| From: | ">>>>> Axlrose - ... <<<<<" <axlrose@**********.COM> |
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| Subject: | Chicago - Fasa Representative |
| Date: | Sat, 27 Sep 1997 21:02:36 -0400 |
representative in Chicago was about. The web page said the person was
suppose to be there from 3 - 7. I called the shop at 3:45 and was told the
rep was not there yet. I waited about another hour and headed out there.
I won't go into the details about how the Stevenson is chopped up here and
there while the major exit to the Dan Ryan is closed off...
Anyway, I arrive and there were a good number of people in the card game
area. I wander the area and a great number of them were playing I think it
is called Legend of the Five Rings or something... Wandering a bit more,
off to the side, was the rep shuffling cards. No one, and I repeat, no one
was around him - almost as if nobody was interested in the game. I asked
if he was who he was and he offered me a seat.
Because I never played the game before, in fact, never played any type of
collectable card games, it was a learning experience. (Anyone in or around
the southwestern suburbs of Chicago drop me a line...) We were using cards
marked Demo - the same cards I assumed that were given away at GenCon. I
used a samurai deck while he used the mage deck. He went step by step for
each move, offering advice on how to play. Because we were only playing to
30 rep points, because I made a sly move using a character with demolitions
and the objective gave a bonus for such, I won.
While I was there, I told him about my displeasure with the shuffling of
the cards in the boosters and starters. He said their was an initial
problem with it but it should be fixed in later editions. I mentioned this
list server and what we do and he never heard of us before my mentioning.
Then I was trying to think of some of the questions that have been asked
about as of late here and his response :
- if the Nerps makes a gear card, for all purposes, the Nerps is
classified as gear or whatever, not a special.
- smartgun links and similar gear is trashed along with guns if the gun
gets trashed and whatnot.
- Flatline can use two pistols and two extended clips -- if one can get
the cards out and into play.
One or two more that I have forgotten. So while he was teaching me the
game and I was asking these questions, the place got louder and louder and
people kept wandering over, seeing what game it was, and apparently
snubbing their noses.
After the game, he gave me a Nerps promo card. I asked if the long box of
cards he had bundled were different types of decks. He said they were all
the same - either a mage deck or a samurai deck. I asked if I could buy a
set - figure with him having that many extras, there would have been no
problem. The rep then went on about how at GenCon too many of the demo
decks were given away so therefore Fasa couldn't afford to give out any
more. I asked again about buying them. He gave me another Nerps promo
card, told me the store sells the cards, then got up and walked over to the
Legend of the Five Rings table.....
Overall, unless you want to get a Nerps promo, the whole is more to learn
the game. And if you already know how to play, the whole would not be
worth one's time.
>>>>>Axlrose - sitting on two extra Nerps now...<<<<<
