Comments for Purple Pawn

Comment on The Scent of a Gamer by Beth

Beth — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:32:12 +0000

We’re always goofing in game about our characters needing to take a bath. I know what everyone is getting for Christmas this year!

Comment on The Scent of a Gamer by Michael Leuchtenburg

Michael Leuchtenburg — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:04:29 +0000

I’ve always heard that as 5-2-1. I guess gaming con recommendations are a bit looser than scifi con recommendations.

Comment on Battletech: Strategic Operations – Everything Old is New Again by EastwoodDC

EastwoodDC — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:01:38 +0000

You should have checked back at the Catalyst booth Saturday/Sunday. They had more copies available.

Comment on The Rifter, the Movie, and the Website by Robert

Robert — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:01:10 +0000

Nice! I’ve posted up some of my Rifts stuff too. Let me know if you want to link swap.

Comment on Game Printer Stories: Delano and Imagigrafx by Ben Clark

Ben Clark — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:08:08 +0000

David-
Sorry about that. I write the blog(s), but have been too swamped to put up a sticky bit that reminds people who I am. I’m revamping the site soon, so I’ll get around to it…at some point.

Comment on Sophie Matisse Chess Sets by Surya

Surya — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:13:53 +0000

While nice, the pictured set doesn’t seem very functional. The board art is obviously way too distracting!

Comment on Bakugan Ultimate Battle Tour by Bakumaster Darkus

Bakumaster Darkus — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:23:33 +0000

wow this looks really really really coool!!!!!!!!!

Comment on Anima: RPG, Minis, Card Game by Luke

Luke — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:00:51 +0000

I agree the Anima RPG is plagued with poor presentation and some bad rules design in a few conspicious places. However, I think the rest of your comments are exaggeration:

“There are different subsets of the rules to deal with combat, magic, ki and the like, with absolutely zero coherence between such subsystems…”

This is not true. The systems are similar in many ways with around 20% differing with each subsystem. This 20% difference is IMO intended to ensure that magic, ki and psychic abilities feel different to each other.

“There are tremendous unbalances”

I disagree. There are some powerful options but on the whole the game is good at providing balance across a very wide range of powers and creatures.

“characters with high Initiative rule the combat field because if you attack first and hit your opponent you deny him the chance to attack this round, making heavy-armored characters useless;”

Whilst initiative is very important (I would argue that that is in genre) there are ways around it and allow the use of heavy armour.

“And there is little to no space for character customization,”

This I totally disagree with. The clases influence costs in the points buy system, but there is incredibly flexibility within each class, let alone the flexibility from having 20 classes.

Comment on Game Printer Stories: Delano and Imagigrafx by David

David — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:23:06 +0000

I can’t guess. Neither this blog nor that blog have an author cited.

Comment on Alderac Entertainment Group Board Games by AEGTodd

AEGTodd — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:49:05 +0000

Each one you named is releasing at GenCon 2009. Yep, all of them.

And there’s one more game on the books for later this year as well, as yet unannounced.