'm a bit surprised that more than one person is collecting them for their fold out character cards. Who knew?
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PerniciousKnid posted:I think Decipher at least used original (?) pictures of props. Eh still pretty lame
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Flashing back to early Spellfire and how the photo-illustrated cards were the super-rares and thus "special"
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Imagined posted:Persona Cards: This Pre-Game card allows you to play as your favorite Persona. Persona cards have a picture of a Persona on the front, and biographical information about that Persona on the back. Below the biographical information, you will find a description of the special skills a Persona brings to 'The Game.' These skills are known as Persona Powers. You may still play the game without a Persona Card (see Generic Persona). If you play with a Persona, you may only include Persona Specific Cards for that Persona in your Endurance. You may only include Master Cards (see Card Groups) in your Endurance up to the number as indicated on your Persona card. If you ever have written yourself into a corner such that you have to put scare quotes around "The Game" in a rules description, you should probably take a step back, get some air, maybe a cup of something nice. It just doesn't bode well.
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