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There is a huge difference between magical wands and guns, though. Namely, wands require skill to use - while I'm fine with the wand-slinger concept, I am pretty sure there weren't massed peasants with wands of magic missile, unless I missed something somewhere.

Where the hell are all of these "with guns" coming from? Since when did Eberron have guns? Eberron is big on wand-wielders, who need to be skilled and not just anybody can pick up a wand. But what Eberron book mentions guns AT ALL?

I cannot, as it was all via IRC.

www.fantasystrike.com has a free deck-building game you can play, Puzzle Strike. If you've never played one before it's a nice way to learn, and all you need is to download Unity to play it in-browser. Josh_K is also one of the top players of it. "Living Card Game" is specifically fantasy ...

This system is irredeemable. From a game design standpoint, and from a "feels like pokemon" standpoint, it fails at every single level. Everyone involved with its design in every way ought to be embarrassed, but being from 4chan, they're too dumb to be embarrassed.

If everyone just started ignoring shadzar and anyone who even acknowledged shadzar as a person that existed, this board would be way better off.

So Pokemon conquest is surprisingly similar to that pokemon RPG thread a while back. I'm also surprised that they somehow made a pokemon game where each pokemon only had one attack work.

I will agree that games with traitor mechanics are outside of what I'm looking for / talking about. It's a neat mechanic, and there are fun games, but it's just not the same thing. Likewise, I have a strong hate of any game that doesn't allow free sharing of information. The only game I have seen wi...

So being Red gives you access to things like Intimidate and Leadership, but being a Goblin gives you access to things like Lockpicking and Sleight of Hand. Being a Red Goblin gives you an objectively longer list of things to select from than being a Blue Goblin does. This still confuses me. Do you ...

I really like Pandemic, because it extremely faithfully recreates the feeling of being part of a disaster response team. You're given a shitty situation, and you fight back by holding meetings and assigning heavily limited resources. It is the most simulationist game I have ever seen on any topic, ...

I agree. Also I recommend Sentinels of the Multiverse (again). I think it follows with everything except the unreliability of abilities. I have been meaning to try this game out, although I'm a little iffy on buying it. Don't you draw and then play cards? If so, I'd consider that unreliable abiliti...

This is a general thread to discuss the design of co-op board games and card games, which has been on my mind a lot recently. First I'm going to talk about the ones I've played. Arkham Horror The mold from which the others are cast, Arkham Horror is the go-to co-op game for most people. The big prob...

Do you remember when he tried to derail a thread about how the freelancers weren't being paid by making comments about one of the (female) freelancer's body? What a classy action from such a classy guy. With people like him in charge I can't imagine how dumpshock became a place full of idiots who li...

Dungeons are seriously 45 minutes - 1 hour with 3 bosses only, and ridiculous amounts of worthless trash that is no challenge and totally not interesting because it's literally the exact same mobs you've been fighting for six hours outside of the dungeon. Dungeons have most of their reward loaded in...

This game is awful beyond all compare. Terribly designed dungeons, monotonous quests, pretty much every godfuckingawful "free to play" system imaginable shoved into its wretched frame.

This game is on sale for $15 today on steam. No subscription fee, excellent MMO!

So, I'm thinking of running an Apocalypse World PbP campaign here, on these very boards. The title: Bear Hunter . Is anyone interested? Sorry Fox, but giving it a title at all implies that you're planning the game, or actually putting thought and effort into it - which as we know is something Apoca...

It's pretty amazing how nothing turns me off on a system and convinces me that system is dumb as fuck as people making accounts to try to defend it, because they never actually do it well. It happened with Eclipse Phase, and it's happened with AW now. Cries of "You haven't played the game!"...

RPS just put up a review and some videos: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/06 ... preview-3/

Card Hunter is a game in beta that you can sign up for here: http://www.cardhunter.com/ It's a D&D inspired game, with singleplayer and multiplayer. In the singleplayer you get three adventurers from three different classes (Warrior, Wizard, Cleric) and races (Human, Elf, Dwarf) and go through m...

. No one sane is talking about running a campaign when they talk about playtesting, And there's the problem. We're not talking about "anyone sane", we're talking about RPG designers, and fighting against the ignorant, stupid ideas people in Paizo and WOTC put out. Having an essay explaini...

People are being overly bitching to the playtesting article just to have something to bitch over. I've been saying the same thing myself for years - "playtesting", as in, "running a campaign to test the game's balance", is completely useless. What you need to do is first have you...

The acceptability of Stuns has everything to do with what turns are like. Losing a 2 second turn in Hungry Hungry Hippos is about as exciting as actually getting a turn. Losing a 2 week turn in World in Flames is totally unacceptable. Really anything that modifies or constrains player agency is sim...

For a while now, I had been considering a system to standardize how named bad statuses - stuff like shaken, sicken, etc - are removed and what they effect to make a theoretical new game run smoother. D&D 4e proved that having a bunch of unique statuses that all act differently and end at differe...

I'd also suggest the secret world; no subscription, no buy-to-win, solid gameplay mechanics and is overall a very unique experience. If you're interested toss me a PM with your email and I'll send you a trial - they're having a special this weekend for extra starting gold (used to buy mission packs ...