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I think that may be because "The Game" is a diegetic term in the Highlander universe, iirc? So there's a lowercase-g game (the CCG) emulating the in-universe capital-G Game (immortals beheading each other).
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Antivehicular posted:I think that may be because "The Game" is a diegetic term in the Highlander universe, iirc? So there's a lowercase-g game (the CCG) emulating the in-universe capital-G Game (immortals beheading each other). Nope, it's called 'the Gathering', like juggalos.
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Sep 17, 2021 03:06
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fool of sound posted:Nope, it's called 'the Gathering', like juggalos. or Magic!
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Sep 17, 2021 03:33
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Antivehicular posted:I think that may be because "The Game" is a diegetic term in the Highlander universe, iirc? So there's a lowercase-g game (the CCG) emulating the in-universe capital-G Game (immortals beheading each other). Yeah I half-remember that. But if that happens it’s just not a good sign.
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Sep 17, 2021 03:52
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Leraika posted:or Magic! Or Babylon 5!
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drrockso20 posted:Eh still pretty lame I didn't buy the Star Trek CCG so I could have some dick's interpretation of Picard.
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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. Arcadia had some interesting ideas and great visual design, but it stank in that basically you couldn't play through the full campaign without a full set. It wasn't amazing, but it was at least trying to do something really different from the rest.
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fool of sound posted:Nope, it's called 'the Gathering', like juggalos. This is an incredibly unfortunate coincidence for the CCG.
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"The Gathering" was the culmination of "the Game [of Immortals]" and I'm pretty sure this was established right in the first movie. It's great because the climax of the original movie is the final fight of the Gathering, aka one immortal is left. They put a definitive cap on the story of the Immortals they just established. Then everything after acknowledges that this final fight happened, I think they even talk about it in the series pilot, but they have to pretend that none of the movie happened in the context of the climactic Gathering because otherwise the series and sequel movies couldn't exist. (Except of course there's the second movie that acknowledges what actually happened in the first movie but Connor just like, hosed up his chance to create utopia, but then it turns out Immortals are psychically projected aliens or something, and then the retcon that no actually the second movie was all a nightmare dream prison and none of it happened.) I love this terrible franchise.
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DalaranJ posted:This is an incredibly unfortunate coincidence for the CCG. Magic has an entire faction, the Rakdos guild, which is basically just juggalos and sadomasochism.
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That Old Tree posted:"The Gathering" was the culmination of "the Game [of Immortals]" and I'm pretty sure this was established right in the first movie. I think the show's retcon specifically was that it was "a" Gathering, just not "the" Gathering which while a little doofy is a reasonably acceptable one
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I've got Wheel of Time, RIFTS, Mythos, and a different Illuminati! CCG packs/decks/cards lying around. Plus a sealed box of Jyhad boosters that I grabbed on clearance when the game store was getting rid of it as the new Vampire game was coming into stock. I recall the RIFTs game came with one deck in this big like 8 1/2" x 11" folder thing, so me and my buddy each bought one of those and a couple of boosters and tried to play, and worked out pretty fast that we had not nearly invested enough to have a viable game. The next time I thought to look for cards for it in a store, it was gone. Or I might be mis-remembering that last bit because a similar thing happened with the Wheel of Time CCG we also bought a little bit of. That (late 90s) period of CCGs was very strange to me. All these copycats trying to recapture the magic of Magic, and almost none of them recognizing that they'd only have a shot if they made it the initial game experience very very good. Instead they thought "lol random packs, yes" and so every excited kid who dropped $15 on the game to try it was disappointed.
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Sep 17, 2021 06:07
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It's me, the one person whose first entry into BattleTech was the CCG.
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Dawgstar posted: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. As someone who's played a fair bit of both Shadowfist and V:TES, I feel that each game has their situation. Vampire is better if you have 5 players, three hours and can tolerate player elimination and strategic whining. Whereas, Shadowfist really shines at 3 players and I think is the best way to play either of these games. It is less about negotiation, but you can still find situations where you need to tactically assist your opponents. The issue is once you get to 4 players, the game can be as long as a V:TES game except there's no predator-prey action limitation to narrow the decision space. They're definitely among the top of the heap as far as M:TG also-rans that I am aware of, though NISEI has my imagination now.
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To catch up on the 90s CCG chat, my collecting stuff has less to do with wanting to get the game played and more having the opportunity to investigate things that I thought were cool in the 90s that I never had a chance to. I have a lot of nostalgia rooted in that 90s tradgame scene and it's a fun thing to dip back into- today's cards are really slick and the art is very sophisticated, but my heart lies with that ropey 90s stuff. Did anyone ever play the 7th Sea CCG? I remember that one as being a real hit with my friends and I, though we were also very into the RPG.
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:Did anyone ever play the 7th Sea CCG? I remember that one as being a real hit with my friends and I, though we were also very into the RPG. We did, for the same reason. I have fond memories of it that are probably far more about the company than the actual game itself.
