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PJOmega posted:Is "The Sorcerer Supreme" one of Strange's cards or a random neutral? If it's the latter that'd be pretty amusing. It’s listed as a Basic card on the deck list
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How does the Iron Man ally work? Can you just not play it if any player has Iron Man as their hero identity?
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PJOmega posted:Is "The Sorcerer Supreme" one of Strange's cards or a random neutral? If it's the latter that'd be pretty amusing.
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Feb 20, 2020 16:14
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LifeLynx posted:How does the Iron Man ally work? Can you just not play it if any player has Iron Man as their hero identity? Pretty much. Same for when Black Widow hits as playable.
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Dawgstar posted:Pretty much. Same for when Black Widow hits as playable. Also to note, there might eventually be a a Riri Williams or Arno Stark Iron Man hero. The Tony Stark Iron Man ally could be played when they are played, but not the allies. I think it might be a while before we see a hero's signature allies as heroes, because they have to be included in the decks (Black Cat, Tigra, War Machine), but any heroes or aspect allies can get the opposite of them made pretty soon I guess.
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Feb 20, 2020 16:21
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Brother Voodoo was the Sorcerer Supreme for a while, so I expect we'll get there eventually. I feel bad about a card (Sorcerer Supreme) that only one hero can play, so I suspect we'll have to get another Mystic hero in the near future. My money's on Scarlet Witch.
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Feb 20, 2020 18:56
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Fritzler posted:Neutral title. It's a unique, so only one copy. I assume eventually we will have other characters that can use it, like Wiccan, Magik, Scarlet Witch. Maybe Ghost Rider. Really big maybes would be Doom or Loki? Tony Stark 
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Fritzler posted:Apparently pack after Dr. Strange is Hulk. He was briefly shown on FFG's upcoming page. So a lot more characters coming with rules like that. That'll be interesting. I've seen a couple of decklists that seem to primarily focus on getting Hulk out and ramping him up.
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Does anyone either know where I can find high fidelity PDFs of the standard boss cards online or tips for making good scans? I want to print a set for each villain so that I do not need to find those 7 cards either before or after every game.
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Feb 25, 2020 23:26
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Shadow225 posted:Does anyone either know where I can find high fidelity PDFs of the standard boss cards online or tips for making good scans? I want to print a set for each villain so that I do not need to find those 7 cards either before or after every game. If you have those cards, you could put them in a binder page and use them like that? If I'm understanding correctly.
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Feb 26, 2020 00:00
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I am new to the lord of the rings card game and trying to figure out where to go from the core card set. I noticed a lot of expansions are out of print now. Unsure what to get and looking for suggestions.
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Feb 26, 2020 03:51
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I've personally haven't played it but I believe they've killed it off so I imagine just grab what you can at a reasonable price. If you are looking to play them in order then you can just look on their site on the product page and it has a code (looks like its ME). The Shadows of Mirkwood appears to be the first cycle after the core set. edit: Also somehow I ended up with an extra copy of Captain America and Ms. Marvel so if someone is looking for these hit me up on discord. Losem fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Feb 26, 2020 |
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Feb 26, 2020 04:58
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I said come in! posted:I am new to the lord of the rings card game and trying to figure out where to go from the core card set. I noticed a lot of expansions are out of print now. Unsure what to get and looking for suggestions. https://talesfromthecards.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/new-player-buying-guide/ This hasn't been updated in years, but still has quite a few of the expansions in there. Availability is certainly the main issue on the expansions. Going in order is tricky because of that and some of the old stuff is really quite bad. Particularly Shadows of Mirkwood. If you haven't played any other co-op LCG's it might still be a good start, but it is showing it's age. The expansions build up on earlier ones to an extent, as the difficulty assumes you have earlier cards available. Saga expansions are the exception to this, as they are more standalone. These are the small boxes about the books. I'd say the best way to go is to get any saga expansions available, then whatever expansion box. You need the expansion box to play any scenario in them, so these are a must. Then pick any available scenarios to the expansions you have disregarding order. Last one is the Shadows of Mirkwood scenarios, in any order. Naturally, if possible to go on release order, do that. The game is amazing and hopefully you will be able to get a decent collection. I've been playing since 2015 adding new scenarios in order. Now it is much slower to find the next one sadly.
