Flashback Friday - Wiz-War - Love It Or Hate It? Do You Still Play It?

Picking up on other points
- I love it. My kids love it especially.
- it just creates those funny, memorable situationss like almost nothing else
- teaching is fine for me, like quozl said, just drop someone in, and then it doesn't last that long anyway, it's fine.
- yes it creates arguments and THAT IS PART OF THE FUN. "I'll never forget" the furious argument I had with my 6 year old son about whether he could astrally project through a wall into the next board, use another spell to grab the treasure out of my hands, and retain it when he finished projecting so he could drop it in his own square and win. I was always going to let him win, because, nice move, but ARGUING ABOUT FICTIONAL ASTRO PHYSICS is part of it.
-house rules galore then.

Aside from maybe Talisman, there aren't many games I can see 10-year-old Nate enjoying up through junior high, high school, college, young adult years, and now creeping into middle age. But Wiz-War is definitely there. It's the sort of game I have always assumed SHOULD exist, even when I didn't know about it.

I definitely see the appeal of an old set. It's the sort of game that might actually benefit from fewer attempts to clarity rules, rather than FFG's constant attempt to make sense out of nonsense like they have done with so many games from this time period.

But their version is still very nice. Shoot, my box has painted minis and everything. I trot it out quite a bit.

This is a game that doesn't get played nearly enough around here. I would play any version of this game any time. A true classic.

Does anyone remember the "Thumb of God" card?

One of the best games ever. I will always play (and often win.) I have:

- Done the famous lightning bolt through a wall to take an opponent from full health to zero in one shot.
- Been killed with a Powerthrust by a Big Man (innuendo, FTW!)
- Had four totems running in my sector that no one would enter for the rest of the game.
- Trapped someone in a closet behind a Stone Block too many times to count.
- Had 5 different magic stones in my hands until someone Fire Darted me from Around the Corner.
- Etc.
- Etc.

Yes, I remember the Thumb of God and I'm also disappointed that FFG didn't continue with expansions. The Big Book of Spells should be even larger. Except shield spells. Fuck that noise. More blood!

My favorite death was the time someone played a card that let them control my wizard, and then they dragged me over a rose bush over and over until I died

Here's another departure. I played this a couple times and found it just okay. But I'd play again.

Had such a great time with this. Sure it's random but it's so fast, so fun and so chaotic. And while there's not much "strategy" as such, creative use of your spells often pays off.

Surprisingly, given that I'm an old-time gamer, the FFG edition was the first I ever played. That may be why I'm actually on board with a lot of their changes - particularly like the spell schools over One Big Deck.

I soured on it a couple of years ago through no fault of the game itself. I played it a couple of times with my daughter who loved it, partly because it's so silly and partly because she won both, purely out of luck. So she became convinced that she was brilliant at it and I had to keep on throwing game after game to keep her happy - she wasn't old enough to deal with the fallout at the time.

Hopefully, I'll pick it up again with some adults sometime. But. Too many games.

This is a game that I want to love but every time I play it, it's just okay. I think a lot of that is coming to it fairly late in the hobby. If I'd discovered it when I was a kid I probably would've loved it.