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Duel Masters is still the best dead* TCG *well dead in the West, it's still like the number two most successful card game over in Japan after Yugioh, which is why I figure it's only a matter of time before WOTC decides to try and revive it again in the West(especially as the kids who grew up with it are going to be in prime nostalgia market for it)
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drrockso20 posted:Duel Masters is still the best dead* TCG didn't they do that with KAIJUDO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaijudo
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Len posted:didn't they do that with KAIJUDO They changed too many things for that to really count
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I see Shadowfist chat! I got into Shadowfist and Feng Shui at around the same time, and while I never actually had a chance to play a game of Feng Shui, I played a fair amount of Shadowfist with my son and his friends, and collected a decent pile of cards. Seeing the earlier posts inspired me to pull out some boxes, I did a quick shuffle through to pick out a few key cards (and a bunch of random ones), which I included in this terrible picture:  (Didn't realize how bad it was till I put the cards away...) I agree Shadowfist was probably best 3 player, though we had to play a lot of 2 player and usually one player would win fairly quickly. But sometimes you'd get a great game, I recall Kar Fai out against Gao Zhang for the battle that would determine the match, with Kar Fai winning it for the Dragons!
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I admire Shadowfist for having a lot of cards that could swing the game back in somebody's favor. The aforementioned Architects' Neutron Bomb was one, but I also distinctly remember the Dragons' Golden Comeback turning the tide as well (sometimes these cards were played sequentially).
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Johnny Badhair there, I think he was one of the rarer cards in the expansion.. The issue with it, I think, was that there were certain cards that were just better than others so you'd always have them if you had managed to get them. Kinoshita House I think was an example. (Imagine a Maze of Ith that still generates mana.)
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Man, I'm going to have to search out my card boxes now.
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gameraMan posted:I see Shadowfist chat! some of those card names are incredible. "TOO MUCH MONKEY BUSINESS"
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Shadowfist was a cool game; I think I still have both my decks somewhere.
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What are opinions regarding the Alien rpg and/or its Colonial Marines campaign book? I hear it works on a similar rules system to Tales From the Loop, which was easy to run. Is it fun?
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Arivia posted:some of those card names are incredible. "TOO MUCH MONKEY BUSINESS" Shadowfist is full of incredible/terrible names. Furious George, Orangotank, Titanium Johnson... I played a loooot of 'Fist during and after college. One of many dead CCGs we picked up cheap, but one of the few that had staying power, and one of the even fewer that eventually came back to life (I think just that and Netrunner). Still have a lot of fondness for that game and Feng Shui.
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Feng Shui Jammer names are indeed very good.
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Arivia posted:some of those card names are incredible. "TOO MUCH MONKEY BUSINESS" There are lots of pun names too, but I honestly like the idiomatic descriptive names that aren't puns like: Far Too Much Dynamite Kick 'em When They're Down Who's The Monkey Now? Running Out Of Time Burn, Baby, Burn! "Trust Me, I've Got a Plan" Safety Third! (Most Jammers are surprised it's that high on the list.) Also, the best pun name is Mandrill Sergeant, fight me.
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In the Feng Shui RPG if you played a cyber-gorilla and didn't have a pun monkey name you got docked an experience point. Fortunately I immediately came up with McKilla Gorilla so it was fine.
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Magnetic North posted:Also, the best pun name is Mandrill Sergeant, fight me. A Clockwork Orangutan Big Macaque Attack Koko Chanel SAM Simian
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Mon Quixote
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Is there a good crunchy system for martial arts at the moment? Needs to be crunchier than Feng Shui. Panic at the Dojo would be great except it has no advancement.
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Legends of the Wulin?
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hyphz posted:Is there a good crunchy system for martial arts at the moment? Needs to be crunchier than Feng Shui. Panic at the Dojo would be great except it has no advancement. I have neither played nor even properly read any of these and in fact am entirely unqualified to offer any suggestions, but take a look at Fight! 2e, Art of Wuxia and/or Righteous Blood, Ruthless Blades.
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potatocubed posted:Legends of the Wulin? I've really wanted to try this but the book is insanely out-of-print and it seems like even buying the pdf would enrich Some Bad Dudes and not the actual writer from what I've heard.
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Megazver posted:I have neither played nor even properly read any of these and in fact am entirely unqualified to offer any suggestions, but take a look at Fight! 2e, Art of Wuxia and/or Righteous Blood, Ruthless Blades. Oh, Fight! is a great choice.
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Dawgstar posted:In the Feng Shui RPG if you played a cyber-gorilla and didn't have a pun monkey name you got docked an experience point. Fortunately I immediately came up with McKilla Gorilla so it was fine. I had Mighty Carl Young (Team Heavy Weapons and Psychotherapy)
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My GM came up with James Bonobo, cybernetic ape in a tux, and I can never equal that one.
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