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Old August 7th, 2015, 08:09 AM
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Re: What Board Game Are You Currently Playing?

Got in some Kingsburg last night, followed by two more rounds of Pathfinder: Adventure Card Game. I'm loving the latter, since I now have a group that's hungry for it.

C3G can be played with official Heroscape, but it's not recommended.


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Old August 7th, 2015, 10:22 AM
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We demo'ed Flick 'Em Up and I really wanted to get it, but we were stretched thin with other purchases.
I have a copy being sent to me by a friend who picked it up for me at Gen Con.
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I was able to procure a copy yesterday. It is really fun for a dexterity game. We don't play many other than Pitch Car, but the theme of FlickemUp was an auto-buy for me.

Played another game of MagicScape last night. Definitely better on BoV maps. Then was thoroughly whipped by CatScaper's Fire/Water Vingolf heavy deck in a Force of Will duel. Back to the drawing board for my Light/Dark deck.
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Old August 7th, 2015, 10:45 AM
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Is this "Force of Will" game the one where you blind purchase cards, rip off the foil, and then look at the card *backs*, not even the faces, to see if you got what you want? So you can be disappointed without even looking at the fronts of the cards?

Heh. Junkie.

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Old August 7th, 2015, 01:03 PM
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Is this "Force of Will" game the one where you blind purchase cards, rip off the foil, and then look at the card *backs*, not even the faces, to see if you got what you want? So you can be disappointed without even looking at the fronts of the cards?

Heh. Junkie.
Yes or you can do like I do and wait for the real junkies to trade the good stuff for more packs to trade for more packs, rinse repeat. Then take the good ones out of the binder because you own them.
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Ashes felt like a next-generation dueling card game. The game play doesn't - by design - allow for big turns like you see in similar games. You can use powerful tools immediately but you can only do one thing at a time, and some things use more or precious resources that will limit your options later.

And lots of pretty dice.
Bumping this post because I just watched a review calling it "Magic 3.0." I remembered my "next-generation" comment here & was glad to see somebody else shared my opinion.

Here's the video. I think he speaks for me, too, about all of it:

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Ashes felt like a next-generation dueling card game. The game play doesn't - by design - allow for big turns like you see in similar games. You can use powerful tools immediately but you can only do one thing at a time, and some things use more or precious resources that will limit your options later.

And lots of pretty dice.
Bumping this post because I just watched a review calling it "Magic 3.0." I remembered my "next-generation" comment here & was glad to see somebody else shared my opinion.

Here's the video. I think he speaks for me, too, about all of it:


Yeah DS, I watched Joel's video before buying the game. He's one of the reviewers I use before buying a lot of games.

The thing that I've found just in messing around with the game a bit and from several reviews and also interviews at GenCon, is that Ashes lets players get into the action right away. While there may be some minor engine building here and there, most of it isn't and you are able to set up a plan right away with your first 5 cards.

The dice add several things to the game. They are mana/resources needed to do certain actions and you can roll well or bad, but you can still discard cards to change some dice to what you want, as well as there's some cards that will do that too. Each different dice type has it's own special power that you can use as a side action, so that adds options as well as making for more differences available from deck to deck.

I love the art too. Fernanda Suarez is fantastic. She did all of the art for this game and did a bunch for Dead of Winter. I think her stock just skyrocketed.

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She was at GenCon. Though I've never met her, I was very happy for her that she could make the trip. That must have been quite a thrill.

Interestingly, you can trace the family tree for Ashes as follows:

Heroscape -> Summoner Wars -> [Plaid Hat influences] -> Ashes

And you can trace the Arena of the Planeswalkers this way:

Magic -> Various LCG and CCG MtG 2.0 -> AotP

And yet, AotP is much more like Heroscape than it is like Magic, and Ashes is much more like Magic than it is like Heroscape.

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Interestingly, you can trace the family tree for Ashes as follows:

Heroscape -> Summoner Wars -> [Plaid Hat influences] -> Ashes

And you can trace the Arena of the Planeswalkers this way:

Magic -> Various LCG and CCG MtG 2.0 -> AotP

And yet, AotP is much more like Heroscape than it is like Magic, and Ashes is much more like Magic than it is like Heroscape.
You're weird

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That may be, but I'm in good company.

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Interestingly, you can trace the family tree for Ashes as follows:

Heroscape -> Summoner Wars -> [Plaid Hat influences] -> Ashes

And you can trace the Arena of the Planeswalkers this way:

Magic -> Various LCG and CCG MtG 2.0 -> AotP

And yet, AotP is much more like Heroscape than it is like Magic, and Ashes is much more like Magic than it is like Heroscape.
You're weird

~Aldin, who loves Ashes and thinks Fernanda Suarez's art is amazing
I'm not sure how the whole acquisition thing will affect it, but when I talked to Isaac Vega at Gen Con, he told me that Fernanda Suarez is now an employee of Plaid Hat, so we can expect to see even more of her amazing art in future PHG releases!
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Interestingly, you can trace the family tree for Ashes as follows:

Heroscape -> Summoner Wars -> [Plaid Hat influences] -> Ashes

And you can trace the Arena of the Planeswalkers this way:

Magic -> Various LCG and CCG MtG 2.0 -> AotP

And yet, AotP is much more like Heroscape than it is like Magic, and Ashes is much more like Magic than it is like Heroscape.
You're weird

~Aldin, who loves Ashes and thinks Fernanda Suarez's art is amazing
I'm not sure how the whole acquisition thing will affect it, but when I talked to Isaac Vega at Gen Con, he told me that Fernanda Suarez is now an employee of Plaid Hat, so we can expect to see even more of her amazing art in future PHG releases!
Super awesome news Akden. Thanks for the info!

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