Turbinosamente posted:

I'll back you up on this too, I called looking for a specific older manga, they said they didn't have any of it. Went in person a week later, there was two random volumes of it on the shelf, so they didn't even do a token look. Also needing to have the shop closed on mondays to do inventory is a bit weird, one would think you'd want to want to do that poo poo before or after business hours to maximize the time you are open to the public. I haven't gone back there in at least a couple of years.

But yes let's move on to weird old tcgs. Was that strange Tomb Raider one covered? I had a starter deck but got rid of it without even giving it a try. It seemed to kinda operate on that middle ground between tcg and card based board game. Also, have I asked about the Inuyasha tcg in here? I might have, I'm running into the end of my knowledge of weird cardboard crap.

Gynovore posted:

1) Go here https://www.ccgtrader.net/games/xxxenophile-ccg/xxxenophile (very mildly NSFW)

2) Read through all the XXXenophile cards and have a good laugh.

3) You have now had 99% of the enjoyment that's to be had from XXXenophile.

PuttyKnife posted:

So, there's something weird that is happening with a couple old TSR collectible games.

Spellfire is a weird game in the collectible card game realm. TSR saw Magic making tons of money and all the clones and said, "We can do a CCG without copying magic." It's kind of an interesting game for that reason. But then WOTC bought TSR and that game disappeared.

That is, until someone bought the mechanics and began to reprint it as a sort of crypto front: https://spellfire.com/

I am interested in the reprint and i'm interested in this sort of hybrid digital/physical game but for the life of me I cannot get past the crypto/NFT poo poo. It sends so many red flags and the discord server is almost always talking about the crypto over the game.

Limited Pack posted:

A treasure trove reserved only for the most devoted players and discerning collectors, this pack promises not just rare cards but artifacts of legends, whispered about in hallowed gaming halls and sought after by every Spellfire enthusiast.

Five cards inside. This Limited Booster Pack guarantees one Super Rare card, with a chance for Epic and Legendary cards.

The cards from this booster pack aren’t merely for gameplay; they’re assets. Each card holds significant resale value, with some potentially fetching astronomical prices in the collectors’ market.

Randalor posted:

PuttyKnife posted:

So, there's something weird that is happening with a couple old TSR collectible games.

Spellfire is a weird game in the collectible card game realm. TSR saw Magic making tons of money and all the clones and said, "We can do a CCG without copying magic." It's kind of an interesting game for that reason. But then WOTC bought TSR and that game disappeared.

That is, until someone bought the mechanics and began to reprint it as a sort of crypto front: https://spellfire.com/

I am interested in the reprint and i'm interested in this sort of hybrid digital/physical game but for the life of me I cannot get past the crypto/NFT poo poo. It sends so many red flags and the discord server is almost always talking about the crypto over the game.

This isn't too abnormal but then the other TSR collectible game is also still in print: Dragon Dice.

I was in a shop in Boston back in like 2017 or so and was meeting a friend who was on my dissertation committee. I look down and I see a bunch of starters and boosters of Dragon Dice. However, rather than their being old kickers and starters, it's got a weird brand on the cover and the art is totally different. It's some company called SFR: https://www.dragondice.com/dragondice.php.

The nice thing about this reprint is that all of the new dice and all of the old dice are compatible. They can do this because there's no copyrightable text or art on the dice themselves and they could just reprint or re-issue those things like the battlefields that might have had art.

They've also ran some kickstarters: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sfr/dragon-dice-frostwings-reprint

These are two games I loved back in the 90s that are seemingly being reprinted and replayed. I know Jyhad / Vampire also got a reprint but are there any other old forgotten CCGs that got reprinted?

Randalor posted:

Dawgstar posted:

It might have been talked about before but I remember Ani-Mayhem, the first anime CCG which was basically a game using everything from I believe Pioneer at the time. Tenchi Muyo, El-Hazard, stuff like that. Never got to play it but have some cards floating around, or at least I did at one time.

LifeLynx posted:

I saw an ad for Spellfire in a magazine - Scrye or InQuest - that offered to mail you a pack if you mailed them a pack of Magic, if my memory is correct. Instead I bought a starter of Spellfire from the mall. At the time I thought it was a spin-off of Magic for some reason. But the game was so complex my friends and I couldn't understand it, and it became a running joke for a while.

