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Fury of Dracula 3rd Edition
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Gary Sax, move to austin and join our Blood Bowl league. We have a spot with metalface's departure.
I also constantly run TITAN games on ACTS if interested.
TITAN, BB, and a little Dreadball. I focus on three games. Will that work for ya?
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wadenels wrote: EDIT: RPS mechanics need to stop. Just stop it. Stop doing that. It screams yes-man playtesting and makes the entire product suspect.
Apparently it's RPS or Pogs. Pick your poison.
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Some of the new artwork is really tacky. Second Edition had a more impressionistic and atmospheric approach. This new edition looks way pulpy and generally less ambiguous, and I'm not much into the changes.
I think I just strained something rolling my eyes.
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Pro-tip for Buffy wannabees -- put down the lantern first, or throw it at him.
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I have a 2nd edition so they can do what they want with this one. "New" players in 2nd have teammates so spin-up isn't as big a problem as it is in other titles.
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Looking at the board, it appears that some players complained about the symbolic clock of the previous edition. So the new clock looks to be alternating night and day cycles, which may be easier to grasp but takes a strategic element and reduces it to more of a tactical factor.
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sagrilarus wrote: By the way, is it me, or does Rock-Paper-Scissors get a pass in the "too much luck" debate? The chin scratchers seem to think it's all about skill, about reading your opponent.
I did a bunch of RPS when I played in vampire larps more than a decade ago. RPS isn't just luck, and there are good and bad aspects about it as a mechanic.
A first-time throw of RPS against an unfamiliar opponent is effectively random. Subsequent throws against the same person, especially in rapid succession, can take on a more psychological dimension. People often display patterns, like opening with rock or throwing whatever would have beat their opponent's previous throw. A player can learn to recognize and play against his opponent's patterns, or consciously change up his own patterns, or even read his opponent's expression or body language.
The bad part about RPS is that there are a lot of ties. About 1/3 of the time. This isn't so bad in a game like FoD, but it becomes a huge hassle in a larp where many special abilities seem to involve do-overs of RPS and there could be a mass combat scene involving two dozen people playing RPS every round of the fight. such a fight scene might take two hours to resolve, and all the non-participants need to either avoid the area or else get trapped as a captive audience.
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sagrilarus wrote: Her hips are squared backwards. That's a jab, and a girl-jab at that. Ain't knocking the lord of the undead over with that.
yeah, but he really loves her, so it hurts more than a normal punch would.
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