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I said come in! posted:I am new to the lord of the rings card game and trying to figure out where to go from the core card set. I noticed a lot of expansions are out of print now. Unsure what to get and looking for suggestions. Going to depend on what is available really. Some boxes add in a whole new archtype for deckbuilding (eg the Lost Realm makes Dunedain decks viable), some just add in bits and pieces to boost existing ones (eg A Shadow in the East doesn't have a singular focus). I think the former is better for new players since it opens up your options more. My ideal recommendations are
But maybe none of that is available for you. Darkling Door has a good series on what it's like playing various expansions with only the core set. The one I'd really advise against is the Against the Shadow cycle, which is when the game was the most difficult relative to the card pool. Going straight there from the core set is going to be a world of pain. Doctor Spaceman fucked around with this message at 05:54 on Feb 26, 2020 |
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Thank you for the recommendations! Checked these our on the Fantasy Flight website, and Amazon, and they were all sold out, or in the case of Amazon not available or being sold way above their normal price.  same for on Ebay. I think i'll just start with the stand alone packs and buy one at a time of those that are available on Amazon.
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Feb 26, 2020 07:47
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Keep an eye out for The Steward's Fear and The Mumakil. You won't be able to play the scenarios without the relevant expansions (which is why I didn't recommend them) but they both provide the foundation for an archetype (Outlands and Haradrim respectively). But yeah, availability will be a problem in general.
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Feb 26, 2020 07:58
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I also recently started and have picked up:
And for the moment I think I'm pretty much "done", barring keeping an eye out for those missing Againts the Shadow AP's. And this is what it all looks like, everything sleeved and packaged up together in a box meant for 4000 cards (though this is far less than 4000 because the sleeves take up a bunch of space). I have enough room for finishing off Against the Shadow hopefully, plus maybe one more Deluxe Expansion and its cycle if I ever want to buy more. 
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Feb 26, 2020 08:44
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I said come in! posted:Thank you for the recommendations! Checked these our on the Fantasy Flight website, and Amazon, and they were all sold out, or in the case of Amazon not available or being sold way above their normal price. On the off chance you're in the UK or EU I'm looking to offload a ton of cards...
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Thirsty Dog posted:On the off chance you're in the UK or EU I'm looking to offload a ton of cards... Oh hello. If I said come in! doesn't jump on it, I might be interested if you're up for parceling some of it out.
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Sure thing.
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So Marvel Champions updated its rules as far as defending is concerned. Major changes are you can’t use defence cards in response for defending for other players as you have to be the target of the attack. I thought for a minute that it looked like you had to defend to now actually use Defense cards but looking at other forums that’s not the case. I got a little confused about the “if no hero or ally defends its considered undefended” errata, but it looks like playing any Defense card still counts as you defending.
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Drone posted:Oh hello. I am in the U.S. so they are all yours. 
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I'm also looking to get rid of my LotR stuff if anyone's interested. It's been pretty much sitting here since Arkham came out and took all my co-op LCG time. I got 2x Core, Khazad Dum, Heirs of Numenor, Voice of Isengard, and Lost realm deluxe boxes, Shadows of Mirkwood, Darrowdelf, Against the Shadow, and The Ring-Maker adventure packs, as well as Over Hill and Under Hill, ,On the Doorstep, The Black Riders, The Road Darkens, The Treason of Saurman, and The Land of Shadow saga packs. Also I really wish Marvel Champions had better art. I've heard the gameplay is great from some friends, and people seem to be really raving about it but good grief it's ugly.
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alansmithee posted:Also I really wish Marvel Champions had better art. I've heard the gameplay is great from some friends, and people seem to be really raving about it but good grief it's ugly. Just got my core set today and was sleeveing all the cards with one of my students. The art is very inconsistent because they're just grabbing panels from random comics. Also comic fans are super particular about which artists they like and don't like so it feels like they're trying to be inclusive. I'm just wrapping up my own custom token set and will post the 'first draft' in a bit.
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I said come in! posted:I am new to the lord of the rings card game and trying to figure out where to go from the core card set. I noticed a lot of expansions are out of print now. Unsure what to get and looking for suggestions. I have an extra copy of the Flame of the West saga box. If you're in the US I'll mail it to you for cost of shipping. PM me if you want. e: I think I still have an extra copy anyway. I'm in the process of moving so I need to double check it didn't get tossed.
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Pretty sure it's nothing to do with trying to appeal to a comics audience but rather Marvel not letting FFG commission their own illustrations. Probably some licensing or IP control clause. It's not exclusive to this game, either. If anyone has seen Marvel Legendary or the DC deck builder series, the bad art problem is present in basically all games with a comics IP. They seem to always use cropped art from comic panels. Which is a shame since games like Arkham and GoT have great art, FFG is clearly willing to commission good artists for their card games. Unrelated note, I just got an email from Asmodee. They're preparing to ship out my Thor preorder, I'm hyped.