Dragon Dice is awesome. I still use the d8s from that game that have numbers on them. The other symbol dice I threw out long ago.

Speaking of reused licenses, I saw someone is bringing back Marvel Overpower... without Marvel. Apparently they might have licenses for other IPs soon, but right now it's generic stuff.

PuttyKnife posted:

Overpower was a wild game and its one of the only ones I haven't bought a ton of. I can't imagine it being disconnected from the Marvel IP at all. Did they just create a whole new cadre of comic book heroes?

Oh, it's even weirder than I figured it would be: https://overpower.ca/rebirth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLm4IoMwbYs

It's sort of like what they did to the Jyhad reprint but a bit more limited...but what an idea. Print cards that fix issues with the original game and have folks go buy the original stuff.

Parkreiner posted:

If nothing else Ani-Mayhem deserves to remembered for the card Frothy Mug Of Water, which changes the rules of the game to reflect American TV censorship.

Railing Kill posted:

My wife hated the Spellfire novel. She was horrified to find out there was a CCG for it.

I can't wait to show her this.

Railing Kill posted:

Also: I got a preorder in for the FFTCG 2024 Anniversary box, plus a few dual starter packs (FFIV, FFVII, and FFXIV). I figure the starters will give me good bases to use the 2022 and 2024 boxes to build out from. From there, I might just hunt for singles to make a FFVI themed deck.

Railing Kill posted:

Also: I got a preorder in for the FFTCG 2024 Anniversary box, plus a few dual starter packs (FFIV, FFVII, and FFXIV). I figure the starters will give me good bases to use the 2022 and 2024 boxes to build out from. From there, I might just hunt for singles to make a FFVI themed deck.

John Romero posted:

why are people losing their poo poo over the one piece game

Turbinosamente posted:

Yeah isn't One Piece supposed to end soon? It's probably last hurrah hype as the series wraps.

Turbinosamente posted:

Yeah isn't One Piece supposed to end soon? It's probably last hurrah hype as the series wraps.

PuttyKnife posted:

By 2030. But yeah, the final saga began this month.

John Romero posted:

How is it possible that there is a final fantasy card game that is fun as poo poo to play, has every character ever in multiple art and playstyles, feels premium and stores have but nobody fuckin plays it and few have heard of it???

it looks like square handles all the promotion and communications, is hobby Japan just their distributor?

Railing Kill posted:

I got in touch with my buddy who runs the biggest/best game store in my state and he had heard of it but didn't carry it. He was able to order the 2024 box and a few starter pairs for me as a special order, but I was genuinely surprised he didn't already carry it. It might be like VTES where if you're near a major metro area there's a robust tournament scene, but otherwise it's just an underground thing (at least, in the US). My state doesn't even have a major metro area. Our biggest city is only like 100k people and it's 20 minutes from his shop.

John Romero posted:

yeah it seems like it's big in the carolinas????

John Romero posted:

yeah it seems like it's big in the carolinas????

I had mentioned earlier in this thread there were events happening around here but that was some bad information I was given. the closest I could find is that thres like 3 stores that actually sell it and a fb group of four people that no one has touched in 4 years

John Romero posted:

tip for finding dead ccgs in the real world: go to dusty sports card shops, ones that either don’t sell ccgs or only maybe sell magic and Pokémon with no on-site play. a lot of them bought a bunch of dumb poo poo in the nineties and due to the nature of their business just still have it sitting around in a back room next to baseball and hockey cards from the same era.

“Hey these say $6 a booster but there is 4 layers of dust on them, I’ll give you $20 for a box” will get you a long way

John Romero posted:

tip for finding dead ccgs in the real world: go to dusty sports card shops, ones that either don’t sell ccgs or only maybe sell magic and Pokémon with no on-site play. a lot of them bought a bunch of dumb poo poo in the nineties and due to the nature of their business just still have it sitting around in a back room next to baseball and hockey cards from the same era.

PuttyKnife posted:

Random rear end question but does anyone know of a cube list for Garfield’s Battletech CCG?