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Exmond posted:Sentinels of the multiverse is a great starting game to card games. Its a cooperative hero based card game where the villian deck plays itself. It has high replayability (Since you can be a different hero team each time and face a different villian and play a different environment). It is also tropey and fun! No it's garbage
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I played the iOS version it seemed fun for a minute then yeah kind of dumb and seemed overpowered.
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Aug 19, 2017 20:10
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I picked up all of Sentinels on the cheap and it's either way too simple for gamers, or way too complex for non-gamers. But man oh man it has some die hard afficianados.
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Aug 19, 2017 20:15
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While i don't think sentinels is a great game by any stretch, i really like the digital version for solo-play and in my opinion it's a good distraction when you have fifteen minutes to spare. The randomizer ensures no game is the same although some set-ups are impossible or terribly easy.
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Aug 20, 2017 01:16
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3 Martell decks in Gencon top 4, 1 fealty and 2 bannering Stag. 4th deck is Lannister Rains. Praise the sun
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Aug 20, 2017 16:36
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:3 Martell decks in Gencon top 4, 1 fealty and 2 bannering Stag. 4th deck is Lannister Rains. This is cool and good
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Aug 20, 2017 16:39
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Are the Martell decks that combo deck that buffs up Red Viper to ludicrous amounts and then one shots a win?
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Aug 20, 2017 17:59
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GrandpaPants posted:Are the Martell decks that combo deck that buffs up Red Viper to ludicrous amounts and then one shots a win? If this is what everyone calls "hyper viper" then no, not as far as I know.
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Aug 20, 2017 18:51
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That would be called Hyper Viper, yes, but those decks are all Martell/Rose for all the digging actions.
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Aug 20, 2017 19:32
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Well, got 3-2 at the Kiku Matsuri L5R tournament at Gencon aka the Hatsune Miku aka the Feast of Cultural Appropriation. And holy loly was that parade cringe. The game is fun, though. dexefiend posted:My friends and I all dropped after two rounds, since it was like 6pm. They took way too long getting stuff moving. oh my god this OB_Juan posted:
Standin' right here, jerk. gently caress clan loyalty grognards. lemme just buy a game and use 1/7th of the loving cards Deviant fucked around with this message at 03:30 on Aug 22, 2017 |
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Aug 22, 2017 03:05
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Went 5-0 at the Kiku Matsuri, as a TO that event made me sad, they hadn't properly considered the impact of the majority of games going to time. Sadly I had to beat Spooky in the last round.
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Aug 22, 2017 18:06
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HidaO-Win posted:Went 5-0 at the Kiku Matsuri, as a TO that event made me sad, they hadn't properly considered the impact of the majority of games going to time. Sadly I had to beat Spooky in the last round. Reminds me of the first year of Netrunner. I am worried about people playing for tie breakers at Worlds. 3 Cores might speed the game up a fair bit tho.
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Aug 22, 2017 18:11
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I'm grumbly that Crab chose Keeper of Air and not Earth. And I'm doubly grumbly that I have to follow the will of some grognard i've never met if i want to play in big boy events, instead of being able to build what I perceive as optimal. It's going to stifle creativity.
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Aug 22, 2017 18:33
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Went 4-1 finishing 37th in the big L5R tournament. Anecdotally, Dragon was overwhelmingly the most repped clan. The line to pledge to the clan ran almost the whole way across the room whereas I just walked straight up to hand in my Crane pledge with no line whatsoever. Scorpion had a lot of presence too, followed probably, by Phoenix. Crane was in contention for smallest along with Unicorn. Crab seemed to be more repped than Lion, though neither were huge. But that parade, yeah, it was very let's march some Asians about before a room of mostly white men yell "Banzai." Sentinels has the one-two punch of being not mechanically interesting and also looking like poo poo visually.
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Deviant posted:I'm grumbly that Crab chose Keeper of Air and not Earth. The differing elements of Keeper do not really matter that much. Air is better for the Dishonor/Control Crab that is the better version of Crab out of core.
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Deviant posted:I'm grumbly that Crab chose Keeper of Air and not Earth. Also remember that this choice is only legal until Worlds. There were a lot of people saying that some of the picks were designed to be suboptimal now, in order to be available after worlds. As a Scorpion player I'm very sad my clan didn't end up with +3 influence. While the Seeker role does guarantee 2 extra fate through the course of the game, I think dishonor is going to need that extra influence to poach the best cards to support the archetype. Hope we do better at Worlds and get a Keeper role after that.
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Aug 22, 2017 20:06
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Deviant posted:I'm grumbly that Crab chose Keeper of Air and not Earth. L5R's community impact is part of what makes it special, I guess. And restrictions can foster creativity as much as stifle it. I don't think you'll be too badly hurt by minor stuff like this.
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Aug 22, 2017 21:59
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Clan loyalty in L5R actually seems like the perfect meta-mechanic for someone like me who is completely indecisive about what to play in LCGs. One of the reasons I stop playing so many LCGs is that my cards become so disorganized from half-building dozens of uncompleted decks that I don't care enough to reorganize them to put anything together after I try to move past my initial decks. I have a problem. 
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Aug 22, 2017 22:29
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Did anyone here play the 12 player Arkham event? I want details!
