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Talked with Mike again today and teased him about various other stuff, but only because he said I was "involved in the industry", whatever that means. I won't consider myself being "involved" much, but Oh well. Oh and yeah, I know, I know, I have to work on Portable Adventures one of these days.
Played some LotR again today and went up against my first dunlending minions. Lots of rares, but either he had a sucky minion draw or his minions aren't so good because I had no problem running them down. Sure, they took out Legolas early on (Yay! Good Riddance!), but I had my support cards out by site 5 and I was recurring the So Fair So Good every turn after that so all those not-so-big guys were being overwhelmed easy. Nothing like using 3 wimpy strength 3 Hobbits to kill off a swarm or three. He even dropped Enquea after site 6, but with 4 vitality on my unwounded hobbits (they have to be unwounded to take advantage of Everyone Knows) he couldn't even capitalise on the threats that I had, which was 3 at that point. Is it me or are LotR decks getting very predictable?
I wonder though where are all the "Johnny" players in LotR... I was told that two of the key cards in my deck are being X'ed or banned. By themselves they do nothing. Combined though together with the cards I have and they form part of the Hobbit chain reaction as I have named it - playing a card triggers off a number of cards which in turn trigger off more cards, which makes it rather deadly, but not broken, in the end. I even incorporated the Hobbit Hospital into that chain reaction, which is reward in and of itself for me. Yes, I'm a "Johnny" player, my take on CCGs is like my take on Lego - to make the interaction of the parts greater than the sum of the whole.
Talked with Martin about Johnny vs Spike and LotR vs CoC. It was an interesting conversation. I think we are all maturing now, as we move into the realm of card design - I'm currently involved with the MND customs and (not so much) the Babylon 5 customs and he's got a few Doomtown customs on his plate, so hopefully the insights that we bring into card design will help each other in the long run.
Run? Pass? Foul? Iron!
Played some LotR again today and went up against my first dunlending minions. Lots of rares, but either he had a sucky minion draw or his minions aren't so good because I had no problem running them down. Sure, they took out Legolas early on (Yay! Good Riddance!), but I had my support cards out by site 5 and I was recurring the So Fair So Good every turn after that so all those not-so-big guys were being overwhelmed easy. Nothing like using 3 wimpy strength 3 Hobbits to kill off a swarm or three. He even dropped Enquea after site 6, but with 4 vitality on my unwounded hobbits (they have to be unwounded to take advantage of Everyone Knows) he couldn't even capitalise on the threats that I had, which was 3 at that point. Is it me or are LotR decks getting very predictable?
I wonder though where are all the "Johnny" players in LotR... I was told that two of the key cards in my deck are being X'ed or banned. By themselves they do nothing. Combined though together with the cards I have and they form part of the Hobbit chain reaction as I have named it - playing a card triggers off a number of cards which in turn trigger off more cards, which makes it rather deadly, but not broken, in the end. I even incorporated the Hobbit Hospital into that chain reaction, which is reward in and of itself for me. Yes, I'm a "Johnny" player, my take on CCGs is like my take on Lego - to make the interaction of the parts greater than the sum of the whole.
Talked with Martin about Johnny vs Spike and LotR vs CoC. It was an interesting conversation. I think we are all maturing now, as we move into the realm of card design - I'm currently involved with the MND customs and (not so much) the Babylon 5 customs and he's got a few Doomtown customs on his plate, so hopefully the insights that we bring into card design will help each other in the long run.
Run? Pass? Foul? Iron!
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