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Epi Lepi posted:I have an extra copy of the Flame of the West saga box. If you're in the US I'll mail it to you for cost of shipping. PM me if you want. I'll PM you! Let me know if you find it.
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Thirsty Dog posted:Sure thing. So what stuff ya got that you'd be up for parting with? I'm in Germany if that matters.
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Give me a few days to work out what I still have!
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Ojetor posted:Pretty sure it's nothing to do with trying to appeal to a comics audience but rather Marvel not letting FFG commission their own illustrations. Probably some licensing or IP control clause. It's not exclusive to this game, either. If anyone has seen Marvel Legendary or the DC deck builder series, the bad art problem is present in basically all games with a comics IP. They seem to always use cropped art from comic panels. Marvel LCG does have some commissioned art. It’s usually more generic stuff and not the heroes themselves. Anything that actually credits an artist was commissioned. Hopefully my FLGS gets Thor next week. They’ve gotten everything except Cap on time.
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I've been watching for Cap to come into stock anywhere, and it looks like I'm just SOL for the foreseeable future. I've had to preorder the successive packs just to have a chance at them.
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Feb 26, 2020 21:24
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drat shame that companies are still choosing to put bad art in their games, when instead they could copy Doomtown and put in masterpieces like this (from the upcoming expansion):
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Single Tight Female posted:drat shame that companies are still choosing to put bad art in their games, when instead they could copy Doomtown and put in masterpieces like this (from the upcoming expansion): Isn't that fanmade product tho?
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just hire the artist who did Dominion Intrigue's Shantytown and Harem for everything.
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PJOmega posted:Isn't that fanmade product tho? The people who make the game now are pretty much all old deadlands players but they formed a company and bought the IP and release expansions to retail so it's as official as it's always been. Doomtown has continued normally since its demise, including the absolutely incestuous inner workings of the developers. That card art is done by one of the playtesters(?) friends/possible girlfriend. Most of the new art is good to fine.
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Single Tight Female posted:drat shame that companies are still choosing to put bad art in their games, when instead they could copy Doomtown and put in masterpieces like this (from the upcoming expansion): I didn't know all this about Doomtown, everyone in my group just chucked their cards when the game "died". It wasn't even in a good place when that happened, IIRC. This card has one of the issues I had with the game: that's a lot of text and a bunch of extra steps to do a very minor thing. It blanks one ability for a turn, it doesn't even blank the entire card's text box.
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alansmithee posted:I'm also looking to get rid of my LotR stuff if anyone's interested. It's been pretty much sitting here since Arkham came out and took all my co-op LCG time. I got 2x Core, Khazad Dum, Heirs of Numenor, Voice of Isengard, and Lost realm deluxe boxes, Shadows of Mirkwood, Darrowdelf, Against the Shadow, and The Ring-Maker adventure packs, as well as Over Hill and Under Hill, ,On the Doorstep, The Black Riders, The Road Darkens, The Treason of Saurman, and The Land of Shadow saga packs. How much do you want for your cards?
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SettingSun posted:I've been watching for Cap to come into stock anywhere, and it looks like I'm just SOL for the foreseeable future. I've had to preorder the successive packs just to have a chance at them. Hit me up in Discord I've got an extra Cap and Ms. Marvel.
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I said come in! posted:How much do you want for your cards? I sent you a message The Black Stones posted:Marvel LCG does have some commissioned art. It’s usually more generic stuff and not the heroes themselves. Anything that actually credits an artist was commissioned. Honestly it's not just the actual character art that bothers me. The layout, fonts, everything just looks bad imo. I actually don't mind the DC deckbuilder art, or Legendary so it's not like I'm super picky. Just kinda disappointed because FFG has made some absolutely amazing looking games (Netrunner and L5R especially). I know a couple of my friends checked it at Gencon and were so turned off they didn't bother playing it. One of them actually has a kid who wanted it and he got it for them and said it was just great gameplay, just looks terrible. Maybe I'll pick it up when they get a character I really like.
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LifeLynx posted:I didn't know all this about Doomtown, everyone in my group just chucked their cards when the game "died". It wasn't even in a good place when that happened, IIRC. This card has one of the issues I had with the game: that's a lot of text and a bunch of extra steps to do a very minor thing. It blanks one ability for a turn, it doesn't even blank the entire card's text box.    Can't imagine what you mean. Since it came back again DT:R has taken on fans of the game with, as far as I can tell, no experience whatsoever in game design. They know what effects they want to see and get them regardless of whether they can be templated neatly at all. It's a mess.
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