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Aug 22, 2017 23:14
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Keep in mind that a lot of clan loyalty was formed during the 20+ years of the CCG model, where clan loyalty was actually rewarded because you could trade away stuff from other clans in order to get your favorite clan's stuff. That's far from the only, or even main, reason why clan loyalty exists, but the economic metagame was quite conducive to it.
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Aug 23, 2017 00:07
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Deviant posted:
What do you mean by this? I don't understand what you are reffering to.
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Aug 23, 2017 00:49
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Phrosphor posted:What do you mean by this? I don't understand what you are reffering to. In official tournaments part of the deck building rules for each clan are determined by the person who wins worlds or gencon or whatever. I'm on my phone so I can't get a link to the actual rules doc.
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Phrosphor posted:What do you mean by this? I don't understand what you are reffering to. https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/op/l5r-lcg/roles/ Top 2 players for each clan at Gencon voted on their clan's roles and those are what have to be used in official events till worlds when they get voted again. Roles for each clan will then change at worlds each year and no clan can take the same role twice in a row. Kind of a way to keep each year's meta fresh and L5R has always been about clans top players for clans voting on things.
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Aug 23, 2017 01:04
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That is an interesting way of doing things, thanks for the info.
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Aug 23, 2017 01:08
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Got to play L5R tonight. Game is pretty sweet. Only managed to get one game in with Scorpion and had a lot of fun. I don't really have any complaints so far. In terms of flavor and mechanics meshing it's a home run.
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Aug 23, 2017 03:11
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buddy picked up a gencon copy of l5r for me. rules look really good, real excited to play it. its seriously bullshit that you need two copies of the core set to play a full 80 card deck game though. like, you couldn't even include doubles of the neutral cards so two people could do a full demo game out of one core set? come the gently caress on
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Aug 23, 2017 03:15
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Which clan is the most like black in MTG? Being a shithead and keeping your friends from having fun?
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always be closing posted:Which clan is the most like black in MTG? Being a shithead and keeping your friends from having fun? Phoenix has the natural recursion a-la graveyard dickery in black.
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Aug 23, 2017 04:18
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Is there a clan that likes wars of attrition, taking a beating and then stabilizing and coming back for the win?
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Aug 23, 2017 04:28
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That would be Crab who can build to defend well and build up small leads, sacrifice guys for greater efficiency and win the long game.
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always be closing posted:Which clan is the most like black in MTG? Being a shithead and keeping your friends from having fun? Scorpion.
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Aug 23, 2017 06:03
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Remember the old Netrunner adage- at the end of the day it doesn't matter who won as long as you had fun, and your opponent didn't.
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Fungah! posted:buddy picked up a gencon copy of l5r for me. rules look really good, real excited to play it. its seriously bullshit that you need two copies of the core set to play a full 80 card deck game though. like, you couldn't even include doubles of the neutral cards so two people could do a full demo game out of one core set? come the gently caress on Ah that sucks, I have no idea when I'll be able to find a second one of these.
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Fungah! posted:its seriously bullshit that you need two copies of the core set to play a full 80 card deck game though. I'm assuming there are rules for smaller deck sizes, but that really does suck. Netrunner's core set "rares" were a bad idea but at least you could play regular games with just core. I'll hold off until we see what the expansion releases are like, rather than buy two cores.
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Fungah! posted:buddy picked up a gencon copy of l5r for me. rules look really good, real excited to play it. its seriously bullshit that you need two copies of the core set to play a full 80 card deck game though. like, you couldn't even include doubles of the neutral cards so two people could do a full demo game out of one core set? come the gently caress on You can only build one deck from one core set, or you need two core sets to build even one legal deck? Because either one would be a new low for FFG's core set sales strategy, but the latter would be some serious bullshit.
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Actually, AGoT 2.0 already set the precedent.
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BJPaskoff posted:You can only build one deck from one core set, or you need two core sets to build even one legal deck? Because either one would be a new low for FFG's core set sales strategy, but the latter would be some serious bullshit. You can build a legal 40/40 deck with one core but you will feel some hurt. You are going to want 2 cores. If you build 30/30 decks you can make 2 decks out of 1 Core. As with any LCG you will always want 3 cores if you are doing tournaments.
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I still don't understand the backlash with the LCG model and needing more than one core. One core is a good board game experience, two gets you into more competitive and three is needed if you want to be super competitive. If you just play with a couple friends and don't want to buy more cores, just proxy. Competitive play will always have a cost-barrier in any card game. And to put that cost barrier into perspective, three cores is ~$120 MSRP. This is only $30 more than a booster box of Magic, in which 95-98% of the cards will be useless and basically worth no money and if you play standard won't even be legal for more than two years. Core sets are useful throughout the entire lifetime of an LCG. If you buy singles for Magic, the cheapest of the top 4 decks is ~$200 and will either be completely eliminated when a new set comes out due to meta-game changes or drop out of rotation. I know they're completely different distribution models, but the LCG format really is the best way to me to get a card game out there and control the costs for the players.
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I AM CARVALLO posted:I still don't understand the backlash with the LCG model and needing more than one core. The backlash is that it's hard to get a good board game experience out of a single core because you can only build two 30/30 decks out of it at once if you follow the rules.
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:The backlash is that it's hard to get a good board game experience out of a single core because you can only build two 30/30 decks out of it at once if you follow the rules. It's a 2-player game, and you can do that for any of the clans IIRC, so... that's not really an argument against it.
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