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A new month, a whole set of titles for this month. As usual, 5 novelty points to the first person to guess which CCG this is from.



Artists, as usual from left to right: Holmberg with backgrounds by Werner/Gillette, Burke, with backgrounds by Holmberg and Nov, Holmberg. Thease are new, never before revealed images for TW. OK, So I lied. The image on the left is a reused image which I thought fit better for Bograth than Core. The one of the far right is one that shouldn't be a stranger to most gEngine players, although this is the first time that is has been "carded". And the Torsk? Not one of Burke's better images, but one she has contributed for this and I though it'd be nice to include it in this set... if this set is getting made. It might not.

Well, if you thought MND month was over last month... it's not. Today has been a busy day, being the start of the month, for MND. First up, last month's tournament was won by fellow MND at gEngine blogger Malovis with 8 games played and 4 wins. He gets 15 copper tokens of course, for his troubles, and trouble it has been. Mitch has been actively canvassing people to play tournament games with him.

The new month brought the new tournament format of course. 6 people have already signed up for it with 5 confirmed. It's a more relaxed tournament format than last months, which means it'll be more punishing for the weaker players, but it'll be interesting to see where things go there. The signups and stuff are at the CCGW forums.

Of course, being the beginning of the month the next Keeper's Question has started. Tony is the card that people are trying to design for and to guess and gander at. There has already been 2 entries by one person. Some people are really into competitions like this I guess. Well, I think after Keeper's Question is finished, I might go on with something else. What else I have no idea, but then again, I don't have to do it until the 1st of June.

Of course, all that has been spammed all across the relevant sites - the front page of CCGW, the WGO in the engine, on the CCGW forums, on the Custom Card Forums, on Insiider and on Game Players Network. That last site is a new one, and since I'm being a bit more daring these days, I'm branching out I guess.

Besides all that, I played a couple of MND games myself. Didn't do too well there. Also played some LotR. Did better there. Not many games got updated, but I did update the CCGW forums with a few more games that I think are do-able on the engine. Hopefully someone takes those up.

Grave Robbers from Outer Space got its major release today. I'm sure Mark must be relieved that it's finally done. It seems he added everything including the kitchen sink into the game. Makes it really good I'm sure. The tutorial has also been made public as well. Hopefully someone will play it. Maybe it'll be a tournament game this month.

Martin has been busy working on VTES fonts, or so it seems. I think he's finished teh font and is now working on getting it into the game. I guess that means we won't see a DoomTown update anytime soon. Oh well.

Tomi finished the DE update. I can't wait to see... wait... there isn't much that's changed in there I think. Oh well, I haven't checked it yet, but hopefully the pay-and-play works. The discard/annihilate, which I suggested, wasn't added it seems. Well, Tomi is always busy anyways and with the return of BJ, he's now busy on Kult. I won't be surprised if there's a release tomorrow.

Logan has finally finished clipping the SR cards and is now onto getting everything to display properly. It's good when he stsrts things like that because at the end of the day, lots of new things are "discovered" and "exposed". I'll have to dedicate some time to go through his end result to see what gems there are there.

Eric contacted me via PM today and he wanted something from the forums. I gave it to him, and it makes me wonder why he'd want that. Oh well, curiosity killed the cat and in this instance, I don't think I want to be the cat.

Kari is thinking of signing up to the LotRO sealed deck tournament this weekend. He really enjoys playing the game. I don't want to know how much money he's spending on the game though. I'm sure it's more than the daily income of people in countries like Nepal or something.

Tony contacted me and asked which other games he could do. I suggested the orphaned games - Buffy, Imajica or the Disciples games - would be something that's easy to pick up and won't take too much time making. He seemed pleased with the idea, but is still considering it. Hopefully he'll take up one of them.

Kev is still busy on GE stuff. I think he's working on the spoiler, not all the cards, just the first set or something. He's got the scans as well. I think Gray is waiting for either one or both. I have no idea which.

Ed hasn't been too busy himself with the engine. He's been otherwise occupied... He did however write an April's Fool (not) article about dropping the tokens to only 5 complimentary a month. The expected big stink from that hasn't hit the fan yet. MND players are expected to pay to play sooner or latter and the 5 that they are currently getting would probably seem like a godsend to them. Rage players are way too used to paying to play. Doomtroopers are a weird breed, but apparently they too are talking about paypal and paying to play.

So this weekend... let's see... some HumAliens, probably a lot of MND, some B5. Sounds like a plan.